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Daniel Fowle was born on October 1715 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where the records of the First Church state that Daniel, son of John and Mary (Barrell) Fowle, was baptized on October 16, 1715.
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Daniel Fowle was born on October 1715 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where the records of the First Church state that Daniel, son of John and Mary (Barrell) Fowle, was baptized on October 16, 1715.
In consequence of the death of Fowle's parents in 1734, Daniel was placed under the guardianship of S. Trumbull. At about the same time he was apprenticed to Samuel Kneeland, a printer in Boston, and in 1740 became associated with Gamaliel Rogers in the firm of Rogers & Fowle, a partnership which continued for ten years. The two had a flourishing business, printed much of importance, and because of the quality of their ink, which was of their own manufacture, and the best in the country at the time, they produced imprints comparing favorably with those of to-day.
On March 2, 1743, they began the publication of the Boston Weekly Magazine, discontinued after the fourth number, but followed in September by the American Magazine and Historical Chronicle, a monthly issue which was continued for more than three years. It was the first magazine in the colonies to survive for so long a time.
In 1748 they established a weekly newspaper, The Independent Advertiser, which attracted notable correspondence and had a good circulation but was discontinued in 1750 when the partnership was dissolved. They are said to have published also a duodecimo edition of the New Testament about 1745, but since no copies have been found to substantiate the contention, the matter remains in doubt.
In addition to these undertakings they carried on a regular printing business of books and pamphlets which was exceeded in Boston only by that of their competitors, Kneeland & Green. After the dissolution of the partnership Fowle carried on the business alone for four years; then the tenor of his life changed.
In 1754 the Excise Act passed the General Court causing wide-spread and bitter discussion. A number of anonymous pamphlets was printed among which was an allegory entitled The Monster of Monsters. Fowle was brought before the General Court on suspicion of having been the printer of the obnoxious article, and was confined for three days in the common jail.
This act of injustice aroused his resentment to such a degree that he wrote and printed in 1755 a pamphlet entitled A Total Eclipse of Liberty and during the following year An Appendix to the Late Total Eclipse of Liberty. While he was still feeling the unfairness of his treatment he was approached by citizens of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with a view to his removal there.
Promised the position of government printer of that province, he decided to leave Massachusetts Bay, where liberty of the press was threatened, and removed to Portsmouth. He was the first printer in New Plampshire, and on October 7, 1756, issued the first number of the New Hampshire Gazette. Though his printing business was not large, the apprentices from his office started other printing centers in the state. Fowle’s labors continued until his death on June 8, 1787.
Since his wife’s death preceded his own by several years and their union was without issue, in 1784 he transferred his newspaper to John Melcher and George Jerry Osborne, two of his apprentices.
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The records of King’s Chapel, Boston, show Fowle's marriage to Lydia Flail on April 11, 1751. He later adopted John Melcher as his son, leaving to him all his property and business interests.