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The embargo. A favorite new song

The ballad on this broadside is about embargo. This broadside has one ornament.

Date:1808-1814

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The Embargo, a new song--tune "Yankee Doodle"

The ballad on this broadside is about embargo. This broadside has three woodcuts and one ornament.

Date:1808?

Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

The Death of the embargo

The ballad on this broadside is about the death of the Embargo. This broadside has three woodcuts and one ornament.

Date:1809?

Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

Thomas Moorhead, a ship-wreck'd mariner, who subsisted fifty-one days on the bodies of his comrades Taken off the wreck by the ship Monticello, and arrived at New-York, the beginning of May, 1809

The ballad on this broadside is about a shipwreck. This broadside has one woodcut and one ornament.

Date:1809?

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Earthquake: verses on the earth-quake, in North-America, in the year 1755, and worthy the attention of every person, particularly as we have lately had like visitations

The ballad on this broadside is about an earthquake. This broadside has one woodcut and two ornaments.

Date:1810

Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

American taxation: a song of seventy-nine

The ballad on this broadside is about American taxation and the Revolution.

Date:1810-1814

Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

The American union, and the Birth of Gen. Washington

The ballads on this broadside are about the American Union and the birth of General Washington. This broadside has one ornament.

Date:1810-1814

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Indian letter. Extract of a letter from Capt. Hendricks, an Indian chief, of the Stockbridge nation, to Col. Pickering, one of the commissioners appointed by the president of the United States, for holding a treaty with the Six Nations, at Canandaigua, in the fall 1794

The ballad on this broadside is about the sin of drunkenness. This broadside has two ornaments.

Date:1810-1814

Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

Bateman's tragedy: being a warning to all maidens, by the example of God's judgments shewed on Jerman's wife, of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child-bed, was borne away, and never heard of afterwards

The ballad on this broadside is about God’s judgment and infidelity. This broadside has one ornament.

Date:1810-1814

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Battle of Bunker Hill. This song was composed by the British after the engagement

The ballad on this broadside is about the Battle of Bunker Hill. This broadside has one woodcut and one ornament.

Date:1810-1814

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Verses in Vogue with the Vulgar

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The embargo. A favorite new song

The Embargo, a new song--tune "Yankee Doodle"

The Death of the embargo

Thomas Moorhead, a ship-wreck'd mariner, who subsisted fifty-one days on the bodies of his comrades Taken off the wreck by the ship Monticello, and arrived at New-York, the beginning of May, 1809

Earthquake: verses on the earth-quake, in North-America, in the year 1755, and worthy the attention of every person, particularly as we have lately had like visitations

American taxation: a song of seventy-nine

The American union, and the Birth of Gen. Washington

Indian letter. Extract of a letter from Capt. Hendricks, an Indian chief, of the Stockbridge nation, to Col. Pickering, one of the commissioners appointed by the president of the United States, for holding a treaty with the Six Nations, at Canandaigua, in the fall 1794

Bateman's tragedy: being a warning to all maidens, by the example of God's judgments shewed on Jerman's wife, of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child-bed, was borne away, and never heard of afterwards

Battle of Bunker Hill. This song was composed by the British after the engagement