18th Century New England/Canadian clergyman and comic poet
Father Abbey's Will. woodcut, Cambridge publisher. December, 1791
Rev. John Seccombe (25 April 1708 – 27 October 1792) was an author, a founder of Chester, Nova Scotia and was “the best-known and most highly respected clergyman in Nova Scotia.”[1][2][3] He was also the author of Father Abbey's Will, which was printed as a poem and a broadsheet over 30 times throughout the 18th century in England and America.[4] According to the Manual of American Literature, the poem "was one of the best comic poems of that day."[5] As a result of the poem, the History of American Literature indicated that Seccombe "had an extraordinary notoriety" in America's early literary history.[6]
^Cahill, Barry, "The Sedition Trial of Timothy Houghton: Repression in a Marginal New England Planter Township during the Revolutionary Years". XXIV, 1 (Autumn 1994), p.39
^Canadian Biography - John Seccombe
^New England Life in the Eighteenth Century: Representative Biographies from ... By Clifford Kenyon Shipton, p. 286
^Music in Colonial Massachusetts, pp. 344-347
^A Manual of American Literature: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges By Hart (John Seely), John Seely Hart, 1873, p.52
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