Although with that purchase the Advocate had eliminated all competition, it was financially unsuccessful and the owners were forced to sell to James L. Thompson and a Mr. Wyckoff in 1842.
The Advocate changed its name to The New York Recorder before it was sold to Lewis Colby and Joseph Ballard.
Colby and Ballard in turn sold the paper to the educator Martin Brewer Anderson and James S. Dickerson in February 1850.
Cutting left the publication to accept a job at the University of Rochester, while Bright remained as editor.
[1] Henry Clay Vedder, a prominent Baptist journalist, joined the paper's staff in 1876 as an editorial writer.
[7] In 1913 Publishers Weekly reported that the paper would be merged with The Watchman, a Bostonian Baptist publication.