The identification of the various fonts of locally made type used in Pennsylvania in the quarter century following "The first Work with Amer. Types" would form an interesting chapter in the story of early American type founding.
[10] Editor's Note: _Pennsylvania Archives_, 6th Series, 12:887-919. In _Typographic Heritage_, the second printing of this essay, Sower's type founding venture is more extensively treated, and the rare existing issues of Part II of _Ein Geistliches Magazien_ are located (pp. 143-144).
[11] McCulloch, p. 181, gives the middle of December 1771 as the date of Bay's arrival in Philadelphia. In Rupp's _Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776_, p. 398, Jacob Bay is among the arrivals on the Brig _Betsey_ on 1 December 1771. The name is spelled Bey by McCulloch, Bäy by Rupp, Bay in various lists and documents in the Pennsylvania Archives. The last-named spelling is used in the present study on this authority.
[12] Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... (1776-1781), Volume the First (Philadelphia, 1782), p. 33.
[13] Ezra Stiles, _Literary Diary_. Ed. by F. B. Dexter. 3 vols. (New York, 1901), I:549.
[14] Story & Humphreys's _Pennsylvania Mercury, and Universal Advertiser_. Evans 14477. No copy seen by Hildeburn.
[15] It well may be that this production was not a book or pamphlet but a popular card game of the educational sort. See A. T. Hazen, _A Bibliography of Horace Walpole_, p. 173, and the same author's bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, pp. 145-148.
[16] Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, 12:887-919.
[17] McCulloch's statement is borne out by the inventory of Sower's real estate in Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, 12:872-873.
[18] Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, 12:918-919.
[19] McCulloch gives the date indefinitely as about the year 1784. His father, John McCulloch, from whom he received much information embodied in the "Additions," was at one time foreman in Bailey's shop.
[20] _One Hundred Years_, MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Foundry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1896), p. 12, where is given a list of printers found in Binny & Ronaldson's ledgers from 1796 to 1801. The original books are in the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company, now a part of the Columbia University Library.