MSA SC 1779-8-1
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1770/03/12
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
The Boston Gazette and Country Journal.
- Includes an article on the Boston Massacre.
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MSA SC 1779-8-2
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1783/11/07
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
New York Morning Post.
- Publication of General Washington's "Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States, Closing the Revolutionary War."
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MSA SC 1779-8-3
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1773/08/20
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and The Baltimore Advertiser.
- Page 4 contains an advertisement, dated July 15, 1773, in which George Washington offers 20,000 acres of land for sale in the Ohio Valley.
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MSA SC 1779-8-4
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1791/04/12
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
- Page 2 contains a letter (dated March 26, 1791) from John McDowell, President of St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., to President George Washington, thanking him on behalf of the faculty and himself for Washington's visit, beneath which is printed Washington's reply.
- Page 3 contains a proclamation of George Washington (dated March 30, 1791) for the laying out of the National Capital.
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MSA SC 1779-8-5
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1791/10/07
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
- Page 2 contains the text of "An address from the town and commerce of Nantes, to the National Assembly, dated May 20, 1791" on the situation in St. Domingo.
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MSA SC 1779-8-6
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1791/10/11
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
- Page 2 contains information from "Captain Watson of the brig Betsy" about the situation in St. Domingo.
- Page 1 contains an advance announcement about the opening of George-town Academy.
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MSA SC 1779-8-7
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1791/11/04
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
- Page 2 contains information from "Captain Clouser, arrived at Philadelphia, from Cape-Francois" about the situation in St. Domingo.
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MSA SC 1779-8-8
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1791/11/11
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handwritten copy
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
- Handwritten copy of "Cost of Living in Annapolis in 1791."
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MSA SC 1779-8-9
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1792/01/24
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
- Page 1 contains an announcement that St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., is to have a Vice President.
- Page 1 also contains an advertisement for the sale of coal that was imported from Liverpool.
- Page 2 contains "Further particulars relative to the destruction of Port-au-Prince, and the contest between the Whites and Mulattoes."
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MSA SC 1779-8-10
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1798/10/03
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reproduction
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Times [of London].
- This issue contains the first news of the great battle of the Nile, including Admiral Horatio Nelson's report on the battle and the names of the dead.
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MSA SC 1779-8-11
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1805/11/07
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The Times [of London].
- This issue contains the first dispatches from the great naval battle of Trafalgar in which the French and Spanish fleets were destroyed and dispersed by the British fleet.
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MSA SC 1779-8-12
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1833/09/03
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reproduction
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The New York Sun.
- This reprint of the first issue of this newspaper contains the anonymous poem "The Noon Scene."
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MSA SC 1779-8-13
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1836/03/25
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
[Philadelphia] Public Ledger.
- This issue contains long and intimate notes on Robert Burns.
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MSA SC 1779-8-14
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1862/03/10
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The New York Herald.
- This issue contains an article about the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac.
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MSA SC 1779-8-15
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1862/08/15
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original
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00/10/01/80
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Description
The New York Tribune.
- Page 1 contains an article about President Abraham Lincoln holding a meeting at the White House with black leaders regarding the subject of colonization.
- Page 5 contains an article about a collision of the government transports Peabody and West Point on the Potomac in which 79 people were killed.
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