Daniel Fowle

Background

Fowle, Daniel was born in October 1715 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John and Mary (Barrell) Fowle.

Career

Fowle, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, was an active printer in the city beginning in 1740. Over the next fifteen years, Fowle would print or co-print publications such as the American Magazine and Historical Chronicle and The Independent Advertiser. In 1755, he was arrested on orders from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for printing a seditious pamphlet called "The Monster of Monsters." After his release from jail, he printed "A Total Eclipse of Liberty" in response to his arrest, and fled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

On October 7, 1756, Fowle, by this time a slave holder, began publication of the New Hampshire Gazette.

The Gazette become the colony"s sole newspaper at the beginning of the Revolution. In addition to the Gazette, Fowle published state laws, as well as the first book published in the colony, Reverend Samuel Langdon"s The Excellency of the Word of God.

He published the Gazette until 1785 when he sold the paper. As of 2010, The Gazette, America"s oldest newspaper, is still published.

Achievements

• Daniel Fowle has been listed as a noteworthy printer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • An appendix to the late Total eclipse of liberty. Being some thoughts on the end and design of civil government; also the inherent power of the... Seventeen lines of quotations

    ("THE following Appendix was prepar'd for the Press immedi...)

Connections

Married Lydia Hall, April.

Father:

John Fowle

Mother:

Mary (Barrell) Fowle

Spouse:

Lydia Hall