Record #:

28272

Author(s):

Abstract:

Adam Boyd was an influential pastor, businessman, and politician of colonial North Carolina, and he succeeded in establishing one of the earliest newspapers in North Carolina, Wilmington’s The Cape Fear Mercury. His likeness survives in a pastel portrait produced in 1776.

Source:

Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin (NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 5 Issue 3, May 1962, p5, por

Subject(s):

Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803; Printers