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1. 1. The Massachusetts Historical Society | Object of the Month

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   Published on: 12/2/2006   Last Visited: 12/2/2006

   Jeremy Belknap was born in Boston, Mass., in 1744, the eldest son of Joseph and Sarah (Byles) Belknap.
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   At the time of the 1787 Boston fire, Belknap had just returned to Boston to become the minister of the Church in Long Lane (the precursor of the Arlington Street Church). He was keenly interested in both learning and writing history and was elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 1790 he drew up a plan for a manuscript repository and, with nine colleagues, founded the Massachusetts Historical Society on 24 January 1791. Belknap suffered a stroke on the morning of 20 June 1798 and died a few hours later.
   
   Like Belknap, Ebenezer Hazard was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and an avid historian. Born in Philadelphia in 1744, Hazard served as postmaster-general from 1782-1789. During his term as surveyor-general of the post from 1777-1782, Hazard had traveled widely, collecting primary sources in American history as he traveled the countryside. His Historical Collections: Consisting of State Papers, and Other Authentic Documents Intended as Materials for a History of the United States of America was published in two volumes in 1792.