History And Bibliography Of American Newspapers

22AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY[April,ILLINOIS[Kaskaskia] Illinois Intelligencer. 111. State Hist. Lib. has May27, i8i8-May 12, 1819, formerly owned by St. Louis Merc. Lib.,also Mar. 11, 1820.[Kaskaskia] Western Intelligencer. 111. State Hist. Lib. has 18161818, fair, formerly owned by St. Louis Merc. Lib.INDIANA[Madison] Indiana Republican. Copeland P. L. Arion should beCopeland P. J. Arion. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec. 18, 1818; Dec. 18,1819. The issue of Dec. 18, 1818, was published by B() J. Ball&Co.KENTUCKY[Bowling Green] Southern Gazette. The "Southern Gazette" ofBowling Green, Ky., of Sept. 18, 1819, is quoted in the Norfolk, Va.,"American Beacon" of Oct. 20, 1819.[Danville] People's Friend, 1818-1819. Weekly. Established inSept. 1818, judging from the earliest issue located, that of Jan. 30,1819, vol. I, no. 20, published by James Gilmore, with the title of"The People's Friend." Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 30, 1819.[Frankfort] Argus of Western America. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec.8, 1813-N0V. 24, 1815; Nov. 13, i8i8-Dec. 28, 1820.[Louisville] Farmer's Library. Filson Club, Louisville, has Mar.3, 1803.[Paris] Western Citizen, 1808. Weekly. Established early in Feb.1808, under the title of "The Western Citizen," judging from thedate of the first issue located, that of Sept. i, 1808, vol. i, no. 31,printed by Grimes and Johnston (John A. Grimes and RobertJohnston). Univ. of Va. has Sept. i, 1808.LOUISIANA[New Orleans] Ami des Lois. Mr. Charles Titcomb's file is nowowned by Mrs. Carola M. C. Titcomb Peck of Farmington, Maine.New Orleans Pub. Lib. has New Orleans City Archives files for1813-1819. TheCity Archives file for 1820 is now in the La. StateMuseum. The Seville, Spain, Archivo General de Indias, Papeles de

1961.]ADDITIONS TO NEWSPAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY23Cuba 1836, has Dec. 16, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 1813; Jan. i, 1814. ThePapeles de Cuba has Apr. i, 1813; Feb. 29, 1816.[New Orleans] Courrier de la Louisiane. New Orleans Pub. Lib.now has New Orleans City Archives file. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec.I suppl., 1807; Apr. 30, 1810; Jan. 27, Nov. 25 suppl., 30 suppl.,1812; May 10, Sept. 25 suppl., 1813; Feb. 4, July 3, Aug. 26, Oct. 3,1814; Oct. 20, 181S; June 10, July 15, 1816; May 21, Sept. 24, 1817;Apr. 29 suppl., July i suppl., 1818; Sept. 27, 1819; July 26, 1820;also Nov. 9, 1814; July 17, Aug. 28, 1820 of country issues. Seville,Spain, Archivo General de Indias, Papeles de Cuba 1839, has Oct.17, 19, 1814; Papeles de Cuba 1828, has May 26, 1817.[New Orleans] Louisiana Gazette. New Orleans Pub. Lib. has NewOrleans City Archives file of 1804-1820. Am. Antiq. Soc. has May29» 1813, tri-weekly. Seville, Spain, Archivo General de Indias,Papeles de Cuba 1836, has Jan. 8, 13, 1814.[New Orleans] Moniteur de la Louisiane. New Orleans Pub. Lib.has New Orleans City Archives file, 1806-1814. Am. Antiq. Soc.has Feb. 21, 1810; Sept. 22, 1812, formerly owned by Edward L.Tinker. Seville, Spain, Archivo General de Indias, Papeles deCuba 1836, has Jan. i, 15, June 2, 1814.[New Orleans] Orleans Gazette. Seville, Spain, Archivo Generalde Indias, Papeles de Cuba 1836, has Jan. 17, 29, Nov. 21, 1814;Mar. 14, Sept. 12, 1815, Papeles de Cuba 1828, has Nov. 28, 1817.[New Orleans] Télégraphe. Mitchell was probably James Mitchell,who began to advertise his bookstore on Chartres Street in the"Louisiana Gazette", October 1810. In the ï8io New OrleansDirectory he was listed at 47 Chartres Street as "libraire, book-sellerand stationer."[New Orleans] Trumpeter. For Mitchell's first name, see under"Télégraphe" above.MAINE[Augusta] Kennebeck Intelligencer. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Aug. 23,1799.Bangor Weekly Register. Am. Antiq. Soc. has June 21, 1817.[Buckstown] Gazette of Maine. Roland M. Howard, Bluehill,Me., has July 25, i8os-June 25, 1807; July 7, 1808-June 24, 1809.

24AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY[April,[Castine] Columbian Informer. Roland M. Howard, Bluehill,Me., has Apr. 22, 29, 1802.[Castine] Eagle. Me. Hist. Soc. has 1809-1810, formerly belongingto Miss Amy A. Witherle, and bequeathed to Me. Hist. Soc. afterher death in 1949.Castine Journal. Am. Antiq. Soc. has June 12, Aug. 14, 21, Sept. 4,1799. Miss Amy C. Wetherle's file, 1799-1800, went to Me. Hist.Soc, after her death in 1949.Hallowell Gazette. In fifth line of text "Masters," not "Master."[Portland] Eastern Argus. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Sept. 8, 1803Dec. 30, 1813; Jan. 13, 1814-29, 1818, fair; Jan. 5, 1819-Dec. 26,1820.[Portland] Gazette. Am. Antiq. Soc. has June 24, 1800-Dec. 28,1801, complete; Feb. 12, 1817; Dec. 22, 1818.MARYLAND[Annapolis] Maryland Gazette, 1727-1734. Md. Hist. Soc. hasmade a film of 1728-1729, which is in several libraries. The photostat made by John Carter Brown Lib. in 1925 covers to 1734.Baltimore Evening Post, 1805-1811. Daily and tri-weekly.[Baltimore] Federal Republican. Insurance Co. of No. Amer.,Phila. has July 4, 1808-Dec. 30, 1812, tri-weekly.Baltimore Intelligencer. The last issue located is that of Feb. 7,1799) vol. 3, no. 145. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Sept. 7, Oct. 3, Dec. 19,1798; Jan. I, 5, 19, 22, Feb. 7, 1799.[Baltimore] Maryland Journal. In seventh line of text, Goddard'sannouncement of Oswald partnership should be June 8, and notJune 15, 1799. Hist. Soc. Penn. has Aug. 20, Sept. 25, 1773-Dec.6, 1775, and a scattering file, 1777-1793, all in other files.[Baltimore] Morning Chronicle. Daily and tri-weekly. Am.Antiq. Soc. has Mar. 23, 1820, tri-weekly.Baltimore Patriot. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Feb. 20, Mar. 2-July 31,fair, of tri-weekly.[Baltimore] Republican. N.Y. Pub. Lib. file: 1802 file is daily andtri-weekly, 1803 file is weekly.Baltimore Télégraphe, 1795-1807. Last line of text is Feb. 7 (no.3734), not Feb. 6, 1807. Univ. of Va. has Feb. 7, 1807.

1961.]ADDITIONS TO NEWSPAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY25Baltimore Télégraphe, 1814-1816. Roger Butterfield, Hartwick,N.Y., has June 18, 1814. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Mar. 14, 1815, triweekly.Easton Gazette. In text insert the following: S. A. Harrison, inmanuscript "memoranda," vol. 6, p. 86, in Md. Hist. Soc. says thathe had in his possession, on loan, a tolerably complete file of the"Easton Gazette," and quotes at length from the initial issue ofDec. 15, 1817, containing Alexander Graham's salutatory.[Easton] Maryland Herald. N.Y. Hist. Soc. has Mar. 24, 1801.[Easton] People's Monitor, 1809-1817. In third line of text, changeJuly 7, 1810, to May 26, 1810. At end of text insert the following:S. A. Harrison, in manuscript "memoranda," vol. 5, p. 102, in Md.Hist. Soc, says that Michael Pinkind advertised in the "RepublicanStar" of Sept. i, 1807, that he planned to establish "The People'sMonitor" later in the year, but died Dec. 26, 1807, before he accomplished his purpose. Harrison also says that the paper wasdiscontinued in December 1817, since the "Easton Gazette" ofDec. 15,1817, published Rowlenson's valedictory. The "RepublicanStar" of Sept. 17, 1816, and Sept. 30, 1817, contain references to"The People's Monitor." Am. Antiq. Soc. has May 26, 1810.[Easton] Republican Star. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Feb. 2, Mar. 9,1802.[Fredericktown] General Staatsbothe, 1793. Biweekly. Establishedby Matthias Bartgis Jan. 5, 1793, with the title, B'drigis's GeneralStaatsbothe mit den Nettsten Fremden, Einheimschen, Potischen, undGemeinnützigen Nachrichten an die Deutsche Nation in Amerika, andcontinued to Dec. 21, 1793. See Dorothy M. Quynn's description ofthis newspaper in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,2nd Quarter, 1961, pp. 133-137. Volume owned by William B. Stormof Frederick, Md.MASSACHUSETTS[Boston] American Gazette, 1778. This is a single leaf of twoprinted pages and purports to be "The American Gazette" of Apr.2, 1778, printed at Boston by Humphrey Humbug. It carries avolume numbering of no. 4545, and was "Published by Authorityof the Congress." The news, documents printed, and advertisements are all of a false or burlesque nature, ridiculing the patriotcause. Although allegedly published at Boston, there is little doubtthat this so-called newspaper was conceived and published in London. The size, twelve by seven inches, the format and the heading

26AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY[April,exactly follow "The London Gazette," the references to Revolutionary personages are almost all to English statesmen, and theimitation red revenue stamp follows that impressed on English newspapers, and, in no case on American journals. Am. Antiq. Soc.has Apr. 2, 1778.[Boston] Censor. Am. Antiq. Soc. has reproduced in microprint theentire file of "The Censor" for 1711-1772, and has sold sets to manylibraries.Boston Chronicle. Am. Antiq. Soc. has reproduced in microprint theentire file of this paper, 1767-1770, and has sold sets to many libraries.Am. Antiq. Soc. has "Proposals," Nov. 19, 1767.[Boston] Daily Advertiser. Continued certainly until July 29, 1809,vol. I, no. 46, in which issue there is no mention of its being discontinued. Am. Antiq. Soc. has July 29, 1809.[Boston] Democrat. An unnumbered issue was published June 2,1809, in which B. Parks stated that he was discontinuing the paper,and would establish "The Daily Advertiser" on June 5, 1809. Am.Antiq. Soc. has June 2, 1809.Boston Evening-Post, 1735-1775. The Wis. Hist. Soc. made amicrofilm of the "Post" from 1735 to 1775. They turned the negativeover to the Am. Antiq. Soc, which has sold prints to many libraries.Boston Evening-Post, 1781-1784. Mass. Hist. Soc. has Oct. 20,1781-Jan. 10, 1784. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 4, 18, 1783.Boston Gazette, 1719-1798. The Graphic Microfilm Corporationhas made an incomplete microfilm of this paper from 1719 to 1742,which is in several libraries. The negative is owned by the Univ. ofWashington, at Seattle. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 19, 1736; 17891790 is now complete.[Boston] Independent Advertiser. Huntington Lib. has Proposalsissued by Rogers and Fowle, Dec. 15, 1747. (Am. Antiq. Soc. hasphotostat.) Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 4-Feb. 22, Mar. 7, 1748Oct. 2, Dec. 5, 1749.[Boston] Kaleidoscope. The last issue located is that of Nov. 13,1819, vol. I, no. 50. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec. 5, 1818. Lib. Congress has Jan. 16, Sept. 25-Oct. 9, 30, Nov. 13, 1819.[Boston] Massachusetts Spy. Am. Antiq. Soc. has reproduced inmicroprint the entire file of the Boston issues, 1770-1775, and hassold sets to many libraries.

1961.]ADDITIONS TO NEWSPAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY27Boston News-Letter. The Am. Antiq. Soc. has reproduced theknown issues of this paper from 1704 to 1776, and has sold microprints to many libraries. The Graphic Microfilm Corporation madean incomplete microfilm from 1704 to 1742, for the Boston PublicLibrary.[Boston] Times, 1794. Mass. Hist. Soc. has Oct. 11, 1794.[Conway] Farmer's Register. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Oct. 6, 1798.[Lenox] Watch Light. Conn. State Lib. has Apr. 24, 1809.[New Bedford] Old Colony Gazette. Third line of text: this firmwas dissolved with the issue of June 9, 1809. Am. Antiq. Soc. hasOct. 21, 1808-Oct. I I , 1811.[Newburyport] Essex Journal, 1784-1794. Am. Antiq. Soc. nowhas Jan. 6, 1790-Apr. 2, 1794, complete. Essex Inst. has Jan. 6,i79C -Apr. 2,1794.[Newburyport] Impartial Herald. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec. 12,1794-Dec. 29, 1795; Jan. I, 5, 12-26, 1796.[Newburyport] Independent Whig. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec. 12,1810.[Newburyport] Morning Star. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Apr. 8-Dec. 3,1794.[Northampton] Hampshire Gazette. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 11,1804-Oct. 28, 1807, nearly complete; Nov. ii-Dec. 30, 1807.[Northampton] Republican Spy. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Mar. 19,1805-Feb. I I , 1806.[Pittsfield] American Centinel. Third line of text: Elijah, notEzekiel, Russell. Add to text: Stephen West's "Sermon preachedDecember 6th, 1787" was printed, evidently, very soon after Dec.6, with the imprint of Pittsfield: Printed by Elijah Russell, 1787.Copy in Am. Antiq. Soc;[Pittsfleld] Berkshire Chronicle. The Recordak Corp. has reproduced in microfilm the Berkshire Athenaeum issues from 1788 to179 ) positives of which are in Am. Antiq. Soc. and several otherlibraries.[Pittsfield] Berkshire Gazette. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 2, 1799.[Pittsfield] Berkshire Reporter. Sixth line of text—Smith discontinued his ownership with the issue of Nov. 24, 1814, and was succeeded by E() Cooper, Jr., for the Proprietors. Am. Antiq.Soc. has Jan. 6-Nov. 3, 24, Dec. 8, 15, 1814. H. Armour Smith file

28AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY[April,is Jan. 31, Mar. 7, Apr. 4, May i6-July 18, Aug. i-Nov. 14, 28Dec. 26, 1807; Apr. 2-Dec. 31, 1808; Jan. 7-Dec. 27, 1809.[Pittsfield] Sun. Berkshire Athenaeum has reproduced in microfilmthe "Sun" from 1800 to 1820 and beyond. Am. Antiq. Soc. has1800-1808 of the film. Lib. Congress has 1800-1820.[Salem] Friend. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 3-July 18, 1807.[Springfield] Federal Spy. With the issue of Aug. 13,1805, the paperwas transferred to Luther Baker. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Sept. 11,1798; Apr. 2, 1799; Aug. 4, Sept. i, Oct. 13-Nov. 10, 24-Dec. 29,1801; Jan. S-Feb. 9, Mar. 2-Apr. 27, May ii-June 8, 22, July 6-27,Aug. 10-31, Sept. 14-Oct. 26, Nov. 9-30, Dec. 30, 1802; Dec. 25,1804; Jan. i-Mar. 26, Apr. 9-Sept. 24, Oct. 8-Dec. 31, 1805.[Stockbridge] Farmer's Herald. Jared Curtis was evidently thefirst editor, judging from an anonymous contribution in the issue ofAug. 20, 1808, reprinted from the Pittsfield "Sun" of Aug. 13,addressed to Jared Curtis, "one of the proprietors, and the reportededitor of the Farmer's Herald." Jared Curtis answered the communication over his own signature. Am. Antiq. Soc. has July 30Sept. 10, 1808; Jan. 4-18, 1812.[Stockbridge] Political Atlas. The paper was discontinued with theissue of July 22, 1808, vol. 2, no. 76. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Mar. 21,1807-July 22, 1808.[Stockbridge] Western Star. Am. Antiq. Soc. has May 13, June 17,24, July 15, Aug. 19, 1799; Oct. 27, 1800; June 18, 1803.MISSISSIPPI[Natchez] Intelligencer, 1801. Earliest issue located is Sept. 22,1801, vol. I, no. 7, published by D. Moffatt & Co. Am. Antiq. Soc.has Sept. 22, x8oi.[Natchez] Mississippi Herald. N.Y. Pub. Lib. has June 22, 1804.NEW HAMPSHIRE[Amherst] Village Messenger. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 9-Feb. 9,23, Mar. 15, 1796-Dec. 30, 1797.Concord Gazette. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec. 30, 1817.[Concord] Mirrour. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Dec. 30, 1793; July i, 15,1799.[Hanover] Dresden Mercury. A. H. Keyes' copy of Dec. 13, 1779,is now at Dartmouth.

1961.]ADDITIONS TO NEWSPAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY29[Hanover] Eagle. Am. Antiq. Soc. has May 25, 1799.[Keene] New-Hampshire Recorder. Edward C. Sänger, Plympton,Mass., has Oct. 9, 1787.[Portsmouth] New-Hampshire Gazette. Next to end line of text:David C. not Daniel C. Foster. Portsmouth Athenaeum file shouldbe changed to Jan. 3, 1784-Dec. 30, 1785, fair; Jan. 6, 1786-Dec. 28,1819, practically complete. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Mar. 6, 1772Dec. 23, 1774, fair; 1779-1784, scattering issues. Delete Dartmouth's three issues in 1777, and Jan. 20, 1778. N.Y. Pub. Lib. has1769—1793 scattering issues. Univ. of California reproduced thispaper in microfilm from 1756 to 1776, the positive of which is in Am.Antiq. Soc. and other libraries.[Portsmouth] Oracle of the Day. Am. Antiq. Soc. has "Proposals"Dec. 20, 1795.[Portsmouth] Republican Ledger. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Jan. 5May 20, June 3-24, July 8-Nov. 4, i8-Dec. 16, 1800; Jan. 6, 1801Dec. 20,1803.[Portsmouth] War Journal. Second line of text: David C, notDaniel C. Foster. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Mar. 12-Dec. 10, 1813.NEW JERSEY[Burlington] New-Jersey Gazette. The Lib. Congress has made amicrofilm of the "New-Jersey Gazette" for 1777-1778. Prints inAm. Antiq. Soc. and several other libraries.[Burlington] Rural Visitor. The first eight numbers in 1810 werereprinted, with slightly different make-up. Allinson revived thispublication in 1819, with the title of "The Rural Visiter, a Literaryand Miscellaneous Magazine." This publication comprised twovolumes, published at Burlington by David Allinson in 1819 and1820. Volume I contained 252 pages, followed by 25 pages of a"Journal of News" and 3 pages of Index. Volume 2 contained 230pages, followed by 32 pages of the "Journal of News." Although thepublication did include a "Journal of News," it was ostensibly amagazine and is not included in this Bibliography. The only file ofthe two volumes known to me is in the N.J. State Library, althoughMr. Elmer T. Hutchinson and Yale possess volume i. The exactdates of the issues were probably on the covers, presumably de-

30AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY[April,stroyed in binding the two files known. Delete N.Y. Pub. Lib.holdings of two issues.[Elizabeth Town] Federal Republican. Am. Antiq. Soc. has June28, 1803, vol. I, no. 23.[Elizabeth Town] New-Jersey Journal. Rutgers Univ. has Aug.10, 1813-Dec. 26, 1815; Jan. 2-Apr. 23, May 7, 14, June 4, i8-July2, i6-0ct. 15, 29-Dec. 3, 17, 1816. The Lib. Congress has made anincomplete film of the New-Jersey Journal from 1786 to 1791, andthere are copies in several libraries.[Freehold] Monmouth Star. H. Jones is Hannum Jones.[Hackensack] Impartial Register. Change fourth line of text toread: The earliest issue located is that of Nov. 13, 1804, vol. i, no. 13,published by Thomas T. Blauvelt. Am. Antiq. Soc. has Nov. 13,1804; Jan. I, 1805.Mount-Holly Advertiser, 1816. Weekly. Established Jan. 4, 1816,judging from the first and only issue located, that of Jan. 11, 1816,published by (James) M'Knight & (Jacob D.) Felthousen, with thetitle of "Mount-Holly Advertiser." Elmer T. Hutchinson wrote me,in June, 1951, that in the diary of a member of the Fenton family hehad found a reference to "Jake" Felthousen, a printer of MountHolly, who had previously conducted a paper in New York State;also that his partner was James McKnight, who later removed toPhiladelphia, where he conducted a printing-office. The New Brunswick "Times" of Feb. 22, 1816, announced "We have received copiesof two papers, the 'New Jersey Gazette,' and the 'Mount HollyAdvertiser' both lately commenced in Mt. Holly, in West Jersey."Rutgers Univ. has Jan. 11, 1816.[New Brunswick] Arnett's New-Jersey Federalist. George C.Rockefeller, Mountain Lakes, N.J., has July 3, 1794 (vol. I, no. 35)and Jan. 15, 1795 (vol. 2, no. 63).[New Brunswick] Brunswick Gazette. Rutgers Univ. now hasMargaret T. Terhune file of 1791—1792. The Recordak Corporation,New York City, reproduced the "Brunswick Gazette," and itspredecessor, the "New-Brunswick Gazette," from 1786 to 1792,which is in Am. Antiq. Soc. and several libraries.New-Brunswick Gazette, see "Brunswick Gazette."

1961.]ADDITIONSTO NEWSPAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY31[Newark] Centinel of Freedom. The firm of W.

I, 1804 country issue; Mar. 6, 1805 regular issue. Washington City Gazette, 1800. Lib. Co. Phil, has specimen issue, dated July 25, 1800, no. i, published daily by Charles Cist, with the title of "The Washington City Gazette." The publisher states that the Gazette "will commence on the first day of October next" (photostat in Am. Antiq. Soc).