BELKNAP, Jeremy, an American clergyman and author, was born at Boston in 1744 and died in 1798, He was educated at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1762. In 1767 he was called to a Congregational church in Dover, New Hampshire, and remained there for twenty years. He then removed to the Federal Street church in Boston, which he held till his death. His principal works are— History of New Hampshire, 3 vols., 1784-92; American Biography, 2 vols., 1794-98; The Foresters, 1792.