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Samuel Kneeland (printer)
Samuel Kneeland (1696–1769) was an American printer and publisher of ''The Boston Gazette and Weekly Journal''. Kneeland obtained much of his work printing laws and other official documents for the Province of Massachusetts Bay colonial government for about two decades. He printed the first Bible in the English language ever produced in the American colonies, along with many other religious and spiritual works, including the ''Book of Psalms''. He was also noted for introducing a number of innovations to newspaper printing and journalism. He was one of many colonial printers who were strongly opposed to and outspoken against the Stamp Act in 1765. Kneeland, primarily, along with his sons, were responsible for printing the greater majority of books, magazines and pamphlets published in Boston during his lifetime. Early life and family heritage Samuel Kneeland was born in Boston and entered into the printing business at about 1718. His parents were John Kneeland and Mary (Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Book Of Psalms, Printed By S Kneeland
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages Bookbinding, bound together and protected by a Book cover, cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the Clay tablet, tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly Library classification, classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bartholomew Green (printer, Born 1666)
Bartholomew Green (October 12, 1666 – December 28, 1732) was a colonial printer at Boston and later the publisher of ''The Boston News-Letter''. Early life and family Bartholomew Green was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the eldest son of Samuel Green, an accomplished colonial printer who arrived with his wife Elizabeth in the young Massachusetts Bay colony at Cambridge at the age of sixteen years of age, with their children and other relatives, along with Governor Winthrop. His son, Bartholomew Green, Jr. apprenticed with his father until he went on his own in 1725 and began printing '' The Boston Gazette'', a rival newspaper to his father's '' Boston News-Letter''. Bartholomew was the eldest son of Samuel Green, printer to Cambridge University, where the Greens had resided since 1649, and where Samuel Green, along with Marmaduke Johnson printed the '' Eliot Indian Bible'', the first Bible in America, not in English, but in the Algonquin-Massachusett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Asa2021
Asa may refer to: People and fictional characters * Asa (given name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters so named * Asa people, an ethnic group based in Tanzania * Aṣa, Nigerian-French singer, songwriter, and recording artist Bukola Elemide (born 1982) * Asa (rapper), Finnish rapper Matti Salo (born 1980) Biblical and mythological figures * Asa of Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Judah and the fifth king of the House of David * Ása or Æsir, Norse gods Places * Asa, Hardoi Uttar Pradesh, India, a village * Asu, South Khorasan, Iran, also spelled Asa, a village * Asa, Kwara State, Nigeria, a local government area * Asa River (Japan), a tributary of the Tama River in Tokyo, Japan * Asa (Kazakhstan), a river * Asa River (Venezuela), a river in Venezuela Other uses * Acrylonitrile styrene acrylate, acrylic styrene acrylonitrile, an amorphous thermoplastic * ''Asa'' (album), the sixth studio album by the German Viking metal band Falkenbach * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Old South Meeting House
The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregationalism in the United States, Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk Street, Boston, Milk and Washington Street (Boston), Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Five thousand or more colonists gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time. History Church (1729–1872) The meeting house or church was completed in 1729, with its 56m (183ft) steeple. The congregation was gathered in 1669 when it broke off from First Church of Boston, a Congregationalism in the United States, Congregational church founded by John Winthrop in 1630. The site was a gift of Mrs. Norton, widow of John Norton (Puritan divine), John Norton, pastor of the First Church in Boston. The church's first pastor was Rev. Thomas Thacher (minister), Thomas Thacher, a native of Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Prince (historian)
Thomas Prince (May 15, 1687 – August 22, 1758) was a New England clergyman, scholar and historian noted for his historical text ''A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals''. Called 'an American pioneer in scientific historical writing', Prince influenced historians such as Jeremy Belknap and Thomas Hutchinson (governor), Thomas Hutchinson, and his ''Annals'' was still being used as a reference text as late as 1791. Early life, education and travels He was the fourth child of Samuel Prince Esq. and Mercy Hinkley, and entered Harvard University in 1703, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in 1707. While at Harvard his interest in books was sparked after he After graduation he began teaching in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Sandwich, MA while working on his Master of Arts, M.A, which was granted ''in absentia'' in 1710 a year after he had begun travelling. He spent 2 years travelling to places such as the West Indies and Madeira before travelling to England in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
William Burnet (colonial Administrator)
William Burnet (March 1687/88 – 7 September 1729) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720–1728) and Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1728–1729). Born into a position of privilege (his godfather became William III of England not long after his birth, and his father Gilbert Burnet was later Bishop of Salisbury), Burnet was well-educated, tutored among others by Isaac Newton. Active for most of his life in intellectual pursuits (he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705/6), he occupied no posts of importance until financial considerations and political connections brought him the governorships of New York and New Jersey. His tenure in New Jersey was without major controversies, although he set a precedent there for accepting what were effectively bribes in exchange for his assent to legislation. In New York he sought unsuccessfully to end the fur trade between Albany and Montreal in order to imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mather Byles (loyalist)
Mather Byles II (12 January 1734/1735 – 12 March 1814), was a Congregational clergyman at New London, Connecticut Colony, until 1768. In 1768, he entered the Established Church, and became rector of Christ Church, Boston. Sympathizing with the royal cause, he settled, after the War of Independence, in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Chaplain to the Garrison and later in Saint John, New Brunswick, where he was rector of a church until his death. The son of Mather Byles (1706–1788), he graduated from Harvard College in 1751 at the age of twelve, and later received his MA from the school. He also graduated from Yale College and the University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un .... References Further reading * Canadian Anglican priests American Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, Political philosophy, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in Province of Massachusetts Bay, colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of Republicanism in the United States, American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. He founded the Sons of Liberty. Adams was born in Boston, brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of Harvard College, he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. He was an influential official of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Boston Town Mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Independent Advertiser
''The Independent Advertiser'' was an American patriot publication, founded in January 1748 in Boston by the then 26-year-old Samuel Adams, advocating republicanism, liberty and independence from Great Britain. Published by Gamaliel Rogers and Daniel Fowle, the ''Advertiser'' consisted primarily of essays written by a group of "gentlemen" on topics of contemporary New England politics. The ''Independent Advertiser'' ceased publication in December 1749: "Nobody knew just why. What Boston did know was that Captain Samuel Adams had died in 1748 and the sheriff brought suit against the family for old debts left over from the Land Bank failure of 1741. Young Sam Adams was no longer in a position to put money in a newspaper or in anything else."Catherine Drinker Bowen Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958. Biography Bowen was born Catherine Drink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Magazine And Historical Chronicle
''The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle'' (1743-1746) was a periodical in Boston, Massachusetts, printed by Rogers & Fowle ( Gamaliel Rogers and Daniel Fowle), and published by Samuel Eliot and Joshua Blanchard. Scholars suggest that Jeremiah Gridley Jeremiah Gridley (or Jeremy Gridley; 1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, Massachusetts General Court, colonial legislator, and Massachusetts Attorney General, attorney general in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the 18th century. He serv ... served as editor.John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 265-281. References Further reading * Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Majestick Shape: 1745. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct. 1949), pp. 74–80. * James M. Farrell and Joseph M. Noone. Rhetoric, Eloquence, and Oratory in Eighteenth-Century American Periodicals: An Annotated Bibliography. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 23, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daniel Fowle (printer)
Daniel Fowle (c. 1715 – June 1787) was a colonial American printer and publisher before and during the American Revolution, and the founder of ''The New Hampshire Gazette''. He printed Samuel Adams' newspaper, '' The Independent Advertiser''. He was jailed for printing a damaging account on the conduct of various Massachusetts representatives and after his trial, he lost his license to print. Dismayed with the Massachusetts government he subsequently chose to remove from Massachusetts to New Hampshire and established ''The New Hampshire Gazette''. During the course of his printing career Fowle employed several apprentices. Using his newspaper, he openly criticized the Stamp Act in 1765. After American independence was established he was commissioned to print the state laws of New Hampshire. Early years Daniel Fowle was born in Charlestown, and served his apprenticeship with Samuel Kneeland, a prominent printer in Boston. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and became an active ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
