NOTE ON SOURCES

Michael D'Innocenzo and John Turner, "The Peter Van Gaasbeek Pa-
pers: A Resource for Early New York History, 1771-1797," New York
History, 47 [1966], 153-59.)
The Library of Congress has the papers of Antifederalist Hugh
Hughes, which include several important letters and the drafts of his
pseudonymous newspapers essays, and the largest and most varied col-
lection of the papers of Alexander Hamilton. Some of Hamilton's let-
ters are also in the papers of James Madison and George Washington.
The papers of Hamilton and Madison are good in describing the writ-
ing and publication of The Federalist-the principal and most volumi-
nous Federalist commentary on the Constitution. As a congressman
resident in New York, Madison reported on New York politics; while
Washington was one of those to whom he (and others) reported. The
Webb Papers at Yale University include the letters of Federalist Samuel
Blachley Webb, a commercial agent in New York City. The Henry Van
Schaack Scrapbook at the Newberry Library in Chicago has a few letters
of Peter Van Schaack and Philip Schuyler.
As the seat of the Confederation Congress, New York City was the
residence of congressmen, members of the executive departments, and
foreign diplomats-many of whom wrote letters about the Constitu-
tion. The Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont Mor-
gan Library has Secretary at War Henry Knox's voluminous papers,
while Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard's letters are in the Jeremy
Belknap Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The letters and
papers of all congressmen have been published in Paul H. Smith et al.,
eds., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 (26 vols., Washington,
D.C., 1976-2000). The Library of Congress has the correspondence of
French, English, Spanish, and Dutch diplomats based in New York City.
Newspapers
From September 1787 through July 1788, twelve newspapers and a
monthly magazine were published in New York at one time or another.
Seven newspapers and the magazine were printed in New York City,
two newspapers in Albany, and one newspaper each in Hudson and
Poughkeepsie. The twelfth newspaper was printed first in Lansing-
burgh, then in Albany, finally returning to Lansingburgh.
The seven newspapers printed in New York City included three dai-
lies, three semiweeklies, and one weekly. The dailies were The Daily
Advertiser; The New-York Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser; and The New-
York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
The oldest daily in New York City was William Morton's New York
Morning Post. Originally established as a semiweekly by Morton and
Samuel Horner in April 1783, it became a daily on 23 February 1785.

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