Zechariah Fowle (printer)
Zechariah Fowle, was an Early American publishers and printers, early American printer and merchant of ballads and small books who worked in Boston. He was born in Charlestown, Boston, Charlestown, near Boston, of respected parents, and served his apprenticeship with his brother Daniel Fowle (printer), Daniel Fowle, who was at that period in partnership with Gamaliel Rogers, a carpenter. Having no children, Fowle took on Isaiah Thomas (publisher), Isaiah Thomas, with the consent of his mother, as an apprentice, when Isaiah was a child, and provided him with room and board. In 1742, Fowle entered into a partnership with Gamaliel Rogers and established the firm of Rogers & Fowle. They opened a printing shop in Prison lane, which was renamed Court street. They produced books in large numbers and varieties, which exceeded the usual works of the country. In July, 1770, Isaiah Thomas, in connection with Zechariah Fowle, issued The ''Massachusetts Spy'', named after several of the earli ...
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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, ...
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