Quakers themselves, in their church council, had decided that he ought to submit to them in addition to the censorship already established by the government. The council of the City of New York in 1693, acquainted with the conditions in Philadelphia, passed a resolution at the instigation of Governor Fletcher, declaring that "if a printer will come and settle in the City of New York for the printing of our Acts of Assembly and Publick Papers " they will give him forty pounds for his salary and he could "have the benefit of his printing besides what serves the Publick." Bradford promptly accepted.
This was the beginning in New York, a beginning mosi auspicious and interesting; reflecting great credit or Fletcher, who, though not the most liberal or understanding of governors, was nevertheless a good friend to Bradford, and saw to it, as long as he was in office, that the printer received those increases in salary and those little extra allowances which were so welcome, even to a pioneer in the cause of journalism and the free press.
From this time to the establishment, in 1725, of the New York Gazette, the first newspaper in New Yorli City, Bradford's life was uneventful, although fairly successful. He became a well-known vestryman of Trinit) Church and was a conspicuous person in the community of decidedly different mold from the complaining anc complacent Campbell of Boston. In 1709, with an eye tc the future, he sought to establish his son Andrew, whc had now come to man's estate, in Rhode Island, where the prospects of liberal treatment were good. The negotiations evidently came to naught, and in 1712 Andrew was established in Philadelphia, as his father's partner.
Here, temporarily, we must leave old Bradford, bu1 not without commenting on the ability and foresight ol the man. If the pioneers of journalism were in Boston
