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New York:| Printed by S. Inslee and A. Car, on Moor's Wharf.| M, DCC, LXXII.| 12mo; pp. [1]-27, [1].
See Vol. I, xxii, and Vol. III, Appendix A, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, C.
1772
A | Poem, | on the | Rising Glory | of | America;| being an | Exercise | Delivered at the Public Commencement at | Na.s.sau-Hall, September 25, 1771. |[_Quotation of six lines from Seneca._]|
Philadelphia:| Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken,| bookseller, opposite the London-coffee-|house, in Front-Street.| M, DCC, LXXII.| 12mo; pp. [3]-27.
See Vol. I, xxi, and 49, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, C, HSP, MHS, NYHS, PU.
1775
American Liberty,| a | Poem.| [_Quotations one line from Virgil and two lines from Pope_].|
New-York:| Printed by J. Anderson, at Beekman-Slip.| MDCCLXXV.| 12mo; pp. 3-12.
See Vol. I, 142, _supra_. _Copies_: C, LCP.
1775
General Gage's Soliloquy. New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1775.
No printed copy of this has thus far been discovered. A ma.n.u.script copy of unknown origin is in the Du Simitiere collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Endorsed upon it are the words "Printed in New York August. 1775. By Gaine." See Vol. I, 152 _supra_.
1775
A | Voyage | to | Boston. | A | Poem.| [_Quotation of five lines from Shakespeare._] By the Author of American Liberty, a Poem: General | Gage's Soliloquy, &c.|
New-York: Printed by John Anderson,| at Beekman's Slip.| 12mo; pp.
[III]-IV, [5]-24.
See Vol. I, 158, _supra_. _Copies_: C, LCP, NYHS.
1775
A | Voyage | to | Boston. | A | Poem.| [_Quotation of five lines from Shakespeare._]| By the Author of American Liberty, a Poem: General | Gage's Soliloquy, &c.|
Philadelphia: | Sold by | William Woodhouse, | in Front street.| M, DCC, LXXV.| 12mo; pp. [III]-iv, [5]-24.
A reprint of the Anderson edition. _Copies_: AAS, HSP, NYHS, PU.
1775
General Gage's | Confession,| Being the Substance of | His Excellency's last Conference,| With his Ghostly Father, Friar Francis.| [_Quotation of one line from Virgil._]| By the Author of the Voyage to Boston. | A Poem, &c.|
Printed in the Year, 1775.| Small 8vo; pp. [3]-8.
The copy in the possession of the Library Company of Philadelphia is at present believed to be unique. Written on the t.i.tle page by a contemporary hand are the words "By Gaine. Published October 25: 1775."
1778
The | Travels | of the | Imagination;| a true Journey from | New Castle to London.| To which are added,| American Independence,| an | everlasting deliverance | from | British Tyranny: | a Poem.|
Philadelphia: | Printed, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.| M DCC LXXVIII.| 12mo.
The main work is by James Murray. Freneau's poem, pp. [113]-126 of the volume, has the t.i.tle page:
American | Independence,| an everlasting | Deliverance | from | British Tyranny.| A Poem.| By Philip F----, Author of the American Village,| Voyage to Boston, &c.| [_Quotation of six lines from Shakespeare._]|
Philadelphia: Printed, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.| M DCC LXXVIII.|
The same sheets were used to form part VI of "Miscellanies | for | Sentimentalists," published the same year by Bell.
See Vol. I, 271, _supra_. _Copy_: HSP.
1779
Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees.
The only evidence at present of the separate publication of this piece is the entry in Frank Moore's _Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution_ (N. Y. 1856, p. 259): "We have it in a ballad sheet, dated 1779."
See Vol. II, p. 7, _supra_.
1781
The British Prison-Ship:|A | Poem,| in four Cantoes.|
{ 1. The Capture, { 2. The Prison-Ship, Viz. Canto { 3. The Prison-Ship, continued, { 4. The Hospital-Prison-Ship.
To which is added,| A Poem on the Death of Capt. N. Biddle,| who was blown up, in an Engagement with the | Yarmouth, near Barbadoes.| [_Quotation of thirteen lines from Milton._]|
Philadelphia:| Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street.| M. DCC. Lx.x.xI.| 12mo; pp. [3]-23.
See Vol. II, p. 18, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, LCP, NYHS.
1783
New Year Verses,| Addressed to those Gentlemen who have been | pleased to favour Francis Wrigley, News Car-|rier, with their Custom.| January 1, 1783.| Folio, broadside.
