Edward Eveleth Powars was a printer in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He published the Independent Chronicle (1776–1779),Library of Congress. Independent Chronicle, w., Sept. 19–Oct. 31, 1776.Library of Congress. The Independent Chronicle. And the Universal Advertiser, w., s.w., Nov. 7, 1776–Dec. 29, 1800+ the Boston Evening-Post (1781–1784),Library of Congress. The Boston Evening-Post: and the General Advertiser, w., Oct. 20, 1781–Jan. 10, 1784. the American Herald (1784–1790), and The Argus. He worked with Nathaniel Willis as "Powars & Willis."Boston News Letter, and City Record, Sept. 23, 1826.
In 1781 he kept his printing-office in Boston, at "the lower end of State-Street, over Mr. Simon Eliot's snuff-store".Boston Evening Post, Dec. 8, 1781. He moved to Worcester in 1788, "having been humiliatingly neglected ... for printing a free paper".New Hampshire Spy, Sept. 16, 1788. By 1791 he had returned to Boston.Herald of Freedom, July 1, 1791. Around 1796 he lived on Temple Street.Boston Directory, 1796.
Around 1803 he worked "as a compositor in the office of Samuel Etheridge, in Charlestown".Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of Newspaper Literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, Volume 1. Redding and Co., 1852. Google books In 1813 "he held the office of Messenger to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth."Buckingham. 1852Resolves of the General Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts passed at the sessions, in October 1812, and January 1813 published agreeably to a resolve of January 11, 1812.
He later became a traveling bookseller. He died on an expedition to the Western States.
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WorldCat. Powars, Edward Eveleth