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  2. The New England Primer - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Benjamin Harris (publisher) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of early American publishers and printers - Wikipedia

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    English publisher, involved in the Popish Plot in England; Moved to New England as an early journalist; Published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick

  5. Samuel Kneeland (printer) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Wikipedia

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    Singer Halsey uses The New England Primer version of the prayer in the intro portion of their 2019 single "Nightmare". [10] XXXTENTACION incorporates a modified version of the first 2 lines of this prayer in the closer of his "?" album, "before i close my eyes". [11] Film and television

  7. Bibliography of early American publishers and printers

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    The New-England Courant; a selection of certain issues containing writings of Benjamin Franklyn or published by him during his brother's imprisonment. Boston American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  8. Primer (textbook) - Wikipedia

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    A primer (in this sense usually pronounced / ˈ p r ɪ m ər /, [1] sometimes / ˈ p r aɪ m ər /, usually the latter in modern British English [2]) is a first textbook for teaching of reading, such as an alphabet book or basal reader. The word also is used more broadly to refer to any book that presents the most basic elements of any subject. [3]

  9. Shepard Kollock - Wikipedia

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    The New-England Primer Improved, for the more easy attaining the true Reading of English, To which is added, the Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism in 1782; Ebenezer Elmer, Surgeon of the Regiment, An e[u]logy on the late Francis Barber, Esq: Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the Second New-Jersey Regiment in 1783