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Philip Morin Freneau

Matawan, New Jersey
· 1752 – 1832
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Philip Morin Freneau eloquently fired the spirit of the people with poems and ballads promoting the cause of liberty. A friend of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, he published the Jersey Chronicle, the first newspaper in Monmouth County.
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