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23-444: The South River Club (also known as "The Old South River Club") is one of the country's oldest, continuously active organizations of its type. Early records were lost when the first clubhouse burned down, but there is evidence that the club existed in 1732 and perhaps as early as 1700. Club records show that it existed before February 11, 1742, when a resolution was passed to attempt to record all previous members' names. As early as 1746,

46-726: Is not clear where the first clubhouse stood. There is speculation that it was in Londontowne, Maryland . The present structure was built in 1742 on land purchased from Captain Thomas Gassaway, son of Colonel Nicholas Gassaway . It is a small frame, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story one-room clubhouse with a gable roof and a narrow exterior chimney on the east gable end. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Maryland Gazette The Gazette , founded in 1727 as The Maryland Gazette ,

69-576: Is one of the oldest newspapers in America. Its modern-day descendant, The Capital , was acquired by The Baltimore Sun Media Group in 2014. Previously, it was owned by the Capital Gazette Communications group, which published The Capital , Bowie Blade-News , Crofton-West County Gazette , and Capital Style Magazine. The Gazette and their sister publications have been composed and printed in numerous locations, all in

92-827: The Newport Mercury , printed an almanac series, and printed Rhode Island paper currency. She was the country’s first female newspaper editor, the first woman to write an almanac, and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island 's Journalism Hall of Fame. Ann Smith Franklin was married to James Franklin, a printer and the brother of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. They had five children including daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and son James Jr. (c.1730–1762). James Jr. attended Philadelphia Academy with his cousin William, Benjamin's son, before James Jr.

115-621: The Acts and Laws of Rhode Island as a folio edition, her largest commission. Though a second child died young, Mary, Elizabeth and James Jr. worked in the family business. The daughters performed typesetting while James Jr. ran the business, now called "Ann and James Franklin", with his mother. During this time, however, some of Ann's imprints continued to bear the name "Widow Franklin". In 1758, they published The Newport Mercury , Rhode Island's first newspaper. As Ann grew older, she turned over many business responsibilities to James Jr. After

138-613: The Evening Capital after being purchased from Colonel Phillip E. Porter by Capital owner William Abbott in 1910. The newspaper was promoted to twice-weekly publication in 1969 and primarily covered the north county area. Ann Smith Franklin Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin , brother of Benjamin Franklin . She published

161-594: The Gazette with what was then a blaring headline: "The Maryland Gazette Expiring: In Uncertain Hopes of a Resurrection to Life Again." Green wrote that because of the Stamp Act, the newspaper "will not any longer be published." In the bottom right-hand corner of the page, where the tax stamp should have been placed, there appeared instead a skull and crossbones. Calmer heads persuaded Green to return to publishing as part of

184-769: The Maryland Gazette was one of the venues for a war of words between a future signer of the Declaration of Independence and several loyalist members of the Annapolis political establishment. In the Maryland Gazette Extraordinary of June 19, 1766, Walter Dulany, George Steuart (1700–1784), John Brice (1705–1766) and others published an article excoriating Samuel Chase , co-founder of the Anne Arundel County chapter of

207-479: The Sons of Liberty and a leading opponent of the 1765 Stamp Act . The article called Chase "a busy, reckless incendiary, a ringleader of mobs, a foul-mouthed and inflaming son of discord and faction, a common disturber of the public tranquility". Chase responded with an open letter accusing Steuart and the others of "vanity...pride and arrogance", and of being brought to power by "proprietary influence, court favour, and

230-614: The Annapolis area, for more than 270 years. The company has moved headquarters seven times, including from 3 Church Circle to 213 West St. in 1948, to 2000 Capital Drive in 1987 and to Bestgate Road in September 2014. As of 2021, the newspaper posts to its website daily and publishes print editions on Wednesdays and Sundays. The Maryland Gazette was founded in Annapolis, Maryland in 1727 and published through 1734 by William Parks . Parks moved to Virginia in 1736. The newspaper

253-668: The Civil War began and martial law was imposed on Maryland, thousands of Marylanders were imprisoned, including thirty members of the Annapolis-based Maryland General Assembly. Despite the First Amendment, the crackdown did not spare the press. Nine Maryland newspapers were suppressed temporarily or permanently, and at least a dozen newspaper owners and editors were locked up at Fort McHenry. The Maryland Gazette opted for survival, despite

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276-487: The club was referred to as "The Ancient South River Club" in the Maryland Gazette . Early members included prominent landowners, merchants, and the local doctor and clergyman, all of whom lived within a 10-mile radius of the clubhouse. The members of the club meet at the clubhouse four times per year for feasts prepared in the detached kitchen. Women are only allowed in the clubhouse on "Pilgrimage Days." It

299-615: The colony, a position she held until she died. In this official capacity, she printed the colony's charter granted by Charles II of England . To supplement her income, she printed sermons for ministers , advertisements for merchants , as well as popular British novels . Ann's most notable work was compiling and publishing five editions of the Rhode Island Almanack , for the years 1737–1741. In 1741, she began selling her brother-in-law Benjamin's almanac, Poor Richard's Almanack , and in 1745, she printed 500 copies of

322-480: The known sympathies of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County for the South. In 1860, for example, Lincoln received only three votes in Anne Arundel County, and only a single one from Annapolis. However, any loss of revenue from disgruntled readers and advertisers was at least partially compensated for when President Abraham Lincoln appointed the publisher federal paymaster for the state of Maryland. The Gazette merged with

345-551: The nose of the royal governor in Annapolis. Ultimately, she published the newspaper for eight years while raising 14 children. The newspaper remained in the Green family for 94 years. The Green House on Charles Street in Annapolis, publication site of the Maryland Gazette , now bears a commemorative historical plaque. Jonas Green hated the Stamp Act , which among other things directly taxed his newspaper. Refusing to pay, he published

368-518: The post office. Jonas Green was known as a "wit and bon vivant" for his "mystifying conundrums and atrocious puns". Jonas Green spoke out against the Stamp Tax frequently, giving weekly notices of the tax, speeches made against it, and its enactment. Contributors to the paper wrote under the pseudonyms "Cato" and "Lycurgus," calling the tax impolitic and unconstitutional. Green publicly stated that he would suspend publication rather than submit to

391-410: The struggle against tyranny, and he later resumed publication under this banner headline: "An Apparition of the late Maryland Gazette, which is not dead, but only sleepeth." Defenders of this newspaper's claim as "the oldest in the nation" say this brief interruption of publication was not a business decision as much as a deliberate political statement by a determined and courageous publisher. In 1766,

414-626: The tax, and on October 10, 1765, the Gazette printed an announcement of the cease in publication: "THE MARYLAND GAZETTE, EXPIRING, IN UNCERTAIN HOPES Of a Resurrection to Life again." When Green died in 1767, his jobs as editor and publisher were taken over by his wife, Anne Catherine Hoof Green , making her one of the first women to hold either of the top jobs at an American newspaper (preceded by Ann Smith Franklin of Rhode Island). A strong supporter of Colonial rights, she continued her husband's policy of operating an independent newspaper under

437-511: The wealth and influence of the tools and favourites who infest this city." In 1772, Charles Carroll of Carrollton engaged in a debate conducted through the Maryland Gazette , maintaining the right of the colonies to control their own taxation. Writing in the Gazette under the pseudonym "First Citizen", he became a prominent spokesman against the governor's proclamation increasing legal fees to state officers and Protestant clergy. Opposing Carroll in these written debates and writing as "Antillon"

460-1032: Was Daniel Dulany the Younger , a noted lawyer and loyalist politician. In these debates, Carroll argued that the government of Maryland had long been the monopoly of four families, the Ogles, the Taskers, the Bladens and the Dulanys, with Dulany taking the contrary view. Eventually word spread of the true identity of the two combatants, and Carroll's fame and notoriety began to grow. Dulany soon resorted to highly personal ad hominem attacks on "First Citizen", and Carroll responded, in statesmanlike fashion, with considerable restraint, arguing that when Antilles engaged in "virulent invective and illiberal abuse, we may fairly presume, that arguments are either wanting, or that ignorance or incapacity know not how to apply them". After

483-524: Was Jonas Green , a former protégé of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia . On January 17, 1745, he revived the weekly paper, distributing it at the post office and printing office on Charles Street. The Gazette ' s early masthead read as follows: Money was sometimes hard to come by, so Green sometimes traded an ad or a subscription for supplies. His wife, Anne Catherine Hoof Green , also helped to make ends meet by selling homemade chocolates at

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506-539: Was apprenticed in the printing trade to his uncle Benjamin. After a long illness, James died in Newport in 1735, leaving Ann a widow, aged 39, with three young children to support, one child having died earlier. In 1736, Ann petitioned the General Assembly of Rhode Island, seeking printing work in order to support her family. She was awarded the contract, becoming the General Assembly's official printer to

529-596: Was both Maryland and the South's first publication, as well as the sixth in the colonies. Publication became irregular after 1730, before being discontinued in 1734. The Gazette began as a half folio sheet with double columns printed on both sides. Parks modelled his format after British weekly papers such as the Spectator or the Tattler . It later expanded to full folio, presenting four pages with essays, news, and advertisements. The Gazette ' s second publisher

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