Legacy LibraryRev. Joseph Secombe
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| Library date | 1761-04-22 |
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| Library Size (volumes) | "above five Hundred Volumes" |
| Sources | Newspaper advertisement for sale: New-Hampshire Gazette, 24 April 1761, p. 2; 8 May 1761, p. 2; 22 May 1761, p. 4 Manuscript catalog; New Hampshire Historical Society (photostat at Harvard College Library, according to Colonial Collegians) |
| Library Notes | Advertisement text: "THE LIBRARY of the late Rev. Mr. Joseph Secombe, consisting of above five Hundred Volumes, to be SOLD at his late Mansion-House in Kingston, where Attendance will be given the second and fourth Wednesdays of the six following Months, by Josiah Bartlett, Attorney to the Administratix. N.B. A Catalogue of the Books may be seen at said House, and at the Probate-Office in Portsmouth. April 22d. 1761." During his years as a missionary Secombe also received shipments of books from the Bray Associates in London (see his biography in Sibley's via Colonial Collegians) |
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| Date of Birth | 1706-06-14 |
| Date of Death | 1760-09-15 |
| Gender | male |
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