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JEREMY BELKNAP (1744-1798)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEREMY See also:BELKNAP (1744-1798)  , See also:American author and clergyman, was See also:born at See also:Boston on the 4th of See also:June 1744, and was educated at Harvard See also:College, where he graduated in 1762 . In 1767 he became See also:minister of a Congregational See also:church at See also:Dover, New See also:Hampshire, remaining there until 1787, when he removed to Federal See also:Street church, Boston . He is recognized as the founder of the See also:Massachusetts See also:Historical Society, and in 1792 became an overseer of Harvard . He died at Boston on the loth of June 1798 . See also:Belknap's See also:chief See also:works are: See also:History of New Hampshire (1784–1792) ; An Historical See also:Account of those persons who have been distinguished in See also:America, generally known as American See also:Biography (1792-1794) ; The Foresters (r792), &e .

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