Author: Forrest, Michael
Biography:
Forrest, Michael (b c. 1773)
The preface and text of his Travels through America provide as much biographical material as is available. He emigrated from Ireland three months before his eighteenth birthday, then travelled from Newfoundland to Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and so on eventually to Charleston SC. He settled (at least for a time) in Philadelphia, where this poem and his more political works The Times (1795) and a prose pamphlet attributed to him, The Political Reformer (1797), were published. HJ
Books written (2):
Philadelphia: printed by Johnston and Justice, 1793
Philadelphia: [no publisher: printed by W. W. Woodward], 1795