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| | Isaiah Thomas |
 | | According to Thomas, she kept a small shop to help support the family, but made the common error of selling property for continental paper money, further impoverishing her family.[1] Consequently, when Isaiah was six, he was indentured as an apprentice to Zechariah Fowle, a childless printer. |
| | After Mary's death in 1818, he married Rebecca Armstrong, but separated from her three years later.[3] Thomas was known by some to be "a tall, attractive man, well-mannered, neat, an excellent printer, popular with his contemporaries, especially the women."[4] Others described him as contentious, and he went through numerous business partnerships. |
| | Thomas' loose relationship to the copyright laws bothered Jonathan Edwards,[9] and he never paid Newbery either.[10] Thomas acquired several Newbery chapbooks in 1779 and republished them in America. |
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