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.