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Quincy, Abraham Howard

merchant, journalist, author, was born November, 1767, in Boston. In 1808 his interest in the disputes with Great Britain led him into the field of journalism, and that year published the first number of a weekly paper entitled the Columbian Detector.

In 1809 it was published twice a week.

It was afterward merged in the Boston Patriot. From 1828 to 1832 he lived at Eastport, Maine, where for a short time he edited the Northern Light. He died Sept. 11, 1840, in Washington, D. C.