''The Boston Weekly Advertiser'' (1757–1775), also called ''The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser'' was a weekly newspaper published in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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by John Green (1727–1787) and Joseph Russell (1734–1795).
The paper "loyally sustained the British Government" during the
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...
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Nathaniel Mills and John Hicks published the paper in its final years, 1773–1775.
[Joseph Tinker Buckingham]
Specimens of newspaper literature
with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences; v.1. Redding and Co., 1852.
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.
See also
* ''
Boston Post-Boy
''The Boston Weekly Post-Boy'' (1734–1754) and later ''Boston Post-Boy'' was a newspaper published by postmaster Ellis Huske in 18th-century Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut ...
'', published 1834-1854
References
1775 disestablishments in the Thirteen Colonies
18th century in Boston
Defunct newspapers published in Massachusetts
Newspapers published in Boston
Publications established in 1757
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