Hezekiah Usher

E297670

bookseller colonial American bookseller person publisher

Hezekiah Usher was a prominent 17th-century Boston bookseller and publisher, recognized as one of the earliest booksellers in colonial New England.

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Label	Occurrences
Hezekiah Usher canonical	1
Hezekiah Usher Sr.	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bookseller ⓘ colonial American bookseller ⓘ person ⓘ publisher ⓘ
activeIn	colonial Boston book trade ⓘ
businessType	bookshop ⓘ publishing house ⓘ
chronology	1600s ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ
culture	Puritanism ⓘ surface form: Puritan New England
era	New England Colonies ⓘ surface form: colonial New England
ethnicGroup	English colonists in New England ⓘ
fieldOfWork	bookselling ⓘ printing and publishing ⓘ
genre	pamphlets ⓘ religious books ⓘ sermons ⓘ theological works ⓘ
hasOccupation	merchant ⓘ
hasPart	bookshop ⓘ
historicalSignificance	among the first professional booksellers in New England ⓘ helped establish a market for printed books in colonial America ⓘ
industry	book trade ⓘ publishing ⓘ
influenced	development of the book trade in colonial Boston ⓘ
knownAs	Hezekiah Usher ⓘ surface form: Hezekiah Usher Sr.
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Boston ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ
locatedInTime	17th century ⓘ
notableFor	being one of the earliest booksellers in colonial New England ⓘ operating a bookshop in Boston in the 17th century ⓘ
occupation	bookseller ⓘ publisher ⓘ
partOf	early American book trade ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Boston ⓘ Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ
region	New England ⓘ
residence	Boston ⓘ
role	early distributor of printed materials in New England ⓘ supplier of books to the Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

King's Chapel Burying Ground → burialPlaceOf → Hezekiah Usher ⓘ

Hezekiah Usher → knownAs → Hezekiah Usher ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hezekiah Usher Sr.