Bold Dighton

Poem in twenty-six stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold by Deming, wholesale and retail, No. 62, Hanover St., 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. At head of text: Being the account of an action fought off Guadalopue, in 1805, where ninety-five Americans and near three hundred Britons... This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints. This poem, composed by P. Russell, was published in earlier editions under the title: Escape from Basseterre.
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