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Jeremy Belknap, a clergyman in Boston, was a noted regional historian and a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Author of History of New Hampshire (1784-92), A Discourse intended to commemorate the Discovery of America by Columbus, American Biography, and The Foresters, an American Tale, as well as published sermons, essays, and historical pieces.

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Works in the EAF Collection

The Foresters, an American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull the Clothier. In a Series of Letters to a Friend (1792) (Restricted)

Contemporary Biographies

From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors (1901)

From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1900)

From Evert A. Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1856)