John Gill (printer)

Moses Gill, who for several years after the revolution was Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

While Edes continued the publication of the Gazette, Gill issued another paper, titled The Continental Journal.

Having published this paper several years, he sold the right of it, in 1785, with his printing materials, to James D.

John Gill, for disseminating principles destructive of tyranny, suffered during the siege of this town in 1775, what many other printers were threatened with, a cruel imprisonment.

He, however, was so fortunate as to survive the conflict; but had the mortification, lately, of seeing the press ready to be shackled by a stamp act fabricated in his native state; he, therefore, resigned his business, not choosing to submit to a measure which Britain artfully adopted as the foundation of her intended tyranny in America.