- 1733), sometimes spelled as Whitmarsh,[1] was a printer who printed and introduced the first newspaper to the colony of South Carolina on January 8, 1731, called, the South Carolina Gazette.
Whitemarsh was a journeyman under Benjamin Franklin, who had, after establishing a partnership with him, sent Whitemarsh to Charlestown in response to a call by the colonial assembly for a printer who was offering £1000 for the effort.
[4][3] Whitemarsh died of yellow fever in the summer of 1733 only a couple of years after he had printed the first issue of the Gazette.
[7] The South Carolina Gazette was taken over by Louis Timothee who became its proprietor and editor.
[8] Whitemarsh's purchases of printing supplies, books and almanacs were recorded in Franklin's Ledgers A and B (above, p. 172);[9]