Established on July 31, 1799.

Established on October 5, 1796.

Jeffersonian. Established by James Lyon on August 26[,] 1800, and published by him until March 1801.

On December 8, 1801, James Lyon wrote from Washington City to Jefferson: “. . . In the summer of the year 1800, when I was urged by several of the most worthy republicans of Georgetown and this City to establish a Press here, arrangements were made with a Printer of Alexandria to join in the enterprize, and dependence was placed upon him for materials till the period fixed for our commencement had expired, when he declined, leaving me disagreeably situated: I applid [ sic -- Ed. ] to Way & Groff to strike a few Numbers of “The Cabinet.” They were then idle, and to bar every objection of a pecuniary nature, I offered them money in advance for all the work I wanted: after deliberation they said they could not print for me;--that the work was in favor of democracy, and they could not disoblige their friend by interfering with it: they added, that they had such compensation from the public as to enable them to be idle a few weeks . . .”

A few days earlier, on December 5, Jefferson wrote of Lyon in a letter to Gideon Granger: “ . . . m( ^~r ) Lyon a printer of this city, a young man of bold republicanism in the worst of times, of good character, son of the persecuted Matthew Lyon. tho’ of real genius, he has not succeeded in his newspapers . . . ”

Established by James Lyon in Georgetown and published in conjunction with the Cabinet .

Established by James Lyon, later printed by John McArthur.

A number, or numbers, must have been bound in this volume.

The 1831 entry ends with “&c. &c.” Of these additional papers, one might be the Georgia Republican, of which Jefferson had at least the first number, as follows: