[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] [TREAT, Samuel] Elegiac Lines?occasioned by the Death of Capt. Treat, of the American Artillery, who unfortunately fell, in the defence of the injured rights of his Country, Nov. 1777. Broadside, one leaf, stitched vertically along center printed dividing line (spotting and heavy creases; losses along the folds; apparently mounted to board). Four-line title followed by 19 numbered quatrains. 12 ? x 8 ??. Set in an oak and gilt-wood frame with a Stoneham, Mass. framer?s label. Treat was killed by a cannon ball during the Siege of Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River, about seven miles from Philadelphia, by British land and naval forces commanded by Captain John Montresor and Vice Admiral Lord Richard Howe, respectively. A genealogy of the Treat family published in 1893 by John Harvey Treat records that Samuel was present at Bunker Hill as an ensign, and rose to lieutenant, quartermaster, and captain?s lieutenant in Col. Henry Knox?s regiment. The elegy was written by a family friend, Dr. John Cutting, around 1780. Only one other copy of this broadside has been located, printed on white satin. This copy is on paper.