Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America, vol. 1 (2nd ed., 1874)

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Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America, vol. 1 (2nd ed., 1874)
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Thomas's history of American printers (first published 1810), in the second edition with later editors' notes, read in the archive.org full text. Used for Samuel Kneeland (1697-1769), brother of Rachel (Kneeland) Foster: he "served an apprenticeship with Bartholomew Green" and was "for a great length of time, printer to the governor and council." Thomas says Kneeland and his partner Green printed "an edition of the Bible in small 4to. This was the first Bible printed, in America, in the English language," with a false London imprint; the editor's note says the historian Bancroft questioned this (1:105-109).

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/), on James Printer (Wowaus) of Hassanamesit: "In 1659, he was put apprentice to Samuel Green, printer"; he worked as a pressman on the first Indian Bible and "left his master secretly, and joined his brethren in arms" (1:95-96); he set the second Indian Bible with Green in 1680, and the Psalter of 1709 was "Printed by B. Green and J. Printer" (1:97-98). Thomas supposed John Foster "must have well known James, who lived with Green when Foster was at college" (1:97), a guess.

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  2. title: "Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America, vol. 1 (2nd ed., 1874)"
  3. type: book
  4. date: 1874
  5. url: "https://archive.org/details/historyofprintin01thom"
  6. seen: transcript
  7. access: public
  8. ---
  10. Thomas's history of American printers (first published 1810), in the second edition with later
  11. editors' notes, read in the archive.org full text. Used for Samuel Kneeland (1697-1769), brother
  12. of Rachel (Kneeland) Foster: he "served an apprenticeship with Bartholomew Green" and was "for a
  13. great length of time, printer to the governor and council." Thomas says Kneeland and his partner
  14. Green printed "an edition of the Bible in small 4to. This was the first Bible printed, in
  15. America, in the English language," with a false London imprint; the editor's note says the
  16. historian Bancroft questioned this (1:105-109).
  18. For King Philip's War (`research/king-philips-war/`), on James Printer (Wowaus) of Hassanamesit: "In 1659,
  19. he was put apprentice to Samuel Green, printer"; he worked as a pressman on the first Indian Bible and "left
  20. his master secretly, and joined his brethren in arms" (1:95-96); he set the second Indian Bible with Green
  21. in 1680, and the Psalter of 1709 was "Printed by B. Green and J. Printer" (1:97-98). Thomas supposed John
  22. Foster "must have well known James, who lived with Green when Foster was at college" (1:97), a guess.
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