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America." This error is doubtless due to the fact that Miller had been made, immediately upon his arrival in Charleston, "Printer to the State." He continued to publish his daily until it was purchased a year or two later by The State Gazette of South Carolina, when it was merged with that paper. Miller then removed to Pendleton, South Carolina, where he published a weekly, The Merger, until his death in 1809.

NEW YORK HAS NEXT DAILY

The third daily paper in the United States was The New York Daily Advertiser, first published on Thursday, March 1, 1785, by Francis Childs. Not being the outgrowth of another paper, it was, at least in its early days, rather poorly supported by advertisers: yet its publisher made an earnest attempt to se- cure such business and offered to insert advertisements at three shillings each. It had no sooner been established than it became engaged in a quarrel with Holt's New York Journal. Colonel E. Oswald, of the latter paper, asserted that the daily had been started simply to injure Widow Holt. Philip Freneau contrib- uted to the columns of The Daily Advertiser, but was never its editor, simply a writer of political articles. The Advertiser was the special organ of the Hartford Convention; in fact, its editor, Theodore Dwight, was secretary of the Convention. In its col- umns he told rather fully the story of New England's opposition to the War of 1812. Although the first daily paper in New York, it did not lead in circulation other dailies which were later es- tablished due, doubtless, to its political beliefs. By 1820 it was credited with a circulation of thirteen hundred, but prob- ably it had less than that amount. It finally united with The Express, then a morning, but later changed to an evening, news- paper.

FIRST DAILY OF BOSTON

Boston did not have a daily paper until October 6, 1796, when The Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser arose on the horizon. Its editor was John Burk, who had fled from Ireland where he had become involved in trouble on account of his con- nection with a rebellious band called the "United Ir