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See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS, See also:ISAIAH (1749-1831) , See also:American printer, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 19th of See also:January 1749. He was apprenticed in 1755 to See also:Zechariah Fowle, a Boston printer, with whom, after working as a printer in See also:Halifax, See also:Portsmouth, New See also:Hampshire, and See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, he formed a See also:partnership in 1770. He issued in Boston the Massachusetts See also:Spy three times each See also:week, then (under his See also:sole ownership) as a semi-weekly, and beginning in 1771, as a weekly which soon espoused the Whig cause and which the See also:government tried to suppress. On the 16th of See also:April 1775 (three days before the See also:battle of See also:Concord, in which he took See also:part) he took his presses and types from Boston and set them up at See also:Worcester, where he was postmaster 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; here he published and sold books and built a 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 and bindery, and he continued. the paper until about 1802 except in 1776–1778 and in 1786-1788. The Spy supported See also:Washington and the Federalist party. In Boston Thomas published, in 1794, the Royal American See also:Magazine, which was continued for a See also:short time by See also:Joseph See also:Greenleaf, and which contained many engravings by See also:Paul See also:Revere; and in 1795–1803 the New See also:England See also:Almanac, continued until 1819 by his son. He set up See also:printing houses and See also:book stores in various parts of the See also:country, and in Boston with Ebenezer T. See also:Andrews, published the Massachusetts Magazine, a monthly, from 1789 to 1793. At See also:Walpole, New Hampshire, he published the See also:Farmer's Museum. About 1802 he gave over to his son, Isaiah Thomas, junr., his business at Worcester including the See also:control of the Spy. Thomas founded in 1812 the American Antiquarian Society. He died in Worcester on the 4th of April 1831.
His See also:History of Printing in See also:America, with a See also:Biography of Printers, and an See also:Account of See also:Newspapers (2 vols., 181o; and ed., 1894, with a See also:catalogue of American publications previous to 1776 and a memoir of Isaiah Thomas, by his See also:grandson B. F. Thomas) is an important See also:work, accurate and thorough.
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