Roger Adams (ca. 1681 – 1741; fl. 1719–1741)
Roger Adams, printer at Manchester and Chester, 1719–1741; at the lower end of Smithy Door in Manchester, 1719–1733.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
ADAMS (ROGER), printer at Manchester and Chester. Manchester: At the lower end of Smithy-Door. 1719–33. Printer and publisher of the first Manchester newspaper, the Manchester Weekly Journal, first issued in January 1719. Believed to have come from Chester, whither he returned and conducted The Chester Courant from 1730 until his death. During his stay in Manchester he reprinted A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights and Gentlemen that have com- pounded for their estates, first printed by Thomas Dring in 1655. This has an introduction signed by the printer and also the advertisement of another reprint, The Ordinance of Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous ministers.