DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES

PLATE IX, page 108

Reproduced from the author's copy of the large paper edition. Its original owner, Walter
Dulany, Esq., of Annapolis, one of the underwriters of the publication, presented this
copy to Messrs. Capel & Osgood Hanbury, London merchants in the Maryland trade.
(See No. 254 of Bibliographical Appendix.)

PLATES Xa AND Xb, page 218

These headings of the second Maryland Gazette are reproduced to supplement the verbal
descriptions given under this title for the years 1762-1776. Reproduced by permission
from copies in the Maryland Historical Society. The typical heading of the earlier issues,
beginning with 1745, is shown facing page 24, vol. 2, of J. Thomas Scharf's History of
Maryland, in the form of a reproduction of the first issue of this newspaper.

PLATES XIa AND XI£, page 240

Headings of Goddard's Maryland Journal, begun 1773, and Dunlap's Maryland Gazette,
begun 1775. Reproduced by permission from copies in the Maryland Historical Society.

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