Nathaniel Stone Simpkins
Nathaniel Stone Simpkins (Jan. 8, 1796 – June 18, 1887) was a bookseller, publisher, and legislator in Massachusetts in the 19th century.[1] He ran a bookshop and circulating library in Boston ca.1820-1830.[2][3][4] "In 1835 he established the Barnstable Journal [of Barnstable, Massachusetts], and in 1856 he established the Yarmouth Register" of Yarmouth, Massachusetts.[5] Simpkins served as a "Representative to the General Court of Mass. in 1836, 1850 and 1851."[5][6]
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.[5] Siblings included Caroline Simpkins, Olive Simpkins (Mrs. John Capen), Elizabeth Simpkins (Mrs. George P. Bangs), John Simpkins, and Boston bookseller Samuel Grant Simpkins.[7][8][9]
Suffolk Circulating Library[edit]
Among the titles available to subscribers of Simpkins' Suffolk Circulating Library in the early 1820s:[10]
- Stephen Burroughs' Memoirs[11]
- D. Campbell's Overland Journaey to India
- Richard Cumberland's Jew of Mogadore, a comic opera
- Daniel Drake's Picture of Cincinnati
- Evans' Pedestrious Tour of 4,000 miles in America[12]
- Catherine Hutton's Welsh Mountaineer
- M. De Genlis' Zuma
- Isabella Kelly's Ruthinglenne
- Miss Leslie's Young Ladies' Mentor
- Marvellous Chronicle, or Magazine of Wonders
- Masonick Melodies
- Theodore Melville's White Knight[13]
- Mirror of the Graces, Advice on Female Accomplishments
- Hannah More's Strictures on Education
- Amelia Opie's Simple Tales
- Paris Spectator, or the Customs of Parisians
- Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa
- Isaac Pocock's Libertine, an opera
- Polyanthos
- President's Tour through the United States
- Thomas Skinner Surr's A Winter in London[14]
- Symzonia, or a Voyage to the Internal World
References[edit]
- ^ WorldCat. Simpkins, Nathaniel Stone 1798-1887
- ^ Simpkins' bookshop and circulating library was located at the corner of Court Street and Brattle Street, on the site of today's Government Center. Cf. "Books, stationary, &c. Nathaniel S. Simpkins, no.23, Court-Street (nearly opposite the head of Market-street)." Boston Intelligencer & Evening Gazette; Date: 03-04-1820
- ^ "Nathaniel S. Simpkins, Court-street, corner of Brattle-street." Boston Commercial Gazette; Date: 12-25-1826
- ^ "Agents of the American Peace Society," Advocate of Peace, no.10, Sept. 1836
- ^ a b c John R. Totten (1910), Thacher-Thatcher genealogy, [New York]: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, OL 23347275M
- ^ Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, passed. 1837
- ^ Peter Thacher. Samuel Grant Simpkins: a memorial. Boston: Printed by Geo. H. Ellis, 1890. Google books
- ^ WorldCat. Simpkins, Samuel Grant 1802-1889
- ^ Boston Directory. 1832
- ^ Catalogue of the Suffolk Circulating Library, corner of Court and Brattle Streets, Boston : containing History--Biography--Voyages--Travels--Miscellanies--Magazines--Reviews--Novels--Tales--Romances and plays--alphabetically arranged. Boston, Mass.: N.S. & J. Simpkins, 1822
- ^ WorldCat. Burroughs, Stephen 1765-1840
- ^ WorldCat. Evans, Estwick 1787-1866
- ^ WorldCat. Melville, Theodore
- ^ WorldCat. Surr, T. S. (Thomas Skinner) 1770-1847
Further reading[edit]
Published by N.S. Simpkins[edit]
- Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance. (1827), Fourteenth annual report of the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, with resolutions passed at a public meeting held November 5, 1827, Boston: N.S. Simpkins and Co., OL 13488096M
- Murray, Lindley (1827), Murray's English reader, Boston: N.S. Simpkins, OCLC 4886556, OL 13488646M
- Ezra Shaw Goodwin. Alice Bradford, or, The birth day's experience of religion. Boston: N.S. Simpkins & Co., and Barnstable, Mass.: N.S. Simpkins, 1828 Google books
- Barnstable Journal and County Advertiser [1]
- Charles Lowell (1831), Men accountable only to God for their religious opinions, Boston: N.S. Simpkins & Co., OL 596822M