"Open to all parties, but influenced by none."
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Historians from the United StatesPeople from MassachusettsAuthors from the United StatesPublishers from the United StatesPeople of the American Revolution
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Motto of the Massachusetts Spy (1770); reported in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6 (1889), p. 82
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Isaiah Thomas (publisher)
Isaiah Thomas (January 19, 1749 – April 4, 1831) was an early American printer, newspaper publisher and author. He performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts, and reported the first account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He was the founder of the American Antiquarian Society.
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