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to Charleston, South Carolina, where he obtained employ-
ment as a printer for a short time. (An Alexander Mar-
tin printed the Fayetteville Gazette in Fayetteville,
North Carolina, for John Sit ley from August 7, 1792
until some time in 1793¹⁰⁸, tut whether that circum-
stance can te connected with "Jack" Martin's Carolina
episode, remains a subject for conjecture.)

Martin eventually returned to Boston and secured
the printing of the Orrery. (An Alexander Martin - and
there seems to te no reason to "believe it was not the
same as Alexander Martin of Baltimore - did print the
Federal Orrery, edited by Thomas Paino, in 1795 and
1796¹⁰⁹ as well as the Massachusetts Magazine, edited
by Isaiah Thomas, also in 1795 and 1796¹¹⁰, and the
Polar Star: Boston Daily Advertiser, for the proprietor,
John D. Burk, from October 6, 1796, through February
2, 1797¹¹¹, and possibly longer.) At the termination
of his Boston engagements, Martin, in financial diffi-
culty, journeyed south again, this time to Richmond;
but failing to secure employment in his profession, he
took a boat bound for Baltimore.

108 Brigham, C.S. Bibliography of American news-
papers, 1690-1820. Part X. North Carolina, p. 297.

109 Ibid. Part III. Maryland to Massachusetts
(Boston) p. 222.

110 Mott, F. L. A history of American magazines.

v. 1, p. 108.
111 Brigham, C. S. op, cit. p. 271.