James Parker (publisher)
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- First Presbyterian Churchyard
- Woodbridge, New Jersey
- First Native New Jersey Printer
- King's Printer
James Parker | |
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| Born | 1714 |
| Died | 1770 (aged 55–56) |
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| Occupation(s) | Colonial printer, journalist, librarian, postmaster |
| Years active | 1727-1765 |
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| Employer(s) | Apprentice and indenture servant of William Bradford (1727) |
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| Spouse | Madam Mary Ballareau |
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| Relatives | Grandparents
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| Family | Samuel Parker (1712–1732) |
James Parker (1714–1770) was a Colonial printer and publisher in British America during the reign of George II of Great Britain. Parker was born in 1714 at Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, the son of Samuel Parker and Jana Inglis Parker. Parker had a brother named Samuel, who died at 20 and was buried at the First Presbyterian Churchyard in Woodbridge Township.
James Parker had a son Samuel Franklin Parker who acquired the Franklin name given his business association and friendship with Benjamin Franklin. Samuel Franklin pursued his father's typesetting talents of an 18th century publisher printer during the governance of the Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies. Parker had a daughter Jane Ballareau Parker who married Gunning Bedford Jr., a Founding Father of the United States and a signer of the United States Constitution.
In 1760s, the Woodbridge Township press governed the printing of colonial currency for the crown colony of New Jersey. The Province of New Jersey issued paper money depicting the unit of account for colonial currency reciprocal of the Carolingian monetary system.
In 1751, the British Parliament imposed regulatory law by enacting the Paper Bills of Credit Act. The parliamentary rules served as a currency reform for capital exchange and public banks established in British America.[1]
Parliamentary Taxation and Thirteen Colonies
In January of 1766, the Parliament of the United Kingdom assembled the Committee of the Whole House to examine the consequences of parliamentary taxation and repugnance by the British America's colonies regarding the Stamp Act 1765 and Declaratory Act 1766.[2][3][4] During March 1766, Benjamin Franklin writes correspondence to Joseph Fox which allegedly is the first disclosure of the Declaratory Act (6 Geo. III, c. 12) in the English colonies.[5]
Benjamin Franklin served as a colonial agent for the Pennsylvania Assembly and London associate as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Franklin represented the British North America interest and colonial governance in London from 1757 to 1775.[6][7] In 1766, Franklin conveyed a consensus concerning the Stamp Act Congress deliberations in regards to the taxation ― Molasses Act and Sugar Act ― imposed on the British America colonies.[8] The parliamentary chamber convened at the Palace of Westminster conducting a redress which became known as the Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons disclosed February 13, 1766.[9][10][11]
The Woodbridge Township press published pamphlets disseminated throughout the British America colonies with publications appearing in English language and foreign translations in Europe.
See also
- Alexander Colden
- Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn
- Considerations on Imposing Taxes in British Colonies
- Early American publishers and printers
- Ephemera
- Frederick North, Lord North
- Global spread of the printing press
- History of American newspapers
- Hutchinson letters affair
- Papermaking
- Postage stamps and postal history of the United States
- Seven Years' War
- Sons of Liberty
- Townshend Acts
