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Mary Katharine Goddard (June 16, 1738 – August 12, 1816) was an early American publisher, and the postmaster of the Baltimore Post Office from 1775 to 1789. She was the older sister of William Goddard , also a publisher and printer.
Mary Katharine Goddard (16 June 1738 – 12 August 1816) was an early American publisher and the postmaster of the Baltimore Post Office from 1775 to 1789. She was the second printer to print the Declaration of Independence. Her copy, the Goddard Broadside, was commissioned by Congress in 1777 and was the first to include the names of the ...
The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663.
Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844–1920), American botanist Mary Katharine Goddard (1738–1816), American postmaster, publisher, and book seller Mary Katharine Ham (born 1980), American journalist
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The Goddard broadside. In January 1777, Congress commissioned Mary Katherine Goddard to print a new broadside that, unlike the Dunlap broadside, lists the signers of the Declaration. [26] [27] With the publication of the Goddard broadside, the public learned for the first time who had signed the Declaration. [27]
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
The Providence Gazette was an American Revolutionary War era newspaper, and the only newspaper printed in Providence before 1775. It was first published October 20, 1762, by William Goddard and his partner John Carter in the basement of his Providence home, on a sheet of crown size, folio; an image of the king's arms decorated the title.