Benjamin Edes
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A 1786 Newspaper clip with Benjamin Edes name on it.
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October 14, 1732 Charlestown, Massachusetts |
| Died | December 11, 1803 (aged 71) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston |
| Occupation | editor; agitator |
| Known for | Boston Gazette newspaper |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Starr (1729-) |
Benjamin Edes (October 14, 1732 – December 11, 1803) was a journalist and political agitator. He is best known, along with John Gill, as the publisher of the Boston Gazette, a newspaper which sparked and financed the Boston Tea Party and was influential during the American Revolutionary War.
He was born on October 14, 1732 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was one of seven children of Peter Edes and Esther Hall. His great-grandfather was John Edes. He was born in England, March 31. 1651, son of Rev. John Edes, rector of Lanford. Essex County, England and a graduate of St. Johns College, Cambridge, England. He relocated to Charlestown circa 1674. John was a ship carpenter and lived in Charlestown; by wife Mary Tufts, the daughter of Peter Tufts, a prominent early citizen of Medford, Massachusetts, he had the following children: John, Edward, Mary, Peter, Jonathan and Sarah Edes.
Benjamin received a modest education before moving to Boston, Massachusetts in 1754.
He married about 1754, at Boston, Massachusetts, Martha Starr, who was christened on June 22, 1729 at the Brattle Street Church in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Joseph Starr and Margaret Bulman. She was the great great granddaughter of Dr. Comfort Starr of Boston, a founder of Harvard College and a surgeon who emigrated from Ashford, Kent, England. He is buried on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts at King's Chapel Burying Ground, the oldest cemetery in the city, established in 1630. Benjamin and Martha were the parents of ten children.
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