Printer, James

found: Bible. O.T. Psalms. Algonquian. 1709. The Massachuset psalter or, Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, 1709:t.p. (J. Printer; Boston printer)

found: Wikipedia, via WWW, May 4, 2016(Wowaus, also known as James Printer, c. 1650-1709; early Nipmuc writer; studied at an Indian charity school and Harvard's Indian College; worked as an apprentice at Samuel Green's Cambridge Press where he became known by the English name, James Printer, and assisted Green in printing many of the Algonquin-language texts which were in circulation from 1658 to 1710; b. at Hassanemesit, today Grafton, Mass.)

found: Peabody Museum, via WWW, May 4, 2016:Literacy and the printing press (James the Printer, also called Wowaus; from Hassenamesit; apprenticed as a printer at the press at Cambridge, Mass.)

found: American Antiquarian Society, via WWW, May 4, 2016 :From English to Algonquin (Wowaus, or James Printer (d. 1717); Nipmuc Indian; attended an Indian charity school; by 1648 he was an apprentice to Samuel Green at the Cambridge Press where he became known by his English name, James Printer; played an important role in producing the Algonquin-language texts intended as a vehicle for the cultural assimilation of Native Americans, checking the translations and setting the type; despite his influence, his name appears on a title page only one, on The Massachuset psalter in 1709; b. at Hassanamesit, in present-day Grafton, Mass.)

found: MWA/NAIP files, May 11, 2016(access point: Printer, James; note: Indian who attended Indian Charity School in Cambridge, Mass.; printer at Boston and Cambridge; d. 1717)