12 Facts About Benjamin Edes

Benjamin Edes was an early American printer, publisher, newspaper journalist and a revolutionary advocate before and during the American Revolution.

Benjamin Edes is best known, along with John Gill, as the publisher of the Boston Gazette, a colonial newspaper which sparked and financed the Boston Tea Party and was influential during the American Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Edes was one of seven children of Peter Edes and Esther Hall.

Benjamin Edes had the following children: John, Edward, Mary, Peter, Jonathan and Sarah Edes.

Benjamin Edes was the daughter of Joseph Starr and Margaret Bulman.

Benjamin Edes was the great-great-granddaughter of Dr Comfort Starr of Boston, a founder of Harvard College.

Benjamin Edes established a partnership with Gill, and together they printed various works.

Benjamin Edes made the paper a leading voice favoring American independence.

Benjamin Edes fought British policy overall through written attacks on other taxes, including the tea tax, the Townshend Acts, and other such measures he deemed as oppressive.

Benjamin Edes was a poet and writer, and one of the earliest American female literary figures as well as the first American-born woman to publish under her own name.

Benjamin Edes, relied on the advice and encouragement of Samuel Adams, Warren, Otis, Quincy inasmuch as his contentious spirit often lacked the intellectual capacity to articulate his outspoken and revolutionary ideas in a manner suited for publication.

Benjamin Edes is supposedly buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground.