Samuel G. Drake

11 October 1798 – 14 June 1875

Samuel Gardner Drake was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, the son of farmers. In 1805, his father sold his farm and opened a store in Northwood, New Hampshire. In 1818 he became a school teacher. In 1828 he moved to Boston to open the first antiquarian bookstore in the United States. He also studied and wrote about early United States history. In 1847, he was one of the founders of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and for many years he was the editor of its quarterly Register. He lived in London for two years late in his life. He died of pneumonia in Boston.

• Annals of witchcraft in New England
• Early history of Georgia
• The aboriginal races of North America
• Biography and history of the Indians of North America
• Genealogical and biographical account of the family of Drake in America
• Recovery of some materials for the early history of Dorchester
• The Aboriginal Races of North America: Comprising Biographical Sketches of ...
• The old Indian chronicle
• The witchcraft delusion in New England
• The history and antiquities of Boston
• A brief memoir of Sir Walter Ralegh
• A memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D