New Jersey Gazette, December 13, 1784

All the while that Congress sat in Trenton in late 1784, the New-Jersey Gazette was being printed and published weekly by Isaac Collins a block away from the French Arms Tavern. The newspaper offered a mix of current national and international news interspersed with more localized Trenton-area advertisements and notices. The December 13, 1784 issue included a report that the Marquis de Lafayette and several more states' representatives to Congress (Elbridge Gerry and Rufus King of Massachusetts; John Jay, Robert R. Livingston and Walter Livingston of New York; Samuel Dick and Charles Stewart of New Jersey; and John-Francis Mercer of Virginia) had arrived in town over the preceding week.

[credit: New Jersey State Archives, Department of State, scanned from originals lent courtesy of the New Jersey State Library]