 She edited her mother's writings and added some of her own poems and essays to a collection entitled ""; she included thirty-six poems, twenty-three letters, an unfinished short historical novel, "The History of Henry and Ann", and "The History of Maria Kittle", a captivity narrative set during the French and Indian War.Due to its popularity, "The History of Maria Kittle" was republished separately in 1797.Bleecker's epistolary novel "" took the Indian Captivity story genre in new directions, as it was possibly the first American fictional account focusing on Native Americans.