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A History of the Maryland Press, 1777-1790
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James Hayes, Junior, and John Hayes, the printer of the Maryland
Gazette from 1783 until 1791, were probably closely related although
there is no definite proof of this other than the similarity of the names
and the fact that they were printers at different times of the same
newspaper. James Hayes began printing in the Spring of 1783 and on
May 16 he revived the newspaper under the title of The Maryland Ga-
zette: or, the Baltimore General Advertiser. It should be noted, however,
that unlike the Maryland Gazette of the Green family, its numbering
did not continue successively after the last issue before its suspension.
Hayes was an ambitious printer and succeeded in establishing himself
in Baltimore in spite of the competition of the Goddard Press which
must have been great. The fact that Mary Katherine Goddard was post-
mistress put him under a handicap since the latest news usually came
through the post riders from other cities. It may be that this is the
reason for his not printing many broadsides containing special news
from distant places. By 1786 he was able to expand his interests and in
the fall he published Andrew Ellicott's Maryland and Virginia Almanac,
and Ephemeris for 1787, proposed the publication of Baltimore Direc-
tory to be edited by James Young, and proposecr the publication by
subscription of Chatterton's The Buds of Beauty which appeared in the
following year.
The relations between the Hayes and Goddard Presses were of friendly
rivalry for the printing trade of Baltimore until Hayes successfully
broke William Goddard's monopoly of the almanac business. It is possible
that Hayes had something to do with the printing of Mary K. Goddard's
almanac for 17857 which her brother claimed "..... was printed in Phila-
delphia, and sent to this Market, by a certain hypocritical character, for
the dirty and mean purpose of Fraud and Deception."8 He may also
have printed her almanac for 1786. There is no evidence of this, but
Mary Goddard probably did not have a press of her- own after her
brother took over the printing business and her only recourse if she
wanted the almanac printed in Baltimore was to have Hayes do it.
In 1786 he employed Andrew Ellicott to compile an almanac for the
next year and published it as Ellicott's Maryland and Virginia Almanack.
Goddard's attack on the almanac began a controversy in the rival news-
papers which lasted for several months.9 With the exception of this
7 See Bibliography of Imprints, No. 320.
8 Preface to Wm. Goddard's almanac for 1785.
9 See Chapter IV for Langworthy's part in this quarrel.
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