Letters, 1783 May 29 and 1794 Feb. 20, Philadelphia, to Jeremy Belknap, Boston.

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Letters, 1783 May 29 and 1794 Feb. 20, Philadelphia, to Jeremy Belknap, Boston.

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Letter of introduction for Dr. Timothy Waring. He is preparing the history of the late epidemic for the press; mentions Dr. Appleton.

2 items. 25 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...

Waring, Timothy.

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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...