JEREMY BELKNAP (1744-1798)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V03,
Page 684
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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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