Specimens of newspaper literature : with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences / by Joseph T. Buckingham.

THE FARMER'S WEEKLY MUSEUM.
THE paper, which was long known by this title, and
which, for a time, enjoyed a degree of popularity then
unprecedented in the case of any one published in a
country village, was begun in April, 1793, at Walpole,
New-Hampshire, by Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle.
Carlisle was a native of Walpole, and had served an
apprenticeship with Thomas, at Worcester, which was
then just completed. Thomas furnished the printingoffice with its types and press, and a bookstore with a
handsome assortment of books, and the whole business
of printing and bookselling was carried on under the
firm of Thomas & Carlisle.
The paper was first published with the title of the
New-Hampshire Journal.
It soon gained a respectable circulation in New-Hampshire, and was liberally patronized in Vermont, particularly in the towns lying opposite to Walpole, on Connecticut river. The business intercourse between the
two states was constant, and a similarity of taste and
habits existed among the inhabitants of both. The
New-Hampshire Journal was found, by the people of
Vermont, to be a convenient paper for advertising, and
two or three post-routes were established on that side of
the river. There seemed to be a propriety in giving to