Individual Citation

The American Eagle and Shepherd's-town Weekly Advertiser

• ID: 388
• End Date: after February 25, 1817
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 0
• Proprietors: John N. Snider
• Start Date: February 29, 1816
• Variant Number: Shepherdstown 03-01
• Notes: A Federalist advertiser with connections to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, printing office of George Kenton Harper, Snider's mentor & master. Snider seems to have started a press in Shepherdstown in late 1815 and commenced publishing this journal in February 1816. Latest known issue with his imprimatur is for February 25, 1817, with next surviving issue dated July 3, 1817, under the firm of Maxwell & Harper; the two survivors suggest Snider left Shepherdstown after the first volume was closed, and turned operation over to a relative of his mentor, who was in partnership with a local financier and/or editor.
  Norona & Shetler calculated start date of March 7, 1816, from issue of July 25, 1816 (I:21), then the earliest known; as first number of this paper (February 29, 1816) was uncovered by U.S. Newspaper Project, that inaccurate date indicates publication was suspended for one week sometime during the four months ensuing months.
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  • John Nelson Snider

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