John M. (John Moseley) Weeks

Born in 1788, he is identified in library records as John M. Weeks, or John Moseley Weeks, and is associated with Salisbury, Vermont. Sources about his life and books say he moved there as a child and lived there for the rest of his life, giving his writing a strong sense of place.

Weeks is known for A Manual; or an Easy Method of Managing Bees, an early 19th-century beekeeping guide that was issued in multiple editions, and for History of Salisbury, Vermont, published in 1860 after his death. Together, those works show two sides of his writing: one practical and hands-on, the other deeply interested in preserving local memory.

He died in 1858. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, his surviving books suggest a careful observer of everyday rural life who wrote to be useful, clear, and rooted in the community he knew best.