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Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831)
Thomas, Isaiah. An American editor, publisher, and littérateur; born in Boston, 1749; died at Worcester, April 4, 1831. He established and printed the Massachusetts Spy, 1770–1801; imported and used the first font of music type; established the Massachusetts Magazine (1789–96); printed noted editions of the Bible and Watts’s ‘Psalms and Hymns’; founded the Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, and endowed it with a library and funds for its maintenance; and was the author and publisher of the ‘History of Printing.’