(birth date unknown - 1807)
Occupation: Publisher
Class: Middling Sort
Political Views: Staunch Loyalist (2)
Clearance: No Admittance
You inherit a publishing business and Loyalist newspaper from your husband and prove yourself to be a shrewd businesswoman and steadfast Loyalist.
- You are the manager of a publishing business and a Loyalist newspaper, the Massachusetts Gazette.
- Not afraid to run the newspaper on your own, you fire your husband’s assistant because he holds revolutionary ideas.
- However, you continue to publish almanacs containing Patriot views, purely to make money.
- You are determined to stay in business even during the Siege. Your newspaper is the only one that stays in print in Boston at that time.
- You flee Boston for England in 1776.
Social Network[]
Richard Draper (Husband)
John Howe (Assistant)
Extra Information[]
- Draper's newspaper was the first paper “ever issued in America” and the only paper that continued to be published in Boston during the Siege[1]
- After Draper dismissed her husband's assistant for his patriotic views, she worked with John Howe, a loyalist
- Howe was witness and reporter at the Battle of Bunkerhill, and also helped a doctor amputate a leg of a soldier at the battle
- The day after the battle Howe proposed to his future wife [2]
- In March 1776 Draper left Boston for Halifax, then sailed to England “to seek and receive a pension from the crown” [3]
- With the Evacuation, Howe also left Boston for Canada and would remain in Halifax for the rest of his life with his family
[1] Stark, James Henry. The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution. Salem: Salem Press, 1910.
[2] Phyllis Ruth Blakeley and John N. Grant. Eleven exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution. (Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd., 1982): 27.
[3] Ibid, 30.