Providence in colonial times . ical abilities and great ingenuity. The last-named qualification appears in his cousinthe printer, who published pamphlets, almanacs, andan occasional book, besides offering to the local pub-lic A Variety of Books, Stationary, &c. Lately im-ported from London, and to be sold cheap for readyMoney, ... At the Printing-Office near the Court-House, Among which are . . The Whole Duty ofMan, Watts Miscellanies, . . Hymns and LyricPoems . . Conduct of a Married Life, Ovids Artof Love, Youngs Night Thoughts . . Testaments,Spelling Books, Psalters . . and a few select Pla
Providence in colonial times . ical abilities and great ingenuity. The last-named qualification appears in his cousinthe printer, who published pamphlets, almanacs, andan occasional book, besides offering to the local pub-lic A Variety of Books, Stationary, &c. Lately im-ported from London, and to be sold cheap for readyMoney, ... At the Printing-Office near the Court-House, Among which are . . The Whole Duty ofMan, Watts Miscellanies, . . Hymns and LyricPoems . . Conduct of a Married Life, Ovids Artof Love, Youngs Night Thoughts . . Testaments,Spelling Books, Psalters . . and a few select . Also, a few elegant Pictures, u/z. of His MajestyKing George IIL and his Royal Consort QueenCharlotte; the great Mr. Pitt, and the immortalGeneral Wolfe. Also, a few Boxes of Powder for thePreservation of the Teeth; much esteemed byLadies. However profitable the printing-business as a Portrait of William Goddard From a reproduction of the original portrait owned bythe late Col. William Goddard. 1 1 «V I. The Colonial Town 3^7 whole may have been, it is but too evident that thenewspaper department did not pay its way. Ap-peals for the payment of dilatory subscriptions beginto appear in its columns by the end of the first sixmonths. When to this perennial setback was addedthe burden of stamp duties, — which if paid drewdown public execration on the head of the editor, andif unpaid exposed him to prosecution on the part ofthe Crown, — William Goddard withdrew himselfand his news-sheet from the debatable ground bysuspending publication for six months. It was not,however, until the Stamp Act had been repealed —over a year later — that the paper reappeared, andthis time under the auspices of another publishingfirm, — that of Sarah Goddard and Company. Itspioneer editor had already found a business openingin New York. From there he went to Philadelphia,where, in 1768, his mother joined him. From 1773to 1792, Mr. Goddard published a semi-weekly paperin Baltimore. It m
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