[2] He is best known, however, for his literary works as he is regarded to be the author of the first comedic plays written in America, The Candidates (ca.
He also wrote a handful of poems, and left at his death an incomplete translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
[1] Munford is currently buried near the site of his homestead, most of which currently rests below John H. Kerr Reservoir near Boydton, Virginia.
His gravestone can be viewed along the Robert Munford Hiking Trail, which is owned and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
[3] One of Munford's poems was published in 1779, but much of his work remained unseen by the public before his death.