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List Of Early American Publishers And Printers
List of early American publishers and printers is a Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists, ''stand alone list'' of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles. ---- * Jane Aitken  1764–1832Printer, publisher, bookbinder, and bookseller in Philadelphia; Sister of Robert Aitken, who continued his business when he died. Printed and bound dozens of books for the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and about 400 volumes for the American Philosophical Society ---- * Robert Aitken (publisher)  1734–1802Philadelphia printer and the first to publish an English language Bible in the U.S. ---- * Benjamin Franklin Bache  1769–1798Journalist, printer and publisher. Founded the ''Philadelphia Aurora'', a newspaper that supported Thomas Jefferson, Jeffersonian philosophy, known for its attacks on Federalist leaders, including George Was ...
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Chodowiecki Basedow Tafel 21 C Z
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a Polish painter and printmaker with partial Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his later life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. Family He was born in the city of Gdańsk in Poland, and in a letter “in typical Berlin humor” wrote “that he moved to Berlin, Germany, which shows for sure, that he is a 'genuine Pole'.” He kept close to the Huguenot scene, due to his ancestry. According to Chodowiecki himself, his Polish nobleman paternal ancestor Bartłomiej Chodowiecki lived in the 16th century in Greater Poland, though this is not confirmed by independent records. Gotfryd Chodowiecki, Daniel's father, was a tradesman in Gdańsk and his mother, Henriette Ayreur, of Swiss ancestry, was a Huguenot. Daniel's grandfather Christian was also a Gdańsk tradesman, who had moved his business there from Toruń. When his father died, both Daniel (aged ...
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Common Sense
Common sense () is "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument". As such, it is often considered to represent the basic level of sound practical judgement or knowledge of basic facts that any adult human being ought to possess. It is "common" in the sense of being shared by nearly all people. Relevant terms from other languages used in such discussions include the aforementioned Latin, itself translating Ancient Greek ('), and French '. However, these are not straightforward translations in all contexts, and in English different shades of meaning have developed. In philosophical and scientific contexts, since the Age of Enlightenment the term "common sense" has been used for rhetorical effect both approvingly and disapprovingly. On the one hand it has been a standard for good taste, good sense, and source of scientific and logical axioms. On the other hand it has been equated to conventional wisdom ...
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William Goddard (publisher)
William Goddard (October 10, 1740 – December 23, 1817) was an early American patriot, publisher, printer and postal inspector. Born in New London, Connecticut, Goddard lived through the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, during which he opposed British rule of the colonies through his actions and publications. He was a major figure in the development of the colonial postal system, which became the U.S. Post Office after the American Revolution. Goddard served as an apprentice printer under James Parker. In 1762, he became an early American publisher who later established four newspapers during the American colonial period, including the ''Pennsylvania Chronicle'', ''Pennsylvania Gazette'', and '' The Constitutional Courant,'', which frequently gave voice to the various patriotic causes. As a printer and publisher Goddard was highly critical of the Stamp Act in 1765 and joined the Sons of Liberty to that end. For a short time he was also a postmaster of Provide ...
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The Providence Gazette
''The Providence Gazette'' was an American Revolutionary War era newspaper, and the only newspaper printed in Providence before 1775. It was first published October 20, 1762, by William Goddard and his partner John Carter in the basement of his Providence home, on a sheet of crown size, folio; an image of the king's arms decorated the title. It was printed every Saturday, from types of English and long primer. Thomas, 1874, Vol. II, p. 83 In 1768 Carter became the sole proprietor of the newspaper. ''The Gazette'' was one among many such publications that published attacks on the Stamp Act which was roundly opposed by the colonists, and especially by the printing and publishing trade which was required to print on stamped paper, forcing the prices of newspapers and pamphlets to increase. It often published a variety of letters sent to Goddard protesting the act. Goddard discontinued his newspaper from May 11, to August 24, 1765. It started up again in January 1767 where it was ...
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John Carter (printer)
John Carter (July 21, 1745August 19, 1814) was an early American printer, newspaper publisher, and postmaster of Providence, Rhode Island. Carter entered the printing profession as an apprentice of Benjamin Franklin while living in Philadelphia. After he entered into a partnership and ran ''The Providence Gazette'', which he eventually purchased and ran on his own up until the year of his death. During the Gaspee Affair Carter played an active role in reporting the subsequent arrests and other developments in his newspaper, for which he himself was arrested, for libel. During his career as a vigilant printer Carter became one of the leading publishers and printers in the country. Family and early life John Carter was born to a prominent family in Philadelphia. He removed to Providence and after a few years there he married Almey Crawford, on May 14, 1769. Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Rhode Island, 1881, p. 210 Carter was the son of his father of the same n ...
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Francis Childs (printer)
Francis Childs (1763–1830) was an Early American publishers and printers, American publisher and printer of ''The New York Daily Advertiser'', founded on Thursday, March 1, 1785, who went on to be one of the printers for the newly established United States government. Childs, together with John Swaine, both established printers in New York City, printed the laws of the United States, beginning in 1789 shortly after the Constitution was ratified. They also published several works of the 1st United States Congress, first Congress which met in 1791, in New York City. Printing career Childs was the printer and publisher of ''The New York Daily Advertiser'', the third daily newspaper paper to appear in the United States.#lee1923, Lee, 1923, p. 120 Its first issue was published on Thursday, March 1, 1785, with its final issue appearing on August 30, 1806. Since it was an independent upstart newspaper it realized a low subscription rate in its early days and attracted few advertisers. ...
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Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (), was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War. Lafayette was ultimately permitted to command Continental Army troops in the decisive Siege of Yorktown in 1781, the Revolutionary War's final major battle, which secured American independence. After returning to France, Lafayette became a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830 and continues to be celebrated as a hero in both France and the United States. Lafayette was born into a wealthy land-owning family in Chavaniac in the province of Auvergne in south-central France. He followed the family's martial tradition and was commissioned an officer at age 13. He became convinced that the American revolutionary cause was ...
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and Political philosophy, political philosopher.#britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a Committee of Five, drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence; and the first United States Postmaster General, postmaster general. Born in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Franklin became a successful Early American publishers and printers, newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing ''The Pennsylvania Gazette'' at age 23. He became wealthy publishing this and ''Poor Richard's Almanack'', which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". After 1767, he was associated with the ''Pennsylvania Chronicle'', a newspaper known for it ...
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Mathew Carey
Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Dublin, he had engaged in the cause of parliamentary reform, and in America, attracting the wrath of Federalists, retained his democratic sympathies. However, he broke with the emerging Democratic Party and its southern constituency by offering a defense of economic protectionism. He was the father of economist Henry Charles Carey. Early life and education Carey was born in 1760 in Dublin into a middle-class Catholic family. He entered the bookselling and printing business in 1775, apprenticing with the ''Hibernian Journal, or Chronicle of Liberty,'' one the most radical newspapers in the country. In 1778, it published an address to the people of Ireland by Benjamin Franklin, and proposed that the American patriots were fighting for the same rights and freedoms sought by the Irish.Carter II (1962), p.217. In 1777, ...
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The Boston News-Letter
''The Boston News-Letter'', first published on April 24, 1704, is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, colony of Massachusetts. It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation. All copies were approved by the Royal governor before publication. The colonies’ first newspaper was ''Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick'', which published its first and only issue on September 25, 1690. The ''Weekly Jamaica Courant'' followed in Kingston, Jamaica from 1718. In 1726 the ''Boston Gazette'' began publishing with Bartholomew Green (printer, born 1699), Bartholomew Green, Jr., as printer. History The ''News-Letter''’s first editor was John Campbell (editor), John Campbell, a bookseller and postmaster of Boston. Campbell had been actively writing and sending "newsletters" of European occurrences to New England governors for a year or more and thought it would save trouble to print them for ...
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John Campbell (editor)
John Campbell (1653 – March 4, 1728) was an Early American publishers and printers, early American newspaper publisher and editor and Postmaster of Boston. He founded the first regularly published newspaper in British America, ''The Boston News-Letter''. Biography Campbell was one of a family or kin of Boston booksellers and public officials whose relationships are not determinable. He arrived in Boston some time before 1698, and in 1702 was appointed postmaster, under Neale's monopoly, with the "approbation" of Governor Dudley. The General Court subsidized the post-office at first and in 1703 Campbell was not required to fulfill various civic duties during term as postmaster.#matteson1943, Matteson, 1943, p. 456 As postmaster, he was the news center of the New England provinces, and in 1703 was writing "news letters" of European news to Governor Fitz-John Winthrop of Connecticut, and perhaps to other governors, made up of information received from arriving travelers, etc., wi ...
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The Pennsylvania Journal
''The Pennsylvania Journal'' was an American weekly newspaper published by William Bradford during the 18th century. The first edition of ''The Pennsylvania Journal'' appeared in December 1742. A famous contributor was Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In ..., who published his first-ever journalism in the ''Journal'' in 1775 and contributed a series of pamphleteering essays entitled '' The American Crisis'' from December 1776 onwards. After Bradford's death in 1791, his son and business partner Thomas Bradford continued the journal, eventually changing its name to the ''True American''. Benson J. Lossing, ''Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution'', 1850Vol. 2. Chapter 2/ref> References Defunct newspapers of Philadelphia Defunct weekly newspapers ...
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