List of Newspapers, [ca. 23 April 1802]
List of Newspapers
[ca. 23 Apr. 1802] | ||||
Boston | Chronicle Telegraph |
3. 3. |
Genl. Varnum | |
Connect. | American Mercury Bee |
2½ 1. |
mr Granger | |
Albany | Albany register. | 3. | ||
N. York | American citizen Republican Watch T. |
mr Cheetham of N.Y. | ||
Phila. | Poulson | 11.25 | to mr Poulson Phila. | |
Baltim. | Alx Martin | to himself in Balt. | ||
Washn. | Smith. Univ. gazette } Natl. Intelligr. |
10. | to himself | |
Duane | 13. | to himself | ||
Literary Advertiser | 2½ | to mr Lyon | ||
N.C. | Raleigh Register. | 3. | to mr Macon the Speaker | |
Kentucky | Palladium | 2.5 | to mr Brown of Kentucky. |
Apr. 23. 1802: desired mr Barnes to pay the above.
MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; endorsed by TJ on verso: “Newspapers.”
Massachusetts Republican congressman Joseph B. VARNUM had subscribed on TJ’s behalf since 1797 to the semiweekly Independent Chronicle, a major source of Jeffersonian news in New England. TJ also subscribed for two years to the Republican semiweekly, Constitutional Telegraphe, published in Boston in 1802 by John S. Lillie ( , 2:964, 976, 1017, 1035).
Gideon GRANGER subscribed on TJ’s behalf in 1800, 1802, and 1804 to the Hartford, Connecticut, Republican weekly American Mercury published by Elisha Babcock (same, 2:1015, 1123).
ALBANY REGISTER: TJ had been a subscriber to John Barber’s semiweekly Republican newspaper since at least 1800 (same, 2:1123).
For POULSON and his American Daily Advertiser, see TJ’s account with Zachariah Poulson, 12 Mch. 1802.
Alexander MARTIN established the Baltimore American, a Republican daily newspaper in 1799. On 9 Apr. 1802, TJ gave an order on John Barnes for $14 for a two-year subscription dating from 24 Mch. 1801 ( , 2:1070).
Samuel Harrison SMITH published a weekly version of the National Intelligencer in Washington, D.C., entitled the Universal Gazette ( , 1:106–7; Vol. 34:529).
William DUANE, editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, established in May 1802 the Apollo, a short-lived Washington newspaper that was intended as a daily or triweekly. It failed, presumably for lack of subscribers ( , 1:98–9; 2:891–2).
James LYON and Richard Dinmore published the American Literary Advertiser, a Washington-based weekly established by the Franklin Press in March 1802 (same, 1:98; Vol. 34:405).
North Carolina Congressman Nathaniel MACON carried TJ’s subscription money for the Raleigh Register, published by Joseph Gales ( , 2:1019).
Senator JOHN BROWN of Kentucky subscribed for TJ to the Palladium: A Literary and Political Weekly Repository published at Frankfort (same, 2:1018, 1035).