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Peter Edes (December 17, 1756 – March 30, 1840) was a colonial American patriot and printer and an advocate of American independence before and during the American Revolution, during which he was arrested for his show of support for the patriots. After the war he moved his shop to Boston, then to Rhode Island, and again to Maine where he became the first printer to establish a printing house in the District of Maine where he lived out the remainder of his life.