Elizabeth Adams (d. 1771; fl. 1733? – 1771)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Publisher
  • Newspaper Publisher
  • Newspaper Printer
  • Patent Medicine Seller

Elizabeth Adams, printer in Chester, 1733?–1771. Possibly the widow of printer Roger Adams; mother of printer John Adams.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

ADAMS (ELIZABETH), printer in Chester, 1733 (?)–56. Possibly the widow of Roger Adams [see Dictionary 1668–1725] whose buiness she continued to carry on. She was the printer of Adam's Weekly Courant and in 1747 of An Alphabetical List of the Names of all the Freemen of the City of Chester, [B.M. 4477. f. 79 (2)]. Two years later she was both printer and publisher of a series of papers, under the title of Manchester Vindicated, that had appeared in the Manchester Magazine and Chester Courant, [Timperley 1842, ed. 679.] A further series of reprints from the Chester Courant came from her press in 1750 with the title The Chester Miscellany, [B.M. 292. c. 37.] In 1756 her name appeared in the London Gazette of October 9th as selling a patent medicine. In or before 1748 her son John was joined with her in the management of the business.