Author: Fellowes, Jeremiah
Biography:
FELLOWES, Jeremiah (1791-1865: ancestry.com)
The son of Betty (Tuck) and Ephraim Fellowes or Fellows, he was born in Hampton NH on 1 May 1791. Some further information about him may be inferred from the Preface and contents of his only book, which is dated from Exeter NH. He was well read in recent English and German poetry (Cowper was a favourite, but he cites many others, including Cottle, Moore, Byron, Burns, Lessing, and Gessner); he attended Phillips Academy in Exeter and then Bowdoin College in Brunswick ME. He promises more poetry if the volume is well received--but it seems it was not, for there was no second volume. The Phillips register confirms his attendance there in 1803 and his graduation from Bowdoin in 1810. He became a lawyer with a practice in Deerfield NH, where he married Polly Thomson on 24 Jan. 1821 and Sally Goodhue in 1834. No record has been found of the births of children. He died at the Insane Asylum in Concord NH on 1 Sept. 1865, the death notice remarking only that he had studied law with the Hon. George Sullivan. (ancestry.com 1 Sept. 2025; findmypast.com 1 Sept. 2025; General Catalogue of the Phillips Exeter Academy, 1783-1903 [1903]; Exeter News-Letter 11 Sept. 1865) HJ
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