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Rh about three years by him and then sold to John Norvel & Co. The "Co." was dropped with the issue of February 7, 1818, but on March 5, 1819, the paper was transferred to Joshua Norvel & Co., which later became, on October 6 of that year, Norvel & Cavins. The latter partner, however, became the sole proprietor on July 27, 1820. The Kentucky Gazette ceased publication some time in 1848.

The second paper in Kentucky was also started in Lexington by Thomas H. Stewart, who, on or near February 17, 1795, brought out Stewart's Kentucky Herald. After ten years The Herald became a part of The Kentucky Gazette.

The family of Bradford was connected with the first three papers in Kentucky. In 1802 John Bradford was the publisher of The Kentucky Herald, just mentioned; on November 7, 1795, Benjamin J. Bradford brought out the third paper, The Kentucky Journal, at Frankfort.

Other early Kentucky papers were The Rights of Man, or The Kentucky Mercury, first published in May, 1797, at Paris, by Darius Moffett; The Mirror, August, 1797, at Washington, by Hunter & Beaumont; The Guardian of Freedom, by John Bradford & Son (this paper was really a branch of The Kentucky Gazette published at Frankfort in order to advocate Bradford as State Printer); The Palladium, August, 1798, at Frankfort, by Hunter (after The Mirror at Washington was discontinued, the earlier part of that year); The Western American, in 1803, at Bardstown, by Francis Peniston; The Western World, in 1806, at Frankfort, by Joseph M. Street; The Candid Review, in 1807, at Bardstown, by Peter Isler & Co.; The Louisville Gazette, in 1807, by Joseph Charles; The Impartial Observer, in 1807, at Lexington, by Guerin & Prentiss; The Argus of Western America, in 1808, at Frankfort, by William Gerard.

Dr. Robert Henry, physician, who had come to Berkeley County in 1792, started the first newspaper in West Virginia at Martinsburg in 1789. It was called The Potomac Guardian