Ann Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin's sister-in-law Anne Franklin becomes first woman printer in New England, 1762.

Franklin became the official printer in Rhode Island colony in 1736, and her business produced numerous legal documents, government publications, and pamphlets, as well as the colony's paper money and ballots for the election of 1744. Between 1728 and 1735, Franklin published a series of almanacs written by Joseph Stafford. For the next five years, she published a set of almanacs she had written herself. In 1745, Franklin began printing an edition of the laws of the General Assembly, which eventually numbered 340 pages, for the government of Rhode Island.

Franklin was eulogized as a woman who "by her Economy and Industry in carrying on the Printing Business supported herself and Family."





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