Notes for Zadock CRAMER

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Notes for Zadock CRAMER

Mr. Cramer was a publisher, bookseller, and author who had a shop in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He authored "The Navigator - Containing Directions
for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers",
published in 1814, which is a fascinating read.
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There is an entire chapter on Cramer in "Pittsburgh: A Sketch of Its Early Social Life
By Dahlinger, Charles William, 1858-
Published 1916
G.P. Putnam's Sons
I have taken his year of birth, children's names, and place of death from that account.
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A clue to his origin, possibly in Burlington County, New Jersey, comes from p.121 of his "Navigator" - "I recollect, when a child, in the Pines of New Jersey, and going to a school, where Dillworth's spelling book and the testament and the bible were
the only books used..."
IGI states that he was born in Marshallville, Cape May Co., NJ with no reference. They also give parents as Isaac Cramer and Eunice Devinney without documentation.
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GMNJ 7:99 citing "Dates from Cramer's Almanac, published in Pittsburgh,
1804-1819". This almanac seems to have been published yearly for the dates indicated by Mr. Cramer and his partners in Pittsburg.
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[date ?] -- Deed Book M, p. 126: Whereas Zadock Cramer (being one of the firm of Cramer,
Spear and Eichauser) took to himself a deed for lot ... Town of Natchez ... died intestate
1 August 1814 leaving a widow and one daughter, who is the heir at law of said Zadoc Cramer
... 1/3 part of said lot sold by order of orphans court ... Elizabeth Cramer, the widow by her
last will and testament made at Pittsburg the 25 day of April 1818 ... constitutes John Spear and
Josiah Clark her Executors .... and whereas John Spears of Pittsburg is the surviving partner of
said firm of Cramer, Spear and Echbaum (said Echbaum having long since retired and settled
with sd firm) ... John Spear and Josiah Clark, City of Pittsburg, County of Washington in State
of Penn. ... Appoint William Snodgrass, Town of Natchez to collect the balance ...
/s/ John Spear
Josiah Clark
Wit. Matthew B. Lourie
/s/ John G. Donaldson
Pittsburg, Allegheny County, Penn.
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He died of tuberculosis in Pensacola while en route to Havana as per doctor's orders to regain his health.
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3966 CRAMER'S PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1816
Pittsburgh, (1815). Published by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum. Robert Ferguson & Co., Printers. 72 pages, plus printing on all covers. White paper. 7-7/16" x 4-3/8".
B-ES "No. XIII." Two rather poignant inclusions are a notice of Cramer's death on August 1, 1814, at Pensacola, Florida, and an obituary on him by Henry Marie Brackenridge (see entry 8762), which had been published earlier in the Pittsburgh "Western
Gleaner." The almanacs continued to bear Cramer's name for more than thirty years after his death. For the three years prior to his passing he printed (at Pittsburgh) a LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI ALMANAC, having set up a publishing operation at Natchez.
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Apparently he was on his way to Havana for health reasons when he died in
Florida. See Pittsburgh: a sketch of its early social life
By Charles William Dahlinge for a sketch of this family.

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