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Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection
Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection
Thomas and John Fleet
Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

Thomas and John Fleet

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The first Boston printing of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was published in late March or early April 1776 by the recently dissolved but temporarily reunited partnership of Benjamin Edes and John Gill, working in collaboration with brothers Thomas and John Fleet.