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ISAIAH THOMAS

Isaiah Thomas was an American journalist. He was born in 1749 and died in 1831. He edited the Massachusetts Spy from 1771 to 1801. He earnestly supported the Revolutionary movement by his paper. From 1775 to 1801 he published the celebrated New England Almanac. He founded the American Antiquarian Society, to which he gave valuable books, files of newspapers and estates. He wrote 'A History of Printing in America'.
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