1Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
, alleging that McKean sought votes from those “whom not long since he would have trampled in the dust.” The Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 1 Aug., suggested the importance of York County in the election, describing plans by McKean’s supporters to hold campaign events there.
2William Walter to Abigail Adams, 1 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
., both below; Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 29 Aug.;
3Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, 13 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
, 5th edn., Phila., 1837, p. 307–308; Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 10 Oct.;
4Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 23 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
, 23 Oct.; Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 17 Oct.).
5Abigail Adams to William Smith, 19 November 1799 (Adams Papers)
, and note 4, below (Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 28 Nov. 1799; Wil Verhoeven,
6Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 27 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
off Norfolk, Va., which was attributed to “a tendency to Mutiny and disorder in the late Crew.” Two leaders were at first sentenced to death, but the punishment was reduced to 100 lashes (Philadelphia Universal Gazette, 17 April;
7Notes on John Adams’s Replies to XYZ Addresses, [before 6 October 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
had printed a number of the XYZ addresses and the president’s replies in his weekly Philadelphia Universal Gazette.
8Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 6 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
newspapers; Philadelphia Universal Gazette [index entry] Philadelphia; Universal Gazette [index entry]
9Madison’s Aurora General Advertiser Essays, 23 January–23 February 1799 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
...to the critics of the Adams administration in the nation’s capital. The only alternative printer to whom Jefferson might have been able to turn as a publisher for JM’s writings was Samuel Harrison Smith, but Smith’s Philadelphia Universal Gazette printed no material in the early months of 1799 that conformed to the enclosures described in JM’s and Jefferson’s correspondence (