Dinah Nuthead

Dinah Nuthead was a colonial printer based in the Province of Maryland. She is believed to be the first woman to be licensed as a printer in the Thirteen Colonies.

Nuthead was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. They moved to St. Mary's City, Maryland, in 1686 and established a press that primarily printed government forms.

Following her husband's death in 1695, Nuthead appeared before the Prerogative Court and requested that she be appointed administrator of his estate. John Coode was one of the sureties in her bond. Within a year, the government moved to Annapolis, and Nuthead moved her press there as well.

Nuthead had two children by her first husband, William and Susannah. She remarried, to Manus Devoran (d. December 1700). Sometime after his death, she married Sebastian Oley of Annarund (d. 1707). She had her third child, Sebastian, with him.