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Samuel Kettell was born on August 5, 1800 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Noyes) Kettell.
(Title: Quozziana, or, Letters from Great Goslington, Mass...)
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Reading, a small village in Fairfield county, Connecticut, about the year 1755. His father was a farmer in independent, though moderate circumstances, and had ten children, of whom our poet was the youngest. He died while Joel was a lad at school, and left him little more than sufficient to give him a liberal education of such a sort as was customary at that period. He entered first at Dartmouth college in New Hampshire, but that seminary being then in its infancy, and laboring under many embarrassments, he removed after a short residence, to Yale college in New Haven. In the third year of his academic course, the revolutionary war broke out, and the Connecticut militia being called out in great numbers to strengthen Washington sarmy, Barlow could not resist the inclination to join the camp where four of his brothers were in arms. He shouldered his musket during the college vacations, and fought in many of the skirmishes at the beginning of the war. After completing his studies with great reputation, he received a degree in 1778, on which occasion he first came before the public as a poet, by pronouncing an original poem, which was soon after printVOL. II. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Title: Daw's doings, or, The history of the late war in the plantations. Author: Samuel Kettell Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP02920000 CollectionID: CTRG99-B716 PublicationDate: 18420101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 68 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm
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Samuel Kettell was born on August 5, 1800 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Noyes) Kettell.
After teaching for three or four years in Mr. Thayer's school in Chauncy Place, Boston, Kettell became an amanuensis and hack writer for Samuel Griswold Goodrich. After publishing two translations from the Spanish, the Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus (1827) and Records of the Spanish Inquisition (1828), he edited Specimens of American Poetry (1829). The three duodecimo volumes contain an introduction descriptive of early New England verse, selections from 189 writers from Cotton Mather to J. G. Whittier, and a catalogue of American poetry arranged chronologically from the Bay Psalm Book (1640) to volumes issued in 1829. The work was projected by Goodrich and originally undertaken by a Boston journalist, Frederic S. Hill, and was conceived as a refutation of Sydney Smith and other calumniators of American genius. To make the refutation sufficiently crushing, Kettell went into the highways and hedges in search of eligible bards with the result that his collection throws a brilliant light on the state of literary culture in the period covered. The reviewers fell foul of its indiscriminate inclusiveness and of several editorial shortcomings; Goodrich, in consequence, lost $1, 500 on the venture and felt that insult was added to injury when he discovered that the Specimens were commonly referred to as "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry. "
While living with Thomas Nuttall in the Craigie House in Cambridge, Kettell contributed four pleasant papers on "Our Birds" to the first volumes of the New-England Magazine. In 1832 he went to Europe, having Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is said, for a companion on the voyage. During the wearisome days at sea he amused himself by turning a Peter Parley book into modern Greek. He visited Malta and Sicily, lived in Naples, Florence, Paris, and London, contributed articles to English periodicals, and returned to Boston and to Goodrich's employ in 1835. After Kettell's death the Boston Courier claimed that he had been "the veritable Peter Parley. " Goodrich denied the allegation and issued a detailed statement of the work that Kettell had done for him. The honesty and essential accuracy of this statement need not be doubted. Kettell wrote much for the Courier, being noted for humorous and satirical articles that he contributed over the signatures of "Peeping Tom, " "Timothy Titterwell, " and "Sampson Short-and-Fat. " Some of these articles were so popular that they were later published separately. On June 25, 1848, he succeeded Joseph Tinker Buckingham as editor. Like many a shy and gentle person, he could ramp when he had a pen in his hand, and his vigorous editorials were relished by the Whigs. In 1851-1852 he was a representative in the General Court.
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Kettell was a simple, guileless, mild-eyed man, a life-long haunter of libraries, with a fund of droll humor, a faculty for acquiring languages, of which he is said to have learned fourteen, and a baneful incapacity for making money.