Only recently has evidence come to light establishing John Leacock, a Philadelphia gold and silversmith, as the author not only of the propaganda play The Fall of British Tyranny (1776), but also of a broadside, A New Song, On the Repeal of the Stamp-Act (1766), and a pamphlet series, The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times (1774-1775), reprinted several times in Boston, Providence, Salem, and Newbern. Popular in their day, Leacock's works have gone the way of most political propaganda and have become obscured by time and by their author's anonymity. By 1954, however, enough conclusive evidence had accumulated that Francis James Dallett, Jr., could demonstrate Leacock's authorship of The Fall of British Tyranny. More recently, J. A. Leo Lemay uncovered an advertisement in the New York Constitutional Gazette for 3 July 1776 linking the author of the play to that of The First Book of the American Chronicles of...