Edward Eveleth Powars

Edward Eveleth Powars was a printer in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century.

He published the Independent Chronicle (1776–c.1779),[1][2] the Boston Evening-Post (1781–1784),[3] the American Herald (1784–1790), and The Argus.

"[4] In 1781 he kept his printing-office in Boston, at "the lower end of State-Street, over Mr. Simon Eliot's snuff-store".

[5] He moved to Worcester in 1788, "having been humiliatingly neglected ... for printing a free paper".

[8] Around 1803 he worked "as a compositor in the office of Samuel Etheridge, in Charlestown".

Massachusetts House of Representatives , 1787; printed by Powars, Court Street, Boston, 1787 ( State Library of Massachusetts )