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Furnival at the Post Office, was signed by Winter &
Cary.

This Cary was John D. (Dew or Dow), son of John
and Mary Cary of Frederick. He was evidently a man
of varied talents he had served in the Revolutionary
War as lieutenant in the First Maryland Regiment,²⁵
and he once described himself "Doct. of Physick".²⁶

Cary stayed with the Rights of Man through March
4, 1795; on March 24 he was in Hagerstown as Phebe
Herbert's partner in the publication of the Washington
Spy. Winter eventually advertised for another asso-
ciate:

I will take into partnership, on very generous
terms, an active, industrious man, who under-
stands perfectly, the printing-business - if
application fee made to me in thirty days from
the date of this paper.²⁷

However, as far as can be ascertained from the few
copies of the Rights of Man which exist today, Winter
never had another partner,

Like other Maryland printers of his time, Winter
included the Acts of the General Assembly in his
Rights of Man. On August 17, 1796, they appeared in
the English, French and German languages, a fact which

25 Information from the Adjutant general's office,
U.S. War department.

26 Frederick county, Maryland. Land records.

Liber W.R. E, folio 891.
27 Rights of man May 4, 1796.