⁵ A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, eds. Frances E. Willard and Mary E. Livermore (Buffalo, New York and Chicago, 1893), p. 271.

⁶ Smith, Columbia County at the End of the Century, p. 268. 

⁷ Anna R. Bradbury, History of the City of Hudson, New York, with Biographical Sketches of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton (Hudson, New York, 1908), p. 68.  On the title page of a number of books he printed and in issues of the Columbia Almanack, Stoddard listed his location variously as “the White-House, Corner of Warren and Third-Streets,” “in Main-Street (later renamed Warren),” “No. 137, Corner of Warren and Third-Streets” and “No. 135, Warren-Street, Corner of Third-Street.”  According to Stoddard’s obituary in the Hudson Gazette, he set up his printing office and bookstore in the spring of 1785.

⁸ Titles printed by Ashbel Stoddard can be found in WorldCat, an online international library catalog.  For a discussion of Stoddard’s profession as a printer, see John L. Brooke, Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson (North Carolina, 2010).

⁹ An example of a broadside printed by Stoddard is Gumbo Chaff.  According to a hand-written note at the bottom of the sheet, the broadside was printed by Stoddard c.1827-1832.  American Song Sheet Collection, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

¹⁰ Captain Franklin Ellis, History of Columbia County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (New York, 1878), p 160.

¹¹ Advertisement by Ashbel Stoddard in Rural Repository, October 22, 1836, vol. 8, no. 10, p. 80.

¹²The destruction by fire of Stoddard’s printing office and bookstore is described in Columbia County at the End of the Century, p. 270. The same description is also found in Ignatius Jones, Random Recollections of Albany and of Hudson, with Anecdotes and Sketches of Men and Things (Albany, New York, 1850), p. 13.

¹³ Byrne Fone, Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait (Hensonville, New York, 2005), p. 42.

¹⁴ Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold and William H. Scovill, Centennial of Christ Church, Hudson, New York, 1802-1902 (Hudson, New York, 1902), p. 15.

¹⁵ Ellis, History of Columbia County, New York, p. 199.

¹⁶ Stoddard, Anthony Stoddard of Boston, Mass., p. 234.

¹⁷ Hudson city directories from 1851 (the first year a Hudson directory was published) through the 1860s and 1870s list the home of both Sarah Stoddard and William Stoddard at 131 Warren Street.  An obituary of Sarah Stoddard, taken from the American Art Journal and reprinted in the Hudson Evening Register, November 14, 1877, described the property at the corner of Warren and Third Streets as the “old homestead” and stated that it had been in the Stoddard family for ninety years.  It was considered to be one of the oldest historic family residences in Hudson.

¹⁸ Stoddard obituary, Rural Repository, vol. 17, no. 10, p. 79.

¹⁹ Bradbury, History of the City of Hudson, New York, pp. 68-69.

²⁰ Ashbel Stoddard’s advertisements for his bookstore in issues of the Rural Repository from the 1820s and 1830s list an address of 135 Warren Street, the same address given for the offices of William Stoddard’s newspaper.

²¹ In the 1851 Hudson city directory, William Stoddard’s office for the Rural Repository is listed at 131 Warren Street.