Citation - South Carolina Gazette (Miller): 1783.04.05

SCGGA.783.002
5 Apr 1783:21 (1/8)
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
When pregnant nature strove relief to gain, 
Her nurse was Washington, her midwife Paine.+
The infant Independence scarce began
To be. e'er he had ripen'd into man;
France his God father, Britain was his rod, 
Congress his guardian, and his father God.
+Author of Common Sense.