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Paulding, James Kirke

author, was born Aug. 22, 1779, in Mount Pleasant, N. Y. He was a versatile and once popular writer of New York city, the friend of Irving, and co-author with him of The Salmagundi Papers in 1807. He was secretary of the navy in 1837-41. His various writings include: The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, his most successful work; Salmagundi, a second series, 1819; Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, a novel; John Bull in America; The Dutchman's Fireside; Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a travesty of the Lay of the Last Minstrel; Westward Ho; Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham; The Puritan and His Daughter; The New Mirror for Travelers; The Backwoodsman, a poem; The Bucktails, a Comedy; Letters from the South; Life of George Washington; and Slavery in America, a spirited defence of that institution.