Drake, SAMUEL GARDNER, American antiquary, was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, in 1798, and in 1828 established in Boston what is said to have been the first antiquarian book-shop in the United States. He published a number of reprints and of valuable works relating chiefly to the early history of New England. He died 14th June 1875.
Drake, SAMUEL GARDNER
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 81
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