John Gill
BIRTH
1732
Charlestown, Massachusetts
DEATH
August 25, 1785
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER:
Moses Gill
(1733-1800)
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Gill, John
(1732-1785)
John Gill was a Boston printer who partnered with Benjamin Edes to publish the Boston Gazette. Their newspaper became one of the most influential Patriot publications, attacking British policies and circulating arguments that helped mobilize colonial resistance.
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Moses Gill
(1733-1800)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK |
DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts
Aug 25, 1785
The exact date and place of John Gill’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Gill with work or public activity as a printer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.