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(1752-1832) Poet, journalist, editor. Philip Freneau was born in New York City. He was the first professional American journalist, a powerful propagandist and satirist for the American Revolution and Jeffersonian democracy.

Full Name

Philip Morin Freneau

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1752

BIRTH

Philip Freneau was born in New York, New York, in 1752.

1781

LITWORK

The British Prison-Ship


Poem.

1786

LITWORK

Poems


Collection of poems.

1788

LITWORK

Miscellaneous Works


Collection of poems and essays.

1832

DEATH

Philip Freneau died in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in 1832.

1832

INTERMENT

Philip Freneau is buried in Union Prospect Cemetery, Matawan, Monmouth County, New Jersey. (The 'poet of the American Revolution').

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