[576] See list of his publications in Hist. Mag., iii. 174; his genealogy in N. Y. General and Biog. Record, Oct., 1873; a recent account of him in Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (iii. 1965). Cf. G. D. Boardman on “Early printing in the middle colonies” in Penna. Mag. of Hist., Apr., 1886, p. 15; Lodge’s English Colonies, 255. See further references in Vol. III. p. 513.
[577] His career is commemorated by Horatio Gates Jones in an address, Andrew Bradford, the founder of the newspaper press in the Middle States (Philad., 1869). Cf. Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (vol. iii. ch. 48), on the press of Philadelphia; Thomas’s Hist. of Printing (Worcester, 1874), ii. p. 132; and Frederic Hudson’s Journalism in the United States (N. Y., 1873), p. 60. The best known of the early Philadelphia papers was, however, The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette, which, begun Dec. 24, 1728, passed with the fortieth number into the control of Benj. Franklin, who retained only the secondary title for the paper. Cf. “History of a newspaper—the Pennsylvania Gazette,” in Mag. of Amer. Hist., May, 1886, by Paul L. Ford; a long note by Hildeburn in Catal. of works relating to Franklin in Boston Pub. Library, p. 37.
Of the American Magazine, published at Philadelphia in 1741, and the earliest magazine printed in the British colonies, probably only three numbers were issued (Hildeburn, no. 688). It must not be confounded with a later American Magazine, printed by W. Bradford, which lived through thirteen monthly numbers, Oct., 1757, to Oct., 1758. It purported to be edited “by a society of gentlemen,” and Tyler (Amer. Literature, ii. 306) calls it “the most admirable example of our literary periodicals in the colonial time.” Cf. Wallace’s Col. Wm. Bradford, pp. 64, 73.
[578] Hildeburn’s Century of Printing; the Catal. of books relating to Franklin in the Boston Public Library; Brinley Catal., nos. 3,197, etc., 4,312, etc. Cf. Parton’s Franklin; Thomas’s Hist. of Printing. The series of Poor Richard’s Almanacks was begun in 1733 (fac-simile of title in Smith’s Hist. and lit. curios., pl. ix., and Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia, i. 237). Cf. Catal. of works relating to Franklin in Boston Pub. Library, p. 14. In 1850-52 a publication at New York, called Poor Richard’s Almanac, reprinted the Franklin portion of the original issues for 1733-1741.
[579] He gives in an appendix the publications of the younger Bradford’s press, 1742-1766. Cf. J. B. MacMasters on “A free Press in the Middle Colonies,” in the Princeton Review, 1885.
[580] New York, in Vol. III. p. 412, IV. p. 430, and particularly on Smith’s History, see Tyler’s Amer. Lit., ii. 224; Pennsylvania, in Vol. III. p. 507; New Jersey, in Vol. III. pp. 453, 455. The general histories of the English colonies are characterized in the notes at the end of chapter viii. of the present volume.
[581] Vol. IV. p. 410, etc. Cf. E. A. Werner’s Civil list and constitutional history of the Colony and State of New York. (Albany, 1884.)
[582] See Vol. III. pp. 411, 414; IV. 440. Some special aspects are treated in Our Police Protectors; Hist. of the N. Y. Police (New York, 1885, ch. 2, “British occupancy, 1664-1783”); J. A. Stevens on old coffee houses, in Harper’s Mag. (Mar., 1882), also illustrated in Wallace’s Col. Wm. Bradford; T. F. De Voe’s Hist. of the Public Markets of N. Y. from the first settlement (N. Y., 1862); H. E. Pierrepont’s Historical Sketch of the Fulton Ferry and its Associated Ferries (Brooklyn, 1879); the Catholic Church on N. Y. Island, in Hist. Mag., xvi. 229, 271.
[583] Frank Munsell’s Bibliog. of Albany (1883). See Vol. IV. p. 435. Its own story has been freshly told in A. J. Weise’s Hist. of the City of Albany (1884).
[584] See Vol. IV. p. 441.