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Biography
Daniel Fowle (c. 1715 – June 1787) was an American printer before and during the American Revolution, and the founder of The New Hampshire Gazette.
Early years
Fowle, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, was an active printer in the city beginning in 1740.
Printing career
Over the next fifteen years, Fowle printed and co-printed publications such as the American Magazine and Historical Chronicle and The Independent Advertiser. Along with his business partner Gamaliel Rogers, Fowle was the first to print Samuel Adams and the New Testament in the American Colonies. In 1755, he was arrested on orders from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for printing a seditious pamphlet called "The Monster of Monsters." After his release from jail, he printed "A Total Eclipse of Liberty" in response to his arrest and fled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire Gazette
On October 7, 1756, Fowle, by this time a slave holder for a number of slaves, began publication of the New Hampshire Gazette. The Gazette become the colony's sole newspaper at the beginning of the Revolution. In addition to the Gazette, Fowle published state laws, as well as the first book published in the colony, Reverend Samuel Langdon's The Excellency of the Word of God. He published the Gazette until 1785, when he sold the paper. As of 2010, the Gazette, America's oldest newspaper, is still published.
