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WILLIAMS, John, author, born in London, England, about 1765; died in Brooklyn, New York, 12 October, 1818. He was educated at the Merchant Tailors' school and intended for the church, but adopted literature instead, and, after acting as a translator for London booksellers, went to Dublin, Ireland, where he was connected with various journals. His violent denunciations of the government caused his prosecution, and he was fined heavily and judicially declared in 1797 to be "a common libeller." Soon afterward he came to the United States, where he edited a Democratic newspaper. He died in great poverty. Mr. Williams wrote under the pen-name of "Anthony Pasquin." He was the author of several plays;" Poems " (London, 1789); " Legislative Biography " (1795); " The Hamilton-lad" (Boston, 1804): "Life of Alexander Hamilton" (1804); and " The Dramatic Censor" (1811)o
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