A founders’ list was secretly circulated among trusty Federalists, and signers were expected to contribute a minimum of $100. The initial capital required was probably not much in excess of $10,000. A Baltimore newspaper, the _Anti-Democrat_, was established at this time by Judge Samuel Chase, Robert Goodloe Harper, and other Federalists, for $8,000. Hamilton’s adherents, who included almost the whole commercial group of New York, were wealthy; and Hamilton himself, liberal to a fault with his large income, probably offered not less than $1,000. Besides the names already listed, we know of some other men who contributed, as the merchant, Samuel Boyd, and the dismissed Collector, Joshua Sands. Coleman told the poet Bryant, his successor, that Archibald Gracie, one of the richest and most dignified merchants, had assisted, and a tradition in the family has it that the _Evening Post_ was founded at a meeting in the Gracie home. The _American Citizen_ of the time declares that a certain auctioneer--perhaps Leonard Bleecker, perhaps the elder Philip Hone, perhaps James Byrne--“contributed largely.” These men did not present the money outright, but vested the property in Coleman, who gave his notes in return; unfortunately, he was never able to meet them, and before 1810 all his American creditors, as one of his friends states in a letter of that year, “signed his discharge without receiving anything.” The project was rapidly matured. “In a moment thousands of dollars were raised,” wrote Cheetham. During the summer of 1801 a fine brick office was made ready on Pine Street, and about the beginning of November would-be readers were asked to enter their subscriptions. The initial subscribers numbered about 600, and among the names entered in the journal’s first account book, which was unfortunately lost years ago, were the following: Daniel D. Tompkins, 1 Wall Street John Jacob Astor, 71 Liberty Street Garrett H. Striker, 181 Broadway Henry Doyer, Bowery Lane Anthony Lispenard, 19 Park Street Strong Sturges, 13 Oliver Street Anthony Bleecker, 25 Water Street Joel and Jonathan Post, Wall and William Streets Isaac Haviland, 186 Water Street John McKesson, 82 Broadway Matthew Clarkson, 26 Pearl Street Nathaniel L. Sturges, 47 Wall Street Philip Livingston, Yonkers Philip Hone, 56 Dey Street R. Belden, 153 Broadway Col. Barclay, 142 Greenwich Street John Cruger, 30 Greenwich Street Anthony Dey, 19 Cedar Street Robert Morris, 33 Water Street Robert Thorne, 2 Coenties slip Isaac Ledyard, 2 Pearl Street James Carter, 195 Greenwich Street Cornelius Bogert, 24 Pine Street Grant Thorburn, 22 Nassau Street Philip L. Jones, 74 Broadway Robert Swarthout, 62 Water Street