Nathaniel Stone Simpkins (Jan. 8, 1796 – June 18, 1887) was a bookseller, publisher, and legislator in
in the 19th century. He ran a bookshop and circulating library in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
ca.1820-1830. "In 1835 he established the ''Barnstable Journal''
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Simpkins served as a "Representative to the Massachusetts General Court, General Court of Mass. in 1836, 1850 and 1851."
He married Eliza Jane Thacher (1803–1836) in ca.1824; and Mary Sears (b. 1807) in 1852. His parents were John Simpkins and Olive Stone of
Brewster, Massachusetts
Brewster is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population of Brewster was 10,318 at the 2020 census.
Brewster is twinned with the town of Budleigh Salterton in the Un ...
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Siblings included Caroline Simpkins, Olive Simpkins (Mrs. John Capen), Elizabeth Simpkins (Mrs. George P. Bangs), John Simpkins, and Boston bookseller Samuel Grant Simpkins.
Suffolk Circulating Library
Among the titles available to subscribers of Simpkins' Suffolk Circulating Library in the early 1820s:
* Stephen Burroughs' ''Memoirs''
* D. Campbell's ''Overland Journaey to India''
*
Richard Cumberland Richard Cumberland may refer to:
* Richard Cumberland (philosopher) (1631–1718), bishop, philosopher
* Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (1732–1811), civil servant, dramatist
* Richard Cumberland (priest) (1710–1737), Archdeacon of Northa ...
's ''Jew of Mogadore, a comic opera''
*
Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake (October 20, 1785 – November 5, 1852) was a pioneering American physician and prolific writer.
Early life
Drake was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell. He was the elder brother of Benjamin ...
's ''Picture of Cincinnati''
* Evans' ''Pedestrious Tour'' of 4,000 miles in America
*
Catherine Hutton
Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer.
Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley a ...
's ''Welsh Mountaineer''
*
M. De Genlis' ''Zuma''
*
Isabella Kelly
Isabella Kelly, née Fordyce, also Isabella Hedgeland (1759–1857) was a Scottish novelist and poet.Richard Greene, "Kelly, Isabella (baptised 1759, died 1857)", rev. Pam Perkins, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Pr ...
's ''Ruthinglenne''
* Miss Leslie's ''Young Ladies' Mentor''
* ''Marvellous Chronicle, or Magazine of Wonders''
* ''Masonick Melodies''
* Theodore Melville's ''White Knight''
* ''Mirror of the Graces, Advice on Female Accomplishments''
*
Hannah More
Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a s ...
's ''Strictures on Education''
*
Amelia Opie
Amelia Opie (née Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. Hers was the first of 187,000 nam ...
's ''Simple Tales''
* ''Paris Spectator, or the Customs of Parisians''
* Park's ''Travels in the Interior of Africa''
*
Isaac Pocock
Isaac Pocock (2 March 1782 – 23 August 1835) was an English dramatist and painter of portraits and historical subjects. He wrote melodramas, farces and Light Opera, light operatic comedies, many being stage adaptations of existing novels. Of hi ...
's ''Libertine, an opera''
* ''
Polyanthos''
* ''
President
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*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
's Tour through the United States''
*
Thomas Skinner Surr
Thomas Skinner Surr (1770–1847) was an English novelist whose most famous work was ''A Winter in London'' (1806). This popular tale of fashionable London life initiated a small genre of "season novels" and influenced silver fork novels in the ...
's ''A Winter in London''
[WorldCat]
Surr, T. S. (Thomas Skinner) 1770-1847
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* ''Symzonia, or a Voyage to the Internal World''
References
Further reading
Published by N.S. Simpkins
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* Ezra Shaw Goodwin. Alice Bradford, or, The birth day's experience of religion. Boston: N.S. Simpkins & Co., and Barnstable, Mass.: N.S. Simpkins, 182
Google books
* Barnstable Journal and County Advertise
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External links
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1796 births
1887 deaths
People from Brewster, Massachusetts
American publishers (people)
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople