Benjamin Harris

Benjamin Harris (1647–1720) was a Particular Baptist printer/bookseller in London, in the last half of the seventeenth century and early part of the eighteenth, best known for publishing the works by two popular Baptist ministers and writers, Benjamin Keach of London and John Bunyan of Bedford. He also published Hannah Wolley’s The Accomplished Ladies Delight (1675), a successful cookbook. He also published controversial religious and political tracts c. 1780, including some by Bunyan. He began a radical newspaper, The Domestick Intelligence, in 1679, and several anti-Catholic tracts. He was in and out of jail and trouble with the authorities between 1780-85. In 1786 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and became a publisher there, possibly the first American newspaper, the Publick Occurrences, in 1690. He also published the New England Primer in 1690. He returned to London in 1695 and started publishing tracts and newspapers again.