Adams Roger

County:	Lancashire
Town:	Manchester
Address(es):	At the lower end of Smithy Door (1719)
Book Trade(s):	Newspaper proprietor, Printer, Publisher
Non-Book Trade(s):	-
Trading Dates:	1715 (or earlier) – 1733
Biographical Dates:	1681 (date of birth) – 1741 (date of death)
Notes:	Died 12 June 1741. Published Manchester News-letter 1719. Published The Weekly Courant Nov 1732>. Printed first book in Manchester (John Jackson's Mathematical Lectures) in 1719. Father of Orion Adams. Master of John Chapman 1720 and of Robert Warburton 1722. Moved to Chester in 1733.
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Sources:	Evans, D.R., 'A Preliminary History of the Booktrade in Manchester to 1851', unpublished (Manchester, Chetham's Library) Feather, John, 'Country Book Trade Apprentices 1710-1760', Publishing History, VI, 1979, pp. 85-99 Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, Lancashire and Cheshire Anitquarian Society (2001) Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (London, 1922)