1. Jeremy Belknap was an American clergyman and historian.
17 Facts About Jeremy Belknap
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Jeremy Belknap's uncle was Mather Byles, one of New England's intellectual leaders.
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Jeremy Belknap was baptized by the historian Thomas Prince, another leading figure of 18th-century New England.
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Jeremy Belknap was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1762.
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Jeremy Belknap married that year and acquired a house in Dover.
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Jeremy Belknap accompanied them and remained through the next winter as chaplain to the New Hampshire troops involved with the siege.
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Besides attending to his growing congregation, Jeremy Belknap served as a secretary to the convention of New Hampshire ministers from 1769 until 1787.
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Jeremy Belknap tried to clearly separate facts from analysis and opinion, and he provided many annotations to show the source and location of records that he had inspected.
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Besides his History, Jeremy Belknap began work on an American biographical dictionary in 1779.
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Jeremy Belknap was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1784.
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Jeremy Belknap accepted a new position in 1787, when he moved back to Boston to become pastor of the Federal Street Church.
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Jeremy Belknap remained active in research, writing, and promoting American history as a field.
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Jeremy Belknap continued his quest into history, seeking ways to report and preserve historic sources.
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In 1792 Jeremy Belknap published his An Historical Account of those persons who have been distinguished in America, which was the first of a distinguished line of dictionaries of American biography.
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Jeremy Belknap died in Boston and was buried at the Granary Burying Ground.
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Jeremy Belknap's remains were later re-interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Jeremy Belknap is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker along the Spaulding Turnpike in Dover.