at Westminster, Vermont, on February 12, 1781, Volume I, Number 1, of The Vermont Gazette, or Green Mountain Post-Boy. From that day dates the beginning of journalism in what is now the State of Vermont. The paper, 17 × 12½, had for its motto:—
Pliant as Reeds where Streams of Freedom glide;
Firm as the Hills to stem Oppression's Tide.
Printed by Judah Paddock Spooner and Timothy Green, it lasted until the beginning of the year 1783.
The second paper was at Bennington: it bore the name of The Vermont Gazette, or Freeman's Depository, and first appeared June 5, 1783, from the shop of Anthony Haswell and David Russell. On January 5, 1797, it was continued as The Tablet of the Times. In spite of numerous changes both in name and ownership it survived until 1880. Possibly its period of greatest influence was during the days when it advocated Andrew Jackson for President of the United States.
George Hough bought the press and type used to print the first paper at Westminster, took in as partner Alden Spooner, who was a brother of Judah, and brought out at Windsor on August 7, 1783, the third paper, The Vermont Journal and the Universal Advertiser. It bore the motto—
From Realms far distant and from Climes unknown,
We make the Knowledge of Mankind your own;
and survived until about 1834.
Anthony Haswell printed on June 25, 1792, at Rutland the first issue of the fourth newspaper, The Rutland Herald, or Rutland Courier. Its immediate successor was The Rutland Herald, or Vermont Mercury, first published December 8, 1794, by Samuel Williams and a clergyman of the same name. It had the longest life of any paper in the State and is still published.
ORIGIN OF JOURNALISM IN MAINE
January 1, 1785, saw the first newspaper established in Maine: called The Falmouth Gazette, it was published by Benjamin Titcomb, who had learned his trade in a shop at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Thomas B. Wait, who had been connected
