Thomas Johnston (engraver)
(1708-1767)
American painter, japanner, and printmaker
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Thomas Johnston (1708 – May 8, 1767) was an American engraver, japanner, and heraldic painter in Colonial Boston. Johnston engraved the first print of an historical event in the Colonial America and was also the first manufacturer of church organs in the colonies. The pipe organ he built in 1758–1759 for Boston's Old North Church was in use for over a hundred years until another organ replaced it in 1886.
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1767 (aged 58)
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