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Election to the Office of Rector of the Said Church⁴

Reverend Devereux Jarrett's Thoughts on some Capital
Subjects in Divinity,⁵ Thomas Vivian¹s Three Instruct
tive Dialogues,⁶ and the anonymous and harrowing

Short Account of the Unhappy Death of a Profligate

Youth;⁷ as well as the first Baltimore edition of any
of Thomas Paine's work, the pamphlet Rights of Man.⁸
The city whore Graham had learned his trade was
the pioneer in the put lishing of daily newspapers in
the United States; Benjamin Towne of Philadelphia
began daily publication of his Pennsylvania Evening
Post on May 30, 1783, and John Dunlap changed his
Pennsylvania Packet to a daily on September 21,
1784, New York followed with the Morning Post and
the New-York Daily Advertiser in 1785. When the first
dailies were established in these cities, each had a
population of about 25,000,⁹ Baltimore's did not
equal these; in 1790 it numbered 13,508 inhabitants,¹⁰
and the first daily of any permanency dates from 1791.
The rise of daily papers, Mott states, was due to

4 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 7.

5 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 18.

6 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 43.

7 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 38,

8 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 34.

9 Mott, P. L. American journalism. p_t 115-118.
10 Penniman, T. D. The early history of the
"Baltimore American¹¹, p. 272-273.