TJ anticipated that Levi lincoln would convey the payments for Massachusetts newspapers: to William Carlton for the Salem Register, to Thomas Adams and Ebenezer Rhoades for the Boston Independent Chronicle, to John Williams for the Boston Democrat, and to Francis Blake for the Worcester National Aegis (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 1:288, 307-8, 401-2, 418-19).

Gideon granger was to take care of Connecticut and upstate New York subscriptions: to Elisha Babcock for the American Mercury, to Charles Holt for the Hudson Bee, and to John Barber for the Albany Register (same, 1:19, 539, 585; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1015; Vol. 37:312).

TJ expected James Cheetham (cheatham) to handle the payments for New York City subscriptions, including his own American Citizen and the Federalist-leaning New-York Evening Post edited by William Coleman (Vol. 37:308).

mr irwin: Peter Irving was the proprietor and sometime editor of the New York Morning Chronicle from 1802 to 1807 (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 1:667).

baltimore: in 1804, the publishers of the Baltimore American were William Pechin and Leonard Frailey (same, 1:223-4).

For the Alexandria Expositor and the Columbian Advertiser, published by Richard Dinmore (dinsmore) and his partner, James Lyon, beginning in 1802, see Vol. 36:352-3.

In Frederick, Maryland, John B. colvin edited the Republican Advocate from December 1802 to December 1806 (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 1:265).

70. d 50 c in all: TJ probably sent the MS of this document to John Barnes. TJ copied the list into his financial memoranda under 31 Mch. with the heading “Desired Mr. Barnes to pay for the following newspapers” (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1122-3). Barnes gave Lincoln and Granger the money for the New England and Hudson Valley newspapers on 6 Apr., but had to hold off paying the remaining $51 (Barnes to TJ, 9 Apr.).

Also in Frederick, John winter published the weekly Rights of Man from January 1794 to November 1800. In September 1802, Winter submitted an invoice to TJ for £1.2.6 for an 18-month subscription at $2 per year. As TJ noted on the verso of the document printed above, he paid Winter in November 1804 (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 1:266; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1140; Vol. 38:690).