Boston Weekly Advertiser

The Boston Weekly Advertiser
TypeWeekly newspaper
PublisherGreen & Russell
Founded1757
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1775
HeadquartersBoston, Massachusetts

The Boston Weekly Advertiser (1757–1775), also called The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts by John Green (1727–1787) and Joseph Russell (1734–1795).[1]

The paper "loyally sustained the British Government" during the American Revolution.[2]

Nathaniel Mills and John Hicks published the paper in its final years, 1773–1775.[3][4]

Varying titles

  • 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

  • Boston Post-Boy, published 1834-1854

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ King's hand-book of Boston. Moses King. 1889.
  3. ^ a b "Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division)". Library of Congress.
  4. ^ Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences; v.1. Redding and Co., 1852.
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