John Farmer (author)

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John Farmer (1789 - 1838) was an American historian and genealogist, born June 12, 1789 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He died August 13, 1838 and is buried at Concord, New Hampshire^[1].

He was a founder of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Besides editing the first volume of Belknap's History of New Hampshire (1831), he published a valuable Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829); histories of Billerica, Massachusetts^[2], (1816), and Amherst, New Hampshire, (1820), and, in collaboration with J. B. Moore, A Gazetteer of New Hampshire, (1823). His Genealogical Register was revised and significantly extended by James Savage in 1860 to create A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England which is still a popular reference work.

[edit] Biography

• Le Bosquet, Memorial of John Farmer (Boston, 1884)

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1. ^ History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts by Wilson Waters. Lowell, Mass., Printed for the town by Courier-Citizen, 1917. pg 505.
2. ^ A 36 page pamphlet, not to be confused with Hazen's 500 page History of Billerica.

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.