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Christopher was born on January 27, 1754 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of the second Christopher Sower and his wife, Catharine (Sharpnack) Sower.
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Christopher was born on January 27, 1754 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of the second Christopher Sower and his wife, Catharine (Sharpnack) Sower.
His public life began toward the end of 1774, when his father, without any legal formality, transferred to him the ancestral home in Germantown and the famous Sower printing establishment. Sometime between April 20, 1775, and March 20, 1776, the name of the firm was changed to Christopher Sower and Son; between the latter date and February 1777 it became Christopher Sower, Jr. , and Peter Sower, the young man thus publicly assuming full charge.
During these momentous years he apparently published in his newspaper, Die Germantowner Zeitung, everything favorable to the royal cause so far as the Patriot authorities allowed him, and when the British took possession of Philadelphia in September 1777, he removed to that city and continued the paper under the title, Der Pennsylvanische Staats Courier.
On December 5 he was wounded and captured by a detachment of American troops in Germantown, and on January 10 of the following year he was released by exchange.
At the time of the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British in 1778, he had no safe alternative but to accompany them to New York.
In August the estate of the entire family, variously estimated to be worth from ten thousand to thirty thousand pounds, was confiscated and sold. With the encouragement of Sir Henry Clinton he now entered into correspondence with various men in Pennsylvania for the purpose of obtaining information and of organizing Loyalist Associations, which in February 1780 in the counties of Lancaster, York, and Northumberland professed to have an enrollment of six thousand, probably an exaggeration.
He also published and distributed in the spring of 1780 a sixteen-page pamphlet with the title, Zuschrift an die Teutschen in Pennsylvanien und benachbarten Provinzen, a publication that may be considered the valedictory of the family as colonial printers.
A year later, in the spring of 1781, he was sent by Clinton on a secret mission to Virginia. After the defeat of Cornwallis he concentrated his efforts on futile attempts to induce the British government to grant such liberal terms to the Colonies that they would willingly remain in the empire. On the British evacuation of New York he went to England to push his claims for indemnification for the losses he had sustained, and was allowed the sum of 1, 289 pounds.
In 1785 he went to the province of New Brunswick, where he later became deputy postmaster-general and king's printer of the province, and published the Royal Gazette and Weekly Adveriser. Leaving New Brunswick in 1799 he went to the home of his youngest brother, Samuel, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died.
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Reared in a family who were leaders among the Dunkers, he naturally conceived a strong antipathy to those colonial leaders - among them Benjamin Franklin, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the leader of the German Lutheran Church in America, and John Henry Miller, the publisher of Der Wechentliche Pennsylvanische Staatsbote - who were bitter critics of the German sectarians and of the beliefs they held.
When these men favored the Colonial party in its disagreement with the mother country, the conservatism of young Sower, accentuated by his aversion to the opponents of his family, drove him early into the ranks of those who were loyal to the British government.
He was an artisan skilled in many crafts.
On January 8, 1775, he was married to Hannah Knorr, sister of the wife of Zachariah Poulson. He was survived by his wife and five of his six children.