The Prophecy; or, Love and Friendship. A Drama. New York, 1821. 18mo, pp. 34.
FRISBIE, NOAH, JR.
Noah Frisbie, Jr., born in Woodbury, Conn., Jan. 23, 1758, was the oldest son of Noah Frisbie, of the same town, who married Margery Post in 1752, and was in 1757 a member of Captain Ebenezer Downs's company of volunteers in the expedition for the relief of Fort William Henry on Lake George against the French. On the "Alarm of Lexington," Noah Frisbie with his two sons Noah and Jonathan, and their kinsmen Asabel, Abiel, David and James, joined the Continental forces. Noah Frisbie, Jr., appears on the army list at the end of the war as a lieutenant. No further information, except the printing of the under-mentioned play, is available.
The History of the Falcos. A Comedy in Four Acts. Part First. Walpole, N. H.: Printed for the author, at the Observatory Press, 1808. 12mo, pp. 137.
GARDEN, ALEXANDER
Kosciusko; or, The Fall of Warsaw. A Play in Verse.
Published in The Soldier's Wreath, or The Battle Ground of New Orleans, and Other Poems, by Oliver Cromwell, of South Carolina. Charleston, W. Riley, 1828, pp. [37-72]. The volume is supposed to be by Alex. Garden, author of Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War. This I am, however, in doubt about, as the author calls himself "an almost beardless youth." The play is in three acts.
GODFREY, THOMAS, JR.
Thomas Godfrey, who was born in Philadelphia on December 4, 1736, and died near Wilmington, N. C., August 3, 1763, was a son of Thomas Godfrey, the inventor of the quadrant. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker and remained at that trade until 1758. He was an officer in the expedition against Fort Du Quesne. He removed to North Carolina and remained there three years. He then went to Philadelphia and sailed as a supercargo to the Island of New Providence, returning from thence to North Carolina, where, a few weeks after his arrival, by exposure to the sun on horseback, he contracted a fever which terminated fatally.
Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, and The Prince of Parthia. A Tragedy. Philadelphia: Printed by Henry Miller, in Second Street, 1765. 8vo, pp. XVI, 223.
The Prince of Parthia is the earliest known tragedy that was written by an American. The play was offered to the company then performing in Philadelphia, but was not accepted.