John Howe (loyalist)

For other people with the same name, see John Howe.
Portrait of John Howe, c. 1820, by William Valentine (painter). New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, N.B. (accession number: 1962.94).

John Howe (October 14, 1754 – December 27, 1835) was a loyalist printer during the American Revolution, a printer and Postmaster in Halifax, a spy prior to the War of 1812, and the father of Joseph Howe a Magistrate of the Colony of Nova Scotia. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay colony, the son of Joseph Howe, a tin plate worker of Puritan ancestry, and Rebeccah Hart.[1][2]

  1. ^ Punch, Terrance M. and Marble, Allan E. "The Family of John Howe, Loyalist and King's Printer" in the Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 6 (September, 1976), p. 317.
  2. ^ Grant, John N. "John Howe, Senior: Printer, Publisher, Postmaster, Spy," pp.24-57, in Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Phyllis R. Blakeley and John N. Grant, eds. (Toronto and Charlottetown: Dundurn Press Ltd., 1982).