Peter St. John

Peter St. John (Jan. 11, 1726, Norwalk, Connecticut-Jan. 4, 1811, Walton, New York) was an American poet and schoolteacher from Norwalk, CT who supported the Patriot cause during the American Revolution.

For other people with the same name, see Peter St John (disambiguation).

Works

St. John’s better-known poems included The Death of Abel, An Historical or rather a Conjectural Poem; Relating many things which might probably take place both Before and After that Barbarous Fratricide (1793) and American Taxation (1765),[1] new lyrics set to the well-known colonial tune The British Grenadiers.[2]

Imprisonment

On July 22, 1781, St. John was among forty-eight congregants captured when Tories surrounded the Congregation Church in present-day Darien, CT. St. John and the others including the church’s revered pastor Moses Mather were made to walk to Long Island Sound, where they were loaded onto a ship bound for Lloyds Neck, Long Island where they were held in cruel, filthy conditions. Thereafter, half of the prisoners, St. John included, were sent to New York where they were paraded through the streets before a jeering crowd to be held in the Provost Prison as prisoners of war. St. John was imprisoned until the end of December, 1781 when was freed along with the eighteen other survivors in a prisoner exchange.[3] The incident became the basis for St. John’s poem Descent on Middlesex, a Poetical Relation of the Capture of the Congregation at Middlesex...with an Account of their Sufferings & c. while in captivity.[4]

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See also

References
  1. "Taxation of America, 1765". Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  2. "Music and Poetry of the American Revolution". Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  3. "Guide Book To New England Travel: New York To New Haven Guidebook, Originally Published 1919".
  4. "Descent on Middlesex, 1781". Retrieved 14 August 2012.
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