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Flavius Josephus. printed by William Pechin.¹³³ This
is no proof of identity, but in an age when book sub-
scribers wore few, it is likely that a love of books -
to the extent of ordering them in advance of publica-
tion - may indicate the same individual.
2. By the will of Christopher Jackson, who died in
Annapolis in 1842, his collection of books was left
to Jonas Green, if Jonas Green should ⁿbe the longest
liver.¹³⁴ If Christopher Jackson, printer, went to
Annapolis, it is most likely that he would go there to
be employed by the Greens, the only Annapolis printers
at that date. The fact that Jonas Green was mentioned
in Jackson's will, bespeaks a close friendship between
the two; and that friendship could have been brought
on by association in business. The inventory of Jack-
son's estate¹³⁵ yielded no book titles; it merely
lumped them together as "1 lot books and papers". Add
to those two reasons, the fact that no trace of a Chris-
topher Jackson in any way associated with printing has
been found elsewhere; and there are grounds for be-
lieving that Christopher Jackson in Baltimore, 1795-
1797, and Christopher Jackson in Annapolis, 1800-1842,

were identical.

133 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 236
(p. [726] of the imprint).

134 Anne Arundel county, Md. Wills. Liber TTS,
no. 1, folio 451.

135 Anne Arundel county, Md, Inventories. Liber
SB, no. 2, folio 454.