Up for auction a RARE! "Boston Gazette" Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Clipped Signature. 

ES-6537E

Samuel

Lorenzo Knapp (19 January 1783

in Newburyport, Massachusetts –

8 July 1838 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts)

was an American author and lawyer. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1804, studied law with Chief

Justice Theophilus Parsons, and

became an eminent lawyer. During the War of 1812, he commanded a regiment of militia on the coast

defences. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature from

1812 to 1816. Knapp was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in

1814. In 1816, he was imprisoned for debt, upon his release from prison in

1817, he moved to Boston. He

became editor of the Boston

Gazette in 1824, also conducting the Boston Monthly Magazine.

In 1826 he established the National Republican, which failed two

years later, and he returned to practicing law in New York City. He was given the degree of LL.D. from the Paris

College.