From the Salem Gazette.
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First Printing in the United States-In the abridged history of the State of Maryland, gi- ven in tue last No. of the American Quarter ly Review, we notice the following statement

 'There was at this time [1686] a printing press and apublic printer; circumstance he- culiar to this colony [Maryland] at that ear ly period"

 The Reviewers is mistaken. There was Ca printing press and public printer'' in Mas sachusetts, half a century earlier In the year 1638, the Rev. Jesse Glover, worthy and wealthy dissenting clergyman of England, whose services to the then infant colony were in the highest degree judicious and beneficial, procured good printing apparatus, and en- gagd printer to accompany it, in ship bound to New-England. MT Glover, with his family, embarked in the vessel, but unfor- tunately he did not live to reach the shores of this new world There is tradition that