CHAPTER  XY
 

PRINTING  IN  NEW-YORK  IN   THE   SEVENTEENTH   CENTURY
 

IV^B^^l O New-York belongs the honor of being the first English
^^■^V   ^c>lony in America to give governmental encouragement
bvlBl^^   to  the  printer's art.    In all the four other  colonies
^^Av§ j| which the printing-press was set up prior to its establish

ment in New-York, the

printers,   far   from
 

re¬
ceiving government aid,
were soon called upon
to answer for some in¬
fringement—real or fan¬
cied — of the dignity of
the provincial authori¬
ties. In Virginia, the
first English press south
of Massachusetts was
suppressed in 1682,^ and
is supposed, the
printer was
Nuthead, he
better
to   St.
 

if,  as
Virginia
William

fared but little
on his removal
Mary's in Maryland. In
1643 Stephen Daye,
Massachusetts'         first

printer, was put under
ilOO bonds by the Gen¬
eral Court.^ Of Penn¬
sylvania we shall speak
later. Dr. Moore ^ has
not   long   since   called

1 Henning, 2 : 518.

2 Thomas, 1:43.   Albany, 1874.

3  *' Historical Notes on the Intro¬
duction of Printing into New-York,
1693," by George H. Moore, LL. D.
Printed for the Author. New-York,
1888.
 

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