11 August 2015

NYC #10: William Bradford, Trinity Church, Lower Manhattan

 
'WILLIAM BRADFORD
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1663–1752

Printer and publisher

In 1693 Bradford was appointed the
Royal Printer for the New York Colony.
He printed the first American Book of
Common Prayer in 1710 and founded
and printed New York's first newspaper,
the New York Gazette in 1725.'

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