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Jeremy Belknap
Massachusetts Historical Society
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791 by Jeremy Belknap and other historical scholars, whose gift of books and manuscripts became the nucleus of its present great collection. This, the first organization of its kind in the U.S., began to make available its Americana by publishing volumes of collections, augmented by a series of
Proceedings and special publications. Among the many notable documents thus published for the first time are Bradford's
History of Plimmoth Plantation and
The Diary and Letter Books of Samuel Sewall. Its collections were first published in the
American Apollo (1792–94), a Federalist weekly newspaper.
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The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past.
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/1999; ; 655 words
; The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with...helpful qualifications too by showing Belknap to be interested in the human past...answers in the Age of Enlightenment, "Belknap's dialogue with the past...
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Where did Captain Martin Pring anchor in New England?
Magazine article from: Historical Journal of Massachusetts; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Martha's Vineyard. The historian Jeremy Belknap (1744-98) seems to have accepted...word of two local correspondents. Belknap cites them in a long footnote to...neighboring Nantucket, wrote to Belknap in the 1700s that only Edgartown...
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THE WAREHOUSE OF DEMOCRACY THE OLDEST ORGANIZATION OF ITS KIND IN AMERICA, THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY RANKS SECOND ONLY TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND DISSEMINATING AMERICAN HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/11/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...architectural drawings; the Belcher, Belknap, Heath, Otis, Parkman, Pepperrell...transaction would have pleased Rev. Jeremy Belknap, founder of the society. He...extent of their means. "When Jeremy Belknap founded the Massachusetts Historical...
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Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America; Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910
Magazine article from: Legacy; 4/30/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...chronological case studies with the serialization of Jeremy Belknap's The Foresters (1787) in the Columbian Magazine...an installment of The Foresters, and in his novel, Belknap sought to demonstrate the extent to which the Indians...
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"Face Zion Forward": First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...vexed in this case than they indicate. The Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a historian who helped Prince Hall in 1788 petition...another friend, Ebenezer Hazard, on 19 September 1789, Belknap remarked that although he did not hear the sermon...
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Perspectives on The First President
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...turned Gullager down, according to Salem clergyman Jeremy Belknap, the painter "stole a likeness of him from a pew behind...500 offer for it by the Bostonians. He added that Belknap "acquired the portrait after a raffle." Other, better...
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Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America.(Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...chronological case studies with the serialization of Jeremy Belknap's The Foresters (1787) in the Columbian Magazine...an installment of The Foresters, and in his novel, Belknap sought to demonstrate "the extent to which the Indians...
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Antiques.(Americans saving their national memory)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...political and social order they foresaw. The Reverend Jeremy Belknap's Massachusetts Historical Society became the model...nineteenth century. Pintard acknowledged his debt to Belknap in an address in 1805 in which he said: "Not aspiring...
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Okker, Patricia. Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...all readers will be persuaded by Okker's claim that Jeremy Belknap's The Forresters, an allegory that appeared in nine...reopening of the African slave trade. In contrast to Belknap, Simms and Delany used the magazine novel to promote...
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Food for Eritrea
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/24/1991; 700+ words
; ...would substantially diminish. A good repository Rev. Jeremy Belknap was a Boston-born and Harvard-educated Puritan minister...historical research. Two hundred years ago today, Belknap founded The Historical Society. In 1794, it was incorporated...
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Jeremy Belknap
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jeremy Belknap , 1744-98, American historian, b. Boston. A Congregational minister, he wrote history out of antiquarian interest, but...
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Belknap, Jeremy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Belknap, Jeremy (1744–98), Congregational clergyman and historian, was...vols., 1794–98) is the prototype of many later works. Belknap's nationalism, enthusiasm for research, and scholarship led him...
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Historical Writing: Documenting the New Nation
Book article from: American Eras
...writer to produce such a work was Jeremy Belknap, who published the first volume...History of New-Hampshire in 1784. Belknap’s contemporaries followed...nation. For historians such as Belknap and Williamson, this enterprise...
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A Wooden World
Book article from: American Eras
...Source: George Fichter, How to Build an Indian Canoe (New York: McKay, 1977). Sources Jeremy Belknap, History of New-Hampshire (Boston: Belknap & Young, 1792); Brooke Hindle, ed., America’s
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Marcou, Jules
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...books, collections of maps, and articles — were French. In 1850 Marcou married Jane Belknap, daughter of the historian Jeremy Belknap, and this association with New England lineage and wealth made him independent of material concerns...
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