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Noah Webster, strapped for money, accepted an offer in late 1793 from Alexander Hamilton of $1,500 to move to New York City and edit a Federalist newspaper. In December he founded New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva (later known as The Commercial Advertiser). He edited it for four years, writing the equivalent of 20 volumes of ...
The Pennsylvania Packet and American Daily Advertiser was the first newspaper to carry the address in its issue of September 19, 1796. Before long the now famous Farewell Address was widely circulated and reprinted in many newspapers, including the New York Herald on September 21, 1796. [191] [190]
Famous for the 1733 landmark case where he was accused of printing libelous material about William Cosby, the colonial governor in New York; Andrew Hamilton and William Smith, Sr. successfully defended him in New York, maintaining that telling the truth was a legitimate defense in libel cases.
The rise of religious liberty in America: a history. New York : Macmillan. Cook, Elizabeth Christine (1912). Literary influences in colonial newspapers, 1704-1750. New York, Columbia University Press. Copeland, David A. (2000). Debating the issues in colonial newspapers: primary documents on events of the period. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press.
The newspaper was founded by printer William Bradford in 1725. Though it was first, it was not distinguished. Historian Frank Luther Mott has described the paper as a "small two-page paper, poorly printed, and containing chiefly foreign news from three to six months old, state papers, lists of ships entered and cleared, and a few advertisements."
New York's charter was re-enacted in 1691 and was the constitution of the province until the creation of the State of New York. The first newspaper to appear in New York was the New-York Gazette, started November 8, 1725, by William Bradford. It was printed on a single sheet, published weekly. [13]
A Graphic Summary of the Growth of Newspapers in New York and Other States, 1704–1810. New York: New York Public Library, 1948 Brigham, Clarence S. "Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820 Part VII: New York (A–L)."
William Bradford (May 20, 1663 – May 23, 1752) was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America.Bradford is best known for establishing the first printing press in the Middle colonies of the Thirteen Colonies, founding the first press in Pennsylvania in 1685 and the first press in New York in 1693.