[58] See V. C. (H.) Knerr, Elihu Stout, Indiana's First Printer (ACRL microcard series, no. 48; Rochester, N.Y., 1955).
[59] No. 2 in C. K. Byrd and H. H. Peckham, A Bibliography of Indiana Imprints 1804-1853 (Indianapolis, 1955).
[60] W. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (St. Louis, 1876), p. 173-174.
[61] Missouri Historical Society Collections, vol. 4, no. 1 (1912), p. 20.
[Alabama]
The earliest extant Alabama imprint is thought to be The Declaration of the American Citizens on the Mobile, with Relation to the British Aggressions. September, 1807, which was printed "on the Mobile" at an unspecified date. No one has yet identified the printer of this five-page statement inspired by the Chesapeake-Leopard naval engagement. The next surviving evidence is a bail bond form dated February 24, 1811, and printed at St. Stephens by P. J. Forster, who is reported to have worked previously at Philadelphia.[62]
A second St. Stephens printer, Thomas Eastin, founded a newspaper called The Halcyon sometime in 1815, after Alabama newspapers had already appeared at Fort Stoddert (1811), Huntsville (1812), and Mobile (1813). Eastin had formerly worked at Nashville, at Alexandria, La., and at Natchez in association with Mississippi's first printer, Andrew Marschalk.[63] His work at St. Stephens included a 16-page pamphlet, which is among the three or four earliest Alabama imprints other than newspaper issues[64] and is the first specimen of Alabama printing in the Library of Congress. Headed "To the Citizens of Jackson County," it is signed by Joseph P. Kennedy and has on its final page the imprint, "St. Stephens (M.T.) Printed by Tho. Eastin. 1815." Here "M.T." denotes the Mississippi Territory, which in 1817 divided into the Alabama Territory and the State of Mississippi. St. Stephens was an early county seat of Washington County, now part of Alabama, whereas Jackson County, to whose inhabitants the author addresses himself, lies within the present Mississippi borders.
