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THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831) , American printer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 19th of January 1749. He was apprenticed in 1755 to Zechariah Fowle, a Boston printer, with whom, after working as a printer in Halifax
Hampshire , and Charleston, South
week , then (under his sole ownership) as a semi-weekly, and beginning in 1771, as a weekly which soon espoused the Whig cause and which the government tried to suppress. On the 16th of April 1775 (three days before the battle of Concord, in which he took part) he took his presses and types from Boston and set them up at Worcester, where he was postmaster for a time; here he published and sold books and built a paper -mill and bindery, and he continued. the paper until about 1802 except in 17761778 and in 1786-1788. The Spy supported Washington and the Federalist party. In Boston Thomas
Hampshire , he published the Farmer's Museum. About 1802 he gave over to his son, Isaiah Thomas
control of the Spy. Thomas founded in 1812 the American Antiquarian Society. He died in Worcester on the 4th of April 1831.His History of Printing in America, with a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers
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