The Library's only other examples of Kentucky printing from 1788 are eight additional issues of the Gazette, for November 8 through December 27, which have been detached from a bound volume and are still joined together. These belonged to Walter Carr, who was serving as a magistrate in Fayette County by 1792 and who in 1799 attended the convention to form the second constitution of Kentucky.[41] Nothing more can be ascertained about the acquisition of these holdings than that the March 1 issue is first listed in the 1912 edition and that the later issues are first listed in the 1936 edition of A Checklist of American Eighteenth-Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress.
(THE KENTUCKE GAZETTE, March 1, 1788.)
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[38] See J. Winston Coleman, Jr., John Bradford, Esq. (Lexington, Ky., 1950).
[39] Brackets in text.
[40] J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville (Chicago and New York [pref. 1896]), vol. 2, p. 3.
[41] C. R. Staples, The History of Pioneer Lexington (Lexington, 1939), p. 78 and 151.