Powder house explosion, December 13th, 1813, in the town of Albany, state of New York. [electronic resource] / Composed by Mr. Babbet [i.e., Babbit], ; who was present in the dreadful scene, and witnessed the destruction of both his sons, William twelve, and Alonzo eight years old, laborers in the mill
- Bib ID:
- 3744438
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Babbit, James, 1769-1849
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/shaw/30722
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- Description:
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- [Albany : s.n., 1813?]
- 1 sheet ([1] p.)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 30722.
- Notes:
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- Verse in twenty-eight stanzas on the deaths of William and Alonzo Babbit, sons of the Rev. James Babbit, who were killed by an explosion in the United States Laboratory, at Albany, N.Y., Dec. 13, 1813; first lines: On the thirteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirteen.
- This poem was later published with Rev. James Babbit's The substance of a sermon, delivered at Dana, (Mas.) August, 1815, in commemoration of the death of William and Alonzo Babbit ... Hudson [N.Y.], 1819 (Shaw & Shoemaker 47036), where it is attributed on the title page to Silas Ballou, of Richmond, N.H. Textual details and a reference to "my children" suggest that the attribution is erroneous.
- Text printed in two columns within ornamental border.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 30722
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 30722).
- Subject:
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- Babbit, Alonzo, 1805-1813
- Babbit, William, 1801-1813
- United States Laboratory (Albany, N.Y.) -- Explosion, 1813
- Disasters -- New York (State) -- Albany -- Religious aspects -- Poetry
- Powder mills -- New York (State) -- Albany -- Poetry
- Explosions -- New York (State) -- Albany -- Poetry
- Children -- Death -- Poetry
- Place:
- United States New York Albany.
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ballou, Silas, 1753-1837
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1849
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1813
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