Born: 19-Feb-1766
Birthplace: Perth Amboy, NJ
Died: 28-Sep-1839
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright, Author, Painter

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fountainville Abbey

Author of books:
Life of George Frederick Cooke (1813, biography)
Life of Charles Brockden Brown (1815, biography)
History of the American Theatre (1832, history)
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (1834, history)
Thirty Years Ago: Memoirs of a Water Drinker (1836, memoir)
New Netherlands, Province of New York (1840, nonfiction)

Wrote plays:
The Father of an Only Child (1789)
Leicester (1794)
Fountainville Abbey (1795)
Andre (1798)

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