found: Wikipedia online, viewed 23 May 2018(James Parker (publisher); prominent colonial American printer and publisher; born 1714 in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, died July 2, 1770 in Burlington, New Jersey; Parker apprenticed himself on a servant indenture on January 1, 1727 for eight years to William Bradford, the colonial printer in New York City; in April 1733, Bradford decided to sell the remaining 21 months left on Parker's servant indenture but Parker ran away on May 17 before Bradford had a chance to sell the remaining indenture; Parker ultimately went to Philadelphia and started working for Benjamin Franklin as a journeyman; Franklin persuaded him to return to New York to fulfill his servant indenture agreement with Bradford and after completing this, he returned to Philadelphia, where he lived with Franklin for several years; in 1741, Franklin financed Parker, as a silent partner, in setting up his own printing business in New York City; Parker published the New-York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy; he eventually became the official printer for both the King of England and the government of New York province; sometime in the 1750s Parker decided to go back to Woodbridge to set up a print shop close to Perth Amboy, which became the first permanent print shop in New Jersey; Parker was a captain of a troop of horse guards in Woodbridge, a church member lay reader, comptroller of the general post-offices of the British colonies and postmaster with John Holt; he also became judge of the court of common pleas of Middlesex County, New Jersey; Parker was in journalism in the colonies of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut; he had several printing businesses in his lifetime; he was also a printer for Yale College in Connecticut in the mid-eighteen century; Parker's New York printing business was handed down to his nephew Samuel Parker in February 1759; this business was ultimately taken over by Holt in 1760)
