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He met Hugh Brackenridge at Princeton and collaborated with him on The Rising Glory of America, which was read at their 1771 graduation. Going to the West Indies at the outbreak of war, he was captured by the British in 1780 and held prisoner on the  Scorpion in New York harbor, an experience which prompted him to write The British Prison Ship. FTP, name this author of the Robert Slender letters, a poet best known for ÒThe Indian Burying Ground.Ó
He met Hugh Brackenridge at Princeton and collaborated with him on The Rising Glory of America, which was read at their 1771 graduation.
Philip Freneau