Tyler, Moses Coit. Three Men of Letters (George Berkeley, Timothy Dwight and Joel Barlow). New York and London, 1895. B. CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPERS _w_. abbreviation for weekly HARTFORD American Mercury, _w_. Anti-Federal. Founded July 12, 1784, with Joel Barlow, editor, and Elisha Babcock, publisher. In 1833 merged into the Independent Press. Yale University Library has a file practically complete to 1828, only 20 numbers missing. Connecticut Courant. _w_. Federal, Whig, Republican. Founded 1764, by Thomas Green as organ of the Loyal Sons of Liberty; later supported Washington and Adams; continued as the weekly and now daily Hartford Courant. Said to be the oldest newspaper still published in the United States. Connecticut Courant and the Weekly Hartford Intelligencer, 1774. Connecticut Courant and the Weekly Intelligencer, Feb. 1781. The latter part of title dropped March 21, 1791. In 1837 the Daily Courant was established. This paper bought out the Independent Press (which in turn had absorbed the American Mercury); and the staff of the Press, including Charles Dudley Warner, Gen. J. K. Hawley and Stephen A. Hubbard, joined William H. Goodrich, who was the business manager of the Couraut. Connecticut Mirror, _w_. Federal. Founded July 10, 1809, by Charles Hosmer, publisher. During the War of 1812, it was the organ of the "extreme right" of the Federal party. It was continued until about 1835. Yale University Library contains an almost complete file up to 1831. Times. _w_. Democratic-Republican. Founded Jan., 1817, with Frederick D. Bolles, publisher, and M. Niles, editor. Its slogan was "Toleration" and the New Constitution. March 2,1841, it became the Daily Times, and still continues. NEW HAVEN Columbian Register, _w_. Democrat. Founded Dec. 1, 1812, Joseph Barber, publisher, to give "proceedings of Congress, latest news from Europe and history of New England, particularly of Connecticut." Daily edition, 1845; Sunday edition, 1877. Yale University has a continuous file. The Connecticut Gazette, _w_. Printed by James Parker, April, 1755. Suspended April 14,1764. Eevived by Benjamin Mecom, July 5, 1765. Ended Feb. 19, 1768. Connecticut Herald, _w_. Federal, Republican. Founded 1803, by Corostock, Griswold & Co., publishers, Thomas Green Woodward, editor. A Daily Herald, issued Nov. 16,1832. In 1835 its publishers, Woodward & Carrington, bought the Connecticut Journal. The Daily Herald and Journal of 1846 soon became, by buying out the Courier, The Morning Journal and Courier, as now, and its weekly edition, the Connecticut Herald. Yale University has a continuous file. The Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post Boy. _w_. Federal.