Peter St. John

Peter St. John, of Norwalk, Connecticut, is named as the author of the Revolutionary ballad Taxation of America in Eggleston’s anthology; his dates are not given there.

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: Taxation of America.