Benjamin Edes was a Boston printer and co‑publisher of the Boston Gazette, the newspaper that became the intellectual engine of the patriot movement. Working from his print shop on Queen Street (now Court Street), Edes printed essays, broadsides, and political commentary by Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and other leading radicals. His shop doubled as a meeting point for the Sons of Liberty, and many of the arguments that pushed Boston toward open resistance—against the Stamp Act, Townshend Duties, and British military occupation—circulated through his press. Edes was closely linked to the Boston Tea Party and continued publishing through the Siege of Boston. He died in 1803 and is buried in Copp’s Hill Burying Ground.
