Aitken, Robert
journalist, author, was born in 1734, in Scotland. He settled in Philadelphia in 1769, and published the Pennsylvania Magazine, or American Monthly Museum, in 1775-76, having Hopkinson and Witherspoon for contributors, and was imprisoned in 1777 for his attachment to the cause of independence. He printed the first American Bible in 1782, and is reputed to have been the author of An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States. He died July, 1802, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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