See also:

• ISAIAH
• ISAIAH, ASCENSION OF

ISAIAH 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)
• ISAIAH THOMAS (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS (1749-1831)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American printer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 19th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1749 . He was apprenticed in 1755 to See also:

• ZECHARIAH

Zechariah Fowle, a Boston printer, with whom, after working as a printer in See also:

• HALIFAX
• HALIFAX, CHARLES MONTAGUE, EARL OF (1661–1715)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, 2ND EARL OF (1716-1771)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF (1633-1695)

Halifax, See also:

• PORTSMOUTH
• PORTSMOUTH, EARLS OF
• PORTSMOUTH, LOUISE DE

Portsmouth, New See also:

• HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire, and See also:

• CHARLESTON

Charleston, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Carolina, he formed a See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership in 1770 . He issued in Boston the Massachusetts See also:

• SPY
• SPY (from " to spy " or " espy"; 0. Fr. espie, espier, to spy, watch; cf. Ger. spdhen, Lat. specere, to look; the Fr. term " espionage "is of course from the same source)

Spy three times each See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week, then (under his See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

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
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government tried to suppress . On the 16th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1775 (three days before the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• CONCORD
• CONCORD, BOOK OF (Liber Concordiae)

Concord, in which he took See also:

• PART

part) he took his presses and types from Boston and set them up at See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

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
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

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
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington and the Federalist party . In Boston 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 published, in 1794, the Royal American See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine, which was continued for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short time by See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• GREENLEAF, SIMON (1783-1853)

Greenleaf, and which contained many engravings by See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul See also:

• REVERE
• REVERE, PAUL (1735–1818)

Revere; and in 1795–1803 the New See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England See also:

• ALMANAC

Almanac, continued until 1819 by his son . He set up See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing houses and See also:

• BOOK

book stores in various parts of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and in Boston with Ebenezer T . See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

Andrews, published the Massachusetts Magazine, a monthly, from 1789 to 1793 . At See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole, New Hampshire, he published the See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

Farmer's Museum . About 1802 he gave over to his son, See also:

• ISAIAH
• ISAIAH, ASCENSION OF

Isaiah Thomas, junr., his business at Worcester including the See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

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

History of Printing in See also:

• AMERICA

America, with a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

Biography of Printers, and an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

Account of See also:

• NEWSPAPERS

Newspapers (2 vols., 181o; and ed., 1894, with a See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of American publications previous to 1776 and a memoir of Isaiah Thomas, by his See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson B . F . Thomas) is an important See also:

• WORK

work, accurate and thorough .