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Gregory Dexter
Gregory Dexter (1610–1700) was a printer, Baptist minister, and early President of the combined towns of Providence and Warwick in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was in New England as early as 1644 when he had a five-acre lot assigned to him in Providence. He had been in the printing business in London, and still operated that business in 1643 when his establishment printed Roger Williams' translation of the native languages. As an experienced stationer, he offered his expertise to the printing operation in Boston in 1646, asking for no compensation other than an annual almanac.
Dexter became active in colonial affairs in 1647, as the four towns of the colony were consolidating into a unified government. He later became a commissioner from Providence during the early 1650s, after William Coddington had received a commission to remove the two island towns of Portsmouth and Newport from the unified government. Dexter became the President of the combined towns of Providence and Warwick, during the final year of the split government, and the towns were re-united with his successor. Dexter was a Baptist, and following his presidency he renewed his association with the Baptist church in Providence, becoming the pastor of the congregation in 1669. He was considered to be very pious, seldom smiling, and in social interaction was always ready to engage his company with a sermon.
== Early life ==
It is thought Dexter may have been born in the village of Old, Northamptonshire, England, where his father also named Gregory, was baptized in 1581, and continued to live with his family until his death. Young Gregory Dexter is found in London, apprenticed to Elizabeth Aldee on 3 December 1632 for a term of eight years, and admitted to freedom in the Stationer’s Guild on 18 December 1639 (Records of the Company of Stationers of London, Freeman’s Register, 1605-1703, on FHL microfilm 1482675, and Apprentices Register, 1605-1666, folio 123, on FHL microfilm 142671). Dexter gained a reputation for printing controversial tracts often critical of the crown. He printed a pamphlet on "Prelatical Episcopacy" for the poet John Milton. While in London Milton became involved with the Baptist church and began corresponding with Roger Williams in New England. About 1644 Dexter was in New England where he was assigned a 5-acre lot in Providence, and in July 1640 he and 38 others signed an agreement to form a government there. This agreement gave authority to five selectmen to handle the business of the town, leaving difficult matters to arbitration. He possibly returned to England, because in 1643 his printing establishment in London printed Williams' book, ''A Key into the Language of America'', the first English translation of a Native American language. If he had actually left New England, then he returned in 1644, rejoining Williams in Providence, and joining the Baptist church there. He continued to work as a printer, and in 1646 he was requested in Boston to get the printing operation running there. For his services he requested no remuneration; he only asked that they send him their almanac once a year.
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