Bold Soldier- Echo, or The Columbian Songster 1800
[Mentioned first by Kittredge in the 1917 JAFL. Printed ca. 1800 or earlier in The Echo: or, Columbian Songster, 2d ed., Brookfield, Mass., pp. 150-152.
Information about the publishers Ebenezer and Daniel Merriam who started in 1797:
American Popular Music and Its Business : The First Four Hundred Years By the late Russell Sanjek former Vice-President Broadcast Music Inc.
Ebenezer operated the Brookfield, Massachusetts, printing house; Daniel, a Worcester bookshop that served as their ... job printers, who first brought out a local newspaper and also issued several editions of a pocket songster, The Echo.
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