This author satirized the Yazoo River land speculation in his lost play The Georgia Speculator, or Land in the Moon. This one-time Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court was the model for Jaffrey Pyncheon in The House of the Seven Gables. Doctor Updike Underhill loses a debate with Mollah over the relative merits of Christianity and Islam after being seized by Algerians in his picaresque novel The Algerine Captive. In another of his plays, Van Rough allows his daughter Maria to marry Captain Manly after  learning about the schemes of the foppish Billy Dimple. FTP, 
This author satirized the Yazoo River land speculation in his lost play The Georgia Speculator, or Land in the Moon. This one-time Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court was the model for Jaffrey Pyncheon in The House of the Seven Gables. Doctor Updike Underhill loses a debate with Mollah over the relative merits of Christianity and Islam after being seized by Algerians in his picaresque novel The Algerine Captive. In another of his plays, Van Rough allows his daughter Maria to marry Captain Manly after  learning about the schemes of the foppish Billy Dimple. FTP, name this author of the first comedy performed in the United States of America, The ? Contrast.
This author satirized the Yazoo River land speculation in his lost play The Georgia Speculator, or Land in the Moon.
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