American Political Writing During the Founding Era: 1760–1805: Two Volume Paperback Set

A List of Newspapers Examined

PolWritV2_1351-1400.indd 1388 2/23/12 2:40 PM ( I 388} A SELECTED LIST OF POLITICAL WRITINGS 506 U. To the Printers. Boston Gazette, August 29, q63. Diatribe against "private revenge. " 507 Velerius. Massachusetts Centinel, Boston, November 28, q87. Supports the proposed Constitution. 508 The Virginia Report of 1799-18oo, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws, Richmond, I85o. 509 Virginiensis (Charles Lee1 ] Defense of the Alien and Sedition Laws. Philadelphia, 1798. 47 pp. 510 The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Town ofBoston, In Town Meeting Assembled, According to Law. November 20, 1772, (Samuel Adams?].'*' Reproduced in Jensen, ed., Tracts of the American Revolution. 511 Vox Populi. To the Printer. Massachusetts Gazette, Boston, October 30, q87. Against the proposed Constitution, with a special concern for the dangers in congressional control of elections. 512 The Worcester Speculator. No. VI. Worcester Magazine, October, I787. '*"*'t 513 Worcesrriensis. To the Honorable . .. (No. II). Massachusetts Spy, August I4, I776. '*' The importance of education to a republic. 514 Worcestriensis. Number III. Massachusetts Spy, August 2I , I776.'*' The importance of religion. 515 Worcestriensis. Number IV. Massachusetts Spy, Septembeq, In6. '*"*'t A LIST OF NEWSPAPERS EXAMINED Anyone attempting to read comprehensively the newspapers published in America between q6o and I805 runs into several problems. First of all, a significant percentage of issues did not survive, and those that do are often available only on microfilm of poor quality and in various libraries. The Library of Congress has the most complete collection, but even there the problem is that few papers were published for as long as half the period under study. The strategy forced upon the researcher is to select judiciously from those papers available, with the aim of constructing a continuous set of newspapers over the period from each of the major cities and towns that generated the most PolWritV2_1351-1400.indd 1389 2/23/12 2:40 PM { I 389} A SELECTED LIST OF POLITICAL WRITINGS activity. The problem is eased somewhat by the significant number of newspapers that did not usually publish political essays and letters, or if they did, tended to reprint essays from newspapers elsewhere. Most of the newspapers that were not read comprehensively, and are so indicated below, were in fact examined and determined to fall into this last category. An estimated four thousand political essays and letters were examined in the newspapers from the era. Because it was the practice in even the most sophisticated publications to reprint pieces from papers in other colonies, in some instances a political essay was encountered four or five times in various newspapers, from South Carolina to New Hampshire. In the list below, those newspapers that were consulted comprehensively for the period q6o-r8os are marked with an asterisk. The rest are listed to show which major papers were not so examined, and to help provide a reasonably complete list of newspapers for the period. CONNECTICUT American Mercury (Hartford)* Connecticut Courant (Hartford)* Connecticut Gazette (New London)* Connecticut Journal (New Haven) Middlesex Gazette (Middletown) New Haven Chronicle New Haven Gazette* Norwich Packet Spectator* Weekly Monitor (Litchfield) DELAWARE Wilmington Courant Wilmington Gazette GEORGIA Augusta Chronicle Georgia Gazette (Savannah)* State Gazette of Georgia (Savannah)* MARYLAND Maryland Chronicle (Frederick) Maryland Gazette (Annapolis)* Maryland Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser* Maryland J ournal (Baltimore)* Weekly Museum (Baltimore)* PolWritV2_1351-1400.indd 1390 2/23/12 2:40 PM ( I 390} A SELECTED LIST OF POLITICAL WRITINGS MASSACHUSETTS American Herald (Worcester)* Berkshire Chronicle Boston Censor* Boston Chronicle* Boston Evening Post* Boston Gazette* Boston Gazette and Weekly Republican Journal* Cumberland Gazette (Portland, Maine) Essex Journal (Salem) Hampshire Chronicle (Springfield) Hampshire Gazette (Northhampton) Hampshire Herald (Springfield) Independent Chronicle (Boston) Massachusetts Centinel (Boston)* Massachusetts Gazette (Boston)* Massachusetts Spy (Worcester)* Post Boy and Advertiser (Boston)* Salem Mercury Western Star (Stockbridge) Worcester Magazine* NEW HAMPSHIRE Freemans Oracle and New Hampshire Advertiser (Exeter)* New Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser (Exeter) New Hampshire Mercury (Portsmouth) New Hampshire Recorder and Weekly Advertiser (Keene)* New Hampshire Spy (Portsmouth) NEW JERSEY Brunswick Gazette (New Brunswick) New Jersey Gazette (Trenton) New Jersey Journal (Elizabethtown) Plain Dealer (Bridgetown)* NEW YORK Albany Gazette* Albany Register American Magazine (New York) Goshen Repository Hudson Gazette Independent Journal (New York) New York Daily Advertiser (New York)* New York Gazette (New York)* PolWritV2_1351-1400.indd 1391 2/23/12 2:40 PM ( I 39 I } A SELECTED LIST OF POLITICAL WRITINGS New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (New York)* New York Journal...