A poet in Philadelphia, Markoe is reputed to be the author of this Federalist satire in the form of an epistolatory novel.
The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania: or, Letters Written by a Native of Algiers on the Affairs of the United States in America, from the close of the year 1783 to the meeting of the convention. Philadelphia: Prichard & Hall, 1787. —This copy is missing part of the first letter. The same copy, in a much better scan, is at the Hathi Trust Digital Library, still missing those same pages. The full text, including the missing pages, can be found at the University of Michigan’s Evans Early American Imprint Collection.