Boston Weekly Advertiser
Appearance
Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Publisher | Green & Russell |
Founded | 1757 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 1775 |
Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts |
The Boston Weekly Advertiser(1757–1775), also calledThe Boston Post-Boy & Advertiserwas a weekly newspaper published inBoston,Massachusettsby John Green (1727–1787) and Joseph Russell (1734–1795).[1]
The paper "loyally sustained the British Government" during theAmerican Revolution.[2]
Nathaniel Mills and John Hicks published the paper in its final years, 1773–1775.[3][4]
Varying titles
[edit]- The Boston Weekly Advertiser.Aug. 22, 1757- Dec. 25, 1758.
- Green & Russell's Boston Post-boy & Advertiser.Jan. 1, 1759-May 23, 1763.
- The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser.May 30, 1763- Sept. 25, 1769.
- The Massachusetts Gazette, and the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser.Oct. 2, 1769-Apr. 17, 1775.[3]
See also
[edit]- Boston Post-Boy,published 1834-1854
References
[edit]- ^Isaiah Thomas.The History of Printing in America:With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. From the press of Isaiah Thomas, 1874.
- ^King's hand-book of Boston.Moses King. 1889.
- ^ab"Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division)".Library of Congress.
- ^Joseph Tinker Buckingham.Specimens of newspaper literature:with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences; v.1. Redding and Co., 1852.