MARGARETTA BLEECKER FAUGERES, born in Tunkhannock, near Albany, New
York, in 1771, died there January 9, 1801, was a daughter of the
poetess Ann Eliza Bleecker. In 1791 she married Peter Faugeres, a
physician of New York, who dissipated her fortune and died in 1798.
She supported herself by teaching until her death in 1801. Her poems
are appended to her mother's _Posthumous Works_, edited by her, New
York, 1793.
BELISARIUS. A Tragedy. New York, 1795. Frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 53.
Offered to the management of the John Street Theatre and declined.