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Title: Sketches of the primitive settlements on the river Delaware : a discourse delivered before the Society for the Commemoration of the Landing of William Penn, on the 24th of October, 1827. Author: James Nelson Barker Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP03860200 CollectionID: CTRG02-B61 PublicationDate: 18270101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 62 p. ; 20 cm
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Barker was born on June 17, 1784, in Philadelphia. His versatile career had as its background the personality and life of his father, Gen. John Barker, a soldier and politician of prominence in early Philadelphia, who served as alderman, as major-general of the 16t division of the Pennsylvania militia, and as mayor of Philadelphia in 1808, 1809, and 1812.
James Nelson Barker was educated in the Philadelphia schools, trained in the principles of the Democratic party, and given the ideals of a soldier.
His first activities in literature and in politics were nearly simultaneous. He began authorship with an unproduced tragedy, The Spanish Rover, in 1804 and, after writing a masque, America, that was never printed, reached the stage on March 4, 1807, with Tears and Smiles, a deservedly applauded comedy of Philadelphia manners. On March 16, 1808, he confirmed this success with his comic interlude The Embargo or What News? upholding the Embargo bills of that and the preceding year. The Indian Princess, or la Belle Sauvage, produced April 6, 1808, and advertised as an "operatic melodrama" (Democratic Press, April 5, 1808), is important as the first acted play on the Indian by an American, the first on the story of Pocahontas, and the first to be acted in England after a premier production in the United States. Barker's adaptation, at the request of the managers of the Chestnut Street Theatre, of A. Cherry's The Travellers, or Music's Fascination, also won public appreciation.
Meanwhile he had become prominent in the political organization of Philadelphia known as "The Democratic Young Men, " and in 1809 inaugurated his career as a poet by a song sung at that organization's celebration of the Fourth of July. From December 21, 1809, until the close of March 1810, he was in Washington studying the government, making useful friends, and generally informing himself politically. He was caught up in the gaiety of the capital, entertained by the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and other officials.
Barker resumed play making in 1812 with Marmion, a dramatization of Scott's poem, produced in New York, April 12, as of English origin. On June 1, 1812, he accepted an appointment as captain in the 2nd Artillery and served on the Canadian frontier with a success worthy of his heritage. At the time of his resignation from the army, April 1, 1817, he was assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major. Literature and politics had again claimed his attention in 1816. By July 4 he was active in the "new-school" branch of the Democratic party, composing two poems for the day's ceremonies. On December 18, 1816, he began a series of eleven articles of spirited dramatic criticism in which his attitude toward drama was the same as that which in his plays gives him true significance--"that with a free people and under the liberal care of a government such as ours it might tend to keep alive the spirit of freedom; and to unite conflicting parties in common love of liberty and devotedness to country".
He contributed biographies on Jay and Clinton to Delaplaine's one-time much-discussed Repository; they are equal to any of the period. Drama, however, was still his favorite literary form; and with The Armourer's Escape produced March 21, 1817, and How to Try a Lover, written the same year but not then acted, he again illustrated his ability. The slashing eloquence of his political oration of July 4, 1817, aroused much feeling among the Democrats and was widely quoted.
In 1817 Barker became an alderman, in October 1819 he was elected mayor of Philadelphia by the Democratic city council. Always a philanthropist, he used his office on several occasions for charitable purposes, and, through the efficiency of his appointments, stimulated considerable animosity. In the spring of 1820 there were fears of incendiarism in the city; and he, as mayor, organized the citizens for protection. With the split and defeat of his party in the next election he lost the mayoralty but resumed his position as alderman. He made strenuous efforts to harmonize the differences in the ranks of the Democrats, and through 1822 and 1823 was an official of most of the town meetings and a member of every important committee of his party.
The finest of his dramas, Superstition, was put on at the Chestnut Street Theatre, March 12, 1824. Its theme is taken from New England colonial history and developed with a power that makes it possible to estimate the play as the best drama written in America to that date. Constantly a figure on public occasions in Philadelphia, Barker participated in the reception to Gen. Lafayette in September 1824, and during the parade an ode of his was distributed to the crowds from a press mounted on a wagon (National Gazette, September 29, 30, 1824). The annuals of 1825, and for several years following, especially the Atlantic Souvenir, contain facile, graceful poetical contributions from his pen deserving a better fate than has been theirs. The most popular were "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Sisters. "
On October 24, 1825, he delivered an ode, "The Pilgrims of Pennsylvania, " before a distinguished audience including John Quincy Adams and the Duke of Saxe-Weimar. His interest in the theatre was continued by way of prologue to Dr. James McHenry's play, The Usurper, December 26, 1827, and Richard Penn Smith's The Eighth of January, 1829, the second again declaring for American plays by Americans.
Barker was a vigorous participant in Andrew Jackson's campaign for the presidency in 1828, and on March 11, 1829, was appointed collector of the port of Philadelphia, holding that post until 1838. He conducted the custom-house adequately, with attention, at the same time, to political expediency. In 1832 he contributed influential articles to the newspapers on the Bank War, while his oration at the Jackson dinner, Jan. 8, 1835, was an excellent example of aggressive political writing.
is dramatic interests were not entirely submerged by public affairs. On Jan. 13, 1836, he was instrumental in what nearly amounted to a municipal benefit-performance for William B. Wood, Philadelphia actor and manager. On March 26, 1836, his earlier play, How to Try a Lover, never before performed, was given at the Arch Street Theatre with enthusiastic approval under the new title, A Court of Love (Ibid. , March 26, 1836).
With his removal to Washington, his name still remained an influence in Philadelphia, appearing prominently among toasts at political gatherings. Following the change in administration, he lost his office in the treasury on April 19, 1841, but with the advent of Tyler was made acting comptroller of the treasury, on September 14 of the same year. Subsequently, he was clerk in the office of the chief clerk of the treasury and long continued to place his valuable experience at the service of the Government. In spite of heavy routine duties his literary production did not altogether cease, as he contributed to periodicals in Washington. The French Revolution of 1848 was the subject of a poem he read before President Polk's cabinet, copies of which were distributed during the procession to celebrate the French success. His letters to his daughter, at this period, reflect an affectionate and domestic temperament of appealing charm. Through the changing administrations he succeeded in retaining his office, and at his death, March 9, 1858, he was still holding his position in the Treasury Department.
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He was a member of political organization of Philadelphia known as "The Democratic Young Men".
In 1811, against the opposition of his father, he married Mary Rogers, who had come to Philadelphia from Connecticut with her brother Edmund, a portrait painter of the day.
