Samuel Green

Samuel Green 1615-1702, early American printer. He established himself at Cambridge, Mass., in 1649, using a press owned by Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard. Green succeeded Stephen Daye , who established the first printing plant in the colonies. The press that was sent to the colony in 1654 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England was given to Green. He used it to produce his most famous imprints, John Eliot's Indian tracts and the Indian Bible. His imprints number nearly 300, among them editions of the Bay Psalm Book and The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes. Green continued in business until 1692, and was succeeded by his son Bartholomew Green (1666-1732), printer and publisher of the Boston News-Letter (1704-07 and 1711-32).

Rowlands, Samuel (?1565–1630), a writer of satirical tracts, epigrams, jests, etc., mainly in verse. His works include a satire on the manners of Londoners, The Letting of Humors Blood in the Head-Vaine (1600); 'Tis Merrie when Gossips Meete (1602), a vivid and dramatic character sketch of a widow, a wife, and a maid who meet in a tavern and converse; and Greene's Ghost (1602), on the subject of ‘coney-catchers’ (see Greene, R.).