''The Weekly Rehearsal'' or ''The Rehearsal'' (1731–1735) was a literary newspaper published in
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
,
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
, in the 1730s.
Jeremiah Gridley
Jeremiah Gridley (or Jeremy Gridley; 1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, Massachusetts General Court, colonial legislator, and Massachusetts Attorney General, attorney general in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the 18th century. He serv ...
served as editor and publisher (1731-1733); other publishers/printers included John Draper and
Thomas Fleet. In 1735 it was continued by Thomas Fleet's ''Boston Evening Post.''
See also
* ''The
Boston Evening-Post,'' successor to ''The Rehearsal''
Image gallery
Image:1731 ThomasHancock WeeklyRehearsal Boston Oct25.png, Thomas Hancock on Ann Street served as conduit for The Rehearsal's correspondence, 1731
Image:1733 selectmen WeeklyRehearsal Boston March19.png, Announcement of newly elected Boston selectmen, 1733
File:1733 Julian WeeklyRehearsal Boston March19.png, Item about execution of Julian the Indian 1733
Image:1734 markets WeeklyRehearsal Boston 13May.png, Item about public marketplaces in Boston, 1734
Image:1735 Smibert WeeklyRehearsal Boston May26.png, Announcement of art sale at John Smibert
John Smibert (24 March 1688 – 2 April 1751) was a Scottish-born painter who was the first academically trained artist to work in British America.
Career
Smibert was born in Edinburgh on 24 March 1688, the second youngest of six children of Ali ...
's house, Queen Street, Boston, 1735
References
Further reading
* Isaiah Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Thomas
The history of printing in America with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers, Volume 1. J. Munsell, printer, 1874.
* Albert Matthews
Check-list of Boston newspapers, 1704-1780 Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1907.
* John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 265–281.
* Charles E. Clark. Boston and the Nurturing of Newspapers: Dimensions of the Cradle, 1690-1741. New England Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1991).
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