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Abraham Small (17651829)

Description

Abraham Small was born on 11 April 1765 in Taunton, England. He immigrated to Philadelphia, where he worked for more than thirty years as a publisher and printer. His partnership with John Thompson produced America’s first hot-pressed Bible (1798). Small died in Philadelphia on 15 September 1829.

Citations

"Abraham Small to Thomas Jefferson, 30 April 1814," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0243. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 7, 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 331–332.]

United States Gazette (Philadelphia), 18 September 1829, page 4, column 5 (Newspapers.com).

Abraham Small in Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700ca. 1950 (FamilySearch).

Abraham Small at Find a Grave.