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land Herald, and Elizabethtown Advertiser, a larger
sheet than the Spy, printed with new type, was soon
presented to the citizens of Hagerstown.

During the life of the Washington Spy, after
Stewart Herbert's death, at least one pamphlet was
issued, The President's Address to the People of the
United States, Announcing his Intention of Retiring
from Public Life,⁵⁰ published about October 12, 1796.
It is possible that a Catechism of the Protestant
Episcopal Church was published at the office of the
Spy, but this cannot be ascertained from the adver-
tisement in which the Catechism was offered for sale.⁵¹

The career of Phebe Herbert, first woman printer
of Hagerstown, bears a certain resemblance to that of
Dinah Nuthead, first woman printer of Maryland, who
operated a press in Annapolis just a century earlier.⁵²
Like Dinah Nuthead, Mrs. Herbert was apparently not
bred to the printing business, but stepped into it
after her husband's death for maintenance of herself
and of her children. Like her predecessor, she gave
it up about the time of a second marriage. Like her
Predecessor, also, she loft her name on no extant im-
Print (her newspaper excepted) although it is probable

50 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 326.
51 Washington spy. June 22, 1796.
52 Wroth, L.C. A history of printing in colonial
Maryland, p. 12-15.