Boston Weekly Advertiser

The Boston Weekly Advertiser
Type Weekly newspaper
Publisher Green & Russell
Founded 1757
Language English
Ceased publication 1775
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts

The Boston Weekly Advertiser (17571775), also called The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts by John Green (17271787) and Joseph Russell (17341795)[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, 17731775.[3][4]

Varying titles

See also

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. 1 2 http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/massachusetts.html
  4. Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences; v.1. Redding and Co., 1852.


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