History of Newburyport, Mass., 1764-1905, Volume I, Part 37

Author: Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. cn
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: Newburyport, Mass., The author
Number of Pages: 790

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The first edition of Walsh's Arithmetic was printed in New- buryport in 1801. The title-page reads as follows :-

1 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

2 Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

3 Newburyport Public library.

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The second edition of this arithmetic was printed by Mr. Blunt in 1803, and the third in 1804. Other editions were published at a later date, the last in 1838, by Charles J. Hen- dee and G. W. Palmer & Co. of Boston.

In 1801, Angier March, owner and publisher of the New- buryport Herald, printed a pamphlet described as follows :-

He also printed, in 1803, "The Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women," abridged by Rev. Daniel Dana from the larger work of Doctor Gibbons of London.

The first edition of " The Pickle for the Knowing Ones" was probably printed in Salem, Mass. The title-page reads as follows :-

The second edition, printed in Newburyport in 1805, has the following title-page :- "

This edition of the pamphlet has thirty-two pages, each seven inches long and four inches wide. Another edition

1 Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

2 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

3 Boston Public library.

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printed the same year, measuring five and one-half inches long and three and one-quarter inches wide, has a title-page sub- stantially as printed above with the name of the town omitted.1

Both pamphlets, printed in 1805, have the following letter from W. Carlton to Timothy Dexter : --

SALEM, June 14, 1805.

MY LORD DEXTER,

By the politeness of Mr. Emerson I received the very valuable con- tents of your package. A new edition of that unprecedented performance entitled, " A Pickle for the Knowing Ones " is very urgently called for by the friends of literature in this country and in England-and I pre- sume with the additions and improvements intended to accompany the second edition, provided it should be well printed, would entitle the author to a seat in Bonaparte's Legion of Honor,-for my Lord Dexter is an honorable man. But, Sir the work cannot be executed for the sum named,-nor in the time specified,-I will print an edition of 500 copies with the additions for fifty dollars and cannot possibly do them for less.

Wishing your Lordship health in perpetuity,-a continuance of your admirable reasoning faculties, good spirits, and an abundance of wealth,- and finally a safe passage over any river, not with sticks but a pleasure boat, I remain yours with the utmost profundity.

W. CARLTON.

The Right Honorable Lord Dexter, Kt. Newburyport.

The first edition of the History of New England, by Jedi- diah Morse and Elijah Parish, was published in 1804, at Charlestown, Mass. The title-page of the second edition reads as follows : -

Messrs. Thomas & Whipple also published a Common School Geography, in 1809 probably, bearing the following imprint :-

1 Boston Public library.

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They also published a volume of sermons and a new sys- tem of geography described as follows :-

Edmund M. Blunt published " Brown's Dictionary of the Bible " in 1808, and a few years later E. Little & Co. pub- lished the following-described books :-

Ephraim W. Allen published the following-described books and pamphlets in his own name or in company with William B. Allen :-

1 Newburyport Public library.

2 Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

3 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

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The first volume of the last-named work was published in 1816 by Charles Ewer of Portsmouth, N. H., and William B. Allen & Co. of Newburyport, Mass. The second and third volumes were published in 1817 by Charles Ewer of Boston and William B. Allen & Co. of Newburyport. The fourth and fifth volumes were published the same year by Charles Ewer of Boston and Ephraim W. Allen of Newburyport. The five volumes were printed in Newburyport, the first three by William B. Allen & Co. and the last two by Eph- raim W. Allen.

1 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

2 Newburyport Public library.

3 " The Journal of Marshall Soult " is said to have been written by Samuel L. Knapp while confined in the Newburyport jail. History of Newburyport (Mrs. E. Vale Smith), p. 327.

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At a later date, Charles Whipple, Ebenezer Stedman and others published the following-described books :-

The Life of Timothy Dexter by Samuel L. Knapp was pub- lished in Boston in 1838. A copy of this book is in the Bos- ton Public library. It has the following title-page :-

A few years after the publication of the Life of Timothy Dexter, a new edition of " A Pickle for the Knowing Ones " was published with a title-page as follows :-

1 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

2 Boston Public library.

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In 1848, the "Life of Lord Timothy Dexter " and " A Pickle for the Knowing Ones " were republished and bound in one volume with the following title :-

Subsequently, another edition of Dexter's Life with his " Pickle for the Knowing Ones " was published in Boston. The title-page reads as follows :-

Other books and pamphlets not included in the above list were published in Newburyport previous to 1851, but many, if not most of them, were reprints from early English editions and cannot be fully described in this brief bibliographical sketch.

NEWSPAPERS.

When Newburyport was incorporated, in 1764, the New Hampshire Gazette was the only newspaper published in New England except the News Letter, Evening Post, Gazette, Chronicle and Advertiser published in Boston.

The first number of the Essex Gazette was printed in Salem August 2, 1768.1 Early in the spring of 1773, an unsuccessful attempt was made to establish a newspaper in Newburyport. The following notice was published in the Es- sex Gazette on the sixteenth day of March of that year :-

Soon after the fight at Concord and Lexington, in 1775, the Essex Gazette was transferred from Salem to Cambridge and the name of the paper changed to " The New England Chronicle, or, The Essex Gazette." It was printed in Cam- bridge until the British troops evacuated Boston when it was removed there and under an abridged title, " The New England Chronicle," was published for many years.

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To the refpectable Inhabitants of Newbury-Port.

The Publif hers of the Propofals for printing the Essex Mercury, and the Weekly Intelligencer, think it their indifpenfable Duty in this public Manner to return their fincere thanks to thofe Gentlemen who fo warm- ly exerted themfelves in procuring Subfcriptions, and alfo to thofe who fubfcribed for the intended Paper-Finding their numbers infufficient to defray the Expence, beg Leave to withdraw their Propofals.

The Failure of fufficient Numbers they humbly hope will, by the can- did Public, he deemed fufficient Apology for their fo doing.

Two or three months after the publication of the above notice, Isaiah Thomas, who was born in Boston, and published there, in 1770, the Massachusetts Spy, sent a printing press to Newburyport and opened an office on King, now Federal - street, nearly opposite the Old South meeting house. Henry Walter Tinges, a young printer from Boston, was associated with him in this enterprise. November 23, 1773, the follow- ing announcement appeared in the columns of the Essex Ga- zette :-

A Printing Office has been lately established at Newbury-Port: and next Saturday is to be published there, number I of a Weekly Newspa- per to be entitled " The Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet; or, the Massachusetts and New Hampshire General Advertiser " to be distrib- uted and given, Gratis, to the Inhabitants of both Provinces.

The paper was published at first on Saturday, afterwards on Wednesday, on a crown sheet folio equal in size to most of the papers published in Boston at that date. The imprint reads as follows :-

Newbury Port : Printed by Isaiah Thomas and Henry Walter Tinges, opposite the Rev. Mr. Parsons Meeting House, WHERE PRINTING in its various Branches is performed in a neat manner on the most reasonable Terms with the Greatest Care and Dispatch.

The title, as shown in the half-tone print on the next page, had an engraving representing the arms of the province of Massachusetts Bay on one side, and a ship under full sail on the other side. The following editorial notices appeared in the first number of the paper :-

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Merrimack Packet: Or, the Maffachufettsand New-Hamp bire General Advertifer

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SATURDAY, December 4, 1773

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To the PUBLIC. -

CONDITIONS. I. The ESSEX JOURNAL. and

Channel with felh and authentic Advice:, we humbly beg Leave to recommend SATURDAY

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TO THE PUBLIC.

Many respectable Gentlemen, Friends to Literature, having expressed their earnest Desire that a Printing Office might be established in this populous Town, the Inhabitants in general being sensible of the great want thereof, and the Patronage and Assistance they have kindly prom- ised to give, have encouraged me to procure the necessary Apparatus for carrying on the Printing Business and Opening an Office here; and ani- mates me to hope that every Public Spirited Gentleman, in this and the Places adjacent, will promote so useful an undertaking.

ISAIAH THOMAS.I

PRINTING.

Those Ladies and Gentlemen who are desirous of seeing the curious Art of Printing, are hereby informed, that on Monday next the Printing Office will be opened for their reception, and the Printers ready to wait on all who will do them the honour of their company. The business will be exhibited precisely at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and at three in the afternoon.I

In June, 1774, Ezekiel Russell commenced the publication of a newspaper in Salem called "The Salem Gazette or the Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser." Subscriptions were received for this paper in Newburyport by Bulkeley Emerson, " at the post-office," by David and Joseph Cutler, "at the Sign of the Dish," and by Thomas Thompson, "tobaconist at the head of long wharf."

In the month of August following, Isaiah Thomas sold his interest in the " Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet" to Ezra Lunt, the proprietor of a stage coach running from New- buryport to Boston once a week, and the firm-name was changed to Lunt & Tinges.2 In May, 1775, Mr. Lunt enlisted in the Revolutionary army and sold all his right, title and interest in the newspaper to John Mycall, who was then a schoolmaster in Amesbury, and the firm-name was again changed to Mycall & Tinges. Six months later, this part- nership was dissolved, and John Mycall continued the business in his own name for nearly twenty years.3 In August, 1775,

1 Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet, December 4, 1773 (American Anti- quarian Society, Worcester, Mass.).

2 Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet, August 17, 1774 (Boston Athenæum).

3 Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet, January 19, 1776 (Boston Atht - næum).

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Maffachufetts and New-Hampfhire GENERAL ADVERTISER.

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1784.

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the name of the paper was changed to " The Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet." The imprint of April 26, 1776, reads as follows :-

Printed by John Mycall, in King Street, opposite the Rev. Mr. Par- son's Meeting House, where this paper may be had at Eight Shillings per Annum (exclusive of Postage and Sealing). Articles of Intelligence &c gratefully received. Printing and Book Binding in their various branches are performed in a neat manner on reasonable Terms with Care and Dispatch.I

In July, 1784, the name of the paper was changed to " The Essex Journal and the Massachusetts and New Hampshire General Advertiser," and the printing office removed to Fish, now State, street, as stated in the imprint as follows :-

[Friday, July 16, 1784] Newbury Port ; Printed by John Mycall in Fish Street near to the Rev. Mr. Cary's Meeting House where this pa- per may be entered for, at Two Shillings and three pence per Quarter, (exclusive of Postage) and where advertisements and articles of Intel- ligence are received and all Kinds of Printing performed expeditiously and at a reasonable rate.2

In the month of November following, the printing office was removed " to Merrimack street a little below the Ferry way," and in 1786 the name of the paper was again changed to " The Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet."

Mr. Mycall was the proprietor and publisher of the paper until it was discontinued in 1794 or 1795, with the exception of a few months, in 1784, when it was published by William Hoyt.3

Edmund M. Blunt and Howard S. Robinson, under the firm-name of Blunt & Robinson, published the first number of the Impartial Herald in May, 1793. It was delivered to sub- scribers every Saturday, at first, and afterwards every Tues-

1 Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet (American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.).

2 Essex Journal and the Massachusetts and New Hampshire General Advertiser (American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.).

3 John Mycall was born in Worcester, England, in 1750. After the Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet was discontinued Mr. Mycall removed to Harvard, and then to Cambridge, Mass. He returned in 1826, and continued to reside in Newburyport until his death, January 20, 1833. Newburyport Herald, January 25, 1833.

THE Effex Fournal & New-Hampfbire Packet.

WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 20,

1786.

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day. In 1794, Edmund M. Blunt was sole publisher of the paper. In December of that year, in company with Angier March, under the firm-name of Blunt & March, he purchased and united the Morning Star with the Impartial Herald and removed the printing office from State street to Middle street. After January 1, 1795, the Impartial Herald was published twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. In 1796, Mr. Blunt sold his interest in the paper to Angier March, who continued the publication until it was united with the Polit- ical Gazette, in October, 1797, and the name changed to the Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette.

The first number of the Morning Star was published on Tuesday, April 8, 1794, by Howard S. Robinson. In the month of May following, Benjamin Tucker was asssociated with him under the firm-name of Robinson & Tucker, and in October Mr. Tucker was the sole owner and publisher of the paper .. The printing office was on Middle street, New- buryport. December 3, 1794, Mr. Tucker announced that he had conveyed all his right, title and interest in the Morn- ing Star to Messrs. Blunt & March, publishers of the Impar- tial Herald.2

In April, 1795, the first number of the Political Gazette was published, in Newburyport, by William Barrett. The pa- per was printed once a week until October 27, 1797, when it was united with the Impartial Herald.

In 1794, as previously stated, the Morning Star was sold to the proprietors of the Impartial Herald, and in 1797 William Barrett, proprietor of the Political Gazette, and Angier March, proprietor of the Impartial Herald, formed a co-partnership, under the firm-name of Barrett & March, and published the first number of the Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette in October of that year. In the month of December follow- ing, Mr. Barrett sold his interest in the paper to Angier March, who remained sole owner and publisher until August 4, 1801, when Ephraim W. Allen and Jeremiah Stickney pur-

1 Impartial Herald, December 5, 1794.

2 Morning Star, December 3, 1794 (Newburyport Public library).

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History of Newburyport, Mass., 1764-1905, Volume I, Part 37

Author: Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. cn Publication date: 1906 Publisher: Newburyport, Mass., The author Number of Pages: 790

Author: Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. cn
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: Newburyport, Mass., The author
Number of Pages: 790