Joseph Belcher commonplace-book, 1688-1793; bulk: 1688-1723.

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Joseph Belcher commonplace-book, 1688-1793; bulk: 1688-1723.

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Commonplace-book kept by Rev. Joseph Belcher of the First Church in Dedham, Mass., 1688-1723. Includes notes kept while a student at Harvard, 1688-69; passages from "noteworthy writers"; presents received 1710-23; and a list of deaths in Dedham, 1717-23. Also includes annotations by Peres Bradford, ca. 1793.

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...

Belcher, Joseph, 1699-1723.

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