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Elizabeth Glover (née Harris; 1602 – June 23, 1643 [1]) was and English woman and first American publisher.She established the first printing press in the Thirteen Colonies, located next to the nascent Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she printed Oath of a Freeman, An Almenack, and the Bay Psalm Book with the help of printer Stephen Daye.
The first printing press in the British colonies was established in Cambridge, Massachusetts by owner Elizabeth Glover and printer Stephen Daye. Here, the first colonial broadside, almanack, and book were published. Printing and publishing in the colonies first emerged as a result of religious enthusiasm and over the scarcity and subsequent ...
Indentured immigrant from England to British colony of Massachusetts; Printed for Elizabeth Glover's press, the first in the British colonies Gregory Dexter — (1610–1700) Printer, Baptist minister, early President of the combined towns of Providence and Warwick in the Colony of Rhode Island .
1939 U.S. stamp commemorating the 300th anniversary of printing in colonial America. Daye was born in Sutton, Surrey London, and emigrated on June 7, 1638, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, on board the John of London with Joseph and Elizabeth Glover and their children and three household servants, and his wife Rebecca (Wright) Bordman (Bordman – from a previous marriage) (died October 17, 1658 ...
She is believed to be the first woman to be licensed as a printer in the Thirteen Colonies. [verification needed] Her husband, William Nuthead, established the second colonial printing business in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1682. [67] They moved to St. Mary's City, Maryland, in 1686 and established a press that primarily printed government forms. [68]
He arrived in Cambridge some eight years before Elizabeth Glover, who brought over America's first printing press from England with her husband Joseph, who died on the voyage. [13] [14] No records of Green's printing activity, however, are extant until ten years after Stephen Daye began operating the printing press in Glover's house in ...
The 13 colonies had a degree of self-governance and active local elections, [a] and they resisted London's demands for more control over them. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) against France and its Indian allies led to growing tensions between Britain and the 13 colonies. During the 1750s, the colonies began collaborating with one ...
Elizabeth remarried in June 1641 to Henry Dunster, Harvard's first president. After her death in 1643, [ 6 ] the printing press was donated to Harvard, beginning the Harvard University Press . [ 7 ] Jose and Elizabeth Glover's son, John, who also became a graduate of Harvard, was a doctor, and died in 1668.