George Long (ca. 1782–1843), printer and bookseller, was a British citizen who worked as a printer in New York City by 1802. Long partnered with Monteith McFarlane by 1806, and he continued on his own after McFarlane’s death in 1809. By 1812 Long included bookselling in his enterprise, which he continued until his death in New York (Printer and Bookmaker 24 [1897]: 48; U.S. Marshal’s Returns of Enemy Aliens, DNA: RG 59, PW1812; Longworth’s New York Directory description begins Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory, New York, 1796–1842 (title varies; cited by year of publication) description ends [1802]: 253; [1806]: 250; [1810]: 256; [1812]: 188; [1840]: 398; New York Commercial Advertiser, 4 Oct. 1809; New-York Daily Tribune, 11 Jan. 1843).

Long’s favor of 20 Dec. 1820, not found, is recorded in SJL as a letter from “Jones George” received 28 Dec. 1820 from New York. Long printed and published an epic poem by “Palmira Johnson” (Jane M. Macneven) entitled Rosalie, a Tale (New York, 1821), which included a printed dedication from the author: “To Thomas Jefferson. In the lively sense I have been taught to cherish for thy talents and virtues, permit me Sir, to dedicate to thee this small work. May health, ease, and happiness attend thy age; as the setting Sun, thou wilt descend to thy grave, with thy honors, as a glory, beaming around thy head; and thy memory will be deeply engraven on the hearts of thy grateful Countrymen, never to be obliterated, but by the tear of expiring Liberty.”