The People's Friend

• id: 437
• end_date: after October 2, 1813
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 102
• proprietors: Charles B. Rhoades
• start_date: September 21, 1812
• variant_number: Staunton 08-01
• notes: Earliest surviving number (September 21, 1812) is paper's initial issue; the latest surviving number known (October 2, 1813) indicates paper continued into its second volume/year, despite litigation against Rhoades initiated in May 1813 by James Williamson, his former master, over Rhoades's breach of his contract with Williamson in printing the antecedent Spirit of the Press; this paper had ceased publication by time of a second trial that ensued from that initial suit in February 1814, so end date reported here.
• lineage_title: People's Friend
• Related Bios:
  • Charles B. Rhoades

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