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Goddard, Sarah

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Goddard, Sarah (1700–1777)

US printer. In 1762, when her doctor husband died, she backed her son William Goddard in establishing the first printing firm and newspaper (The Gazette) in Providence. In 1765 she took over the enterprise herself, and in 1768 she sold the firm and followed her son to Philadelphia where she provided both financial and administrative support to his printing operations. She was born Sarah Updike in Cocumscussuc, Rhode Island.



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