Nathaniel Stone Simpkins (Jan. 8, 1796 – June 18, 1887) was a bookseller, publisher, and legislator in

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in the 19th century. He ran a bookshop and circulating library in

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ca.1820-1830. "In 1835 he established the ''Barnstable Journal'' f Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable,_Massachusetts.html" ;"title="f Barnstable, Massachusetts">f Barnstable, Massachusetts and in 1856 he established the ''Yarmouth Register''" of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Simpkins served as a "Representative to the Massachusetts General Court, General Court of Mass. in 1836, 1850 and 1851." 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

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. Siblings included Caroline Simpkins, Olive Simpkins (Mrs. John Capen), Elizabeth Simpkins (Mrs. George P. Bangs), John Simpkins, and Boston bookseller Samuel Grant Simpkins.

Suffolk Circulating Library

Among the titles available to subscribers of Simpkins' Suffolk Circulating Library in the early 1820s: * Stephen Burroughs' ''Memoirs'' * D. Campbell's ''Overland Journaey to India'' *

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's ''Jew of Mogadore, a comic opera'' *

Daniel Drake Daniel Drake (October 20, 1785 – November 5, 1852) was a pioneering American physician and prolific writer. Early life Drake was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell. He was the elder brother of Benjamin ...

's ''Picture of Cincinnati'' * Evans' ''Pedestrious Tour'' of 4,000 miles in America * 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'' * ''Mirror of the Graces, Advice on Female Accomplishments'' *

Hannah More Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at ...

's ''Strictures on Education'' *

Amelia Opie Amelia Opie (born Amelia Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author and abolitionist who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. A Whig supporter and Bluestocking, Opie was also a leading abolit ...

's ''Simple Tales'' * ''Paris Spectator, or the Customs of Parisians'' * Park's ''Travels in the Interior of Africa'' *

Isaac Pocock Isaac Pocock (2 March 1782 – 23 August 1835) was an English dramatist and painter of portraits and historical subjects. He wrote melodramas, farces and light operatic comedies, many being stage adaptations of existing novels. Of his 40 or so w ...

's ''Libertine, an opera'' * '' Polyanthos'' * ''

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's Tour through the United States'' *

Thomas Skinner Surr Thomas Skinner Surr (1770–1847) was an English novelist whose most famous work was ''A Winter in London'' (1806). This popular tale of fashionable London life initiated a small genre of "season novels" and influenced silver fork novels in the 1 ...

's ''A Winter in London''WorldCat
Surr, T. S. (Thomas Skinner) 1770-1847
/ref> * ''Symzonia, or a Voyage to the Internal World''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpkins, Nathaniel Stone 1796 births 1887 deaths People from Brewster, Massachusetts American publishers (people) Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 19th-century American businesspeople 19th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court

Suffolk Circulating Library

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Published by N.S. Simpkins

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