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Last name Belknap
First name Jeremiah
Display name Jeremiah Belknap
Birth date 1744
Death date 1798
Birth place Boston
Death place Boston
Gender m
Affiliations Congregational Church
Bio notes Congregational minister in Dover, New Hampshire, for 20 years. Author of the "History of New Hampshire" and "American Biographies." Chaplain to New Hampshire troops in the Revolutionary War. From 1787 until his death, worked as the pastor of Federal Street Church in Boston and continued to promote historical research.

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A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom