Note 577 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

His career is commemorated by Horatio Gates Jones in an address, Andrew Bradford, the founder of the newspaper press in the Middle States (Philad., 1869). Cf. Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (vol. iii. ch. 48), on the press of Philadelphia; Thomas’s Hist. of Printing (Worcester, 1874), ii. p. 132; and Frederic Hudson’s Journalism in the United States (N. Y., 1873), p. 60. The best known of the early Philadelphia papers was, however, The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette, which, begun Dec. 24, 1728, passed with the fortieth number into the control of Benj. Franklin, who retained only the secondary title for the paper. Cf. “History of a newspaper—the Pennsylvania Gazette,” in Mag. of Amer. Hist., May, 1886, by Paul L. Ford; a long note by Hildeburn in Catal. of works relating to Franklin in Boston Pub. Library, p. 37.