The Choice: A Poem. After the manner Mr. Pomfret. By a Young Gentleman in Boston. [ca. 1750-1776].

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The Choice: A Poem. After the manner Mr. Pomfret. By a Young Gentleman in Boston. [ca. 1750-1776].

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Copied in South Kingston, [Rhode Island], 1783, April 18. Printed in 1802 by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts. Last page includes poem entitled, Mr. Dryden on Retirement.

16 unnumbered pages.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778

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Physician, poet, author, and traitor; b. Newport, R.I.; graduate of Harvard, 1754; lived in Boston and Raynham, Mass.; after correspondence with British was intercepted in 1775, he was tried by court martial. Continental Congress resolved on Nov. 6, that he should be imprisoned at Norwich, Conn., but because of illness was removed to Massachusetts and put on parole; allowed to sail from Boston in May 1776 for London but ship never heard from again; family was pensioned by the Crown. ...