ATTRIBUTED TO GEORG FRIEDRICH SPEYER (W. CIRCA 1780-1803), BERKS COUNTY, DAUPHIN, LANCASTER AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1786

George Frederich Speyer came to America in 1752 and was active in 1780-1803 in Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster and Northampton counties. He was thought to have been a school master, but the volume of surviving works attest to his vocation as a printer. Speyer is known to have served in a Berks County regiment during the Revolutionary war and he may have also worked for or with fraktur printer Heinrich Otto.