Gregory Dexter was a renowned printer of important and controversial books and pamphlets in London. In New England, he assumed various roles including serving as a consultant to printers, a Baptist minister, an owner of a limestone quarry, and a political figure elected as president of the combined towns of Providence and Warwick in colonial Rhode Island. He is best known as the printer of Roger Williams's book A Key into the Language of America in 1643, the first English translation of a Native American language.
- Occupation
- politician, book printer
- Position held
- President of colonial Rhode Island
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1610
