Benjamin Edes (1732-1803)

You and John Gill print the Patriot newspaper The Boston Gazette and other publications which are strongly political. You are an official printer of the Massachusetts Assembly, spreading a radical interpretation of political debates. You make many Loyalist enemies, including the Royal Governor. Patriots use your parlor as a gathering place for punch and plotting before the Boston Tea Party. You escape from Boston during the Siege and continue publishing the Gazette until 1798.