{"data":{"description":"An image of the American Gazetteer, considered the nation's first gazetteer. This was published in 1797 by Jedidiah Morse.","title":"The First Gazetteer","post_type":"page","content":"\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1797 Jedidiah Morse published \"\u003ca title=\"The American Gazetteer\" href=\"/earlyamerica/firsts/american-gazetteer/\"\u003eThe American Gazetteer\u003c/a\u003e,\" considered to be the country's first gazetteer. In this book readers were presented with more than 7000 separate articles, all bearing on a myriad of geographical details describing the American continent.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eProminently featured were the populations of most of the states, cities and towns based on the infant nation's first official census in 1790. Morse's voluminous work also contained seven new maps, including a map of North America as it was known at the time, and maps showing the northern and southern parts of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/firsts/american-gazetteer/\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-5050 size-thumbnail\" src=\"/images/earlyamerica/gazeteer.jpg\" alt=\"The First Gazetteer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1797 Jedidiah Morse published “The American Gazetteer,” considered to be the country's first gazetteer.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick image for larger view\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe Gazetteer followed his publication of \"Geography Made Easy\" when he was 23. After 25 editions of that publication, Morse had earned the well-deserved title of \"The Father of American Geography.\"\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn addition to his accomplishments as a geographer, Jedidiah Morse was a clergyman, licensed to preach as a Congregational Church minister. Born in Woodstock, Connecticut in 1761, Morse became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of two newspapers, The Massachusetts Mercury in 1793 and the New England Palladium in 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","menu":[{"path":"lives-early-america","title":"Famous Lives","submenu":[{"path":"lives-early-america/autobiography-benjamin-franklin","title":"Autobiography of Ben Franklin"},{"path":"lives-early-america/ramsays-life-washington","title":"Ramsay's The Life of Washington"},{"path":"lives-early-america/adventures-col-daniel-boone","title":"The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone"},{"path":"lives-early-america/true-story-paul-revere","title":"The True Story of Paul Revere"},{"path":"world-early-america/famous-obits","title":"Famous Obits"},{"path":"portrait","title":"Portraits"},{"path":"rare-images/last-men-revolution","title":"The Last Men of the Revolution"}]},{"path":"freedom-documents","title":"Freedom Documents","submenu":[{"path":"freedom-documents/bill-rights","title":"Bill of Rights"},{"path":"freedom-documents/declaration-independence","title":"Declaration of Independence"},{"path":"freedom-documents/u-s-constitution","title":"The U.S. Constitution"}]},{"path":"world-early-america","title":"World of Early America","submenu":[{"path":"bookmarks","title":"Early American Bookmarks"},{"path":"world-early-america/famous-obits","title":"Famous Obits"},{"path":"firsts","title":"Firsts!"},{"path":"rare-images/maps","title":"Maps"},{"path":"rare-images","title":"Rare Images"},{"path":"music1","title":"Music"},{"path":"writings","title":"The Writings of Early America"}]},{"path":"boston-massacre","title":"Boston Massacre"},{"path":"milestone-events","title":"Milestones"},{"path":"early-america-review","title":"The Review"},{"path":"home/teachers-students","title":"Teachers"},{"path":"sitemap","title":"Sitemap"}]},"success":true}