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"to the judicious reader, resting in expectation of
general favor".⁴⁶ The first number of the General Mag-
azine was issued on June 6;⁴⁷ it continued through
July and August, but probably not longer, perhaps be-
cause of an insufficient number of subscribers.

Hanna and Green are known to have printed one
other work, the patriotic song (printed without music)
Adams and Liberty,⁴⁸ designed to be sung to the tune
of Anacreon in Heaven, now known as the air of the
Star-Spangled Banner.

Henry Green, undoubtedly the son of Frederick
Green, state printer at Annapolis, dissolved his part-
nership with Hanna during 1798; but remained in Balti-
more, probably as a printer, at least through June 17,
1800, when he is known to have delivered a letter
from his father to the editors of the Federal Gazette.⁴⁹
He was married on September 5, 1799, to Ann Walker,
daughter of Captain James Walker of Anne Arundel
County;⁵⁰ he was later employed in the Farmer's Bank
of Maryland, at Annapolis.⁵¹

There is a possibility that he took a press to
Batches, Mississippi, in 1800, and printed a newspaper

46 Baltimore intelligencer. Hay 28, 179S.

47 Telegraphe. June 6, 1798.

48 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 450.

49 Federal gazette. June 17, 1800.

50 Telcgraphe. September 6, 1799.

51 Wheeler, J.T. op.cit. p. 70,