1775-

Isaiah Thomas -revolutionary patriot and printer of the Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, most influential for spreading revolutionary news in New England – on the advice of John Hancock, disassembles his printing press and under the cover of darkness, on the evening of April 16 moves it out of Boston, ferrying it across Boston Harbor to Charlestown, where his friend Timothy Bigelow hides it in the basement of his home in Worcester.