THE POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL
"BEFORE the friends of Mr. Power":
Nicholas Power began publishing the Poughkeepsie Journal on August 11, 1785. From 1792-1793, he also
published "The Farmer's Register" in Kingston. On Apr. 1796, he added Richard Vanderburgh as his partner, but
the partnership fell apart in November of the same year.
16 Nov 1796
TO THE PUBLIC.
The Partnership of Nicholas POWER & Richard VANDERBURGH is dissolved by mutual consent; and all persons concerned will take notice, that the business will be
continued by Nicholas POWER only, to whom all debts due to said partnership are to be paid. The above partnership is dissolved in consequence of the said Richard
VANDERBURGH'S expectation of going into business in another county.
Nicholas POWER, Richard VANDERBURGH.
Poughkeepsie, October 27, 1796.
On March 27, 1798, Power had a new partner, Henry Collins Southwick.
Power died in Poughkeepsie in 1811, at the age of 51.
THE POLITICAL BAROMETER
Isaac Mitchell is known today as a writer, but from 1798 until his death of typhus on November 26, 1812,
he was also a journalist, publisher, and editor, mostly in
Poughkeepsie, but for a time in Albany. His politics was strongly Jeffersonian Republican.
Mitchell was originally the publisher of the American Farmer and Dutchess County Advertiser, a Poughkeepsie newspaper
publishly weekly from June 8, 1798 - July 22, 1800. From 1801 to 1802, Mitchell owned an interest in The Guardian,
another Poughkeepsie paper. In June 1802, he renamed the paper The Political Barometer. He continued to publish
the paper until 1806, when he sold it to Thomas Nelson and Son.
From Nov. 11, 1806 - Dec. 27, 1808, Mitchell published the Republican Crisis in Albany on a semi-weekly basis.
But Poughkeepsie must have held quite a pull for him, because he was back in the town in 1808 as editor of the Republican Herald,
another weekly newspaper, a position he kept until 1811.
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