Bold Dighton [Laws A21]

DESCRIPTION: The French on Guadeloupe have imprisoned hundreds of seamen. Dighton offers 500 guineas to relieve their distress and is himself imprisoned. He manages to free all the prisoners and, fighting off a pursuing ship, escape to Antigua
AUTHOR: P. Russell?
EARLIEST DATE: 1856 (Thompson-APioneerSongster)
KEYWORDS: prisoner escape
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Laws A21, Bold Dighton"
Thompson-APioneerSongster 46, "Bold Dighton" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 94, "Bold Dighton" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia 83, "Bold Dighton," "The Tiger and the Lion" (2 texts)
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, pp. 14-16, "Bold Dighton" (1 text, 1 tune, composite)
Forget-Me-Not-Songster, pp. 67-71, "Bold Dighton" (1 text)
DT 696, BLDIGHTN
Roud #2209
BROADSIDES:
LOCSinging, as101290, "Bold Dighton," L. Deming (Boston), 19C
NOTES [94 words]: Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia attributes this to P. Russell (of whom I know nothing) -- but this is based on an advertising blurb on a broadside copy, and we know what those are worth. Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors also attributes it to this P. Russell, and list various Russell publications. - RBW
"Being the account of an action fought off Gaudaloupe (sic.), in 1805, where ninety-five Americans, and near three hundred Britons made their escape from the prison at that place." (Source: Note included in America Singing as101290 broadside) - BS
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File: LA21

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