John Fleeming or John Fleming was a printer, publisher and bookseller in Boston

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, Massachusetts

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, in the 18th century.

Biography

Fleeming moved from Scotland

Scotland

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 to Boston around 1764. In 1765 he worked with William M'Alpine as a publisher/bookseller on Marlborough Street

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. A few years later, with John Mein

John Mein (publisher)

John Mein was a Boston, Massachusetts, bookseller and publisher in the time before the American Revolution...

 he published the Boston Chronicle

Boston Chronicle

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newspaper (1767–1770), as well as other titles, such as Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack. The partnership with Mein dissolved around 1770. In 1770 Fleeming married Alice Church (daughter of Boston merchant Benjamin Church).

In 1770 he attempted to issue "the first bible ever printed in America." In late 1770 or early 1771 he published an account of the trial following the Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre

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.

Fleeming sailed from Boston in 1773 on a ship that allegedly carried "a quantity of silver to the amount of 30,000 dollars ... from the Custom House

Boston Custom House

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 here, being part of the revenue money which has so long been complained of as being unconstitutionally taken from us." In 1778 the Massachusetts General Court

Massachusetts General Court

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 prohibited Fleeming (and many other Tories

Loyalist (American Revolution)

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) from returning.

He later travelled to the U.States "as an agent for a commercial house. Afterwards he resided in France and died there, since the year 1800."