Saw ye my hero George : and, The rosary : Lady Washington left Mount Vernon in June 1778, in expectation of meeting her worthy companion George, on the 28th of the same month, found her favourite engaged in the battle of Monmouth : she made the following observations.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Boston : s.n., between 1810 and 1814]
Description:	1 broadside : port. ; 29 x 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Washington, George, -- 1732-1799 -- Poetry. Monmouth, Battle of, Freehold, N.J., 1778 -- Poetry. Rosary. Prayers. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry.
Format:	E-Resource Book
Local Note:	LIT-378 Unit 167
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8667431

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Other title:	Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George? Though oft we meet severe distress.
Other uniform titles:	Pearce, William, active 1785-1796. Rosary.
Notes:	Two poems. Saw ye my hero George, first lines: Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George? The Rosary, attributed to William Pearce in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258; first line: Though oft we meet severe distress. Various imprint dates and places of publication supplied. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 50, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924. Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. Sabin no. 101883. RLIN, CTRG94-B400 Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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