![]() The early products of the Cambridge press were materials for the use of the college and colony, and soon the Cambridge press was turning out catechisms, schoolbooks, legal documents, sermons, almanacs, and even texts translated into the native Algonquian language-all works meant to support the public life of the community. Both the college and the press were outgrowths of the Puritan commitment to learning and religious literacy. The press was set up in Cambridge as an auxiliary enterprise of Harvard College, which had been founded in 1636. ![]() ![]() The first printing press arrived in Massachusetts in 1638, just eight years after the planting of the Puritan colony in 1630. And this fact suggests an important difference between the two colonial areas. Printing came early to New England, late to Virginia. Extraordinary Events the Doings of God by Thomas Prince
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