Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Checklist of Pennsylvania Newspapers, Vol. 1: Philadelphia County In i800, there were one hundred and fifty newspapers i States. There was a marked increase in the next decade, 1 and sixty-six being published in 1810. Pennsylvania outran States at this time, with seventy-three. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.