Isaiah Thomas (publisher)

thumb| Isaiah Thomas (January 19, 1749 – April 4, 1831) was an early American printer, newspaper publisher and author. He performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts, and reported the first account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He was the founder of the American Antiquarian Society. Quotes Open to all parties, but influenced by none. Motto of the Massachusetts Spy (1770); reported in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6 (1889), p. 82 About His reputation in future time will rest, as a patriot, on the manly independence which gave through the initiatory stage and progress of the Revolution the strong influence of the press he directed toward the cause of freedom, when royal flattery would have seduced and the power of government subdued its action. William Lincoln, History of Worcester, Massachusetts (1837), p. 294 External links Category:1749 births Category:1831 deaths Category:Publishers from the United States Category:Authors from the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:People of the American Revolution Category:People from Massachusetts