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materialized; and no adition of Jefferson's Notes ap-
peared with a Baltimore imprint until 1800, when

William Pechin brought out two editions.⁴³

The Issue of the Maryland Journal of September 7,
1796, ia the last with Smyth's name as joint publisher.
On that date, Smyth became owner of the Delaware
Gazette of Wilmington, which he edited until March
1799. He established the Wilmington Monitor, Febru-
ary 1, 1800, and continued as its publisher until
September 1802.⁴⁴

Soon after Smyt's retirement from the Baltimore
printing scene, Edwards ia known to have published on©
book, the Minutes of the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church which he advertised as
"just published, and for sale," on November 25,
Then, on December 4, a fire broke out

The town exhibited so tremendous a scene as to
threaten the destruction of a great part of it.
About four o'clock in the afternoon, a fire
broke out in a frame building on the west aide of
Light Strait, occupied as a shop by Doctor Good-
win. The flame immediately caught Messieurs
Wilkinson and Smith's cabinet manufactory (an-
other frame building) on the south side, and
Mr. Hawkin's two three-story brick houses. On
the north they communicated to that magnificent
structure, the Baltimore Academy, and the Metho-
dist meeting house, The fierce element had now
got to such a height as to put It out of the
power of the citizens to save the six buildings

43 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 587 and 588.
44 Brigtmm, C. S, Bibllography of American newspapers,

1690-1820. Part 11 Alabama to Indiana, p, 336-341.
45 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, Item 305.