The Independent Chronicle (165 issues), The Yankee (50 issues) [1808-1813] (215 issues total)

Willis, Nathaniel

Boston: True & Rowe; Adams and Rhoades, 1808

[Early 19th-Century Republican and War of 1812 Newspapers, Boston, Mass.]  215 issues bound in early calf-backed boards.  Boards are worn, but the binding is solid.  Minor staining.  Collated.  Includes: The Independent Chronicle: Vol. XL, nos. 2828-2993. (June 2, 1808 - Dec. 28, 1809).  Also:  The Yankee: Vol. 1, nos. 1-7, 10-16, 18-27, 31-44, 46-52. Vol. II, nos. 1-5. (Jan. 3, 1812-Jan 29, 1813).  Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers p. 307.  The papers covered the important news of the day:  Articles about the differences with the US and the belligerent powers in Europe; Harvard College lottery notice; 15 reasons why Madison should be elected president; Article from a revolutionary army officer; the merits of the embargo and the threat of war; news from the Napoleonic war; printing of the Declaration of Independence; reports of the Independence day celebrations; letters from Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison; letters from William Pinkney; piracy, etc.  In the (Boston) Yankee: the impressment of US seamen; American Declaration of War with Great Britain; privateering; the frigate Constitution; Defeat in Detroit; Rittenhouse's Perpetual motion machine; Madison v. Clinton election; war with Indians in Ohio.