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See also:BRADFORD, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1663—1752) , See also:American colonial printer, was See also:horn in See also:Leicestershire, See also:England, on the loth of May 1663. He learned the printer's See also:trade in See also:London with See also:Andrew Sowle, and in 1682 emigrated with William See also:Penn to See also:Pennsylvania, where in 1685 he introduced the "See also:art and See also:mystery" of See also:printing into the See also:Middle Colonies. His first imprint was an See also:almanac, Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense or See also:America's Messenger (1685). At the outset he was ordered " not to See also:print anything but what shall have lycence from ye See also:council," and in 1692, the See also:colony then being torn by See also:schism, he issued a See also:tract for the minority See also:sect of See also:Friends, whereupon his See also:press was seized and he was arrested. He was released, however, and his press was restored on his See also:appeal to See also:Governor See also:Benjamin See also:Fletcher. In 169o, with William See also:Rittenhouse (1644—1708) and others, he established in Roxboro, Pennsylvania, now a See also:part of See also:Philadelphia, the first See also:paper See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill in America. In the See also:spring of 1643 he removed to New See also:York, where he was appointed royal printer for the colony, a position which he held for more than fifty years; and on the 8th of See also:November 1725 he issued the first number of the New York See also:Gazette, the first paper established in New York and from 1725 to 1733 the only paper in the colony. Bradford died in New York on the 23rd of May 1752.
His son, ANDREW SOWLE BRADFORD (1686—1742), removed from New York to Philadelphia in 1712, and there on the 22nd of See also:December 1719 issued the first number of the American Weekly See also:Mercury, the first newspaper in the Middle Colonies. Benjamin See also:Franklin, for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a compositor in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, characterized the paper as " a paltry thing, in no way interesting "; but it was continued for many years and was edited by Bradford until his See also:death.
The latter's See also:nephew, WILLIAM BRADFORD (1722—1791), established in December 1742 the Pennsylvania See also:Journal and Weekly Advertiser, which was for sixty years under his See also:control or that of his son, and which in 1774—1775 See also:bore the oft-reproduced See also:device of a divided See also:serpent with the See also:motto " Unite or See also:Die." He served in the See also:War of American See also:Independence, rising to the See also:rank of See also:colonel. - His son, WILLIAM BRADFORD (1755—1795), also served in the War of Independence, and afterwards was See also:attorney-See also:general of Pennsylvania (1791), a See also:judge of the supreme See also:court of the See also:state, and in 1794—1795 attorney-general of the See also:United States.
End of Article: BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1663—1752)
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