Samuel Green (printer)

[7] Green had a daughter, Elizabeth, who became involved with Marmaduke Johnson, sent over from England to assist him in his printing business, but when Johnson, who had a wife back in England, proposed to her, without Green's consent, it put a serious strain on their business relationship, though they still managed, however, to work well together.

He arrived in Cambridge some eight years before Elizabeth Glover, who brought over America's first printing press from England with her husband Joseph, who died on the voyage.

[16] When Daye finally retired Green took over as the manager of the Cambridge press, which President Henry Dunster of Harvard College[a] had acquired.

[21] In 1673 Samuel Green also made use of Greek and Hebrew letters with the Cambridge press in the printing of Urian Oakes's work, entitled New England Pleaded with.

[22] Green, with the assistance of James the Printer and Marmaduke Johnson, was commissioned by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England in 1661 to print the Eliot Indian Bible, written by missionary John Eliot and consisting of the New and Old Testaments, translated from English to the Massachusett Indian language, which was typeset by Wawaus, alias James Printer, they completed in 1663 after two years labor.

[1][2][24][3][c] A copy of the completed Indian Bible, bound in an elaborate leather cover, was presented to Charles the Second, which included a dedication of thanks and gratitude for his support, making possible the expensive task involved in the printing production.

Normally this would be considered a high rate to pay for such a production, however, as the pages were set in a nine-point type, in a double column format, in an Indian language that was completely unknown to Green or Johnson.

[30] During the printing production of the Indian Bible, Johnson, though considered a good worker, would sometimes take leave of absence for extended periods of time.

Upon his arrival there, however, he was appointed the official printer for the New England Company,[e] replacing Green, which by some accounts was prompted by John Eliot's insistence.