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The Old Colony Memorial (est.1822) is a semiweekly newspaper published in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1] Gannett owns the paper; [ 2 ] previous owners include the George W. Prescott Publishing Co. [ 3 ] and the Memorial Press Group .
On September 25, 1690, the first colonial newspaper in America, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, was published in Boston. However, it was suppressed after its first edition. [1] In 1704, the governor allowed The Boston News-Letter, a weekly, to be published, and it became the first continuously published newspaper in the colonies.
Newspapers were the vehicle that asserted the greatest social and political pressure on the Stamp Act and were instrumental in its repeal less than a year later. [131] [126] The Constitutional Courant was a single issue colonial American newspaper published in response to the Stamp Act. Printed by William Goddard under the assumed name of ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The newspaper was first published in 1728 by Samuel Keimer and was the second newspaper to be published in the colonial Province of Pennsylvania under the name The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette, a reference to Keimer's intention to print out a page of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal ...
A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office; O. M. Dickerson (1951). "British Control of American Newspapers on the Eve of the Revolution". The New England Quarterly. 24 (4): 453– 468. doi:10.2307/361338. JSTOR 361338. Charles E. Clark (1991).