Bartholomew Green Sr. (printer)

[2] He was the eldest son of Samuel Green, an accomplished colonial printer who arrived with his wife Elizabeth in the young Massachusetts Bay colony at Cambridge at the age of sixteen years of age,[clarification needed] with their children and other relatives, along with Governor Winthrop.

[6] Green served for his father and assisted his half-brother Samuel when the latter managed Sewall's press in Boston after 1682.

When Sewall's license expired in 1684, the Greens continued to print, and on Bartholomew's brother's death, in July 1690, he assumed charge.

[7] The Boston News-Letter is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.

Green changed the focus of the newspaper to place more emphasis on domestic events.