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Gaine was born c. 1726 in Belfast, Ireland.
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Excerpt from The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Printer, Vol. 2: Journals and Letters In the present work, a part of the diaries have been printed from copies made some time since, and the originals being now lost, or inaccessible, the editor has not been able to verify the text. In consequence, there are certain words or phrases that are of doubtful ac curacy, but whether the error is Gaine's, or the copyist's it is now impossible to decide, and in consequence they have been left unchanged, and the doubtful points fortu mately are of a nature so obvious that they will not be likely to mislead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Gaine was born c. 1726 in Belfast, Ireland.
Gaine learned the printing art in Belfast.
Upon completion of his indenture Gaine sailed for America, landing in New York City in 1745. He found work with James Parker and remained with him until 1752, the year in which for a few months he had a partnership with William Weyman, another printer, in the bookselling business. Gaine then established himself as printer and bookseller "on Hunter's Key, " making several removals in 1753, 1754, and in 1757, when he went to Hanover Square, near the Meal Market, to a three-story house which he purchased on April 30, 1759. Here he conducted a printery, book-shop, and a general store, to which he added patent medicines in 1760. His place of business carried the sign of "Bible & Crown" and bore that of royalty until after the evacuation of New York by the British in 1783, after which it was known as "the Bible. " Gaine promptly laid the foundations of a prosperous business in 1752, by beginning the series of Hutchin's almanacs and establishing (August 3 or 8) his newspaper, the New-York Mercury, which lived through November 10, 1783. He had difficulties with the Assembly of New York, because he printed some of its proceedings without authority, and was reprimanded, November 14, 1753. Though Scotch-Irish, he chose the Anglican Church and party rather than the Presbyterian, and thus became involved in bitter controversy with William Livingston, John Morin Scott, and William Smith, after which, under a truce, he carried on his newspaper as a "free press, " open to both parties. It was in this period that he printed in his paper the political essays known as the "Watch Tower" (1754-1755). When in 1768-1770 another ecclesiastical tilt occurred, Gaine printed only the effusions of the Episcopalians. In 1776, when the British were about to capture New York City, he removed some of his equipment to Newark, New Jersey, and printed there seven issues of his newspaper (September 21 - November 2), as a Whig organ, while (September 20 - November 4) his regular paper continued to appear in New York, but managed by Ambrose Serle, under Sir William Howe's direction, as a royalist sheet. Gaine regained control on November 11 and retained it from that time until the end (1783). At the beginning of the Revolution he had leanings toward the Whigs, and perhaps expediency and property interest were chiefly responsible for his change of heart, though it seems certain that his later ardor for the British cause was sincere. On January 15, 1768, Gaine became public printer to the province. His public work embraced the printing of journals or votes, session laws, collected statutes, and speeches and proclamations of the governor, as well as paper currency. He also was official printer to the City of New York. In 1773 he, in partnership, set up a paper-mill at Hempstead Harbor on Long-Island. In 1800 he gave up the printing business, but continued as a bookseller. He died in his eighty-first year and was buried in his family plot in the yard of Trinity Church.
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Gaine married first, on October 24, 1759, Sarah Robbins (died 1765), by whom he had a son and two daughters; and second, on September 5, 1769, a widow, Mrs. Cornelia Wallace, by whom he had two daughters.