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Anthony Haswell was born on April 6, 1756, at Portsmouth, England, the son of William and Elizabeth Haswell. With his father and an elder brother he arrived at Boston at the end of 1769 or the beginning of 1770.
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Anthony Haswell was born on April 6, 1756, at Portsmouth, England, the son of William and Elizabeth Haswell. With his father and an elder brother he arrived at Boston at the end of 1769 or the beginning of 1770.
After coming to American Anthony was apprenticed to a potter.
Anthony Haswell witnessed the “Boston Massacre, ” March 5, 1770, and soon joined the Sons of Liberty, writing some crude songs which were sung at their meetings. He probably participated in the “Tea Party, ” December 16, 1773. One of his songs led to his release by the potter to whom he was bound in order to become apprenticed to Isaiah Thomas, the printer. When Thomas moved to Worcester, in April 1775, Haswell went with him. He served in the Revolutionary army during 1776-1777. In June 1777 he became the publisher of the paper which Thomas had founded, the Massachusetts Spy, which on August 14, 1777, appeared with a new title, Haswell’s Massachusetts Spy or American Oracle of Liberty. In June 1778 he relinquished the paper and its publication was resumed by Thomas, Haswell remaining in his employ. Two years later The New-England Almanack for 1781 appeared with the imprint, “Worcester: Printed by Anthony Haswell, ” but it was actually printed by the press of Hudson & Goodwin, Hartford, Connecticut, though Haswell was living at Worcester at the time.
Haswell moved to Hartford early in 1781 and was employed as a printer by George Goodwin. A year later, 1782, he moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he and Elisha Babcock, a paper-maker, established a press. On May 14, 1782, they issued the first number of a weekly newspaper, the Massachusetts Gazette or the Springfield and Northampton Weekly Advertiser', and in addition they published many small books and pamphlets. After a year the partnership was dissolved and Haswell went to Bennington, Vermont, where he spent the rest of his life.
Vermont had not yet been admitted to the Union. In all its territory there was only one small press, from which was issued the only newspaper. On the western side, from the Massachusetts line to Canada, there was no printer. A committee from the Vermont legislature urged Haswell to establish a newspaper at Bennington, offering him as an inducement control of the post-offices of the commonwealth. He became the first postmaster general of Vermont, holding the office probably until the admission of the state into the Union. The first issue of the Vermont Gazette, or Freemen’s Depository appeared June 5, 1783. Haswell kept the paper going with brief suspensions until his death in 1816, and it was continued for many years thereafter by his sons. He was less successful with another paper, the Herald of Vermont, or Rutland Courier, which he started at Rutland, June 25, 1792. Its career was ended in September by a fire which destroyed the press.
Haswell was an early victim of the Sedition Act of July 14, 1798. His trial, which took place in the federal circuit court, at Windsor, Vermont, in May 1800, was really a political persecution. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment and a fine of $200. In 1844 Congress returned the fine to his heirs. Haswell died in Bennington, at the age of sixty.
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Haswell was twice married; his first wife, whom he married on April 23, 1777 was Lydia Baldwin of Worcester, who died on April 30, 1799. By her he had ten children. On September 30, 1799, he married Betsey Rice, by whom he had seven children. She died on April 26, 1815.