SEWALL, JONATHAN MITCHELL
Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, born in Salem, Mass., in 1748, died in Portsmouth, N. H., March 29, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard and first entered business life, but eventually became a lawyer. He was Register of Probate for Grafton Co., N. H., in 1774. Author of the song War and Washington, very popular during the Revolution. His Miscellaneous Poems were published in 1801.
At a performance of Addison's Cato in the Bow Street Theatre, N. H., in 1778, an epilogue, written by Colonel Sewall, was spoken, the closing lines of which are:
No pent up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless Continent is yours.
A Cure for the Spleen; or, Amusement for a Winter's Evening. Being the substance of a conversation on the times over a friendly tankard and pipe, between Sharp, a country Parson; Bumper, a country Justice; Fillpot, an innkeeper; Graveairs, a Deacon; Trim, a Barber; Brim, Quaker; Puff, a late Representative. Taken in shorthand by Roger de Coverly. America, 1775. 8vo, pp. 32.
A Tory protest against the Revolution.
Another edition with the title: Americans Aroused in a Cure for the Spleen, etc., New York: Reprinted by James Rivington, n. d. [1775]. 8vo, pp. 32.
SIMMONS, JAMES WRIGHT
James Wright Simmons, born at Charleston, S. C., studied at Harvard and made an extensive tour of Europe, whence he came to New York and was for a time a writer for the New York Mirror. He was also connected with other New York papers. He afterward held the office of Comptroller General and Treasurer of the Republic of Texas. Died at Memphis, Tenn., aged 68 years.
Julian. A Dramatic Fragment, n. p., n. d. [1823]. 12mo.
SMITH, CHARLES