Loring Andrews

Loring Andrews by Stefan Bielinski

Loring Andrews was a printer and publisher who was listed as the head of a first ward household on the Albany census in 1800. He was born about 1767 and no one in that household was born prior to 1756. He was the fourth son of farmer Joseph Andrews and his wife Hannah Richmond of Hingham, Massachusetts.

In April 1789, he co-authored an essay entitled "Completion of the Government," which was published in the Boston paper The Herald of Freedom, of which he was a publisher.

In 1792, he was a postmaster in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and courting Frances, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Theodore Sedgwick. For five years, she was "enraptured" by Andrews. However, her father disapproved and instead arranged for her to be married to Dr.Thaddeus Pomeroy, a Harvard-educated physician who had opened a drug store in Albany. Perhaps that relationship had some relation to Andrews moving to Albany himself.

After settling in Albany, he seems to have been involved in the printing of political tracts - especially in relation to the Federalist party. HIs Albany imprints under the name of "Loring, Andrews & Company" began to appear in 1798. An example of his commentary appeared in the Albany Centinel in December 1798. Perhaps previously, he had been part of "Thomas, Andrews, and Penniman," proprietors of a printery at 45 State Street in Albany.

He seems to have married (but not to Frances Sedgewick) and to have raised a family (some born in Albany about 1800) who became successful beyond Albany.

In 1799, his house and lot in the first ward were valued modestly on the Albany assessment roll. His lot on Hudson Street was shown on a property map dated 1800. In 1800, he was identified as the "printer to the State."

After less than a decade in Albany, Loring Andrews removed to Charleston, South Carolina where he was the publisher of The Courier in 1803. He left the paper in 1805 and prepared to return to the North. However, he became ill and died in October 1805 at the age of thirty-eight.

Herald of Freedom and its Libel Case in Boston

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Herald of Freedom, July 1791 The Herald of Freedom (1788-1791) or Herald of Freedom and the Federal Advertiser was a newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century by Edmund Freeman, Loring Andrews, and John Howel.[1][2]

In 1790-1791 the paper "was engaged in the first libel-suit tried in Massachusetts after the Revolution, ... for a savage attack on a member of the Legislature," John Gardiner.[3][4][5] The Herald's printer, Edmund Freeman, was "charged ... with publishing in his paper ... a most ... scandalous and malicious libel."[6] "The libel complained of, charged Mr. Gardiner, with the atrocious murder of his late excellent lady [Margaret Harries], by cruelty."[7][full citation needed] On February 3, 1790, "at 12, o'clock, at noon" Freeman "was taken into custody, by virtue of a warrant from Mr. Justice Crafts."[8] "The case was decided in favor of the newspaper. Harrison Gray Otis, one of the most brilliant men of his day, was counsel for the editor."[9]

References

https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/massachusetts.html
William Nelson. Notes toward a history of the American newspaper. NY: C.F. Heartman, 1918. Google books.
Frederic Hudson. Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872. Harper & Brothers, 1873; p.181
Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-29-1791
John Gardiner (1737-1793) was the son of Silvester Gardiner and the father of John Sylvester John Gardiner; cf. T. A. Milford. The Gardiners of Massachusetts: provincial ambition and the British-American career. UPNE, 2005
Herald of Freedom, Date: 02-12-1790
Vermont Journal, 02-17-1790
Vermont Journal, 02-17-1790
Frederic Hudson. 1873; p.181

Further reading Wikimedia Commons has media related to Herald of Freedom (Boston). From the Centinel. Proceedings on the Examination of the Printer of the Herald. Herald of Freedom, Date: 02-12-1790 Massachusetts. Boston, February 1. Vermont Journal, and the Universal Advertiser; Date: 02-17-1790. [Account of the trial]. Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-04-1791. Supreme Judicial Court; trial for a libel: Commonwealth vs. Freeman. Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-11-1791 Trial for a Libel. Middlesex Gazette (Connecticut); Date: 03-26-1791 Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, Volume 1. Redding and Co., 1852. Google books

Notes

the people of colonial AlbanySources: The life of Loring Andrews is CAP biography number 7140. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. Many of his descendants were buried in Brooklyn including a "Loring Andrews" (1799-1875). Perhaps he was the kinsman of contemporary Albany resident and bookbinder John Andrews. A number of items written by and to Loring Andrews from Stockbridge and Albany during his lifetime are part of the "Norton Andrews Papers" collection at Harvard University. He may have been the Loring Andrews of Boston who founded The Berkshire Star in 1783.