Providence Gazette
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| 1762 | The Providence Gazette. The printer William Goddard (1740-1817) establishes the first printing shop in Providence and prints the first issue of the Gazette there. This begins a long involvement of the Goddard family in American publishing. |
| 1766 | The Providence Gazette. After the departure from Providence of her son William in 1765, Sarah Updike Goddard (c. 1700-1770), now a widow in her sixties, manages the city's first print shop alone and decides to revive the Gazette, which had failed during her son's first attempt in 1762. For the next two years, she would publish the weekly newspaper, run a bookstore, and establish a bookbindery--creating a printing business successful enough to be sold at a profit in 1768. |
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