SPOONER'S VERMONT JOURNAL, Windsor, April 21, 1806  

* President Thomas Jefferson

The front page has two Acts of Congress, each signed in type by the President: Th. Jefferson.
Page 3 has much detail on a: "Massacre - Particular Account of the Massacre of the Officers & Crew of the Ship Atahualpa, Capt. Porter".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, very nice condition.

Background: The April 21, 1806, issue of Spooner’s Vermont Journal carries profound historical significance as a dual window into United States federal expansion and the perilous realities of the global Maritime Fur Trade. The front-page inclusion of two Acts of Congress officially authorized in type by President Thomas Jefferson underscores the critical role regional newspapers played as the primary vehicle for federal governance, disseminating new laws to a young nation grappling with international trade tensions and territorial growth. More dramatically, the page-three "Particular Account" documenting the massacre of Captain Oliver Porter and his crew aboard the Boston merchant ship Atahualpa captures a pivotal, bloody flashpoint in American commercial history. Occurring in June 1805 at Milbanke Sound (modern-day British Columbia), the violent clash between the crew and the Heiltsuk (Bella Bella) nation highlights the immense dangers American traders faced while vying for valuable sea otter pelts to exchange in Canton, China. Because the news took nearly a year to travel from the Pacific Northwest back to the East Coast, this specific printing serves as a remarkable testament to the vast, slow-moving communication networks of the era, preserved in an exceptionally rare, untrimmed state that reflects the raw physical format of early American journalism.