Draper, Margaret (d. around 1800)

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Draper, Margaret (d. around 1800)

Massachusetts printer. Died c. 1800 in England; m. Richard Draper (1727–1774).

After death of husband, continued publication of his Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter (1774–1776), the only paper published in MA during the American Revolution's siege of Boston (July 1775–Mar 1776); as a Tory, fled with British army to Halifax (Feb 1776) and then England.

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