Taxation of America

Poetry in 37 eight-line stanzas printed in five columns divided by double lines. To be sung to the tune: Ye parliaments of England. As noted by W.C. Ford in "Broadsides, ballads etc.": Duyckinck attributes the poem to Samuel St. John of New Canaan, Conn., but it has also been atttibuted to Peter St. John of Norwalk, Conn. At end of fifth column: New-York: Stereotyped, printed and sold, at 71, Greenwich-Lane. Two cuts at head of title; on left harbor scene captioned "Throwing over the tea in Boston Harbour, 1773"; on right battle scene and burning buildings captioned "Battle of Bunker's Hill, and burning of Charlestown--June 17 1773" [i.e. 1775] Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence and dateable broadside printed at same address in 1840. This edition not in Checklist Amer. Imprints or Ford.