(CONNECTICUT) Bound volume of the Connecticut Courant

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(CONNECTICUT.) Bound volume of the Connecticut Courant. Volume XXXVI, 52 weekly issues of 4 pages each, bound in one volume. Folio, 21 x 13 inches, stitched in later heavy wrappers; four articles clipped out, otherwise minimal wear; uncut; defunct library bookplate inside front wrapper, inked "dupe" on front. (MRS) Hartford, CT, January to December 1801

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A year of what is commonly called the oldest continually published newspaper in America. Includes Federalist coverage of the controversial 1800 presidential election, which was not decided until well into 1801.