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| 1752 births | |
| freneau, philip morin | |
| 1832 deaths | |
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He was born in New York City , the oldest of the five children of Huguenot wine merchant ''Pierre Fresneau'' and his Scottish wife. Philip was brought up in Monmouth County, New Jersey where he studied under William Tennent, Jr. . His father died in 1767 , and he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University , as a Sophomore in 1768 to study for the Ministry . His Roommate and close friend at Princeton was James Madison . He graduated in 1771 , having written the poetical ''History of the Prophet Jonah'', and, with Hugh Henry Brackenridge , the prose satire '' Father Bembo's Pilgrimage To Mecca ''. REFERENCES
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