The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers : to which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World : in Two Volumes, Volume 2 |
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... Benjamin Franklin in Queen Street , " although he was a minor . The club proceeded without any apparent mitiga- tion of " the Lash . " The Courant was published in the name of Benjamin Franklin for some time after he left his brother ...
... Benjamin Franklin in Queen Street , " although he was a minor . The club proceeded without any apparent mitiga- tion of " the Lash . " The Courant was published in the name of Benjamin Franklin for some time after he left his brother ...
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... Benjamin and Peter , ' were , sometime after 1 1 Fleet , printer of The Evening Post , the first week he used this stamped paper , published the following , which may serve as a specimen of his talent at rhyming , viz : Again , " On the ...
... Benjamin and Peter , ' were , sometime after 1 1 Fleet , printer of The Evening Post , the first week he used this stamped paper , published the following , which may serve as a specimen of his talent at rhyming , viz : Again , " On the ...
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... Benjamin , ' only , were together , and published this paper in Cornhill , No. 42,2 under the firm of Edes & Son ... Benjamin Edes , son of Peter , printed at Baltimore . Maria , a daughter of Peter , still living at the age of 83 , was ...
... Benjamin , ' only , were together , and published this paper in Cornhill , No. 42,2 under the firm of Edes & Son ... Benjamin Edes , son of Peter , printed at Baltimore . Maria , a daughter of Peter , still living at the age of 83 , was ...
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... Benjamin Mecom . Mecom continued the Gazette , and added a cut to the title - one which he had used in the title page of The New England Magazine , published by him three or four months in Boston . The device was a hand clasping a bunch ...
... Benjamin Mecom . Mecom continued the Gazette , and added a cut to the title - one which he had used in the title page of The New England Magazine , published by him three or four months in Boston . The device was a hand clasping a bunch ...
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... Benjamin Dearborne , to whom Fowle taught printing , became the publisher of this paper , and altered its title to , The Freeman's Journal , or New - Hamp- shire Gazette . Dearborne continued the paper a few years , after which it was ...
... Benjamin Dearborne , to whom Fowle taught printing , became the publisher of this paper , and altered its title to , The Freeman's Journal , or New - Hamp- shire Gazette . Dearborne continued the paper a few years , after which it was ...
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