Supplement to the Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Including Obituaries of Authors, Continuations of Former Articles, with Notices of Earlier and Later Writers Omitted in Previous Editions
Supplement to the Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Including Obituaries of Authors, Continuations of Former Articles, with Notices of Earlier and Later Writers Omitted in Previous Editions
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... from the original manuscripts, enriching the work with numerous notes, learned and antiquarian, illustrating "the civil and ecclesiastical concerns, the geography, settlement, and institutions of the country, and the lives and manners of the principal planters." A second edition of this work was published in 1853. In ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... from the original manuscripts, enriching the work with numerous notes, learned and antiquarian, illustrating "the civil and ecclesiastical concerns, the geography, settlement, and institutions of the country, and the lives and manners of the principal planters." A second edition of this work was published in 1853. In 1832 he published, in the New England Magazine, a history of the adoption of the Constitution of Massachusetts. His main literary undertaking is a work of learned antiquarian diligence, the labor of twenty years; it is entitled, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1692, on, the basis of Farmer's Register. It is in four large, closely-condensed octavo volumes, the first two of which were issued in 1860, and the last in 1862. This work, the North American Review pronounces, 'considering the obscurity of most of those whose names are mentioned in it, their number, and the difficulty of obtaining information respecting them, the most stupendous work on genealogy ever compiled." JOHN 11. SHEPPAED. Mr. John II. Sheppard, the librarian, since 1861, of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, is a native of England, born at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in 1789. His parents emigrated to America about 1793, settled in Hallowell, Maine, where the son was prepared for Harvard by Samuel Moody, the faithful pre If. A. Review, July. 1863. Mr.-LnrlngVi ffitvdred Boton Oratory 853. 860. New England Historical and Gen eulogical Remiter, vol. L, pp. 81-84. ceptor of the town academy. His collegiate course was cut short in the junior year by lack of pecuniary means, when he eagerly engaged in the study of the law, was admitted to the bar in Maine, in 18...
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