Both this issue and the June 15 issue, the sole Library of Congress holdings of the _Gazette_ for the year 1793, are inscribed "Claiborne Watkins, esq^r." They probably belonged to the person of that name residing in Washington County, Va., who served as a presidential elector in 1792.[47]
[Footnote 44: _Early Printing in Tennessee_ (Chicago, 1933), p. 21.]
[Footnote 45: _The Gentleman's Magazine._ Franklin's _A Narrative of the Late Massacres_ was published separately at Philadelphia in the same year.]
[Footnote 46: Brackets in text. Several issues carried this paragraph. See William Rule, ed. _Standard History of Knoxville, Tennessee_ (Chicago, 1900), p. 74.]
[Footnote 47: See _Calendar of Virginia State Papers_, vol. 6 (1886), p. 140.]
William Maxwell of New York, after failing to establish himself at Lexington, Ky., moved on to Cincinnati in the Northwest Territory and thereby became the first Ohio printer. His work at Cincinnati began with the November 9, 1793, issue of his newspaper, _The Centinel of the North-Western Territory_.[48]
The earliest known Ohio book, also printed by Maxwell, is the earliest example of Ohio printing to be found at the Library of Congress: _Laws of the Territory of the United States North-West of the Ohio: Adopted and Made by the Governour and Judges, in Their Legislative Capacity, at a Session Begun on Friday, the XXIX Day of May, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety-Five, and Ending on Tuesday the Twenty-Fifth Day of August Following_.... Dated 1796, "Maxwell's Code," as this book is sometimes called, was not the first publication of Northwest Territory laws, others having been printed at Philadelphia in 1792 and 1794.
The printer set forth a "Proposal" concerning the forthcoming work in the _Centinel_ of July 25, 1795:
W. Maxwell being appointed by the legislature to print for them 200 copies of their laws, he thinks it would be greatly conducive towards the instruction and common benefit of all the citizens to extend the impression to 1000 copies.... The price, in boards, to subscribers, will be at the rate of nineteen cents for every 50 pages, and to non-subscribers, thirty cents.[49]
[Illustration: _Pages from the first book printed in Ohio._]