Background
Aquila Rose was born in England in 1695.
(Title: Poems on several occasions by Aquila Rose : to whi...)
Title: Poems on several occasions by Aquila Rose : to which are prefixed, some other pieces writ to him, and to his memory after his decease. Author: Aquila Rose Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01132800 CollectionID: CTRG93-B1589 PublicationDate: 17400101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 56 p
https://www.amazon.com/Poems-several-occasions-Aquila-Rose/dp/1275648231?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1275648231
Aquila Rose was born in England in 1695.
He was educated in England.
Misfortune of some kind induced him to enlist as a common sailor, and, after visiting various cities on the Mediterranean, he chanced to come to Philadelphia and remained there, being too ill for further duty aboard ship. The date of his arrival is unknown but must have been sometime before Gov. William Keith's visit to the Indians at Conestoga (July 1717), which he commemorated in verse.
While convalescing he made friends, James Logan among them, and a place was found for him as compositor in the printing office of Andrew Bradford. When he petitioned the Assembly for the right to operate a ferry on the Schuylkill, the corporation of Philadelphia objected to granting the ferry franchise to a private party, but an amicable arrangement was made. The corporation established the ferry and leased it to Rose for twenty-one years, stipulating that he improve the approaches and erect a house and boatsheds.
In 1722 he was made clerk of the Assembly. The next year, while retrieving a boat washed from its moorings in a freshet, he took a chill, became desperately ill, and died. The day of his death was given by Samuel Keimer in his Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of the Ingenious and Well-Beloved Aquila Rose (1723) as the 24th of Fourth Month and by Elias Bockett, in A Poem to the Memory of Aquila Rose (London, printed for the author, 1723-24), as the 22nd of August. The latter date has the support of Rose's son Joseph, who in 1740 published Poems on Several Occasions, By Aquila Rose. The small, neatly printed octavo contains two translations from the De Tristibus of Ovid (Bk. I, Elegies ii and iii); lines to Richard Hill ; the aforementioned poem, "To his Excellency Sir William Keith, Bart. on his Journey to Conestogoe, and Treaty with the Indians there"; three carriers' addresses for New Year's Day, 1720, 1721, and 1722; seven other short pieces in couplets or quatrains, and several addressed to him or to his memory, including a reprint, with a separate title-page, of Bockett's elegy.
Aquila Rose was best known for his work "Poems on Several Occasions". His poems were the work of a cultured amateur, the best versifier in English that Philadelphia could show before the younger Thomas Godfrey. His own estimate of their worth may be inferred from the fact that, with good opportunity to publish his work, he refrained from doing so.
(Title: Poems on several occasions by Aquila Rose : to whi...)
Rose had the son, Joseph Rose, who was apprenticed to Benjamin Franklin in 1730.
