Background
Duane, William was born on May 17, 1760 in Lake Champlain, New York, United States.
Duane, William was born on May 17, 1760 in Lake Champlain, New York, United States.
He moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the Bengal Journal in 1791. Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the Bengal Journal for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, founded his second newspaper, The World. He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States where he founded the Aurora.
Married second, Margaret Bache, 1800.