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The Salem Philosophical Library (1781–1810) or Philosophical Library Company was a proprietary library in Salem, Massachusetts. Men affiliated with the library included: Tho. Bancroft, Thomas Barnard, William Bentley, Joseph Blaney, Nathaniel Bowditch, Manasseh Cutler, Nathan Dane, Joshua Fisher, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Joseph Mc'keen, B. Lynde Oliver, Joseph Orne, William Prescott, Samuel Page, Joshua Plummer, John Prince, Nathan Read, John D. Treadwell, Ichabod Tucker, and Joseph Willard. "The Library was kept at the house of Rev. Joseph Willard of Beverly, till ... December, 1781. ... His successor was Rev. Dr. Prince, who had the volumes at his mansion" in Salem. "By 1810, many of the members of the [Salem] Social Library also belonged to the Philosophical Library, and the two bodies were merged to create the Salem Athenaeum."
This is a timeline of the history of the city of Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
The following is a timeline of the history of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.
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- ↑ James Raven. London booksellers and American customers: transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2002
- 1 2 3 Library Journal, April 1910
- ↑ An Act for incorporating certain Persons by the Name of The Proprietors of the Social Library in Salem, February 7, 1797. Private and special statutes of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume 2. Printed for the state, by Manning & Loring, 1805
- ↑ Plummer Hall: its libraries, its collections, its historical associations, Salem, Mass.: Salem Athenaeum], 1882, OCLC 13736607, OL 7000156M
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 H. Wheatland. Sketch of the Social and Philosophical Libraries. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, 1857
