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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 10 (1). University of Pennsylvania Press: 15– 32. JSTOR 20084740. Brigham, Clarence Saunders (May 1936). "James Franklin and the Beginnings of Printing in Rhode Island". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 65. Massachusetts Historical Society: 535– 544. JSTOR 25080308. C
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 ...
The majority of the books and pamphlets of the period bore a Boston imprint, making eastern Massachusetts the literary and typographic center of colonial America. [ 25 ] Colonial newspapers played an active role during the Christian revivalist controversy that occurred in the early 1740s.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, including investors in the failed Dorchester Company, which had established a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1623. The colony began in 1628 and was the company's second attempt at colonization.
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. The Massachusetts Historical Society was established in 1791 and is located at 1154 Boylston Street in Boston , Massachusetts, and is the oldest historical society in the United States.
History of printing in America, 2nd ed. 1874. George Emery Littlefield (1900), Early Boston booksellers 1642-1711 , Boston: The Club of odd volumes, OCLC 3573345 , OL 6929406M Google books George Emery Littlefield.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Metcalf and Company, 1851. Google books; The Athenæum Centenary, The Influence and History of the Boston Athenaeum from 1807 to 1907 with a Record of its Officers and Benefactors and a Complete List of Proprietors. Boston, The Boston Athenæum, 1907. Google books; Robert F. Perkins Jr. & William J. Gavin III, editors ...