First Female Licensed Printer

 

1.       1682 - Lawrence C. Wroth published a book called “A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland” 1686-1776. In it he documents the first licensed female printer as Dinah Nuthead. She and her husband started a little printing business in Jamestown, Virginia in 1682. Primarily printing forms for the government, they moved the business to Maryland in 1686. Her husband, William died in 1695 and so Dinah requested, before an official court, to be named administrator of his estate and asked the Maryland General Assembly that she be granted a license to continue the business of printing government forms. Her request was granted.

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