American antiquarian, born at Pittsfield, NH, on the 11th of October 1798. He was educated at the public school, and at the age of twenty he became a public-school teacher. He went to Boston in 1828, opened the first antiquarian bookstore in the United States, and republished Captain Church’s Entertaining History of King Philip’s War. He was a founder of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of which he was made president in 1858. He resided in London for two years. He edited some New England works and published many books on historical and antiquarian subjects, including an Indian Biography (1832); Book of the Indians (1833), often republished; Old Indian Chronicles (1836); Indian Captivities (1839); Drake Family (1845); History and Antiquities of Boston (1856); Researches Among the British Archives (1860); Memoir of Sir Walter Raleigh (1862); Annals of Witchcraft in the United States (1869); and the History of the Five Years’ French and Indian War (1870). He died in Boston, MA, on the 14th of June 1875.
