Jonathan Mitchell Sewall

Jonathan Mitchell Sewall (1748–1808) was a New England lawyer and poet of the Revolutionary period; his war song War and Washington was sung during the war. Eggleston prints the name as Seward.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: War and Washington.