The first edition of the New-York Evening…

November 1801 CE

The first edition of the New-York Evening Post, founded by Alexander Hamilton with about ten thousand dollars from a group of investors, is printed on November 16, 1801.

Hamilton's co-investors include other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott, who are dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson as U.S. President and the rise in popularity of the Democratic-Republican Party.

The meeting at which Hamilton had first recruited investors for the new paper had taken place in the country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion.

Hamilton has chosen William Coleman as his first editor.

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