Subject: Elegiac poetry

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Highly Complimentary 1789 “Epitaph” for Newport’s Jacob Rodriguez Rivera: New-York Daily Gazette, March 6, 1789 Highly Complimentary 1789 “Epitaph” for Newport’s Jacob Rodriguez Rivera: New-York Daily Gazette, March 6, 1789

Newspaper clipping from the March 6, 1789, issue of the New-York Daily Gazette. Features a substantial elegiac poem (an epitaph) for Jacob Rodriguez Rivera (1717-1789) of Newport, Rhode Island. This may be the first published epitaph for an American Jew. The clipping also includes a couple of advertisements by Isaac Moses. Four pages in total.