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Show X N Rb AT H o it G A s RS Q TR N 1 177 I THE TIME OF THE ESTABLISHMENT of the first pape mill 1in in N¢ North Carolina, theart of printing had been practiced in the Colonyformore ! anagquartercentury. Jame avis,a journeyman printer, who had beenanapprentic in Willfam Parks Williamsburg printing office, travello by wagon to NewBern, North Carolina, in the year 1740 and there began the earliest printing shop in the Colony Vo years later, Davis established the Colony' first newspaper, "Th -Carolina Gazette." In 1764, Andrew Steuart, a Philadelphfan dertook the operatio of the second printing house in North Carolina fthe settlement of Wilmington »and the local authorities offered amonetary fnducement t tldand operatea paper mill, Th E wa 8 g g2 58 =g B g £ 3 52 g i eer region wasan elementary tas S é;‘iutl(ned in the document the premfum tendered by the Provincfal7) of yRresswas not tobe forthcoming untileighteenmonthsafter the dat the resolutfon) and thenonlyprovided the qualityo the varfous sort |