James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. James published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short lived Rhode Island Gazette.
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4 February 1697 Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Died |
4 February 1735 (aged 38) Newport, Rhode Island
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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