8 Mar 1756:33 (187)
New York Mercury (Gaine)             
NYM(G.756.021                                                           
8 Mar 1756:33 (187)                                                     
For the benefit of a poor widow.  On Thursday the 18th                  
instant, will be open'd at the city-hall, in the city of                
New-York, a new organ, made by Gilbert Ash, where will be               
performed, a concert of vocal and instrumental musick.  In              
which, among a variety of other selected pieces, both vocal             
and instrumental, will be introduced, a song in praise of               
musick, particularly of an organ; and another favourite                 
song, called, The Sword That's Drawn in Virtue's Cause,'                
both compos'd by Mr. Handel.  An organ concerto, compos'd by            
Sigr. Giovanni Adolffo Hasse.                                           
  Its hoped, lovers of harmony and charitable designs, will             
freely promote this undertaking; thereby making their                   
recreations the means of purchasing blessings to themselves,            
and administring comfort to the afflicted heart, and relief             
to the distressed.                                                      
  Tickets, at five shillings each, to be had at Mr. Cobham's            
in Hanover-Square, at the gentleman's coffee-house, at the              
Bible & Crown in Queen-Street, and at Mr. Ash's, joining Mr.            
Willet's in Wall-Street; who continues to business of organ             
building, by whom gentlemen and ladies, may be furnished                
with that noble instrument, in a convenient time after it is            
bespoke.