Goddard, Sarah Updike (c. 1700–1770)
Goddard, Sarah Updike (c. 1700–1770)
American printer. Born c. 1700, in Cocumscussuc, near Wickford, Rhode Island; died Jan 5,1770, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; dau. of Lodowick Updike and Abigail (Newton) Updike; m. Dr. Giles Goddard, Dec 11, 1735 (died Jan 31, 1757); children: 4, including 2 who survived to adulthood, William Goddard and Mary Katherine Goddard (1738–1816, printer, publisher and postmaster of Baltimore).
Put up money for son William to start Providence, RI's 1st print shop and newspaper, Providence Gazette (1762); ran print shop, bookstore, and bookbindery until 1768; joined son in Philadelphia and helped him with print shop there.
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