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The New England Primer was first published between 1687 and 1690 by printer Benjamin Harris, who had come to Boston in 1686 to escape the brief Catholic ascendancy under James II. It was based largely upon The Protestant Tutor , which he had published in England, [ 1 ] and was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies.
Benjamin Harris (fl. 1673–1716) was an English publisher, a figure of the Popish Plot in England who then moved to New England as an early journalist. He published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, from 25 September 1690.
Journalism in the United States, from 1690 to 1872. New York, Harper & Brothers. Hunter, Dard (1978). ... The Almanac and New England Primer, 1750—1800".
By 1690, Boston publishers were reprinting the English Protestant Tutor under the title of The New England Primer. The Primer was built on rote memorization. By simplifying Calvinist theology, the Primer enabled the Puritan child to define the limits of the self by relating his life to the authority of God and his parents.
Franklin wrote that Pierce came to Boston and served his apprenticeship under John Foster. After Foster's death, he was employed by Samuel Green, Jr. Pierce married Sarah Cotton in 1680; she died in 1690. Among other works printed was Richard Steere's A Monumental Memorial and New England Primer via his wife's family connection to John Cotton. [3]
Kneeland & Green in 1727 printed the earliest known surviving example of The New England Primer, a religious text used in public schools for over two centuries. Historian Paul Leicester Ford believed that the first edition of The New England Primer was printed by Benjamin Harris in Boston, but examples of his printing are not known to exist ...
Thomas Fleet was born on September 8, 1685, in Tilstock, a chapelry in the parish of Whitchurch, of Shropshire in England, the son of Thomas and Isabella Fleet. He learned the printing business in Bristol, England where he served as an apprentice and later worked as a journeyman.
All the New England colonies required towns to set up schools. The Mayflower Pilgrims made a law in Plymouth Colony that each family was responsible to teach their children how to read and write, for the express purpose of reading the Bible. In 1642, the Massachusetts Bay Colony made education compulsory, and other New England colonies followed.