Frederick Swartwout Cozzens

Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (March 5, 1818 – December 23, 1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde.

[4] Cozzens had previously contributed humorous poems and articles to magazines, and in 1853 he issued his first volume, Prismatics, under the pen name "Richard Haywarde".

The book, which was immediately popular and also published under the name Haywarde, followed a family that moved from New York City to the countryside in Yonkers.

The book reported on the difficulties of blacks who settled in Nova Scotia along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.

[6] Soon after the American Civil War he failed in a business for which he had labored earnestly, especially by promoting the sale of native wines, and retired from Yonkers to Rahway, New Jersey.