John howe loyalist biography of barack

HOWE, JOHN, printer, newspaperman, jp, and office holder; b. 14 Oct. in Boston, son of Joseph Howe and Rebecca Hart; d. 29 Dec.  in Halifax.

Member of a fifth-generation family in the Thirteen Colonies, John Howe was just “out of his time” as an apprentice printer when the American revolution began and, according to his son Joseph*, witnessed the Boston Tea Party in December  Although he was not, as one writer states, the John Howe who acted as a spy for Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage* behind the rebel lines in , he left no doubt about his unbending allegiance to the crown. Because of it, Margaret Draper, who had like political sympathies, made him a junior partner at age 20 in the Massachusetts Gazette; and the Boston Weekly News-Letter, of which she was publisher.

On the British evacuation of Boston in March , Howe went to Halifax, but by January  he was in Newport, R.I., publishing the Newport Gazette in support of the