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Drake, Samuel Gardiner

author, was born Oct. 11, 1798, in Pittsfield, N. H. He was a Boston bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History of King Philip's War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the United States; and History of the French and Indian War. He died in 1875.