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paper are extant today. Whether Bartgis published it
continuously until the end of the century is uncertain;
but there is evidence in his notice of September 11,
1799, that "Advertisements for the English and German
newspapers will be thankfully receive^ with the cash",²
that it was being published at that time.

Por this period very few productions of the Bart-
gis press have survived, but there are indications
that publications of very practical value to the in-
habitants of Frederick and the surrounding country
were issued. Undoubtedly blank forms were a substan-
tial part of Bartgis' printing output; their variety
is indicated by this advertisement appearing in 1792:

Blanks for sale at this office - English and
German powers of attorney, blank bonds, and
notes, indentures, bonds of conveyance, deeds,
&c. &c.³

The series of German almanacs which was begun probably
in 1777,⁴ was continued through 1807 or longer;⁵ and
in 1792 Eartgis began a series of English almanacs
which, under the title of the Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Virginia Almanack, continued according to the ad-
vertisements in his newspaper at least through 1799.

2 Bartgis's Federal gazette. August 28, 1799.

3 Bartgis's Maryland gazette. July 31, 1792.
4 Wheeler, J.T. op. cit. p. 59.
5 Seldensticker, Oswald. The first century of
German printing in America, p. 167.