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Benjamin Harris (publisher)
American journalist
Benjamin Harris (fl. 1673–1716) was an English publisher, a figure of the Popish Plot in England who then moved to New England as an early journalist.
He published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, from 25 September 1690.
Life
His career in London, as a publisher of Whig books, pamphlets, and a newspaper is known from 1673.
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Many of his publications were anti-Catholic. He published the pamphlet Appeal from the Country to the City in 1679 by Charles Blount, opposing the succession of James, Duke of York, and was consequently convicted of sedition and ordered to pay a fine he could not afford.[1] Released from prison, Harris resumed his anti-Catholic campaigning.
From 1679 to 1681, Harris published a paper that displayed an early use of local news, Domestic Intelligence: Or News both fro
