John Freeth

(1731-1808)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Freeth, John, 1731-1808 DNB: Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808), innkeeper and political ballad writer LBT ID: JoFreet1808 VIAF ID: 24450397 LOC ID: nr90018222	B/BAP: 1731 DIED: 1808-09-29
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Innkeeper and author of political ballads; he was known as “The Birmingham Poet.”
REFERENCES TO John Freeth: William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 7 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797