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years they were printed. After his decease in September, 

 1808, this publication was continued by his son, Na- 

 thaniel. 



2. Amos Pope was born Feb. 22, 1771, in the first 

 Parish of Danvers. He was the son of Nathaniel and 

 Mary (Swinnerton) Pope, and his ancestors were among 

 the first settlers of Salem. At the age of twenty he 

 undertook to prepare an almanac for the year 1792, which 

 under great disadvantages he accomplished. He also 

 prepared almanacs for 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797, 

 these were all printed except the one for 1796. After 

 1797, with the exception of a few winters devoted to 

 school keeping, he resided upon the ancestral farm, where 

 he died January 26, 1837. 



3. Samuel Hall, son of Jonathan and Anna (Fowle) 

 Hall, was born in Medford, Mass., Nov. 2, 1740. In 

 1768 he was persuaded by Capt. Richard Derby to re- 

 move to Salem, and under the patronage of the Derbys, 

 and other patriotic citizens, established the Essex Ga- 

 zette : the first number was issued Aug. 2d of that year ; — 

 the first paper in Salem. He printed the Essex Almanac 

 from 1769 to 1773, inclusive. He removed to Cambridge 

 in 1775, and soon afterwards to Boston. He returned to 

 Salem in 1781 and commenced printing the Salem Ga- 

 zette, and in 1785 he again removed to Boston, where he 

 died, Oct. 30, 1807. 



4. Daniel George, of Haverhill, 1776 to 1787, inclu- 

 sive, except for 1785 ; none printed that year. He re- 

 moved from Haverhill to Falmouth (now Portland), Me., 

 previous to 1783 and was the publisher there, for a time, 

 of the Gazette of Maine. He died suddenly, Feb. 4, 

 1804, aged 45. 



This communication, the fifth in the series, contains a 

 brief notice of Nathaniel Ames and his series of alma- 



