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CONDUCTED BV ISAAC HILL. 



** Those who i-aBor is the ear fH' are the chosen people op God, whose bkeasts hc iia^ made his peculiaii deposit t por substantial and genuine virtue." — Jefferson. 



VOL. 9. NO. 2. 



CONCORD, N. H., FEBRUARY 28, 1847. 



WHOLE NO. 98. 



II iiiiiiiii w ^""■■'-riiwiliilM^MTiT^jiMifrimi^ 



THE FAKMUR-S 1IIOXT1I1.Y VISITOR, 



Pllil.ISllIiU BY 



ISAAC HILL, & SONS, 



rSSUFJD O.N THE L.-iST DAY OF EVERY MOTH, 



At Atheiiiati Building. 



ftlT GcNrn.*!. AfiENTs. — II. A. Ilic.i-, Ket-nr, N !I.; John 

 Maksh, WusJiinglon St. Uustuii, Mns)^.; Charles Warue n, 

 Trill Icy Kow, Worcesler, ilass.j Tho»ias Chandler, Bed turd, 

 N. H. - 



TUR.IIS.— To singre subscribers, Filtij Cents. Ten per 

 cent, will he nllowed lo the pcrsion wiio shall slmkI more lliun 

 one subscriber. Twelve copius will he sent for the aiivunco 

 iriy \uoiito( Five Dollar.t; twenty-five cn|iics lor Ten I)uUai\-i; 

 si.vty copies for Ticciity Dollars, The payment in every case to 

 he made in ail\ancc. 



QCjT'Moncij and subscriptions^ bij a rcjniltitlon of the Post Master 

 , General ^ may in all cases be remitted by tlic Punt Master ^ free oj 

 jwstat^fc. 



53rAll (rentlemen who have heretofore acted as A^-ents are 

 roquej^teil to L'oiUiiiue their A^iency. Old subscribers who 

 eutui- under the new terms, will please notify us of the nana's 

 already on our books. 



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CONCORD, N. H., FEB. 28, 1S47. 



Fitst Piiuters aud Newsiiapeis iu the United 



Stales. 

 VVlienevei- we have leisure, we love to [loic over 

 the successive ntiniliers of newspapers printed 

 iu'by-goiie years. They furnish llje best history 

 of their own times r spotted all over with the 

 } events occurring- in (liferent sections of liie coini- 

 I try, they furnisli a chart of its progress. In the 

 ' first newspaper printing of iljis country, it was 

 1 ditficult to collect news sufliciciit from week to 

 ;, week to fill out with the larger pica type asingh; 

 sheet of foolscap. The tiist public journal that 

 made its appearance in the IJrilisli Colonies, now 

 the United United States of North America, was 

 in April, 1704: it was pflhiislied by John Camp- 

 boll, a Scotchman, who was a bookseller and 

 p.istmtistev, and wascnlitied "The Hoston News- 

 Lijticr. Pidjlished by Aiilliorily."' The impiint 

 is, " IJoslon : Printed liy U. Green. Sold by Nich- 

 olas Boone, at his Shop near the Old Meeling- 

 Iloiise." In a volume of a ncwsimper publislicd 

 iu Virginia in 1733, we fitui an article extracted 

 from the B;>stoii News-Lcttc]-, luider date of 



Boston, Jan. 4, 1733. — On Thursday last, being 

 Dec. 28th, Died here, altera lung and paiulid lau- 

 guisbment, of a sore that broke inwards, I\lr. Bar- 

 tholomew Green, one of the Deacons of the rioiitb 

 CliUrehf who has been the principal Printer of 

 this town and country nearliirly .uais. He died 

 in the ()7lh year of his age, being born at Caoi- 

 Liridge Oct. L2, ItKifi. And was here very decent- 

 ly interred on the 2d current. Ilis liither was 

 Capt. Samuel (i;eeii,lhe liiinous Printer of Cani- 

 biidge, who arrived with Gov. Winihrop in IU3U: 

 He came in the same ship with the lloMorahlc; 

 'i'homas Dudley, Ksi]. and used lo tell his child- 

 ren that upon their first coming ashore both be 

 and several others weie for some time glad to 

 lodae in an empty cask lo shelter them from the 

 weather for want of housing. This Capt. Green 

 was .'1 commission ofiicer of the military compa- 

 ny of Cambridge, who chose him for above 00 

 jearstogclhcr; and be died llnre,l,-.nuary 1, 1701, 

 2, iiged 67, hinhly esteemed and beloved" boihlbr 

 piety and a ualnnd genius. He took siicli great 

 dehgiit in the military exercise, that the arrival 

 of their training days wotdd always raise his joy 



and spirit, and when he was grown so old and 

 aged that he could notw;dk,lie would be carried 

 out in the chair iulo the (iidd lo view and order 

 bis company, lie had 1!) children by bis (irsi 

 wife, and II by his second, who was a danghli'r 

 ol' the venerable elder Clark of Cambridge ; of 

 whii^h II children there is this remarkable; that 

 though tuo ilied young, \'vl of the other nine 

 there died not one for liliy-t\\o years; the first 

 breach being made about eight years and a half 

 ago. - 



This Mr. Green whose loss we deploie, set up 

 his press with his father at Cambridge, iind al'li;r- 

 vvards removed to Dnslon, v\bere on Sept. IG, 

 KjyO, soon after be v\as first married, his press 

 and letters which were then esteemed the best 

 that had been iu the (country, were consumed by 

 a fire that began iu the neighliorhodd ; u|)ou which 

 he retmiie<l to Cambridge, ami thei<^ cimlinued 

 imtll the wiiiter lGl)~-3, when he came back to 

 l5ustou, w here he has been Printer to the Gov- 

 ernor and Couni-il for near forty years, aiid fd'ihe 

 Boston News-Letter (excepting a small iiitcrmis- 

 siou) liom its beginuing. 



Ami ihr his particular character: lie was a 

 person generally known and esteemed among ns, 

 as a very humble and exemplary chrisliaii, one 

 who had much of that prinfuive chiistiauity in 

 him, which has aUvays been the distinguishing 

 gloi-y of New England. We may further remark 

 his eminency for a strict observance of the Sab- 

 bath ; his household piety ; his keeping close and 

 diligent to the work of his calling; his meek and 

 peaceable spiiit ; his caution of publishiug any 

 thing olleusive, light or hm-lful; and his .tender 

 sympathy to the poor and atllieted. He begun lo 

 be pious iu the days of his youth ; and he would 

 always speak of the wonderfid spirit of piety that 

 then prevailed in the laud with a singular plea- 

 sine. 



In ]03cj " Mr. Jos. Glover (wc gatberthe facts 

 from Thomas' History of Priming, published in 

 IblO,) gave to the College (Cambridge) aftonlof 

 printing letters, and some gentlemen of Amster- 

 dam (Holland) gave towards furnishing of a print- 

 ing press with letters forty-inne pounds and some- 

 thing more." ''This year the [iress of Jos, Glov- 

 er was bronghl to Cambridge, then as much set- 

 tled as Boston; both |dac(}S being founded in a 

 situation which eight years before this event was, 

 ill scriptural language ' ;i howling wilderness.''' 



Stephen. Daie was the first who printed in 

 Cambridge: he was employed and brought to 

 this country by Mr. Glover, who was (says 'I'ho- 

 mas) a iion-conforiiiist minister who |)osscssed a 

 considerable estate, and left his native country 

 for " this wilderness" where he could freely en- 

 joy with his friends those opinions which were 

 not countenanced by the government and a ma- 

 jority of the iieople in England." He died on his 

 passage to Massacbiisetls. 



Thomas says, Daye's name never appeared in 

 the imprint of any book. The first work wbicdi 

 issued from the press was " The Freeman's Oath" 

 — to which succeeded " .Vu Alinaiiack." 



Duye continued to print until 1(143 or '49, at 

 which time the prinfing house was put under the 

 Uianagemont of Samuel Gn:eiie. Neither the 

 [iress nor types belonged to Dave. The govern- 

 tneiil of Massachusetts was liberal lo him. In 

 1641 the General Court granted to Iiim as "being 

 the first that sutt vpon printing, three hundred 

 acres of"lan(l," of which he owned several lots 

 'in the bounds of Cambridge." And in 1007 



Daye had a furtlief liberty "to procure of the 

 Sagamore of Nashoway (now Lancaster, Ms.) by 

 sale or otherwise lo the (piantily of one hmuhed 

 and fifty iicres of upland and this (General) Court 

 doeth also graunt the petitioner twenty acres of 

 meadow (intervale) where he can find it free of 

 former giaunts." Thomas says Daye was bred 

 to the press, and that bis work discovers but lit- 

 tle of that knowledge which is reijuisite for a 

 compositor. 



Samuel Greene, (the first printer of that namcj 

 came with Gov. Wintbrop in 1030, at the age of 

 sixteen years. He served no ap|)rentioesliip to 

 the business of printing, but [irobably obtained 

 his knowledge of tlm mechanical part after he 

 look the place of Daye, The printiug seems to 

 have been done under the direction mainly of the 

 President and autliorities of Harvard University, 

 In 1058 the General Court granted him a gratui- 

 ty of three hundred acres of land, w here it is to 

 be found, 



A great expense was incurred at that early day 

 for piinting in the Indian language, with the view 

 of civilizing the aborigines. A corporation in the 

 mother country undertook this work, to do which 

 .Marmaduke Johnson, bred to the printing busi- 

 ness in London, came over to this country in 

 1700, Previous to 1003, Greene had printed in 

 the Indian language 1000 copies of the Bible ; 500 

 copies additional of the New Testament; an edi- 

 tion of Baxter's Call to the Unconverted ; an 

 edition of the Psalter, an<l two eilitious of Elliot's 

 Catechism— all in the lu.lian language, including 

 the cost of the types, biiidiiig, &c. amounting to 

 a fraction more than 1200/. sterling at the expense 

 of the British corporation for pio|iagatiiig the 

 gospel. It is remarkable that the first Bible print- 

 ed in America should be in a language which is 

 now, with the people intended to be instructed 

 and christianized thereby, obsolete. 



The first Greene ilied iu 1702; and until the 

 revulmion in 1775, Boston was not without one 

 or more printers of the name. Many of the same 

 name doubtless spread from the large family of 

 this pioneer of printers. The postmaster of Bos- 

 ton and bis brother editor of the Post of this time, 

 are natives of New Hampshire, whose father, 

 uncles and grandfiither we knew forty years ago. 

 This with another Greene family in Concord, 

 N, H,, came we believe from Lancaster, Ms. It 

 might be from settlers on the grant of land loca- 

 ted upon the " Nashoway," now Lancaster, which 

 was long one of the outside settlements at .the 

 distance of about forty miles in the interior. — 

 Nathaniel Greene, the postmaster of Boston, at 

 the age of about t^velve years, commenced as an 

 apprentice of ours in the year 1809, the year wo 

 established the New Hampshire Patriot: Charles 

 G. Greene, the present able and gentlemanly 

 editor of the Boston Post, was apprentice to 

 his brother, who first established a democratic 

 press at Haverhill and afterwards removed to 

 Boston. One of the name removed early to An- 

 napolis and established the Maryland Gazette, 

 which continued for nearly one hundred years 

 in the same family. Some of the Greenes were" 



