1815 Catalogue, page 26. no. 83, New York, do. [papers] 1789-1807, 13 [vol].
1. 1831 Catalogue, page 65. no. J. 217, Barber and Southwick’s Albany Register, 1800, folio; New York.
The Albany Register.
Albany:
John Barber and
Samuel Southwick,
1800.
Folio. Bi-weekly.
Parsons, page 156.
Brigham, page 539.
Jeffersonian. This paper ran into difficulties under the Alien and Sedition Act and was helped by Jefferson--see the note
to
The Bee
, no. 602.
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2. 1831 Catalogue, page 65. no. J. 216, Denniston’s Republican Watch Tower, 1800 to 1809, 9 v. folio; New York.
The Republican Watch-Tower.
New York:
David Denniston [--
Denniston and
Cheetham],
1800-1809.
Folio. Bi-weekly.
Republican. Established on March 12, 1800, by David Denniston, who was joined by James Cheetham in 1801, who in 1803 became
the sole publisher.
On April 23, 1802, Jefferson wrote from Washington to Cheetham: “
I shall be glad hereafter to recieve your daily paper by post, as usual, and instead of sending on the Republican Watch-tower,
you will retain it, and at the end of the year send it to me in a volume bound in Blue boards.--it is proper I should know
what our opponents say & do; yet really make a matter of conscience of not contributing to the support of their papers . .
.
”
Cheetham replied from New York on May 30, 1803: “Agreeably to your request I have kept for you and have now bound in blue boards, a file of the “Watch Tower” for the year
ending in May 1803: will you be so obliging as to inform me by what conveyance you wish it to be transmitted . . .”
On June 17 Jefferson wrote: “
I have deferred answering your letter of May 30. until I could find the means of having paiment made in New York for the volume
of the Watch tower therein mentioned . . .
”
Bills were presented by Cheetham annually, the price for a file of one year, bound and lettered, was at first $
7.00, and in later years $
10.00.
For a note on Cheetham see no. 506, and in chapter 24, Politics.
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