Jonathan Odell
Jonathan Odell | |
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Born | |
Died | November 25, 1818 | (aged 81)
Occupation(s) | Poet, Parish Priest at Burlington and Mount Holly, Loyalist during the American Revolution |
Jonathan Odell (25 September 1737 – 25 November 1818) was a Loyalist poet who lived during the American Revolution.
Early life and career
Odell was born in the city of Newark in New Jersey on September 25, 1737.[1] He was the only son of John Odell, a descendant of Puritan migrant William Odell, who immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1639.[2] His mother, Temperance Dickinson, was the daughter of Reverend Jonathan Dickinson, co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.[3]
He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1754. Odell then briefly taught at a grammar school attached to the college from 1755 to 1756.[1] Although he had studied medicine, instead of becoming a doctor he joined the Church of England ministry. As a minister he preached at parish priest at Burlington and Mount Holly, both in New Jersey. He was inducted into the revived American Philosophical Society in 1768.[4]
The American Revolution
When the revolution broke out Odell became a strong
His daughter Lucy Anne is buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
Odell was portrayed by George Sanders as a highly intelligent but cynical loyalist in the 1955 Hollywood film The Scarlet Coat.
References
- ^ a b Bailey, Alfred G. (1983). "ODELL, JONATHAN". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 5. University of Toronto.
- ISBN 978-1878592453. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ISBN 0822307162.
- ^ Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, I:429-40, II:70.
- ^ "Jonathan Odell Collection, 1750-1780: Finding Aid C1151". Archived 2010-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Accessed December 5, 2008.
Further reading
- Edited by Winthrop Sargent. The Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Doctor Jonathan Odell Relating to the American Revolution. J. Munsell, 1860.
- A digitized copy of this book is available on Google Books. (link)
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