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Joseph Green (1706–1788), English Colonial American clergyman and poet who published in 1743, "The Disappointed Cooper", mocking old man's marriage to much younger woman as well as criticizing behavior of some New Light ministers•To Mr. B occasioned by his Verse, to Mr. Smibert on seeing his Pictures. Also wrote "The Poet’s Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he us’d to call his Muse", "On Mr. B—s’s singing an Hymn of his own composing", "To the Author of the Poetry in the last Weekly Journal", "A True Impartial Account of the Celebration of the Prince of Orange’s Nuptials at Portsmouth", "Inscription under Revd. Jn. Checkley’s Picture", “A fig for your learning, I tell you the Town” and “Hail! D––p––t of wondrous fame”. Also one of the members who signed to the attestation of veracity to Phillis Wheatley's writing of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

References

1. "American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries". Referenced 17 MAY 2010

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