Strictures on Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible," 1796 t.p. (by a Citizen of New-York)

Evans, C. Amer. bibl., 1929: (attributes to Barlow)

Joel Barlow, 2011: ECIP t.p. (b. March 24, 1754; d. Dec. 24, 1812), American poet and politician, born in Redding, Fairfield County, Conn.; graduated from Yale Univ. in 1778, was a post-graduate student there for two years, and from September 1780 until the close of the Revolutionary War was chaplain in a Massachusetts brigade; in 1783, removed to Hartford, Conn., established there in July 1784 a weekly paper, the American Mercury, with which he was connected for a year, and in 1786 was admitted to the bar; author of poetry and satirical political essays; the poem for which he is now best known is his mock heroic Hasty Pudding (1793); his activity in his career included serving as the American consul at Algiers in 1795-1797, securing the release of American prisoners held for ransom, and negotiating a treaty with Tripoli (1796); d. 1812 in Poland, where he is buried)