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NEW HAVEN.
This paper made its appearance January 1, 1755. It was
printed on a half sheet of foolscap, in quarto; but occasionally
on a whole sheet of pot, folio, by James Parker &
Company; and was published weekly, on Friday. John
Holt was the editor, and the junior partner of the firm; he
conducted the Journal till 1760, when he removed to New
York, and Thomas Green was employed by the company
to conduct the Gazette.
By the establishment of postriders to the seat of the war
at the northward, and to several parts of the colony, the
Gazette had, for that time, a considerable circulation. The
when it was for a short time suspended, but afterwards revived
by Benjamin Mecom.
Mecom continued the Gazette, and added a cut to the
title—one which he had used in the title page of The New
England Magazine, published by him three or four months
in Boston. The device was a hand clasping a bunch of
flowers. He afterwards exchanged this for another, which
represented a globe placed on the head of a seraph, an eagle
with extended wings lighting with one claw on the globe,
holding in the other a book encircled by a glory; from the
book was suspended a pair of dividers. Motto, "Honor
Virtue Paratur." Another motto, extending the whole
width of the page, was added after the title, viz: "Those
who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little
Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Imprint,
"Printed by Benjamin Mecom, at the Post-Office in
New-Haven." There were two columns in a page of this
paper, which was printed from long primer and pica types.
Holt, and Mecom his successor, appear to have been
attentive in making selections for the Gazette, which was
sometimes supplied with original essays on various subjects.
It was discontinued in 1767.
This paper was first published in October, 1767, soon
after the Gazette was discontinued. It was printed on a
pot sheet, folio, three columns in a page; types, long primer
and pica. A cut of a postman on horseback, copied from
The Boston Post-Boy, but badly engraved, divided the title.
It was published weekly, on Friday. Imprint, generally,
"Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, near the College."
Some years after, the title was Connecticut Journal
to a crown sheet; but it was occasionally varied.
The Journal gained an establishment, and maintained
its ground against several other papers which have from
time to time appeared in New Haven. It continued to be
published by Thomas and Samuel Green, until February,
1799; Samuel then died, and the Journal was continued
till January, 1809, by Thomas Green & Son.[1]
It has lately
(1810) been enlarged to a sheet of royal, and the title altered
to The Connecticut Journal and Advertiser. In January,
1809, it was printed by Thomas Green & Co.[2]
In July of
the same year, Thomas Green retiring from business, the
new firm was dissolved, and the Journal published, on
Thursdays, "by Eli Hudson,[3]
successor to T. Green & Co."
Samuel Green died at New Haven, Feb., 1799, aged 46. His brother
Thomas died there also, May, 1812, aged 77. Thomas, Jr., died in May,
1825, aged 60.—M.
The company were Thomas Green, jun., and Thomas Collier. Collier
served his apprenticeship with his uncle Richard Draper, at Boston, and
was the publisher of a newspaper at Litchfield, in 1785, entitled, The
Weekly Monitor and American Advertiser.
In 1819 it would seem that Hudson had passed the Journal to other
hands, as he was in that year a journeyman in the office of the Connecticut
Herald. He was inefficient and dissipated. The Journal was published
until about 1834, by Newton & Peck, on whose hands it died, or was
merged in another concern.—M.
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