Benjamin Prime

Benjamin Young Prime (December 20, 1733 – October 31, 1791) was an American poet, essayist, and songwriter.

Prime was born on Long Island. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1751; he took his medical degree at Leyden. He wrote essays in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Spanish, and many songs and ballads which were very popular during the American Revolutionary War. Among his publications are The Patriot Muse, or Poems on Some of the Principal Events of the Late War, by an American; Columbia's Glory, or British Pride Humbled; A Poem on the American Revolution; Muscipula Cambryomachia.

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• This article incorporates text from the International Cyclopedia of 1890, a publication now in the public domain.