Author: Bolton, Nathaniel
Biography:
BOLTON, Nathaniel (1749-1820: Hollis)
Son of Nicholas and Deborah Bolton, born probably in Bridgewater MA, he was a rural schoolmaster and landowner in Oakham MA. In 1777, he married Jane Thompson of Bridgewater; they had five children. During most of his life, he wrote occasional verse for local consumption. His Poem on Infidelity (1808) is a riposte to the doctrines of Thomas Paine. There is a collection of family papers, including a few unpublished poems, in AAS. (Charles K. Bolton, "Nathaniel Bolton, a Forgotten New England Poet," Publications of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 41 [1931]: 405-20) HJ
Books written (1):
Greenwich [MA]: printed by John Howe, 1808