(A Collection of All the Public Acts of Assembly, of the Province of North-Carolina: Now in Force and Use. Together with the Titles of all such Laws as are Obsolete, Expired, or Repeal'd. And also, an exact Table of the Titles of the Acts in Force, Revised by Commissioners appointed by an Act of the General Assembly of the said Province, for that Purpose; and Examined with the Records, and Confirmed in full Assembly. Printed by James Davis in 1751.)
[23] See W. S. Powell's introduction to The Journal of the House of Burgesses, of the Province of North-Carolina, 1749 (Raleigh, 1949), p. vii.
[24] Douglas C. McMurtrie, Eighteenth Century North Carolina Imprints (Chapel Hill, 1938), p. 50.
[New Hampshire]
(Nathaniel Ames' An Astronomical Diary: or, An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1757 Printed by Daniel Fowle, 1756.)
The Boston printer Daniel Fowle felt himself unjustly punished by the Massachusetts Assembly for supposedly printing an objectionable pamphlet in 1754. He consequently removed to Portsmouth in New Hampshire and started that Colony's first press in 1756.