PETER MARKOE, born in Santa Cruz (St. Croix), one of the West India
Islands, in 1735, died in Philadelphia in 1792. He was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, read law in London, and settled in
Philadelphia in 1783. He there became addicted to literature and
contributed to the leading periodicals over the name "A Native of
Algiers."
THE PATRIOT CHIEF. A Tragedy. Philadelphia: Wm. Prichard, 1783. 8vo,
pp. 70.
THE RECONCILIATION; OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE. A Comic Opera, in Two
Acts. Philadelphia, Prichard & Hall, 1790. 12mo, pp. 48.