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FRENCH AMERICA.
Saint Domingo.
A royal printing house was established in Port au Prince,
on the French part of this island, as early as 1750, in which
in 1750, was printed an account of a great earthquake
which happened at that time in the island.
Among other works permitted to be printed at the king's
press, was a volume of memoirs of a literary institution of
the colony. It was published in 1788.
M. Mozard was a printer in Port au Prince in 1790,
and for some time previous to that year.[1]
There was a press in Cape François also belonging to
the king, as early as 1765, and probably several years preceding.
In 1766 appeared from this press a Treatise on
Coffee, giving its history in ninety pages.
Batilliot & Co. printed at the press of the municipality
in 1790; and from this press they issued in 1793, the third
volume the Monitor General of Saint Domingo.
Du Tour de Rians styled himself printer to the general
assembly of the colony in 1791, in the imprint to a
pamphlet entitled, A Project of a Constitution for the French
Colonies.
M. Mozard was afterwards appointed a consul for the French republic
and resided in Boston. He brought with him to Massachusetts a valuable
portable printing apparatus, which he had used in Saint Domingo. This
apparatus consisted of a small press, and several small fonts of neat types,
&c., manufactured in Paris. When he was about leaving Boston, he sold
them to John Mycall, formerly a printer in Newburyport, who removed
them to Harvard, county of Worcester, where I have frequently seen
them. They were subsequently in possession of Mycall, at Cambridgeport.
Martinico.
A press was established on this island, for the use of
government, many years preceding the revolution in
France, after which there were several.
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