Hannah Bunce Watson

Hannah Bunce Watson Hudson (28 December 1749 – 27 September 1807) was a newspaper publisher from the U.S. state of Connecticut, whose printed output supported the American Revolutionary War. She was the first woman to become a newspaper editor in Connecticut, and one of the first in the United States. and used the paper to support the war effort against the British.

In January 1778, Tory supporters set fire to the mill that provided paper to the Courant, and Watson and Goodwin announced its imminent closure. The day after the fire, Watson and Goodwin printed a "half sheet" edition of the paper. Then "she and the widow [Sarah] Ledyard, co-owner of the mill, petitioned Connecticut's legislature...for a loan to rebuild the mill."

She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994. and later became the mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. She died 27 September 1807 in Hartford.