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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808)

Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell. An American poet; born at Salem, MA, 1748; died at Portsmouth, NH, March 29, 1808. During the Revolutionary war he wrote a ballad, ‘War and Washington,’ which was very popular; in his epilogue (1780) to Addison’s ‘Cato’ occur the lines “No pent-up Utica contracts your powers”; his ‘Miscellaneous Poems’ were collected and published in 1801.