Samuel Gerrish
Samuel Gerrish (1680s-1741) was a bookseller and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.[1] He kept a shop "near the brick meeting house in Cornhill,"[2] and published works by Thomas Prince and others. Employees included Thomas Hancock.[3] He married Mary Sewall (daughter of Samuel Sewall) in 1709; children included Samuel Gerrish (d.1751).[4][5]
Advertisement for Samuel Gerrish, bookseller, Boston, 1727
References
- ↑ WorldCat. Gerrish, Samuel d. 1741
- ↑ Boston News-Letter; November 27, 1721
- ↑ "Hancock family papers, 1664–1854: Finding Aid". Harvard Business School. Retrieved April 2014.
- ↑ John Tyler Hassam. Samuel Gerrish, 1735-1741. Early recorders and registers of deeds for the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts, 1639-1735. J. Wilson and Son, 1900.
- ↑ Boston Evening Post.; 10-21-1751
Further reading
Published by Gerrish
- Thomas Prince. Annals of the New England Colonies.
- Cotton Mather. A vindication of the ministers of Boston: from the abuses & scandals, lately cast upon them, in diverse printed papers. (1722)
About Gerrish
- George Emery Littlefield, Early Boston Booksellers, 1642-1711 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1969), 210-14.
- J. Terry Gates. Samuel Gerrish, Publisher to the "Regular Singing" Movement in 1720s New England. Notes, Second Series, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Sep., 1988), pp. 15-22.
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