![]() ![]() Keimer and Bradford were then the only printers in the colony of Pennsylvania. In 1723 Keimer opened a printing business near the Market-house in the city. In 1712 Andrew Bradford was the first person to start a printing business in Philadelphia. When he got out of prison he went to America leaving his English wife behind. His English business failed, however, and he was thrown into Fleet Prison (a debtors' prison) for not paying his debts. He then opened a printing business in 1713, after had learned his trade. Keimer initially learned the trade of printing from a well known London printer. Keimer, like his only sibling, Mary, was at first a follower of the Camisards. Keimer was born in the later part of the seventeenth century in the London Borough of Southwark, England. On October 2, 1729, Benjamin Franklin bought this newspaper. He was the original founder of The Pennsylvania Gazette. Samuel Keimer (1689–1742) was originally an English printer and emigrant who came to America and became an Early American printer. ![]()
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