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CHAPTER EIGHT
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Frederick Green, Printer to the State, Clerk of the State Senate,
Postmaster of Annapolis and Printer of the Maryland
Gazette with Samuel Green
HE Green Press was established in Maryland by Jonas
Green, the great grandson of Samuel Green who was
the successor of the first printers in English America.
He served as an apprentice under his father at New
London and went to Boston where, after working under
his brother for several vears, he established himself
independently. Shortly after printing a Hebrew gram-
mar, he went to Philadelphia and was employed by Franklin and Brad-
ford. In 1738 he married Anne Catherine Hoof and evidently in the same
year moved to Annapolis. From that date until his death in 1767, he was
the only printer in the colony, with the exception of Nicholas Hassel-
bach in Baltimore after 1765. He maintained a high standard of typo-
graphical excellence and his chief publishing monuments, the: Maryland
Gazette and Bacon's Laws of Maryland, rank with the finest Colonial
printig.
The Maryland Gazette, named after the newspaper first printed by
William Parks in September 1727, was published by the Green family
for a ninety-four year period with only the one break in its continuity.
This was from 1777 to 1779. Isaiah Thomas wrote: ''The typographical
features of this Gazette were equal to those of any paper then printed
on the continent."1
After the death of her husband in 1767, Anne Catherine Green took
over the printing business and, with the help of her children, continued
it during the eight remaining years of her life. From 1772 until her
death in 1775, the Maryland Gazette was printed by Anne Catherine
Green & Son. The son mentioned here was Frederick Green, who had
been born January 20, 1750, and who, when he came to maturity, con-
trolled the Green Press until his death in 1811.
1 Isaiah Thomas, op. cit., II. p. 156.
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