The crest is a woman's
head crowned and the motto: _Don't tread on me_. Adam Boyd
(1738-1803), colonial printer and preacher, purchased the printing
outfit of another Scot, Andrew Stuart, who had set up the first
printing press in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1763. In 1769 (Oct.
13) Boyd issued the first number of the _Cape Fear Mercury_, and
continued it till 1776. James Johnston, born in Scotland, was the
first to establish a printing press in Georgia (1762) and in April,
1763, began publication of _The Georgia Gazette_, which was published
by him for twenty-seven years. His successor (1793) was another Scot,
Alexander M'Millan, "Printer to the State." Robert Wells (1728-94),
born in Scotland, was a publisher and bookseller in South Carolina for
many years, and published the _South Carolina and American General
Gazette_. John Wells, Florida's first printer (1784), born in
Charleston, served his apprenticeship at Donaldson's printing house in
Edinburgh. Matthew Duncan, son of Major Joseph Duncan, of Scottish
ancestry, introduced printing into Illinois in 1809, and published the
first newspaper there. Major Nathaniel McLean, brother of John McLean,
one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, was one
of the first publishers in Minnesota (1849, the same year in which
printing was introduced into the state). The township of McLean,
Ramsey county, was named in honor of him. There is mention of a
printing press being set up in Michigan in 1785 by Alexander and
William Macomb, but nothing further is known of it.
Pages:
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172