Robertson, Alex. & James, contin-Royal American Magazine cited, ii,
American, 313; ii, 91; 120, 127, 148, 172. Robertson, James & Co., printers, N. Y., i, 305; loyalists-remove to Albany-to Norwich-to N. Y., 365; to Shelburne, N. S., 306.
Robertsons, Mills & Hicks, i, 172; ii,
Robertson's Charles Fifth, i, 260. Robertson, Dr., Hist. of Spanish books, by, 1, 8.
Robertson's Hist. of America, i, 66; ii,
Robertsons & Trumbull, Norwich, i, 192
Robinson, Mr., ii, 224, 257.
Royal American Magazine, or Uni- versal Repository of Instruction and Amusement, hist. of, ii, 72, 73.
Royal Bahama Gazette, ii. 194. Royal Danish American Gazette, ii, 193.
Royal Gazette, ii, 121, 122, 123. Royal Gazette, Charleston, i, 351; ii, 172.
| Royal Gazette, Jamaica, ii, 186. Royal Gazette of London, ii, 123 Royal Gazette, New Brunswick, i, 284.
Royal Gazette, Phila, ii, 148. Royal Register, Jamaica, ii, 186.
Robinson. Samuel, bookseller, Bos- Royal Sheet Almanac, Jamaica, ii,
ton, ii, 219.
Rochelle, ii, 150.
Rogers, Gamaliel, i, 129, 133; notice of, 122, 123; partner of Daniel Fowle, 122; opened printing office in New Boston, 124; grocer and dealer, 124; died in Ipswich, 124; his family, 124. Rogers, John, printer, Salem, i, 179; ii, 75, 97.
Rogers & Fowle, i, 108, 122, 123, 129,
136, 207; ii, 49, 50, 53, 66, 67, 68. Rogers, Timothy, Righteous Man's
Evidence of Heaven, i, 83. Roldan, Barth., i, 377. Rolling presses, notice of, i, 37; for
transferring engravings, 33. Roman Acta Diurna, ii, 1; posts, 1. Romanzow, Gen., ii, 159. Rose, Aquilla, printer, elegy on first printing by Keimer, i, 230. Roseau, ii, 193.
Rotton stone, use in paper making, i, 24.
Roulstone, R., printer, Knoxville, Tenn., i, 354.
Rousseau, J. J., works condemned, i,
Rowlandson, Mrs Mary, captivity, i, 73.
Roxborough, Pa., i, 21; formerly part of Germantown, 20; first paper mill in, 21. Roxbury, Mass., i, 47, 82, 393, 402. Royal Almanac, Jamaica, ii, 186. Royal American Gazette, N. Y., i, 313.
Royal American Gazette, Mills & Hicks, ii, 123.
Royal Spiritual Magazine, or the Christian's Grand Treasury, ii, 151.
Royle, Joseph, printer, Williams- burgh, Va., i, 335; ii, 164. Rugby, ii, 6.
Russell, Eleazar, bookseller, Ports- mouth, ii, 233.
Russell, Ezekiel, i, 206; printer, Ports-
mouth, 206; goes to Boston, 206, 207; notice of, 154; at Ports- mouth, N. H., 154; returns to Boston, 154; at Salem, 155, 178; at Danvers, 155, 178; at Boston, 155, 178; death of. 155; his wife continues the business, 155; ii, 71, 75, 96.
Russell, Joseph, i, 133, 134, 140, 141, 154; partner of John Green, 141; auctioneer, 141; partner with Samuel Clap-death, 142; ii, 57, 141.
Russell & Clap, i, 142. Rutgers, Hermanus, i, 299. Rutledge, Edward, i, 347. Rutter's Hist. Moravian Church cited, ii, 141.
Ryves, Bruno, editor, ii, 3.
Sabin, J., information furnished by, i, 320.
Sabine's Loyalists cited, i, 309, 361. Sacheverel, Dr., i, 98.
Sahagun, Bernardino, Mex. writer, i, 377.
St. Augustine, i, 343.
St. Christopher, ii, 191.
St. Christopher Gazette, ii, 191.
St. Christopher, newspapers in, ii, | Sauer, see Sower.
St. Croix, newspapers at, ii, 193.
St. Domingo, i, 8, 9, 10, 342; printing in, 8, 9, 10; ii, 197, 254.
St. Domingo de Mexico, i, 366.
Savannah, hist. of printing in, i, 352; ii, 9; bookseller in, 241; news- papers in, 174.
Saybrook Platform of Church Disci- pline, i, 184.
Saint Eustatius, i, 11; printing in, 11. Scævola, Mucius, assumed signature
St. Jago de la Vega, ii, 186.
St. Jago Intelligencer, ii, 186. St. John, ii, 184, 192.
St. John's Church, Prov., ii, 221. St. Lawrence the Royal, exclusive privilege of convent of, i, 9. St. Louis, ii, 177; newspapers in, 177. St. Mary's Gazette, ii, 157. St. Mery, M. de, author, i, 8, 10; ac- count of printing in Saint Do- mingo by, 8; ii, 254.
St. Petersburg, i, 269.
St. Pierre, Martinique, ii, 195, 196. Salazar, F. Cervantes, i, 375. Salem, bookseller, Boston, ii,
233. Salem, Mass., i, 14, 155, 181, 196, 197, 350; hist. of printing in, 177; settled, 14; ii, 8; bookstore in, 211; hist. of newspapers in, 78. Salem, Felt's Annals of, ii, 12. Salem Gazette, ii, 74.
Salem Gazette and Advertiser, ii, 97. Salem Gazette and (en. Advertiser, ii, 75.
Salem Gazette and Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser, ii, 74; hist. of, 74-75. Sallo, Dennis de, ii, 5. Saltonstall, Gov. ; 184. Salutatory of Connecticut Courant, ii, 89.
Sanborn, John P., ii, 82.
Sanchez, Don Manuel, certificate by, i, 10.
San Cosule, convent de, i, 370 Sandeman, bookseller, Boston,
ii, 230. Sandemanian sect, i, 153. Sandeman, Rev. Robert, divine, i, 152, 153.
Sandy, Henry, bookseller, Phila., ii, 237.
Sandys, Geo., translates part of Ovid in Va., i, 235.
San Francisco, ii, 178. Santa Cruzada, ii, 254. Sante Fe, i, 9; Major Pikeat, i, 9. Santiago, hist. de la Fundacio y Dis- curso de la Prov., i, 366. Sargent, Michael, ii, 56. Sargent's Loyalist Poetry, ii, 117.
of an article against government, i, 166, 175; ii, 63; 71, 255, 257. Scalping story invented by Franklin, ii, 136.
Science, a poem, i, 252. Schuppey, J., bookseller, Phila., ii, 236.
Schuylkill, i, 381, 382. Scollay, Wm., ii, 197. Scollay's Buildings, i, 171. Scotland, ii, 13; newspapers in 1808, 4.
Scot's Magazine, ii, 6. Scott, John Morin, ii, 125. Scottish Dove, The, ii, 246. Scribes in Persia, ii, 1. Scull, John, printer, Pittsburg, i, 270.
Sculpture, Peruvian, i, 34. Scythians, characters used by, i, 33. Sellers, Wm., i, 246, 262; printer, Phila., 256; partner of D. Hall bookseller, etc., 256; death, 256; bookseller, Phila., ii, 237. Semple & Buchanan, booksellers, Phila.. ii, 239.
Senior's Mirror of Typography cited, i, 37. Separatists, i, 172.
Sepulveda's Dialogo llamado Demo- crates cited, i, 371. Sergeant, Peter, i, 421, 422. Serious Appeal, etc., by Geo. Keith, i, 211.
Sermonario en lengua Mexicana, i, 877.
Seville, i, 370, 371. Sewall, Samuel, i, 421, 422; to super-
vise printing of laws, 61; ap- pointed to conduct a press in Boston, 86; his license, 86; be- came a bookseller, 86; Samuel Green jr. his printer, 86, 87, 88; released, 87; his subsequent pub- lic life, 87; ii, 35; bookseller, Boston, 207.
Sewall, Samuel jr., bookseller, Bos- ton, ii, 215.
Sewall's Hebrew Grammar, i, 63, 128.
Sewall's Phænomena Apocalyptica, i, 423.
Sharpnach, Henry, i, 278.
Sloughter, William, i, 423.
Small pox in Boston, 1690, i, 89. Smith, Mr., ii, 101.
Shearman, Mr., licenser of the press, Smith, Cornelia, marries Andrew
Shelburne, N. S., i, 172, 173, 193, 264. Shepard, Thomas, sermon by, i, 71. Shepard's Church Membership, i, 67. Shepard's Letter on the Church Membership of Children, etc., i,
Shepard's Sincere Convert, i, 67; In- dian, 74.
Shepheard, Thomas, licenser of the press, i, 59.
Sherlock & Co., ii, 18. Shippack, i, 280.
Shipton, Alexander, ii, 192. Shipwreck, The, ii, 193. Shirley, W., ii, 253. Shoals, W., ii, 177.
Shober, Frederick, printer, Phila. and Balt., i, 311, 312; partner of R. Hodge, 311; removes to N. Y., 311; buys out his partner, 311. Shober & Loudon, i, 311; sold to S. Loudon and retires to a farm, 311; died, 312. Short, Mr., i, 184.
Short, Thomas, printer, New Lon- don, i, 184; notice of, 184; epi- taphs, 185; Catherine and Charles, children of T. and Eli- zabeth S., 185.
Short and Easy Method with Deists, ii, 219; prosecution for publish- ing, 220.
Shrewsbury, i, 312. Shute, Gov., ii, 30, 225.
Shute, Samuel, printer, Boston, i, 16. Siebert, -, repurchases part of Sower's stock, i, 279. Sign, T. Fleet's, i, 99. Sign, Franklin's, i, 256. Silk worms, raising of, ii, 216. Sill, Elizabeth, married Samuel
Green jr., of Boston, i, 88. Simple Cobbler of Agawam, i, 47. Simpson's Eminent Philadelphians cited, ii, 152.
Skin, paper in imitation of, i, 24. Skinner, Francis, bookseller, Boston, ii, 223.
Slacke, Cotton, account of, i, 389. Slaves, auction sale of, i, 344; as
printers, 99; facetious advertise- ment of, 101; advertisement of, ii, 48. Sloughter, Col., ii, 259.
Bradford, i, 229: married Wi- liam Bradford, 241.
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth, marries Wm. Bradford, i, 294, 295. Smith, Geo., i, 244.
Smith, Dr. Geo., Quotation from Hist. of Delaware Co. by, i, 23. Smith, Samuel H., ii, 9. Smith, Simon, i, 387. Smith, Skidmore, i, 390. Smith, Rev. Dr. Wm., ii, 145, 146, 147.
Smith, William, ii, 125, 193. Smith's Hist. of N. J.,i, 315; Hist. of N. Y. cited, 292, 296, 298. Smollett's Hist. of England, i, 306. Snake and dragon device, motto "join or die," ii, 64.
Snake, divided, ii, 130, 136, 137; motto of, divided, 116. Snelling. Joseph, bookseller, Boston, ii, 231. Society for propagating gospel
among Indians, i, 393, 394; em- ploy M. Johnson as printer, 75 to 83; press sent by, 15; press owned by, 52; gives its press,etc., to Harvard College, 58, 59; ii, 205, 206, 222.
Son of Liberty, paper addressed to betrayed inhabitants of N. Y. by, ii, 260.
Songs for the nursery, i, 145. Sorbonne, Chevillier librarian, at i, 2.
South America, ancient art in, i, 34. South Carolina, i, 25; hist. of print-
ing in, 340; paper mills in, 25; ii, 9; newspapers in, 169. South Carolina Gazette, i, 345, 346; hist. of, ii, 169, 170. South Carolina and American Gene
ral Gazette, Charleston, ii, 172. South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, ii, 173.
South Carolina State Gazette and
Timothy and Mason's Daily Advertiser, ii, 171.
South Carolina Weekly Journal, Charleston, ii, 169.
South Meeting House, Boston, nar- row escape of, ii, 248. Southwick, Eliza, i, 201. Southwick, Henry C., i, 201. Southwick, John, i, 20
Southwick, Solomon, i, 201; notice | Sower, David, son of Christopher 2d,
of, 201; family of, 201; New- port, 196; publishes a whig pa- per, 197; motto of his paper, "join or die," 198; escapes pur- suit of enemy, 198, 199; goes to Attleborough, 199; to Providence, 199; returns to Newport, 199; fi- nancially ruined, 200; dies, 201; monument of, at Newport, 200; publishes Mercury, 199; ii, 81. Southwick, Wilmarth, i, 201. Southwick & Clark, Newport, i, 197. Sower, Charles, printer, Norristown, i, 285.
Sower, Christopher, i, 247, 248, 322;
printer, Norristown, i, 285; gives up to his son Charles, 285; opens store in Mathatchen, 285. Sower, Peter, printer, Germantown, i, 282; follows enemy to New York goes to New Providence and dies, 273. Sower, Samuel, housewright, i, 285; printer and bookseller, Balti-
more, 285; type founder, 28, 29, 285; partner of W. Gwynn, 285. Sower, Samuel & Co., type foundery, Baltimore, i, 32.
Sowle, Andrew, printer, London, i, 208, 294; bookseller, London, 209.
Sowle, Elizabeth, marries William Bradford, i, 208. Spaniards, Mexicans informed of ar- rival of, ii, 2.
Spanish America, i, 1; printing in,
1; newspapers in, ii, 197. Spanish missionaries, printing said to be introduced by, i, 2; restric- tions upon printing, 3, 6, 9. Spanishtown, ii, 187. Sparhawk, John, bookseller, Phila., ii, 238.
Spectator, articles in imitation of, i, 110.
Speculum conjugiorum, i, 375. Spie, The, ii, 246.
alias Sauer, tailor, printer, Ger- mantown, 270; various employ- ments, 270; succeeds as a printer, 272; prints a German Bible, 272; paper maker - book binding- worked at 16 trades, 272, 273; perferred printing, 273; death and character, 273; ii, 140, 152 bookseller, Germantown, 240. Sower, Christopher 2d, i, 289. Sower, Christopher jr., printer, Ger- mantown, i, 273; extensively engaged in publishing, 273, 274; makes paper, 24, 174; has a bindery, 274; makes printer's ink, 274; versatility of genius, 274; type founder, 27, 28, 29; printing press made by, 35; druggist, 274; German paper, 271; his influence, 275; seeks protection from enemy, 275, 276; ill treatment of, 276; singular anecdote, 277; estate confiscated, 277; sacrificed at auction, 278; turned out of home, 278; wan- ton waste, 279; final scene of life, 280, 281; character, 281. Sower, Christopher 3d, printer, Ger- mantown, i, 282; prints loyalist paper in Phila., 283; captured by Americans, 284; interview with Washington, 284; changed, 284; went to N. Y., 284; to England, 284; returned to N. Y., 284; settled in New Brunswick, 284; died in Balti-Stallenberg, Anna Barbara, ii, 140.
more, 284; fled to enemy in re- volution, 276; article upon, 363. Sower, Daniel, son of Christopher 2d, paper maker, Germantown, i, 285; property confiscated-be- came a farmer in Chester Co., 285.
Spie, from Oxford, The, ii, 246. Spinoza, Antonio de, printer, Mexico, i, 2, 3, 376. Spiritual Ladder of St. John Clima- cus, i, 366, 367, 368. Spooner, Alden, i, 353. Spooner, Judah Paddock. printer, Norwich, Conn., i, 192, 353; settles at Hanover, then at West- minster, 192, 353; ii, 175. Springhoff, Barbary, married, aged 96, i, 360. Spy, i, 181; cited, 169. Squier's Monograph of Authors on Language of Central America, cited, 1, 8, 375.
Stage between New York and Phi- ladelphia, ii, 148.
Stamp Act, i, 157, 158; at Halifax,
160; ii, 53, 96, 106, 107, 130, 136, 156, 173, 180, 190, 265; Mass., 78, 79; N. Y., 105; papers sus- pended by, 10.
Stamped paper, ii, 55. Staples, clerk of Rivington, i, 308.
Starkey, Robert, bookseller, Boston, | Stratton, Va., i, 253.
State Journal, or The New Hamp- shire Gazette and Tuesday's Liberty Advertiser, ii, 97. Staunton, Sir George, books in Bra- zil, i, 12.
Stearns, Wm., Worcester, i, 181; ii, 77.
Stedman, John, i, 386. Steiner,
Steiner, Henry, Halifax, i, 359, 360. Steiner, Melchior, 1, 255; printer, Phila., 269; partner of C. Cist, 269; publishes a German paper, 269; dies at Washington, 270. Steiner, Rev. John Conrad, i, 269. Steiner & Cist, Phila., i, 269; ii, 248. Stereotype bills, so called, i, 33; printing, notice of, 32. Stereotyping by B. Mecom, i, 260. Sterne's works, i, 263. Steuart, Andrew, printer, i, 162, 163, 261, 300; keeps shop at Lancas- ter, 287; Wilmington, 339; loses printing of government-is drowned, 339; ii, 167; bookseller, Phila., 237.
Steuart, James, bookseller, Phila., ii, 239.
Stevens, Geo. Alexander, Dublin, i, 260.
Stewart, Andrew, printer, Phila., i, 251, 252; goes to Wilmington, N. C., 252.
Stiles, President, Mss. cited, i, 194. Stirling, Lord, ii, 125.
Stirling, Life of, cited, i, 296. Stock paper, statistics of, i, 26. Stoddard, Rev. Mr., i, 418, 420, 421. Stoddard, Mr., aids first press in Cambridge, i, 39.
Story, Enoch, printer, Phila., i, 267;
bred a merchant, 268; partner with Daniel Humphreys, 268. Story, Enoch, the younger, printer, i, 268; at Balt. and Phila., 268, 324.
Story & Humphreys, printers, Phila., i, 267.
Story & Humphreys's Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Adver- tiser, Phila., ii, 143. Stoughton Hall, Cambridge, print- ing done in, i, 177. Stoughton Election Sermon, 1670, i, 70.
Strahan, printer, London, i, 246.
Strictures on Paine's Common Sense, i, 263.
Sudbury, i, 384, 386, 387, 388. Sumario de las quentas de plata y
oro en los reynos del Pirá, i, 375. Summons to Joseph Greenleaf to ap- pear before council, ii, 256. Supplication of J**** R********, hu- morous essay by Dr. Wither- spoon, ii, 279.
Surinam, i, 11; printing in, 11. Sweden, treaty with, i, 236. Swedenborg, Baron, i, 250. Swedes settle near Philadelphia, i, 209.
Sweeney, Lawrence, i, 130. Sylvius Americanus, name assumed by S. Nevill, ii, 130. Symbolo Catholico Indiano, i, 378.
Taramaran dictionary and gram- mar, i, 7. Tate, N-, ii, 212. Taylor, Jacob,i, 225, 226, 277; printer, Phila., 224; calculates an alma- nac, 227, 229, 245; almanac by, 229, 231; spurious edition, 231. Taylor, James, binder and bookseller, Charleston, ii, 240.
Taylor, Samuel, bookseller, Phila., ii, 237.
Teatro Eclesiastico, i, 372. Teatro Eclesiastico de la primitiva Iglesia de las Indias Occiden- tales, i, 367. Temporary partnerships in printing, i, 104, 105. Tennessee, i, 25; hist. of printing in, 354; paper mills in, 25; newspapers in, ii, 176. Tenuchtitlan, Mex., i, 369, 371. Tepehuanan dictionary and gram- mars, i, 7.
Tercero Catechismo y exposicion de la Doctrina Christiana por Ser- mones, i, 379. Ternaux,
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