Receipt for 26 issues of the Statesman

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Castleton VT, Tuttle & Rawson, 1837

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1837 partly-printed receipt for 26 numbers of the Statesman, Tuttle & Rawson publishers, Castleton [Vermont] purchased by Oliver Harris May 9, 1837 for $1.00, signed by Tuttle on July 3, 1837 as having received the full amount. The newspaper was founded as a Whig paper in 1824 by Reverend Ovid Miner, sold to George Albert Tuttle (1816-1885), who had apprenticed at the paper in 1829.