Jane Aitken
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Jane Aitken (1764–1832) was an American printer and publisher[1] known for printing Charles Thomson's translation of the Septuagint into English,[2][3] as well as Rebecca Rush's novel Kelroy.[4][5] She was the first printer to issue a Philadelphia census directory containing a section devoted to "persons of colour".[6]
Some of her papers are held in the collections of one of her clients, the American Philosophical Society.[7]
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