Feinberg/Whitman
Miscellany
Subscribers' list for Brooklyn Newpaper.  
(DCN2)
Box 51  Folder 4[*685*]
1848 July 11   List of Subscribers For A Daily Newspaper In Brooklyn.  A.MS.  written by Seth B. Hunt, with MS notations by
Walt Whitman  (2p. 33 1/2 x 20 cm.)
List of subscribers to establish the Banner of Freedom, a newspaper "which
shall oppose the extension of slavery and support for election offices persons
who will advocate for same."  At end in Walt Whitman's writing:  "I have 
paid my subscription to Mr. Whitman who is going on with the paper and
should recommend the others above also to pay theirs to Mr. Whitman."
Signed S. E. Johnson.  Marginal notations in pencil by Walt Whitman listing 
names and addresses of subscribers.
The name Banner of Freedom was never used; it was renamed Brooklyn
Freeman and published under Whitman's editorship beginning with Saturday, 
Sept. 9, 1848.          {2}  
[*2*]           
We, the subscribers, agree to pay to Francis Pares Esq.
Treasurer, the sums affixed to our names, respectively,
for the purpose of establishing a daily newspaper, in the
City of Brooklyn, to be entitled The Banner of Freedom
which shall oppose the extension of slavery and support
for elective offices persons who will advocate the same
principle: Our said respective subscriptions to be 
payable whenever the aggregate sum of One Thousand
dollars shall be subscribed hereto by responsible
persons, provided the same shall be subscribed on
or before the 29th of July instant.
Dated Brooklyn July 11th 1848.

Seth M Hunt—
Clinton C Remsen Seth M Hunt  one hundred dollars $100
Johnson & Fonda one hundred dollars $100
Francis Pares one hundred  $100
[*Monroe P.
near Pierrepont
70 Pierrepont*]
A. P. Stanton one hundred dollars $100
Hiram Barney for a Whig friend,
Hiram W.  f himself $50. 25. 25} $100
66 Pierrepont Geo R Fels $25
Geo R Fels $25
G W Stilwel $25
9 Baltic Gilbert A Grant $25
280 Pearl Daniel A Rollins $25
105 Fulton Geo Hall $25 
26 Wyckoff John Cockle $10
Henry C Remsen Samuel Boyd $10
9th Ward Hotel Bedford S. T. Roberts $20
296 Henry H. Edey $10
41 Pierpont H. B. Claflins $25--Paid

I have paid my subscription to Mr.
Whitman, who is going on with the paper and
should recommend the others above also to pay
theirs to Mr. W.
S. E. JohnsonE. Corning
List of Subscribers
to start newspaper