Daniel Fowle (printer)

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Daniel Fowle (c. 1715 - June 1787) was an American printer before and during the American Revolution. Fowle, a native of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was an active printer in the colony's capital, Boston, beginning in 1740. Over the next fifteen years, Fowle would print or co-print publications such as The American Magazine and The Independent Advertiser, and along with his business partner Gamaliel Rogers, he was the first to print Samuel Adams and the New Testament in the American Colonies. In 1755 he was arrested on orders from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for printing a seditious pamphlet called "The Monster of Monsters." After his release from jail he printed "A Total Eclipse of Liberty" in response to his arrest, and fled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

On October 7, 1756, Fowle began publication of the New Hampshire Gazette, which would become the colony's sole newspaper at the beginning of the Revolution, and for which he is most remembered. In addition to the Gazette, Fowle published sate laws as well as the first book published in the colony, Reverend Samuel Langdon's The Excellency of the Word of God. He published the Gazette until 1785 when he sold the paper. The Gazette, America's oldest newspaper, is still published today.