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This Day in Boston History
February 19th, 1794
Massachusetts Historical Society

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On this day
Reverend Jeremy Belknap incorporated the Massachusetts
Historic Society. MHS was the first repository of America's historic
documents, and the first organization to devote its self to the preservation
of American history.
Reverend Belknap is best known for writing the first history of New Hampshire.
This work attracted the attention of Alexis de Tocqueville who hailed
him as America's best native historian. He is also thought to be the first
American to write about Christopher Columbus.
Though born and married in Boston, he would serve as a Congregational
minister for eighteen years before his pastoral duties returned him to
Boston to live full-time in Boston in 1787. Besides writing history, he
also published spiritual poetry and music, and was a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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