I'm reading a transcript of a journal from 1830's Vermont, and I'm flummoxed by the way the writer uses the word "published." At least a couple of times each year he writes something like, "John Waldo was published today," "Mr. Greene was published," "Elder Fay and others were published." What the heck does it mean? My guess is it's a religious reference of some kind, but I really don't know.
TIA! I'm a school librarian working with my 6th graders on primary sources. My library degree is in Archives Management, so I'm usually pretty good at figuring this stuff out, but this one's got me scratching my head!
Letter to a newspaper?
Cossespondence to local newspapers was published in Vermont between 1830 and 1839.
Also poetry, and occasionally sermons were carried in the newspapers too
So you could cross-reference the specific dates and names you have and investigate if it's newspapers?
The search facility on that website is pretty good, imo, a lot more accurate than many other digitized collections of historical newspapers