"A New Method of Shorthand," 1779?

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"A New Method of Shorthand," 1779?

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A small booklet entitled "A New Method of Shorthand" containing four lessons on a new shorthand, with instructions and lists of codes, sent to Jeremy Belknap by the author, William Parker. Also included are two undated letters sent to Belknap with which Parker enclosed the lessons.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Parker, William Dan, 1934-

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Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798

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Jeremy Belknap was born in Boston on June 4, 1744. He received an AB from Harvard in 1762 and an AM in 1765. He became the minister of the First Congregational Church of Dover, New Hampshire in 1767, and later served as the minister of the Church in Long Lane, Boston. As a historian, Belknap published the History of New Hampshire and American Biography. His work on American Biography encouraged an interest in Harvard's history, and he explained in a letter two months before his de...