Holt thinks the size of the paper was a spaail royal, but a copy of it in possession of Hon. John Mahon, dated April 28, 1807, measures 12 by 15 inches. The printers of those days were compelled frequently, by the scarcity of stock, to vary the size of their papers, and tliis may have been the case with the copy in question, which is the more probable from the fact that it has no column rules.

The third paper in the county was the Herkimer Pelican^ commenced by Mr. Cory soon after he sold out his first establishment.

First paper at Little Falls. In September, 1821, the first printing office was estabhshed at Little Falls, nov/ Rockton, by Edward M. Griffing, who began the publication of a democratic paper, called the People's Friend, which he continued till July 5, 1834, with an average subscription of about 600. At that time he sold to Messrs. C. S. Benton & Co., who changed the title to Mohawk Courier.

First paper at Frankfort. The Frankfort Democrat, was established at Frankfort in the fall of 1842, by J. M. Lyon, edited by W. B. Holmes. It was subsequently removed to Herkimer, and its title changed to Herkimer County Democrat. Condensed from an interesting article on the Press, in MunselVs Albany Annual Register, for 1851

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First Steamboat on Lake Ontario. The first Steamer was built at this place and called the " Ontario?'' She was commenced in the year 1816, and made her first trip in the first part of the month of April, 1817, the day I cannot learn. B. McCullock^ Collector J Sachets Harhor, Dec. 21, 1850.