The Telegraphe and Daily Advertiser (January-June )1805

Thomas Dobbin

T. Dobbin, Baltimore [Md.], 1805

[Early Baltimore Newspaper during the Jeffersonian era: Numerous slave notices, auctions, incoming ships, commercial deals, local, national and world news]  Large portfolio of original issues from the Telegraphe and Daily Advertiser, printed January-June 1805. Includes 146 individual issues. Housed in a custom-made clamshell case. Important note: A few of the issues have been trimmed, with minor loss at text inner margin, but most are in very good condition. According the American Antiquarian Society, the newspaper was first published in 1797 under the names the "Baltimore Telegraphe" and the "City Gazette and Daily Telegraphe;" it until 1807. 

The newspaper issues contains numerous notices for hiring enslaved blacks, the sale of slaves, ships bearing goods arriving to the Port of Baltimore, Canton races, politics of the day, Baltimore Courts, land sales, apprentice runaways.