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Bartholomew Green (printer, Born 1699)
Bartholomew Green Jr. (1699 or 1701 – October 29, 1751) was a son of Bartholomew Green, an colonial American printer of the ''Boston News-Letter'' They were the son and grandson of Samuel Green, respectively. Green married Hannah Hammond in 1724 and they had five children. He apprenticed with his father until he went on his own in 1725. Almost immediately he began printing the ''Boston Gazette'' which was a rival to his father's ''Boston News-Letter''. He continued to print this newspaper until 1732. He also worked with the firm of Bushell, Allen and Green and developed a reputation for high quality printing. A commission in the British army in 1744 appears to have adversely affected his business and in 1751 Green moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to start a printing office. This became the first printing office in what is now Canada but Green died before it went into newspaper production. One of his partners, John Bushell, actually started the paper that Bartholomew had planne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartholomew Green (printer, Born 1666)
Bartholomew Green (October 12, 1666 – December 28, 1732) was a colonial printer at Boston and later the publisher of ''The Boston News-Letter''. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Early life and family Bartholomew Green was the son of Samuel Green, an accomplished colonial printer who arrived with his wife Elizabeth in the young Massachusetts Bay colony at Cambridge at the age of sixteen years of age, with their children and other relatives, along with Governor Winthrop. His son, Bartholomew Green, Jr. apprenticed with his father until he went on his own in 1725 and began printing ''The Boston Gazette'', a rival newspaper to his father's ''Boston News-Letter''. Bartholomew was the eldest son of Samuel Green, printer to Cambridge University, where the Greens had resided since 1649, and where Samuel Green, along with Marmaduke Johnson printed the ''Eliot Indian Bible'', the first Bible in America, not in English, but in the Algonquin-Massachusett Indian language. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early American Publishers And Printers
Early American publishers and printers played a central role in the social, religious, political and commercial developments in colonial America, before, during, and after the American Revolution. Printing and publishing in the 17th and 18th centuries among the Thirteen Colonies of British North America first emerged as a result of religious enthusiasm and over the scarcity and subsequent great demand for bibles and other religious literature. By the mid-18th century, printing took on new proportions with the newspapers that began to emerge, most notably in Boston. When the British Crown began imposing new taxes, many of these newspapers became highly critical and outspoken about the British colonial government, which was widely considered unfair among the colonists. Schlesinger, 1935, p. 63. In the early years of colonial settlement communications between the various colonies, which were often hundreds of miles apart, usually consisted of dispatches, hand-written one at a time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston News-Letter
''The Boston News-Letter'', first published on April 24, 1704, is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in the colony of Massachusetts. It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation. All copies were approved by the Royal governor before publication. The colonies’ first newspaper was '' Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick'', which published its first and only issue on September 25, 1690. The '' Weekly Jamaica Courant'' followed in Kingston, Jamaica from 1718. In 1726 the ''Boston Gazette'' began publishing with Bartholomew Green, Jr., as printer. History The ''News-Letter''’s first editor was John Campbell, a bookseller and postmaster of Boston. Campbell had been actively writing and sending "newsletters" of European occurrences to New England governors for a year or more and thought it would save trouble to print them for all. The ''News-Letter'' was originally issued weekly as a half sheet, a single page printe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Green (printer)
Samuel Green (1615 – January 1, 1702) was an early American printer, the first of several printers from the Green family who followed in his footsteps. One of Green's major accomplishments as a printer was the ''Eliot Indian Bible'', translated by the missionary John Eliot, which became the first Bible to be printed in British America in 1663. Byington, 1899, p. 251 Adams, 1847, p. 241Georgetown University Library, 2022 Members of his family who also became printers include his sons Bartholomew, Bartholomew Green, Jr. and Joseph Dennie. Throughout his adult life Green also served in the Massachusetts Bay Colonial Militia, advancing to the rank of captain later in life. Early life and family Green was born in England, the son of Bartholomew and Elizabeth. Green was a colonial American printer who emigrated to the American colonies about 1633 aboard the ''Arbella'', and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, arriving with John Winthrop, one of the leading men involved in e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Gazette
The ''Boston Gazette'' (1719–1798) was a newspaper published in Boston, in the British North American colonies. It was a weekly newspaper established by William Brooker, who was just appointed Postmaster of Boston, with its first issue released on December 21, 1719. The ''Boston Gazette'' is widely considered the most influential newspaper in early American history, especially in the years leading up to and into the American Revolution. In 1741 the ''Boston Gazette'' incorporated the ''New-England Weekly Journal'', founded by Samuel Kneeland, and became the ''Boston-Gazette, or New-England Weekly Journal''. Contributors included: Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Phyllis Wheatley. Publishing Publishers, and men acting on their behalf, included: (dates are approximate) * William Brooker (1719) * Benjamin Edes, Ben Franklin, James Franklin (1719) * Philip Musgrave (1720) * Thomas Lewis (1725–26) * Henry Marshall (1726–27) * Bartholomew Green Jr. (1727–32) * John Boydell (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Halifax
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bushell
John Bushell (March 18, 1715 January 22, 1761) was the first printer in what is now Canada. Biography Bushell was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was apprenticed as a printer there. He subsequently worked for a number of different printers and had his own printing business until 1751, when he left for Halifax, Nova Scotia. A partner of Bushell's, Bartholomew Green, following a century-long family tradition in the trade, had left Boston for Halifax in October 1751 and brought all the necessary equipment to set up a printing shop. He died shortly after his arrival and Bushell went to Halifax to continue the business. Bushell's first publication was issued from his shop on Grafton Street on March 23, 1752. The ''Halifax Gazette'' was published as a subscription newspaper and was a single broadside sheet, printed on both sides. This probably was the first work of any kind printed in Canada. He went on to print the ''Gazette'' and became the King's printer until his death, when th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax Gazette
The ''Halifax Gazette'' was Canada's first newspaper, established on March 23, 1752, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was published weekly by John Bushell, who had been carrying out a project that had been initiated by his partner Bartholomew Green, Jr. The newspaper had been entirely dependent on the government for funding. Richard Bulkeley became the editor in 1758. After Bushell, Anthony Henry became the publisher, followed by John Howe. Founding Halifax was established as a city in 1749, three years before the newspaper was published, with a population of 4,000 residents. Because of the developing city and the low population, there was a shortage of local news or community news, and advertisements occupied a large portion of the newspaper. It contained news excerpts from the newspapers of Britain, Europe, and New England. The first issue of the ''Halifax Gazette'' contained an article about the demise of John Goreham, a military officer and businessman who died in London of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dennie
Joseph Dennie (August 30, 1768January 7, 1812) was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled ''The Lay Preacher'' and as the founding editor of ''The Port Folio'', a journal espousing classical republican values. ''Port Folio'' was the most highly regarded and successful literary publication of its time, and the first important political and literary journal in the United States. Timothy Dwight IV once referred to Dennie as "the Addison of America"Hickey 1999, p. 107 and "the father of American Belles-Lettres." Early life and career Dennie was born on August 30, 1768, in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Dennie, a member of a well-to-do merchant family, and his wife Mary Green, whose father was Bartholomew Green, Jr. The Greens were a prominent printing family in colonial America; the progenitor of the family, Samuel Green, emigrated from En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1699 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – A violent Java earthquake damages the city of Batavia on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 28 people * January 20 – The Parliament of England (under Tory dominance) limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 'native born' men; hence, King William III's Dutch Blue Guards cannot serve in the line. By an Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland. * January 26 – The Republic of Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Karlowitz with the Ottoman Empire, marking an end to the major phase of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. The treaty marks a major geopolitical shift, as the Ottoman Empire subsequently abandons its expansionism and adopts a defensive posture while the Habsburg monarchy expands its influence. * February 3 – The first paper money in America is issued by the colony of Massachusetts, to pay its soldiers fighting against Queb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1751 Deaths
In Britain and its colonies (except Scotland), 1751 only had 282 days due to the British Calendar Act of 1751, which ended the year on 31 December (rather than nearly three months later according to its previous rule). Events January–March * January 1 – As the American colony in Georgia prepares the transition from a trustee-operated territory to a British colonial province, the prohibition against slavery is lifted by the Board of Trustees. At the time, the African-American population of Georgia is about 400 people who have been kept as slaves in violation of the law. By 1790, the slave population increases to over 29,000 and by 1860 to 462,000. * January 7 – The University of Pennsylvania, conceived 12 years earlier by Benjamin Franklin and its other trustees to provide non-denominational higher education "to train young people for leadership in business, government and public service". rather than for the ministry, holds its first classes as "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
