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erick journals⁶².

He died on December 30, 1831, at his residence in

Frederick County. His obituary states that he was:

formerly editor and one of the proprietors of the
Baltimore Gazette, which he conducted for 12
years with much ability and success. He has
been distinguished, throughout his life, for
the perfect correctness of his deportment, his
gentlemanly manners and his enterprising spirit.
After mingling for many years in the strife of
those political parties which formerly agitated
the country, he has been for a long time with-
drawn from the public eye, and, in the bosom of
his family, and a happy and peaceful retirement,
closed a life which furnished many an incident
and example for praise and imitation.⁶³

Like his partner, he owned a private library; he is
said to have possessed one of the best in Baltimore
at the time, and to have been liberal in allowing
others to use it.⁶⁴

William Pechin and Baltimore's First Republican
Democratic) newspaper. - William Pechin, who was
destined to become an important figure in Baltimore
newspaper publishing, arrived from Philadelphia about
October 1795, and set up a printing establishment at
No. 27, Gay Street.

He was born in Philadelphia in 1773, the fifth
child of Christopher Pechin (1737-1779) and Christiana
Bright Pechin; on his father's side he was descended

62 Scharf, J. f. History of Western Maryland.

v. 1, p. 535.
63 Baltimore republican aad commercial advertiser.

Jaauaiy 10, 1832.
64 Federal gazette. October 13, 1802.