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The bills printed in this paper are in the Mathew Carey Papers in the American Antiquarian Society and appear by kind permission of Dr. Clifford K. Shipton, Director. Because the bills are indexed at the Society, citation footnotes will be omitted. In the abstracts, the texts have been edited for purposes of clarity.

[7]

Margaret T. Hills, The English Bible in America (1961), p. 15.

[8]

Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer (1938), p. 85.

[9]

Ouram's occupations are noted in the Philadelphia directories of the period.

[10]

Milton W. Hamilton, Adam Ramage and His Presses (1942), pp. 4-5.

[11]

Hamilton, p. 13.

[12]

Rigby's occupation is noted in Francis White, The Philadelphia Directory (1785), p. 63.

[13]

Dawson's occupation is noted in White, p. 18.

[14]

(New York, 1894), p. 73; "William McCulloch's Additions to Thomas's History of Printing," Proc. Am. Ant. Soc., XXXI (1921), 210-211.

[15]

The occupations of Aitken are listed in H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, A Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820 (1950), p. 11; the occupation of Hendricks is noted in James Hardie, The Philadelphia Directory and Register (1793), p. 63.

[16]

Sidleman's occupation is noted in Hardie, p. 131.

[17]

Fimeton's occupation is noted in Hardie, p. 45.

[18]

Wayne's occupation is noted in White, p. 80.

[19]

Brown and Brown, p. 103.

[20]

Truman's occupation is noted in James Hardie, The Philadelphia Directory and Register, 2nd ed. (1794), p. 156.

[21]

James L. Whitehead, "The Survey of Federal Archives in Philadelphia," Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 62 (1938), 167-168.

[22]

Scott's occupation is noted in James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory . . . for 1802 (n.d.), p. 214.

[23]

Miller's occupation is noted in James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1804 (n. d.), p. 161.

[24]

North's occupation is noted in James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1806 (n. d.), p. [174].

[25]

Occupation noted in James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1807 (n. d.), p. [219].

[26]

Sanson's occupation is noted in James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1810 (n. d.), p. 244.

[27]

Napier's occupation is noted in Robinson's Original Annual Directory for 1817 (n. d.), p. 325.

[28]

Occupation noted in Robinson's, p. 183.

[29]

An advertisement of Moore & Rhea offering cloth, clothing accessories, notions, and two boxes of printing type is in Pennsylvania Journal, Dec. 29, 1784, p. 4.

[30]

Vaux's occupation is noted in White, p. 76.