RUSSELL'S ADVENTURES
signed
1811 · [NP
by [ANONYMOUS (MANUSCRIPT POEM](by Seeva MOODY?)
[NP, 1811. Quarto, [4 pages], very stained but legible. The first three pages contain "Russell's Adventures" while page four is entitled: "The Beggar". and is "signed" Seeva Moody's property, Longmeadow (MA), March 17, 1811. Offered with a typescript of Russell's Adventures. This seems to all be in the same hand. The anonymous author of the first work notes that he was born in Merimac, New Hampshire and relates a tale of sea fearing adventures, battles, won and lost; victories and being captured and tortured. "The first of my pranks was off the Mantanzirs | When a French Privateer gave us battle one day | At length she grew sick of the tricks of the yankees | She brailed up her mizen and so bore away" And again: "The next time I fought was with Black man the pirate | On board of the Princess all on the north sea | One shot they so galled him our valour so palled him | He shifted Helm and from us did flee"Later he is captures and torured before finally escaping and making it to Jamaica and finally home. A marvelous tale. The final page has 6 numbered verses about how we are all beggars from birth and 12 lines about youth and death/. (Inventory #: 56305)