Loudon, Samuel (c. 1727–1813)

US printer and publisher. He arrived in New York City, probably from Ireland, c. 1753 and began to publish The New York Packet and the American Advertiser in 1776. Although he was a stout patriot, some of his writings were burned by the radical New York Committee of Mechanics in 1776. He printed the first constitution of New York in 1777, Laws of the State of New York (1786), and Noah Webster's American Magazine (1787–88). He also operated a bookstore and a circulating library.