Weekly Register


The Weekly Register was a national magazine published in Baltimore, Maryland by Hezekiah Niles. The magazine "exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse," according to a 2011 article on the magazine in The Baltimore Sun, with a national circulation of 4,000, which was respectable at the time.
As of the time of publication of volume 36, the magazine was being published from "Water Street, east of South Street" according to a masthead from that period.

History

Niles apprenticed as a printer in Philadelphia, eventually moving to Wilmington to start a magazine. His partner in that venture, however, ran off with the money, leaving him destitute. He moved on, establishing first a newspaper and then the Register in Baltimore. The magazine's content included coverage of the War of 1812, among other offerings.