Who recorded the tale of A Ballad of the French Fleet?
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The archive's variant of A Ballad of the French Fleet is the one printed in Samuel Adams Drake (1884), and the collector names no informant for it. urn:lemay:boston:entity:a-ballad-of-the-french-fleet
The archive gives its source as Drake, A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1884), retrieved 2 September 2026. urn:lemay:boston:entity:a-ballad-of-the-french-fleet
The records this answer rests on
- A Ballad of the French Fleet — entityurn:lemay:boston:entity:a-ballad-of-the-french-fleet
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