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The Earliest Printing and First Newspaper in Texas 97
was a small one, a press for an army campaign, as they called it
. . . On August 18, 1813, on the Medina River, Texas, Gen-
eral Arredondo won a celebrated battle from General Toledo,
whose forces were completely routed. As part of the booty of
war there was captured the aforementioned press, which had been
brought along by the North Americans who accompanied the
leader of the enemies' forces. There are two old documents
printed by the press that confirm this fact besides many eye-
witnesses who are still living.41
This account has been disputed on the ground that Arredondo
did not include a printing press in list of booty captured from
Toledo. Such argument is not convincing, however, because
Arredondo included only implements of war in his report.42 Be-
sides, the press could have been found after the report was made.
In any event Toledo unquestionably brought a press from the
United States, and there is no other explanation of what hap-
pened to it.
In the third place, who was the printer named Moore whom
Bullard praised so highly? It has been beyond my means to in-
vestigate the matter exhaustively, but some interesting supposi-
tions may be offered. As we have seen, Toledo used the print-
ing press freely while he was in the United States. He had
ample opportunity to meet printers, and before April, 1812, knew
one so well that he recommended him to Gutierrez. Possibly
this was Moore. Dr. Clarence S. Brigham, director of the
American Antiquarian Society and a foremost authority on early
American newspapers, states that there were four men named
Moore known to have printed or published newspapers in the
United States before 1821: William Moore, who published the
Gazette in Carthage, South Carolina, from 1808 to 1816, Jacob
B. Moore, who edited the New Hampshire Patriot in 1819, South-
wick H. Moore, who published the Spirit of the Press at Manlius,
New York, 1816-1817, and Samuel Moore, publisher of the Spirit
of Pennsylvania at Easton, Penn., from July 16, 1815, to Febru-
ary 11, 1820.43
"Gonzalez, Joss Eleuterio, Colecoion de Noticias y Doeumentos para
la historia del Estado de Nueva Le6n . . . (second edition, Monter-
rey, 1885), II, 727-728.
"Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, XI, 220-236.
"C. S. Brigham to Ike Moore, April 11, 1935. Toledo's printer, of
course, could have been a Moore other than these.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, July 1935 - April, 1936, periodical, 1936; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101095/m1/111/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.