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16861709-17421742, Nov 24
an early American printer in colonial Philadelphia. He published the first newspaper in Philadelphia, The American Weekly Mercury, beginning in 1719, as well as the first magazine in America in 1741. In 1692, the family moved to New York, and there he learned the printing trade from his father. In 1709, Andrew Bradford was listed as a printer in New York; that year, he declined an offer from Rhode Island to become that colony's printer. He returned to Philadelphia in 1712 and opened his own print shop.
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Andrew Bradford16861709
 
17421742, Nov 24
William Penn [2]1644, Oct 141681
 
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17891790, Apr 17
 one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading aut...
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 the first American sailor to write an autobiography. Although Bowen's career as a sailor was not ...
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