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His printing equipment, with which he had made
the first attempt at printing in Washington County,
was offered for sale on Saturday, the twenty-fifth of
August, 1797:

To be sold by public vendue, on Saturday the
25th inst. at the English printing office in
Elizabeth-Town. An old font of printing types
and press, together with sundry other materi-
als thereunto belonging - Also a variety of
household furniture.³⁷

It is interesting to note the contents and value of
the material in the printing office, and in noting,
one must admire even more the enterprise and accom-
plishments of this first printer of Hagerstown*

An old font of printing types containing
2 quod [?] more or less valued at 3sl Id -

1 stove & pipe in the printing office 1.15,0

an old press & chases [?] 2.0.0

three pair of printing cases and frames 1.0.0

a trough for cleaning the form 0.2.0

a letter board is a pot 3s2 2 chairs

in the office 2s6 0.6,6

Frame of a cott bed in the office 0.9,0

Ticking of said 3s9, 2 blankets 3s9 0.7.6

a pillow & coverlet 2s3. a cow £5 5.2.3³⁸

Phebe Herbert and John P.. Cary New Publishers of
the Washington Spy. - With the issue for March 10,

37 Maryland herald. (Hagerstown) March 9, 1797.

38 Washington county, Md. Inventories of appraise-
ments. Liber B, folio 381.