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THE PRESS IN ANNAPOLIS

The Green family had been printers in Annapolis
since 1738;¹ the representatives of this family who

in the decade 1791-1800 were working at the press of
Maryland's capital where Frederick and Samuel, brothers,
descendants of one of the pioneer printing families of
Hew England,² and sons of Jonas and Anne Catharine
Green, both printers to the state.³ The printing ac-
tivities of this farily have beer so well and fully
chronicled in Chapter VII of Lawrence G. Wroth's
A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland and Chapter
VIII of Joseph Towne Wheeler's The Maryland Press.
1777-1790 that it would be futile to go into them here,

Frederick Green, during the period of 1791-1800
was printer to the state of Maryland; the Laws of the
state and the Votes and Proceedings of each house of
the General Assembly which he printed during every
session, besides the numerous bills ordered to be
printed by the General Assembly make it clear that the
Green press was usually busy with state affairs. In
addition to this rather voluminous printing work, fre-
quent notices inserted in the Maryland Gazette of
Annapolis by Frederick, to the effect that he was act-

1 Wroth, L.C. A history of printing in colonial
Maryland, p. 77.

2 Ibid. p. 75.

3 Ibid. p. 77, 90-91.