NOTABLE RELATIVES OF GILBERT BELNAP
Rev. Jeremiah ("Jeremy") Belknap, Preacher and Historian
(Gilbert Belnap's 4th cousin twice removed)
			Abraham Belknap (c. 1589/90-1643)	=	Mary Stallion (c. 1595-bef 1672)
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	Sarah Jones (abt 1631-1689)	=	Samuel Belknap (c. 1627/28-bef 1701)		Joseph Belknap (c. 1633-1712)	=	Ruth Williams (1638-unknown)
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	Hannah Ayer (1672-1779)	=	Ebenezer Belknap (1667-1762)		Joseph Belknap (1658-1716)	=	Deborah Fitch (1665-1687)
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	Mary Dickinson (1703-aft 1757)	=	Samuel Belknap (abt 1702-bef 1757)		Jeremiah Belknap (1686-1751)	=	Sarah Fosdick (dates unknown)
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	Eunice (abt 1741-1774)	=	Jesse Belknap (1739-aft 1818)		Joseph Belknap (1716/17-unknown)	=	Sarah Byles (1715/16-unknown)
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	Eunice Hall (1762-1849)	=	Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)		Jeremiah Belknap (1744-1798)	=	Ruth Eliot (dates unknown)
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	Jane Richmond (1782-1833)	=	Rosel Belnap (1789-1832)
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	(1) Adaline Knight (2) Henrietta McBride	=	Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899)
	(Sources: Belnap Family Organization files.)
For additional information on Rev. Jeremy Belknap, see:
▪	Cow Hampshire: Rev. Jeremiah "Jeremy" Belknap						http://cowhampshire.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/1/1988021.html
▪	New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources: Rev. Jeremy Belknap						http://webster.state.nh.us/nhdhr/legport1/belknap.html
▪	Wikipedia: Jeremy Belknap						http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Belknap
▪	Massachusetts Historical Society: Jeremy Belknap Papers						http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0246
Works by Rev. Jeremy Belknap:
	Historical/Biographical Works
▪	History of New Hampshire. 3 vols. Vol. I, Philadelphia, 1784; vol. II, Boston, 1791; vol. III, Boston, 1792; new ed., 3 vols., Dover [N. H.], 1812; rev. ed., Boston, 1813; new ed. by Farmer, John [ed.], vol. I only, Dover, [N. H.], 1831
▪	American Biography. 2 vols. Boston, 1794–98; ed. Hubbard, F. M., 1843; 3 vols., 1857
	Sacred Music
▪	Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and Hymns, adapted to Christian Devotion, in Public and Private (Boston: Thomas and Andrews and West and Blak, 1812)
▪	Sacred Poetry consisting of Psalms and Hymns, adapted to Christian Devotion, in publick and private, selected from the best authors, with variations and additions. A New Edition, with additional hymns (Boston: Thomas Wells, 1817)
	Sermons
▪	Sermon on Military Duty, November 10, 1772. Salem [Mass.], 1773
▪	An Election Sermon before the General Court of New Hampshire, June 2, 1785. Portsmouth, 1785
▪	Sermon before the Convention of the Clergy of Massachusetts, May 26, 1796. Boston, 1796
▪	Sermon on the Day of the National Fast, May 9, 1798. Boston, 1798
	Miscellaneous
▪	The Foresters . . . or a Sequel to the History of John Bull the Clothier. Boston, 1792; 2d ed., enlarged, Boston, 1796
▪	Discourse to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Boston, 1792
▪	The Belknap Papers. Mass. Hist. Soc. Col., 5th series, vols. 2 and 3; 6th series, vol. 4 [correspondence of Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard.]
▪	Journal of a Tour to the White Mountains in July, 1784. Mass. Hist. Soc. Col. Ser. v, vol. 2, pp. 386–401. Boston, 1876
▪	Journal of a Tour from Boston to Oneida, June, 1796. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Ser. I, v. 19, 1882. Also separate. Cambridge, 1882
Works about Rev. Jeremy Belknap:
▪	[Belknap, Miss J.] Life of Jeremy Belknap with Selections from his Writings . . . arranged by his Granddaughter. 1847
▪	Kirkland, J. T. Sermon at the Interment of Rev. Jeremy Belknap . . . [with] a Sketch of his Character and List of his Works. Boston, 1798
▪	"Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard, 1782-84," New England Quarterly, vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr 1929), pp. 183-198 (by Lawrence Shaw Mayo)
▪	"Jeremy Belknap: Pioneer Nationalist," The New England Quarterly, vol. 10, No. 4 (Dec 1937), pp. 743-751 (by Charles William Cole)
▪	Jeremy Belknap: A Biography (by George B. Kirsch)
▪	The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past (Praeger, 1998) (by Russell M. Lawson)
▪	Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society (by Louis Leonard Tucker)
Last update: 8 May 2007
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