# Samuel Gerrish

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**Samuel Gerrish** (c. 1680 – c. 1741) was an American bookseller and publisher based in [Boston](/source/Boston) during the 18th century.[1] He kept a shop "near the [brick meeting house](/source/First_Church_in_Boston) in [Cornhill](/source/Washington_Street_(Boston)),"[2] and published works by [Thomas Prince](/source/Thomas_Prince_(historian)) and others. Employees included [Thomas Hancock](/source/Thomas_Hancock_(merchant)).[3]

## Family

He married Mary Sewall (daughter of [Samuel Sewall](/source/Samuel_Sewall)) in 1709; children included Samuel Gerrish (d.1751).[4][5]

## See also

- [List of booksellers in Boston](/source/List_of_booksellers_in_Boston)

## References

1. WorldCat. [Gerrish, Samuel d. 1741](http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no2008-120722)

1. Boston News-Letter; November 27, 1721

1. ["Hancock family papers, 1664–1854: Finding Aid"](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.EAD:bak00160). Harvard Business School. Retrieved 27 April 2014.

1. John Tyler Hassam. Samuel Gerrish, 1735-1741. [Early recorders and registers of deeds for the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts](https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963087), 1639-1735. J. Wilson and Son, 1900.

1. Boston Evening Post.; 10-21-1751

## Further reading

### Published by Gerrish

- Thomas Prince. *Annals of the New England Colonies.*
- [Cotton Mather. *A vindication of the ministers of Boston: from the abuses & scandals, lately cast upon them, in diverse printed papers.* (1722)](https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-2576009R-bk)

### About Gerrish

- George Emery Littlefield (1900). ["Samuel Gerrish"](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b670540?urlappend=%3Bseq=263). *Early Boston Booksellers, 1642-1711*. [Club of Odd Volumes](/source/Club_of_Odd_Volumes). pp. 210–14. [hdl:2027/uc1.$b670540?urlappend=%3Bseq=263](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b670540?urlappend=%253Bseq=263). – via [HathiTrust](/source/HathiTrust)
- J. Terry Gates (1988). "Samuel Gerrish, Publisher to the 'Regular Singing' Movement in 1720s New England". *[Notes](/source/Notes_(journal))*. **Second Series, Vol. 45, No. 1** (1): 15–22. [doi:10.2307/941389](https://doi.org/10.2307/941389). [JSTOR 941389](https://www.jstor.org/stable/941389)

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