A Bibliography Of Books Pamphlets And Broadsides Printed At Canandaigua New York 1799 1850

Author : Douglas Crawford McMurtrie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390548402
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book A Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed at Canandaigua, New York, 1799-1850 (Classic Reprint) written by Douglas Crawford McMurtrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed at Canandaigua, New York, 1799-1850 On January 27, 1789, New York organized all the territory west of the Preemption Line into Ontario County. At the sametime Canandaigua was formed as the county seat. The first court house was built there in 1794. At its formation, Canandaigua contained nine or ten' families. The first federal census in 1790 found only 205 families and 1801 people (other than Indians) in the whole vast county. The first road to the new county was the Old State Road laid out in 1790 from Utica. At first, this was a mere track through the wilderness, with only the most primitive kind of bridges for crossing the wider streams. Not until 1797 was it improved and widened so that it could be used for stages. The first press came to Canandaigua in 1799, at a date as yet undetermined except that it was prior to September 24th. The press was that of Lucius Cary, who removed his Ontario Gazette and Genesee Advertiser from Geneva to the county seat. Canandaigua was not incorporated as a village, distinct from the township, until April 18, At that time Canandaigua had two newspapers, the Ontario Repository, guided by James D. Bemis, and the Ontario Messenger, by John Abbott Stevens. The bibliographical list here presented contains 203 titles, of which 195 are known from copies distributed among 83 libraries and 3 private collections 'and 8 cannot at present be located. Of the total, 188 can be safely identified as Canandaigua imprints. The Appendix contains 15 other titles of doubtful origin, of which 3 are known only from advertisements and 2 are only presumed to have been printed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.