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to tell the news of what the colonies outside of New Jersey were doing. Undoubtedly the latter was the more important, for Shepard Kollock, a printer at Chatham, who, like Collins, had learned the trade with James Adams at Wilmington, started, at the suggestion of General Knox, The New-Jersey Journal on February 16, 1779. The soldiers only five miles away subscribed liberally, considering how pitifully small were the wages re- ceived, and the officers often furnished, in exchange for army printing, the paper upon which The Journal was printed.

At the end of the Revolution, Kollock, finding himself in a place too small to support a newspaper, went to New Bruns- wick, where, on October 14, 1783, he started, with Shelly Arnett, The Political Intelligencer and New- Jersey Advertiser "at the Barracks/* a building used to shelter British troops in colonial days. The partnership was dissolved in July, 1784, and he be- came the sole owner. On April 20, 1785, Kollock brought out his newspaper in "Elizabeth Town." With Number 134, or on May 10, 1786, he changed its title to The New- Jersey Journal and Political Intelligencer. It still survives as The Elizabeth Daily Journal. The change in name from The New-Jersey Journal was made when the paper became a daily on July 17, 1871.