Edition of the Massachusetts Spy from May 26, 1774. The Masthead was designed by Isaiah Thomas' friend Paul Revere. (Courtesy Doug Brown)
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In April 1775, Isaiah Thomas snuck his printing press out of Boston. The rest is history

On April 16, 1775, Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing press out of Boston under the cover of darkness. It was taken by Thomas Bigelow, a fellow patriot, to Worcester, Mass., where it remains to this day. Doug Brown, of the American Antiquarian Society, tells the tale.

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