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From: Sandie <>
Subject: [NYGREENE] Esquire and Early American Newspapers List for NY
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:26:14 -0500
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ESQ
Means Esquire, someone of importance
I came across this explanation:
The original title comes from the Middle Ages -- an esquire was the rank
above a gentleman, and below a knight. The word derives from the Latin
scutum (shield), and Middle English esquier (shield bearer). It was also
generally applied to upstanding members of society: judges, sheriffs,
lawyers, professors.
The title was eventually adopted almost exclusively by the British legal
profession. There were still plenty of non-lawyer esquires (the title
was often passed down to eldest sons), but it was very popular among
barristers. The title was often shortened to "Squire."
Today in the United States, the title is mostly used as a sign of
courtesy toward members of the legal profession. It also pops up in the
stationery of lawyers who think of themselves highly. It's a formal
address that has no specific meaning.
FYI
Early American Newspapers
Cleveland Public Library
http://genref.cpl.org/index.php?q=node/300
NEW YORK
Albany- Albany Advertiser 1815-1817
Albany Argus 1813-1820
Albany Centinel 1793-1805
Albany Chronicle 1796-1798
Albany Daily Advertiser 1815-1817
Albany Journal 1788-1789
The Balance 1808-1811
Guardian 1807-1808
Geographical and Military Museum 1814
New York Gazetteer 1782-1784
Plough Boy 1819-1820
New York Statesman 1820
Republican Crisis 1806-1808
Ballston Spa- Ballston Spa Gazette 1821-1825
Independent American 1808-1818
Saratoga Patriot 1812-1813
Saratoga Register 1798
Rural Visitor 1812
Saratoga Courier 1815-1817
People=s Watch-Tower 1818-1820
Saratoga Farmer 1821
Catskill- American Eagle 1808-1811
Catskill Packet 1792-1793
Cherry Valley- Ostego Republican Press 1812-1813
Cherry-Valley Gazette 1818-1820
Cooperstown- Impartial Observer 1808-1809
Cooperstown Federalist 1809-1817
Freeman=s Journal 1817-1820
Ostego Herald 1795-1821
Watch-Tower 1821-1831
Herkimer- Herkimer Herald 1808-1809
Bunker Hill 1809-1810
Hudson- Balance 1801-1808
Wasp 1802-1803
Bee 1802-1808
Northern Whig 1809-1820
Ithaca- Ithaca Herlad 1836-1837
American Journal 1821-1823
Ithaca Journal, Literary Gazette, and
General Advertiser 1825
Republican Chronicle 1821-1822
Seneca Republican 1815
American Journal 1817-1820
Republican Chronicle 1820
Kingston- Farmer=s Register 1792-1793
Ulster Plebian 1815-1820
Lansingburgh- Farmer=s Register 1803-1807
Mount Pleasant- Westchester Herald 1818-1820
New York- American 1819-1820
American Citizen 1800-1810
American Minerva The Minerva 1793-1797
Argus & Greenleaf=s New Daily
Advertiser 1795-1796
Chronicle Express 1802-1804
Columbian 1809-1820
Columbian Gazetteer 1793-1794
Commercial Advertiser 1797-1820
Corrector 1804
Remembrancer 1805
Weekly Inspector 1806-1807
New York Spy 1806-1807
Courier 1815-1817
Daily Advertiser 1785-1809
Diary 1792-1794
Diary and Mercantile Advertiser 1797
Gazette Francaise 1795-1799
Gazette of the United States 1789-1804
Greenleaf's New York Journal &
Patriotic Register 1798
Herald 1794-1797
Imperial Gazeteer 1788
Weekly Museum 1788-1817
Independent Journal 1783-1788
Independent New York Gazette 1783
Independent Gazette 1783-1784
Independent Reflector 1752-1753
Mercantile Advertiser 1798-1820
Mott and Hurtin=s New York Weekly
Chronicle 1795
New York Weekly Chronicle 1795
Morning Chronicle 1802-1807
National Advocate 1812-1820
New York Chronicle 1769-1770
Constitutional Gazette 1775-1776
New York Daily Advertiser 1817-1820
New York Daily Gazette 1788-1795
New York Evening Post 1744-1752
1794-1795
1801-1822
New York Gazette or Weekly
Post-Boy 1747-1752
1757-1758
1767-1770
New York Gazette (WEYMAN=S) 1759-1767
New York Gazette and General
Advertiser 1801
1807
1806-1813
New York Gazette and Weekly
Advertiser 1801
New York Gazette & Weekly
Mercury 1768-1783
New York Herald 1802-1817
New York Journal 1784-1793
New York Journal or General
Advertiser 1766-1776
New York Mercury 1752-1768
New York Packet 1783-1792
New York Price Current 1797-1817
New York Spectator 1821
New York Weekly Journal 1733-1751
Observer 1809-1811
Olio 1813-1814
Oracle 1808
Observational Impartia 1808
People=s Friend 1806-1807
Patron of Industry 1820-1821
Public Advertiser 1817-1813
Register of the Times 1796-1798
Republican Watch-Tower 1803-1808
Rivington=s New York Gazette,
The Royal Gazette 1773-1783
The Shamrock 1810-1817
Spectator 1797-1820
Spirit of >76 1809
Washington Republican 1809-1810
United States Shipping List 1810-1812
Statesman 1812-1813
Temple of Reason 1800-1801
Temple of Reason (Philadelphia) 1801-1802
Time Piece 1797-1798
War 1812-1817
Military Monitor & American
Register 1812-1813
Weekly Visitor 1817-1820
Western Star 1812-1813
Youth=s Newspaper 1797
Ladies= Weekly Museum 1817
Norwich- Chenango Weekly Advertiser
Broome County Patriot (Binghampton)
Political Olio (Binghampton)
Madison County Herald (Peterboro) 1811-1815
Columbia Telegraph 1812
Telegraph 1813-1814
Republican Agriculturalist 1818-1819
Ogdensburgh- St. Lawrence Gazette 1817-1818
Palmyra- Palmura Register 1817-1820
Plattsburgh- American Monitor 1809-1810
Clinton Advertiser 1810-1811
Political Observatory 1811
Republican 1811-1820
Poughkeepsie- Independence 1832-1834
Rochester- Rochester Telegraph 1818-1820
Sag Harbor- Suffolk County Recorder 1816-1817
Suffolk Gazette 1804-1811
Salem- Northern Centinel 1798
Northern Post 1810-1813
Washington Patrol 1795
Saratoga Saratoga Sentinel 1819-1821
Sherburne Olive Branch 1806-1808
Olive Branch (Norwich) 1808-1809
Republican Messenger 1810-1811
Sing-Sing Hudson River Chronicle 1837-1850
Utica Patrol 1815-1816
Patriot 1803-1804
Utica Patriot 1804
Mark Brown wrote:
> HI - I found it noted on the Genealogy Bank website and I think I'm going to subscribe so that I can know for sure. Looks like one is perhaps Oswego ? and the other maybe Columbia County --- ?? So my guess is your second suggestion - someone's relative printed it.
>
> Does the ESQ - mean anything after tha name ? Josiah Brown ESQ? I have my printer running again so I'm not able to get my other stuff ready. I know you said you have company so enjoy and I'll try to have it all ready the following week. Thanks - M
>
>
> On Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 09:11AM, "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark, sorry for the delay in getting back to you - been running around
>> this week. I am actually not familiar with these newspapers. To my mind
>> Broome, NY is a hamlet around Livingstonville, just off Route 145 and just
>> down the road from Preston Hollow and in the county of Schoharie. This is a
>> different locale than Broome County, NY. The Columbia was likely a newspaper
>>
> >from Middleburg, or thereabouts, I would assume. I am not certain that
>
>> Broome would have been large enough in 1818, or even now, to support a
>> newspaper itself. On the other hand, this could be an obit about someone's
>> reltive that showed up in a newspaper, God knows where. See that all the
>> time in the old newspapers.
>>
>> I couldn't find this newspaper in teh NYS Newspaper archive.
>>
>> Sylvia
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "R. Mark Brown" <>
>> To: "NY Greene" <>
>> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 6:59 AM
>> Subject: [NYGREENE] Columbian - Commercial Advertiser
>>
>>
>>
>>> Sylvia, have you ever heard of newspapers with these names?
>>> Columbian - Commercial Advertiser
>>> The obit came from the Genealogy Bank - and cited these two newspapers
>>> which had the same death notice in 1818 (Broome, NY) . I did not
>>> find these at the Archives site. I really wish I could put a "yes" on
>>> the fact that I know these two papers existed - and where before. I
>>> went through the town of Broome Cemetery books at the Old Stone Fort
>>> yesterday but didn't find it but there are so many stones marked
>>> unreadable many more I'm sure never marked or lost.
>>>
>>> I believe you're on to something with Preston Hollow - the NC
>>> researcher Justine and I liaison on rare occasions cites a couple
>>> deaths in either Preston or Potters Hollow but we've never been able
>>> to pin down the sources for his data since it came from his father.
>>> If you compare the proximity of where Josiah Browns ended up - they
>>> are all within a circle of the two.
>>>
>>> 8 miles to N Rensselaerville (numerous relations)
>>> 24 miles NE to Coeymans Hollow, NY (daughter Lois Brown Hinman)
>>> 30 miles NE to Coeymans, NY (daughter Edith Brown Merritt)
>>> 18 miles N to Schoharie (grandchildren)
>>> 13 miles N to Middleburgh (grandchildren)
>>> 4 miles E to Durham (grandchildren)
>>> 26 miles NE to Coxsackie (Stacy is buried)
>>> 3.4 miles SE to Brown's Mill Rd. (Stacy's Mill)
>>> 18 miles S to Jewett, NY (Zadock's family)
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> R. Mark Brown
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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