COLLATION of NUMBERS AND DATES

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1735			1736			1737			1738
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
203147	Aug.	18	21	Jan.	5	73	Jan.	3	125	Jan.	2
2		25	22		12	74		10	126		9
3	Sept.	1	23		19	75		17	127		16
4		8	24		26	76		24	128		23
5		15	25	Feb.	2	77		31	129		30
6		22	26		9	78	Feb.	7	130	Feb.	6
7		29	27		16	79		14	131		13
8	Oct.	6	28		23	80		21	132		20
9		13	29	March	1	81		28	133		27
10		20	30		8	82	March	7	134	March	6
11		27	31		15	83		14	135		13
12	Nov.	3	32		22	84		21	136		20
13		10	33		29	85		28	137		27
14		17	34	April	5	86	April	4	138	April	3
15		24	35		12	87		11	139		10
16	Dec.	1	36		19	88		18	140		17
17		8	37		26	89		25	141		24
18		15	38	May	3	90	May	2	142	May	1
19		22	39		10	91		9	143		8
20		29	40		17	92		16	144		15
			41		24	93		23	145		22
			42		31	94		30	146		29
			43	June	7	95	June	6	147	June	5
			44		14	96		13	148		12
			45		21	97		20	149		19
			46		28	98		27	150		26
			47	July	5	99	July	4	151	July	3
			48		12	100		11	152		10
			49		19	101		18	153		17
			50		26	102		25	154		24
			51	Aug.	2	103	Aug.	1	155		31
			52		9	104		8	156	Aug.	7
			53		16	105		15	157		14
			54		23	106		22	158		21
			55		30	107		29	159		28
			56	Sept.	6	108	Sept.	5	160	Sept.	4
			57		13	109		12	161		11
			58		20	110		19	162		18
			59		27	111		26	163		25
			60	Oct.	4	112	Oct.	3	164	Oct.	2
			61		11	113		10	165		9
			62		18	114		17	166		16
			63		25	115		24	167		23
			64	Nov.	1	116		31	168		30
			65		8	117	Nov.	7	169	Nov.	6
			66		15	118		14	170		13
			67		22	119		21	171		20
			68		29	120		28	172		27
			69	Dec.	6	121	Dec.	5	173	Dec.	4
			70		13	122		12	174		11
			71		20	123		19	175		18
			72		27	124		26	176		25

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1739			1740			1741			1742
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
177	Jan.	1	231	Jan.	7	283	Jan.	5	335	Jan.	4
178		8	232		14	284		12	336		11
179		15	233		21	285		19	337		18
180		22	234		28	286		26	338		25
181		29	235	Feb.	4	287	Feb.	2	339	Feb.	1
182	Feb.	5	236		11	288		9	340		8
183		12	237		18	289		16	341		15
184		19	238		25	290		23	342		22
185		26	239	March	3	291	March	2	343	March	1
186	March	5	240		10	292		9	344		8
187		12	241		17	293		16	345		15
188		19	242		24	294		23	346		22
189		26	243		31	295		30	347		29
190	April	2	244	April	7	296	April	6	348	April	5
191		9	245		14	297		13	349		12
192		16	246		21	298		20	350		19
193		23	247		28	299		27	351		26
194		30	248	May	5	300	May	4	352	May	3
195	May	7	249		12	301		11	353		10
196		14	250		19	302		18	354		17
197		21	251		26	303		25	355		24
198		28	252	June	2	304	June	1	356		31
199	June	4	253		9	305		8	357	June	7
200		11	254		16	306		15	358		14
201		18	255		23	307		22	359		21
202		25	256		30	308		29	360		28
203	July	2	257	July	7	309	July	6	361	July	5
204		9	258		14	310		13	362		12
205		16	259		21	311		20			19
206		23	260		28	312		27	364		26
207		30	261	Aug.	4	313	Aug.	3	365	Aug.	2
208	Aug.	6	262		11	314		10	366		9
209		13	263		18	315		17	367		16
210		20	264		25	316		24	368		23
211		27	265	Sept.	1	317		31	369		30
212	Sept.	3	266		8	318	Sept.	7	370	Sept.	6
213		10	267		15	319		14	371		13
214		17	268		22	320		21	372		20
216		24	269		29	321		28	373		27
217	Oct.	1	270	Oct.	6	322	Oct.	5	374	Oct.	4
218		8	271		13	323		12	375		11
219		15	272		20	324		19	376		18
220		22	273		27	325		26	377		25
221		29	274	Nov.	3	326	Nov.	2	378	Nov.	1
222	Nov.	5	275		10	327		9	379		8
223		12	276		17	328		16	380		15
224		19	277		24	329		23	381		22
225		26	278	Dec.	1	330		30	382		29
226	Dec.	3	279		8	331	Dec.	7	383	Dec.	6
227		10	280		15	332		14	384		13
228		17	281		22	333		21	385		20
229		24	282		29	334		28	386		27
230		31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1743			1744			1745			1746
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
387	Jan.	3	439	Jan.	2	491	Jan.	7	543	Jan.	6
388		10	440		9	492		14	544		13
389		17	441		16	493		21	545		20
390		24	442		23	494		28	546		27
391		31	443		30	495	Feb.	4	547	Feb.	3
392	Feb.	7	444	Feb.	6	496		11	548		10
393		14	445		13	497		18	549		17
394		21	446		20	498		25	550		24
395		28	447		27	499	March	4	551	March	3
396	March	7	448	March	5	500		11	552		10
397		14	449		12	501		18	553		17
398		21	450		19	502		25	554		24
399		28	451		26	503	April	1	555		31
400	April	4	452	April	2	504		8	556	April	7
401		11	453		9	505		15	557		14
402		18	454		16	506		22	558		21
403		25	455		23	507		29	559		28
404	May	2	456		30	508	May	6	560	May	5
405		9	457	May	7	509		13	561		12
406		16	458		14	510		20	562		19
407		23	459		21	511		27	563		20
408		30	460		28	512	June	3	564	June	2
409	June	6	461	June	4	513		10	565		9
410		13	462		11	514		17	566		16
411		20	463		18	515		24	567		23
412		27	464		25	516	July	1	568		30
413	July	4	465	July	2	517		8	569	July	7
414		11	466		9	518		15	570		14
415		18	467		16	519		22	571		21
416		25	468		23	520		29	572		28
417	Aug.	1	469		30	521	Aug.	5	573	Aug.	4
418		8	470	Aug.	6	522		12	574		11
419		15	471		13	523		19	575		18
420		22	472		20	524		26	576		25
421		29	473		27	525	Sept.	2	577	Sept.	1
422	Sept.	5	474	Sept.	3	526		9	578		8
423		12	475		10	527		16	579		15
424		19	476		17	528		23	580		22
425		26	477		24	529		30	581		29
426	Oct.	3	478	Oct.	1	530	Oct.	7	582	Oct.	6
427		10	479		8	531		14	583		13
428		17	480		15	532		21	584		20
429		24	481		22	533		28	585		21
430		31	482		29	534	Nov.	4	586	Nov.	3
431	Nov.	7	483	Nov.	5	535		11	587		10
432		14	484		12	536		18	588		17
433		21	485		19	537		25	589		24
434		28	486		26	538	Dec.	2	590	Dec.	1
435	Dec.	5	487	Dec.	3	539		9	591		8
436		12	488		10	540		16	592		15
437		19	489		17	541		23	593		22
438		26	490		24	542		30	594		29
			491		31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1747			1748			1749			1750
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
595	Jan.	5	647	Jan.	4	699	Jan.	2	751	Jan.	1
596		12	648		11	700		9	752		8
597		19	649		18	701		16	753		16
598		26	650		25	702		23	754		22
599	Feb.	2	651	Feb.	1	703		30	755		29
600		9	652		8	704	Feb.	6	756	Feb.	5
601		16	653		15	705		13	757		12
602		23	654		22	706		20	758		19
603	March	2	655		29	707		27	759		26
604		9	656	March	7	708	March	6	760	March	5
605		16	657		14	709		13	761		12
606		23	658		21	710		20	762		19
607		30	659		28	711		27	763		26
608	April	6	660	April	4	712	April	3	764	April	2
609		13	661		11	713		10	765		9
610		20	662		18	714		17	766		16
611		27	663		25	715		24	767		23
612	May	4	664	May	2	716	May	1	768		30
613		11	665		9	717		8	769	May	7
614		18	666		16	718		15	770		14
615		25	667		23	719		22	771		21
616	June	1	668		30	720		29	772		28
617		8	669	June	6	721	June	5	773	June	4
618		15	670		13	722		12	774		11
619		22	671		20	723		19	775		18
620		29	672		27	724		26	776		25
621	July	6	673	July	4	725	July	3	777	July	2
622		13	674		11	726		10	778		9
623		20	675		18	727		17	779		16
624		27	676		25	728		24	780		23
625	Aug.	3	677	Aug.	1	729		31	781		30
626		10	678		8	730	Aug.	7	782	Aug.	6
627		17	679		15	731		14	783		13
628		24	680		22	732		21	784		20
629		31	681		29	733		28	785		27
630	Sept.	7	682	Sept.	5	734	Sept.	4	786	Sept.	3
631		14	683		12	735		11	787		10
632		21	684		19	736		18	788		17
633		28	685		26	737		25	789		24
634	Oct.	5	686	Oct.	3	738	Oct.	2	790	Oct.	1
635		12	687		10	739		9	791		8
636		19	688		17	740		16	792		15
637		26	689		24	741		23	793		22
638	Nov.	2	690		31	742		30	794		28
639		9	691	Nov.	7	743	Nov.	6	795	Nov.	5
640		16	692		14	744		13	796		12
641		23	693		21	745		20	797		19
642		30	694		28	746		27	798		26
643	Dec.	7	695	Dec.	5	747	Dec.	4	799	Dec.	3
644		14	696		12	748		11	800		10
645		21	697		19	749		18	801		17
646		28	698		26	750		25	802		24
									803		31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1751			1752			1753			1754
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
804	Jan.	7	855	Jan.	6	905	Jan.	1	958	Jan.	7
805		14	856		13	906		8	959		14
806		21	857		20	907		15	960		21
807		28	858		27	908		22	961		28
808	Feb.	4	859	Feb.	3	909		29	962	Feb.	4
809		11	860		10	910	Feb.	5	963		11
810		18	861		17	911		12	964		18
811		25	862		24	912		19	965		25
812	March	4	863	March	2	913		26	966	March	4
813		11	864		9	914	March	5	967		11
814		18	865		16	915		12	968		18
815		25	866		23	916		19	969		25
816	April	1	867		30	917		26	970	April	1
817		8	868	April	6	918	April	2	971		8
818		15	869		13	919		9	972		15
819		22	870		20	920		16	973		22
820		29	871		27	921		23	974		29
821	May	6	872	May	4	922		30	975	May	6
822		13	873		11	923	May	7	976		18
823		20	874		18	924		14	977		20
824		27	875		25	925		21	978		27
825	June	3	876	June	1	926		28	979	June	3
826		10	877		18	927	June	4	980		10
827		17	878		15	928		11	981		17
828		24	879		22	929		18	982		24
829	July	1			29	930		25	983	July	1
830		8	881	July	6	931	July	2	984		8
831		15	882		13	932		9	985		15
832		22	883		20	933		16	986		22
833		29	884		27	934		23	987		29
833	Aug.	5	885	Aug.	3	935		30	988	Aug.	5
834		12	886		10	936	Aug.	6	989		12
835		19	887		17	937		13	990		19
836		26	888		24	938		20	991		26
837	Sept.	2	889		31	939		27	992	Sept.	2
838		9	890	Sept.	18	940	Sept.	3	993		9
839		16	891		25	941		10	994		16
840		23	892	Oct.	2	942		17	995		23
841		30	893		9	943		24	996		30
842	Oct.	7	894		16	944	Oct.	1	997	Oct.	7
843		14	895		23	945		8	998		14
844		21	896		30	946		15	999		21
845		28	897	Nov.	6	947		22	1000		28
846	Nov.	4	898		13	948		29	1001	Nov.	4
847		11	899		20	949	Nov.	5	1002		11
848		18	900		27	950		12	1003		18
849		25	901	Dec.	4	951		19	1004		25
850	Dec.	2	902		11	952		20	1005	Dec.	2
851		9	903		18	953	Dec.	3	1006		9
852		16	904		25	954		10	1007		16
853		23				955		17	1008		23
854		30				956		24	1009		30
						957		31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1755			1756			1757			1758
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1010	Jan.	6	1062	Jan.	5	1114	Jan.	3	1166	Jan.	2
1011		13	1063		12	1115		10	1167		9
1012		20	1064		19	1116		17	1168		16
1013		27	1065		26	1117		24	1169		23
1014	Feb.	3	1066	Feb.	2	1118		31	1170		30
1015		10	1067		9	1119	Feb.	7	1171	Feb.	6
1016		17	1068		16	1120		14	1172		13
1017		24	1069		23	1121		21	1173		20
1018	March	3	1070	March	1	1122		28	1174		27
1019		10	1071		8	1123	March	7	1175	March	6
1020		17	1072		15	1124		14	1176		18
1021		24	1073		22	1125		21	1177		20
1022		31	1074		29	1126		28	1178		27
1023	April	7	1075	April	5	1127	April	4	1179	April	3
1024		14	1076		12	1128		11	1180		10
1025		21	1077		19	1129		18	1181		17
1026		28	1078		26	1130		25	1182		24
1027	May	5	1079	May	3	1131	May	2	1183	May	1
1028		12	1080		10	1132		9	1184		8
1029		19	1081		17	1133		16	1185		15
1030		26	1082		24	1134		23	1186		22
1031	June	2	1083		31	1135		30	1187		29
1032		9	1084	June	7	1136	June	6	1188	June	5
1033		16	1085		14	1137		13	1189		12
1034		23	1086		21	1138		20	1190		19
1035		30	1087		28	1139		27	1191		26
1036	July	7	1088	July	5	1140	July	4	1192	July	3
1037		14	1089		12	1141		11	1193		10
1038		21	1090		19	1142		18	1194		17
1039		28	1091		26	1143		25	1195		24
1040	Aug.	4	1092	Aug.	2	1144	Aug.	1	1196		31
1041		11	1093		9	1145		8	1197	Aug.	7
1042		18	1094		16	1146		15	1198		14
1043		25	1095		23	1147		22	1199		21
1044	Sept.	1	1096		30	1148		29	1200		28
1045		8	1097	Sept.	6	1149	Sept.	5	1201	Sept.	4
1046		15	1098		13	1150		12	1202		11
1047		22	1099		20	1151		19	1203		18
1048		29	1100		27	1152		26	1204		25
1049	Oct.	6	1101	Oct.	4	1153	Oct.	3	1205	Oct.	2
1050		13	1102		11	1154		10	1206		9
1051		20	1103		18	1155		17	1207		10
1052		27	1104		25	1156		24	1208		23
1053	Nov.	3	1105	Nov.	1	1157		31	1209		30
1054		10	1106		8	1158	Nov.	7	1210	Nov.	6
1055		17	1107		15	1159		14	1211		13
1056		24	1108		22	1160		21	1212		20
1057	Dec.	1	1109		29	1161		28	1213		27
1058		8	1110	Dec.	6	1162	Dec.	5	1214	Dec.	4
1059		15	1111		13	1163		12	1215		11
1060		22	1112		20	1164		19	1216		18
1061		29	1113		27	1165		26	1217		25

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1759				1760			1761			1762
Number	Date			Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1218	Jan.		1	1271	Jan.	7	1323	Jan.	5	1375	Jan.	4
1219			8	1272		14	1324		12	1376		11
1220			15	1273		21	1325		19	1377		18
1221			22	1274		28	1326		26	1378		25
1222			29	1275	Feb.	4	1327	Feb.	2	1379	Feb.	1
1223	Feb.		5	1276		11	1328		9	1380		8
1224			12	1277		18	1329		16	1381		15
1225			19	1278		25	1330		23	1382		22
1226			26	1279	March	3	1331	March	2	1383	March	1
1227	March	5		1280		10	1332		9	1384		8
1228			12	1281		17	1333		16	1386		15
1229			19	1282		24	1334		23	1386		22
1230			26	1283		31	1335		30	1387		29
1231	April		2	1284	April	7	1336	April	8	1387	April	5
1232			9	1285		14	1337		13	1388		12
1233			16	1286		21	1338		20	1389		19
1234			23	1287		28	1339		27	1390		26
1235			30	1288	May	5	1340	May	4	1391	May	3
1236	May		7	1289		12	1341		11	1392		10
1237			14	1290		19	1342		18	1393		17
1238			21	1291		26	1343		25	1394		24
1239			28	1202	June	2	1344	June	1	1395		31
1240	June		4	1293		9	1345		8	1396	June	7
1241			11	1294		16	1346		15	1397		14
1242			18	1295		23	1347		22	1398		21
1243			25	1296		30	1348		29	1399		28
1244	July		2	1297	July	7	1349	July	6	1400	July	5
1245			9	1298		14	1350		13	1401		12
1246			16	1299		21	1351		20	1402		19
1247			23	1300		28	1352		27	1403		26
1248			30	1301	Aug.	4	1353	Aug.	3	1404	Aug.	2
1249	Aug.		6	1302		11	1354		10	1405		9
1250			13	1303		18	1355		17	1406		16
1251			20	1304		25	1356		24	1407		23
1252			27	1305	Sept.	1	1357		31	1408		80
1253	Sept.		3	1306		8	1358	Sept.	7	1409	Sept.	6
1254			10	1307		15	1359		14	1410		13
1255			17	1308		22	1360		21	1411		20
1256			24	1309		29	1361		28	1412		27
1257	Oct.		1	1310	Oct.	6	1362	Oct.	5	1413	Oct.	4
1258			8	1311		13	1363		12	1414		11
1259			15	1312		20	1364		19	1415		18
1260			22	1313		27	1365		26	1416		25
1261			29	1314	Nov.	3	1366	Nov.	2	1417	Nov.	1
1262	Nov.		5	1315		10	1367		9	1418		8
1263			12	1316		17	1368		16	1419		15
1264			19	1317		24	1369		23	1420		22
1265			26	1318	Dec.	1	1370		30	1421		29
1266	Dec.		3	1319		8	1371	Dec.	7	1422	Dec.	6
1267			10	1320		15	1372		14	1423		13
1268			17	1321		22	1373		21	1424		20
1269			24	1322		29	1374		28	1425		27
1270			31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1763			1764			1765			1766
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1426	Jan.	3	1478	Jan.	2	1531	Jan.	7	1582	Jan.	6
1427		10	1479		9	1532		14	1583		13
1428		17	1480		16	1533		21	1584		20
1429		24	1481		23	1534		28	1585		27
1430		31	1482		30	1535	Feb.	4	1586	Feb.	3
1431	Feb.	7	1483	Feb.	6	1536		11	1587		10
1432		14	1484		13	1537		18	1588		17
1433		21	1485		20	1538		25	1589		24
1434		28	1486		27	1539	March	4	1590	March	3
1435	March	7	1487	March	5	1540		11	1591		10
1436		14	1488		12	1541		18	1592		17
1437		21	1489		19	1542		25	1593		24
1438		28	1490		26	1543	April	1	1594		31
1439	April	4	1491	April	2	1544		8	1595	April	7
1440		11	1492		9	1545		15	1596		14
1441		18	1493		16	1546		22	1597		21
1442		25	1494		23	1547		29	1598		28
1443	May	2	1495		30	1548	May	6	1599	May	5
1444		9	1496	May	7	1549		13	1600		12
1445		16	1497		14	1550		20	1601		19
1446		23	1498		21	1551		27	1602		26
1447		30	1499		28	1552	June	3	1603	June	2
1448	June	6	1500	June	4	1553		10	1604		9
1449		13	1501		11	1554		17	1605		16
1450		20	1502		18	1555		24	1606		23
1451		27	1503		25	1556	July	1	1607		30
1452	July	4	1504	July	2	1557		8	1608	July	7
1453		11	1505		9	1558		15	1609		14
1454		18	1506		10	1559		22	1610		21
1455		25	1507		23	1560		29	1611		28
1456	Aug.	1	1508		30	1560	Aug.	5	1612		4
1457		8	1509	Aug.	6	1561		12	1613	Aug.	11
1458		15	1510		13	1562		19	1614		18
1459		22	1511		20	1563		26	1015		25
1460		29	1512		27	1564	Sep.	2	1616	Sept.	1
1461	Sept.	5	1513	Sept.	3	1565		9	1617		8
1462		12	1514		10	1566		16	1618		15
1463		19	1515		17	1567		23	1619		22
1464		26	1516		24	1568		30	1620		29
1465	Oct.	3	1517	Oct.	1	1569	Oct.	7	1621	Oct.	6
1466		10	1518		8	1570		14	1622		13
1467		17	1519		15	1571		21	1623		20
1468		24	1520		22	1572		28	1623148		27
1469		31	1521		29	1573	Nov.	4	1624	Nov.	3
1470	Nov.	7	1522	Nov.	5	1574		11	1625		10
1471		14	1523		12	1575		18	1626		17
1472		21	1524		19	1576		25	1627		24
1473		28	1525		26	1577	Dec.	2	1628	Dec.	1
1474	Dec.	5	1526	Dec.	3	1578		9	1629		8
1475		12	1527		10	1579		16	1630		15
1476		19	1528		17	1580		23	1631		22
1477		26	1529		24	1581		30	1632		29
			1530		31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1767			1768			1769			1770
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1633	Jan.	5	1684	Jan.	4	1736	Jan.	2	1788	Jan.	1
1634		12	1685		11	1737		9	1789		8
1635		19	1686		18	1738		16	1790		15
1636		26	1687		25	1739		23	1791		22
1637	Feb.	2	1688	Feb.	1	1740		30	1792		29
1638		9	1689		8	1741	Feb.	6	1793	Feb.	5
1639		16	1690		15	1742		13	1794		12
1640		23	1691		22	1743		20	1795		19
1641	March	2	1692		29	1744		27	1796		26
1642		9	1693	March	7	1745	March	6	1797	March	5
1643		16	1694		14	1746		13	1798		12
1644		23	1695		21	1747		20	1799		19
1645		30	1696		28	1748		27	1800		26
1646	April	6	1697	April	4	1748	April	3	1801	April	2
1647		13	1698		11	1750		10	1802		9
1648		20	1699		18	1751		17	1803		16
1649		27	1700		25	1752		24	1804		23
1650	May	4	1701	May	2	1753	May	1	1805		30
1651		11	1702		9	1754		8	1806	May	7
1652		18	1703		16	1755		15	1807		14
1653		25	1704		23	1756		22	1808		21
1654	June	1	1705		30	1757		29	1809		28
1655		8	1706	June	6	1758	June	5	1810	June	4
1656		15	1707		13	1759		12	1811		11
1657		22	1708		20	1760		19	1812		18
1658		29	1709		27	1761		26	1813		25
1659	July	6	1710	July	4	1762	July	3	1814	July	2
1660		13	1711		11	1763		10	1815		9
1661		20	1712		18	1764		17	1816		16
1662		27	1713		25	1765		24	1817		23
1663	Aug.	3	1714	Aug.	1	1766		31	1818		80
1664		10	1715		8	1767	Aug.	7	1819	Aug.	6
1665		17	1716		15	1768		14	1820		13
1666		24	1717		22	1769		21	1821		20
1667		31	1718		29	1770		28	1822		27
1668	Sept.	7	1719	Sept.	5	1771	Sept.	4	1823	Sept.	3
1668		14	1720		12	1772		11	1824		10
1669		21	1721		19	1773		18	1825		17
1670		28	1722		26	1774		25	1826		24
1671	Oct.	5	1723	Oct.	3	1775	Oct.	2	1827	Oct.	1
1672		12	1724		10	1776		9	1828		8
1673		19	1725		17	1777		16	1829		16
1674		26	1726		24	1778		23	1830		22
1675149	Nov.	2	1727		31	1779		30	1831		29
1676		9	1728	Nov.	7	1780	Nov.	6	1832	Nov.	5
1677		16	1729		14	1781		13	1833		12
1678		23	1730		21	1782		20	1834		19
1672		30	1731		28	1783		27	1835		20
1673	Dec.	7	1732	Dec.	5	1784	Dec.	4	1836	Dec.	3
1674		14	1733		12	1785		11	1837		10
1675		21	1734		19	1786		18	1838		17
1683		28	1735		26	1787		25	1839		24
									1840		31

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1771			1772			1773			1774
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1841	Jan.	7	1893	Jan.	6	1945	Jan.	4	1997	Jan.	3
1842		14	1894		13	1946		11	1998		10
1843		21	1895		20	1947		18	1999		17
1844		28	1896		27	1948		25	2000		24
1845	Feb.	4	1897	Feb.	3	1949	Feb.	1	2001		31
1846		11	1898		10	1950		8	2003	Feb.	7
1847		18	1899		17	1951		15	2003		14
1848		25	1900		24	1952		22	2004		21
1849	March	4	1901	March	2	1953	March	1	2005		28
1850		11	1902		9	1954		8	2006	March	7
1851		18	1903		16	1955		15	2007		14
1852		25	1904		23	1956		22	2008		21
1853	April	1	1905		30	1957		29	2009		28
1854		8	1909	April	6	1958	April	5	2010	April	4
1855		15	1907		13	1959		12	2011		11
1856		22	1908		20	1960		19	2012		18
1857		29	1909		27	1901		26	2013		25
1858	May	6	1910	May	4	1962	May	3	2014	May	2
1859		13	1911		11	1963		10	2015		9
1860		20	1912		18	1964		17	2016		16
1861		27	1913		25	1965		24	2017		23
1862	June	3	1914	June	1	1966		31	2018		30
1863		10	1915		8	1967	June	7	2019	June	6
1864		17	1916		15	1968		14	2020		13
1865		24	1917		22	1969		21	2021		20
1866	July	1	1918		29	1970		28	2022		27
1867		8	1919	July	6	1971	July	5	2023	July	4
1868		15	1920		13	1972		12	2024		11
1869		22	1921		20	1973		19	2025		18
1870		29	1922		27	1974		26	2026		25
1871	Aug.	5	1923	Aug.	3	1975	Aug.	2	2027	Aug.	1
1872		12	1924		10	1976		9	2028		8
1873		19	1925		17	1977		16	2029		15
1874		26	1926		24	1978		23	2030		22
1875	Sept.	2	1927		31	1979		30	2031		29
1876		9	1928	Sept.	7	1980	Sept.	6	2032	Sept.	5
1877		16	1929		14	1981		13	2033		12
1878		23	1930		21	1982		20	2034		19
1879		30	1931		28	1983		27	2035		26
1880	Oct.	7	1932	Oct.	5	1984	Oct.	4	2036	Oct.	3
1881		14	1933		12	1985		11	2037		10
1882		21	1934		19	1986		18	2038		17
1883		28	1935		26	1987		25	2039		24
1884	Nov.	4	1936	Nov.	2	1988	Nov.	1	2040		31
1885		11	1937		9	1989		8	2041	Nov.	7
1886		18	1938		16	1990		15	2042		14
1887		25	1939		23	1991		22	2043		21
1888	Dec.	2	1940		30	1992		29	2044		28
1889		9	1941	Dec.	7	1993	Dec.	6	2045	Dec.	5
1890		16	1942		14	1994		13	2046		12
1891		23	1943		21	1995		20	2047		19
1892		30	1944		28	1996		27	2048		20

BOSTON EVENING-POST

1775
Number	Date
2049	Jan.	2
2050		9
2051		16
2052		23
2053		30
2054	Feb.	6
2055		13
2050		20
2057		27
2058	March	6
2059		13
2000		20
2001		27
2062	April	3
2003		10
2064		17
2065		24

1 Titles under which the newspapers are listed in the Check-List are printed in heavy face type.

2 Titles under which the newspapers are listed in the Check-List are printed in heavy face type.

3 The Boston News-Letter. Monday.

4 Reprint.

6 Day of publication changed from Monday to Thursday

7 Title changed to The Weekly News Letter.

9 Title changed to The Boston Weekly News-Letter

12 Owing a fire on 30 January, no paper was issued 31 January, 1734

15 By mistake dated 15 June, 1737

16 By mistake dated 5 January, 1737.

17 Some copies by mistake are dated 30 May, 1739

20 Some copies by mistake are dated 7 October 1740

26 Change from Old Style to New Style

27 Some copies of supplement by mistake are dated 4 June, 1756.

28 Title changed to The Boston News-Letter.

29 Title changed to The Boston News-Letter, And New-England Chronicle.

30 By mistake dated 5 May, 1762.

31 Some copies by mistake are dated 28 July, 1762

32 Title changed to The Boston News-Letter, and the New-England Chronicle

33 By mistake dated 11 May, 1763.

34 Title changed to The Massachusetts Gazette And Boston News-Letter.

35 Reprint

36 Title changed to The Massachusetts Gazette.

37 Title changed to The Massachusetts Gazette, And Boston News-Letter.

38 Title changed to The Boston Weekly News-Letter.

39 Title changed to The Massachusetts Gazette: and the Boston Weekly News-Letter

40 Some copies of Supplement by mistake are dated 5 June 1771.

41 For explanation of this number, see page 423 below.

42 Supplement is numbered 2032.

43 Supplement is numbered 3124.

44 For explanation of this number see p. 430, below.

45 Supplement only, without number.

46 Some copies are numbered 3361.

47 Supplement only, without number.

48 This issue apparently has no number.

49 The BOSTON GAZETTE, Monday.

50 Some copies by mistake are dated 31 May, 1724.

69 Title changed to The Boston Gazette, or New-England Weekly Journal. Day of publication changed from Monday to Tuesday.

70 Title changed to The Boston Gazette, or, Weekly Journal.

72 Change from Old Style to New Style.

73 Title changed to The Boston Gazette or Weekly Advertiser. Day of publication changed from Tuesday to Wednesday.

74 Day of publication changed from Wednesday to Tuesday.

75 By mistake dated 1 August, 1753.

76 Title changed to The Boston Gazette, or Country Journal. Day of publication changed from Tuesday to Monday.

77 Supplement by mistake is dated 26 January 1755.

78 Title changed to The Boston Gazette and Country Journal.

79 Reprint.

80 Reprint.

81 Reprint.

82 Reprint.

83 No issues published between 17 April and 5 June, 1775.

84 Published in Watertown.

85 Published again in Boston.

86 Some copies by mistake are dated 9 June, 1777.

87 Some copies by mistake are dated 2 January, 1779.

88 Title changed to The Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal.

89 Some copies of Supplement are numbered 75.

90 Some copies of Supplement are numbered 943.

91 Some copies of Supplement are numbered 860.

92 Some copies are numbered 666.

93 Some copies are numbered 668.

94 Supplement is numbered 997.

95 The New-England Courant. Monday.

96 Reprint.

97 Reprint.

98 Reprint.

99 Reprint.

100 Reprint.

101 Reprint.

102 Day of publication changed from Monday to Saturday.

103 No paper was issued 14 May, 1726.

104 The New-England Weekly Journal. Monday.

105 Reprint.

106 Reprint.

107 Reprint.

108 Reprint.

109 Reprint.

110 Reprint.

111 Reprint.

112 Some copies by mistake are dated 4 September, 1728.

113 Some copies by mistake are dated 30 March, 1729.

114 Some copies by mistake are dated 31 June, 1729.

115 Some copies by mistake are dated 4 October, 1730.

116 Day of publication changed from Monday to Tuesday.

117 Some copies by mistake are dated 29 February, 1737.

118 Some copies by mistake are dated 29 February, 1738.

119 This issue has the word “Numb.,” but no figure following. From 27 March, 1727, to 28 April, 1735, the numbers were printed in Roman numerals; from 5 May, 1735, to 13 October, 1741, the numbers were printed in Arabic numerals.

120 By mistake printed CLIVI.

121 By mistake printed CCXVXII.

122 The Weekly Rehearsal. Monday.

123

124

125 The first numbered issue.

126 See p. 467, below.

127 The Boston Weekly Post-Boy. Monday.

128 Title changed to The Boston Post-Boy.

129 Change from Old Style to New Style.

130 Publications suspended between 23 December 1754, and 22 August, 1757.

131 Title changed to The Boston Weekly Advertiser.

132 Title changed to Green & Russell’s Boston Post Boy & Advertiser. Some copies by mistake are dated 1 January, 1758.

133 By mistake dated 22 November, 1761.

134 Title changed to The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser.

135 Title changed to The Massachusetts Gazette, and the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser. Some copies by mistake are dated 1 October, 1769.

136 Some copies by mistake are dated 5 November, 1771.

137 Perhaps 395.

138 The Boston Evening-Post. Monday.

139

140 Some copies by mistake are dated 2 January, 1743.

141 Some copies by mistake are dated 9 January, 1743.

142

143 Some copies by mistake are dated 16 January, 1743.

144 By mistake dated 21 February, 1748.

145 Change from Old Style to New Style.

146 Some copies by mistake are dated 6 April, 1757.

147 For explanation of this number, see p. 474, below.

148 Supplement is numbered 1624.

149 Some copies are numbered 1674.

150 The Independent Advertiser. Monday

151 Publication was probably suspended between 2 October and 5 December, 1749. See p. 477, below

152 See p. 477, below.

153 See p. 477, below.

154 The Boston Chronicle. Monday.

155 Printed Monday and Thursday.

156 Supplement without number.

157 Some copies by mistake are numbered 58.

158 Supplement without number.

159 Supplement without number.

160 Supplement without number.

161 Supplement without number.

162 The Massachusetts Gazette. Monday and Thursday.

163 For explanation of this number, see pp. 487, 488, below.

164 The Massachusetts Spy. Printed Tuesday. No papers issued between 17 July and 7 August.

165 Reprint.

166 Printed Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

167 By mistake dated 10 August, 1770.

168 Printed Monday and Thursday.

169 Some copies by mistake are dated 3 September, 1770.

170 No papers issued between 1 February and 7 March, 1771.

171 Printed Thursday.

172 Title changed to The Massachusetts Spy Or, Thomas’s Boston Journal.

173 Supplement by mistake was dated 31 June, 1773.

174 Supplement is numbered 100.

175 Supplement is numbered 58.

176 Supplement is numbered 63.

177 Supplement by mistake is dated 31 June, 1773.

178 The New-England Chronicle or, the Essex Gazette. Friday. Printed in Cambridge.

179 Day of publication changed from Friday to Thursday.

180 No paper issued 15 February, 1776.

181 No paper issued 11 and 18 April, 1776.

182 Title changed to The New-England Chronicle. Printed in Boston.

183 Title changed to The Independent Chronicle.

184 Title changed to The Independent Chronicle. And the Universal Advertiser.

185 Some copies by mistake are dated Thursday, 20 November, instead of Friday, 21 November, 1777.

186 For explanation of this number, see p.493, below.

187 The Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser. Thursday.

188 Some copies by mistake are dated 19 September, 1777.

189 The printed number is XCVIV, evidently meant to be XCIX.

190 The Independent Ledger, and American Advertiser. Monday.

191 Title changed to The Independent Ledger, and the American Advertiser.

192 By mistake dated 12 November, 1780.

193 The Evening Post; and the General Advertiser. Saturday.

194 Title changed to The Morning Chronicle; and the General Advertiser. Day of publication changed from Saturday to Thursday.

195 The Editor wishes to express his indebtedness to Miss Ayer and to Miss Mary H. Rollins for aid rendered in collecting the necessary data.

196 Among these is Mr. William Nelson, though the error is corrected by a facsimile of the heading of the paper. In Mr. North’s account, the date of the first issue of the Boston News-Letter is variously given as April 4, 17, and 24, 1704. In his Boyhood and Youth of Franklin, written in 1829, Edward Everett erroneously stated that the Boston News-Letter began April 17, 1704, and that the Boston Gazette began December 14, 1719. (Orations and Speeches, 1850, ii. 22.) In the Massachusetts Magazine for April, 1790, was printed an extract taken from an English paper in which the statement was made that the first issue of the Boston News-Letter was published on April 17, 1704 (ii. 254, 255).

197 A few cases may be specified. In the Boston Athenæum file of the New-England Weekly Journal there is bound between the issues of 27 April and 4 May, 1730, “The Lords Protest On the Treaty of Peace, Union and Friendship, between Great-Britain, France and Spain; concluded at Seville on the 9th of November last [1729].” In the same library’s file of the Boston News-Letter there are bound between the issues of 14 and 21 February, 1715, two documents which are printed in the Publications of this Society, x. 345–352. In the Essex Institute’s file of the Boston Evening-Post there is bound between the issues of 9 and 16 January, 1769, a broadside dated “SALEM, Thursday January 12, 1769,” and headed “Important Advices!” It was doubtless printed by Samuel Hall at Salem. In the American Antiquarian Society’s file of the Boston News-Letter for 1751 there is bound a broadside containing an obituary notice of Paul Dudley taken from the issue of 7 February, 1751. For descriptions of other similar documents, see 2 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vi. 171–174, xv. 327–362. See also p. 500 note, below.

Occasionally a print as well as a document is bound in. At the beginning of the Boston Athenæum file of the Boston Evening-Post for 1765 is a print which is doubtless a copy of the one advertised in the issue of 4 November, 1765, as “A Caricatura, being a Representation of the Tree of Liberty, and the Distresses of the Present Day. Sold by N. Hurd” (p. 3/2). A long description of this caricature will be found in the supplement to the Boston News-Letter of 7 November, 1765 (p. 1/3).

198 Boston Athenæum copy. The New-England Historic Genealogical Society’s copy of the same issue lacks this notice.

199 The most singular supplement that has come under the notice of the Editor is one listed in this volume as belonging to the Boston Gazette of 26 December, 1726. It is without date, without number, without imprint, and without title. But the heading “POSTSCRIPT” stamps it as being the supplement to some newspaper, and the Boston Gazette and the Boston News-Letter were the only two published in Boston at that time. It is a broadside, printed in two columns, and consists wholly of extracts taken “[From the Weekly Jamaica Courant, Nov. 9.].”

200 A file of the Boston Chronicle in the Massachusetts State Library bears this endorsement: “This volume has been collated, and is complete from Dec. 26. 1769 to June 7. 1770.” The file, however, lacks the title-page to Volume iii.

201 This was unusual. In 1770 the New-England Chronicle was issued on Wednesday, March 6, instead of on Thursday, March 7. A supplement to the Boston News-Letter was issued on Wednesday, June 4, 1766. At the bottom of p. 2 was printed this notice: “The Gazette will be published To-morrow, as usual.” Across the top of the first page of the Boston News-Letter of 22 February, 1758, was printed this notice:

WEDNESDAY, February 22. 1758.

HAVING received two London Papers, one of the 20th of December the other of the 10th of January, bro’t by a Vessel arrived at Marblehead in a short Passage from Lisbon, and which contain many important Articles, at the pressing Desire of some Gentlemen, THIS PAPER is Published the Day before the usual Time.

N. B. A Postscript will be published To-morrow, with some other foreign as well as domestic Paragraphs, &c.

202 Several instances were given in the last note. Two others may be specified. The Boston Gazette was published on 24 and also on 25 July, 1727, and on 19 as well as on 20 October, 1741.

203 Attention may be called to a few examples. The New-England Courant was issued on Wednesday, 16 December, 1724, instead of on Monday, 14 December. The New-England Weekly Journal was issued on Tuesday, 14 April, and 11 August, 1730, though its regular day of publication at that time was Monday. The following issues of the Boston News-Letter appeared on Friday, instead of on Thursday: 18 October, 1723; 21 February, 1729; 29 January, 1748; 22 April, 1 July, 1757. The Massachusetts Spy was issued on Friday, 7 December, 1770, instead of the day before. The New-England Chronicle appeared on Friday, instead of on Thursday, on 24 November, 1775, and on 8 December, 1780. There were many similar instances.

204 An extraordinary irregularity that defies classification is the following. The supplement to the Boston News-Letter of 31 October, 1765, is dated “Thursday, October 31. 1765.” Near the top of the second column on the first page are four paragraphs of news headed “BOSTON, Oct. 31.” Immediately following these is the heading “Boston, November First;” and a little later is a paragraph beginning “This Morning two Effigies were discovered hanging on LIBERTY TREE,” etc. In short, this supplement, dated October 31, was printed partly on that day and partly on the next day, and was published on November 1, the day the Stamp Act went into effect. Again, the Boston News-Letter of 25 February, 1768, consisted of two leaves, as did also the supplement of the same date. But the supplement, though dated Thursday, February 25, was not published until the next day, the reason for the delay being given in the following notice printed at the bottom of p. 2/2:

*** The Publication of this Gazette Extraordinary, after the usual Time, is not to intercept any Articles of Intelligence from the Publishers of other Papers; — but the Notifications of Insolvent Debtors coming too late to set the Press for two Sheets in one Day, the Publisher thereof tho’t it best to be at the Trouble and Expence of tending one out a Day after the other.

205 A curious misprint occurs in the imprint of the Boston News-Letter of 14 April, 1712, where the year is misprinted 1172.

206 That the issue was actually published on Friday, 21 November, 1777, is proved by internal evidence.

207 New-England Weekly Journal, 28 February, 1737.

208 New-England Weekly Journal, 30 June. 1729.

209 When the wording in a footnote is “By mistake dated . . . ,” it means that every known issue is misdated. When the wording is “Some copies are by mistake dated . . . ,” it means that two editions were printed, one correctly dated, the other misdated. Every case of alleged irregularity has been inquired into.

210 The Boston News-Letter of 13 January, 1703, was misdated 11 January, 1763. At the bottom of p. 2 of that issue was printed this notice: “The Date in the Title of the News-Letter should be January 13th, instead of the 11th. The Error was not discovered till too late.”

211 See p. 481, below.

212 The most remarkable error in numbering was the following. The Boston Gazette of 28 April, 1740, was numbered 1057. The issue of 9 June, 1740, was numbered 1062. The only known issue between those two dates is that of 26 May, numbered 10510. See p. 176, above.

213 Occasionally an error in numbering was discovered. The issues of the New-England Courant of 11 and 18 March, 1723, were each numbered 84. In the issue of 25 March was printed this notice (p. 2/2): “[The Number of our last Paper should have been 85, and not 84, as was printed by mistake.].”

214 See in particular what is said about the numbering of the early issues of the Weekly Rehearsal, p. 463, below.

215 In the Massachusetts Historical Society’s copy of the Boston News-Letter of 18 October, 1731, the dates of both month and year are perfectly distinct. In the American Antiquarian Society’s copy of the same issue, the figures have been defaced by having a pen run through them. The copy may have been misdated, but the defacement of the figures makes it impossible to say with certainty.

216 Important historical conclusions have sometimes been drawn from evidence furnished by dates and numbers. In the American Historical Review for April, 1906, Mr. Alexander S. Salley, Jr., sought to prove that a certain facsimile of an alleged newspaper was spurious, and stated that “the wrong date and wrong number are not the only evidences of spuriousness on the face of the facsimile of this paper” (xi. 548–553). An examination of the Check-List and of the Collation of Numbers and Dates in this volume will show that evidence based on wrong dates and wrong numbers must be received with extreme caution.

217 The Rev. John Eliot.

218 Thomas’s work was reprinted at Albany in 1874 by the American Antiquarian Society. All extracts quoted in this volume are from the 1810 edition.

219 For reasons stated in their proper place, a single exception to this plan has been made in the case of the early years of the Boston Post-Boy. See pp. 465–470, below. The only biographical details given in this volume are death dates; and these are given not because they are biographical, but because they are also bibliographical. In two instances — those of Thomas Lewis and of Henry Marshall of the Boston Gazette — death dates make it possible to state exactly when a change in publisher took place. See p. 447 note 2, below. It has also been thought proper to indicate in the Index the often complicated relationships between publishers and printers of the same name.

220 The Boston Chronicle. See p. 483 note, below. There is also extant at least one copy of the prospectus of the Essex Gazette, issued 5 July, 1768. See p. 498, below.

221 An instance of hopeless confusion in titles is found in the statement that “in a few years the Advertiser took the name, by combination or substitution, of the News-Letter, Post-Boy, and Massachusetts Gazette, with which it was in alliance more or less intimate” (Memorial History of Boston, ii. 406).

222 Thus, on 20 July, 1778, the exact title of the Independent Ledger was changed from “The Independent Ledger, and American Advertiser” to “The Independent Ledger, and the American Advertiser.”

223 On and after 26 August, 1735, the hyphen was omitted in the title of the New-England Weekly Journal.

224 On and after 1 January, 1745, the comma was omitted after “or” in the title of the Boston Gazette.

225 On 26 April, 1773, a semicolon was substituted for a comma after the word “Gazette” in the title of the Boston Post-Boy. See also p. 439 note 2, below.

226 In one library the Boston Post-Boy for 1761 is labelled “Massachusetts Gazette.” Such a title was unknown in Boston until 1763, and not until 1769 was it adopted by the Boston Post-Boy. In one library a file of the Boston Post-Boy for 1770 is labelled “Massachusetts Gazette,” without a subtitle; and in one library a file of the Boston News-Letter for 1769 is labelled “Massachusetts Gazette,” without a subtitle.

227 Thus, the issues of the Boston News-Letter dated 24 April–15 May, 1704, were sold by Nicholas Boone.

228 Thus, the imprint of the Weekly Rehearsal of 27 December, 1731, stated that “Advertisements are taken in by T. Hancock, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Ann-Street;” while the imprint of the issue of 2 April, 1733, stated that “Advertisements are taken in” by Thomas Fleet, the printer, and “are also taken in by Mr. N. Belknap, Bookseller, near Clark’s Wharf at the North End.”

229 Curiosities in imprints occur. The main issue of the Boston News-Letter of 9 June, 1774, was published by Margaret Draper and John Boyle, but the supplement of the same date bears the name of John Boyle only. The supplement to the Boston Post-Boy of 18 December, 1758, bears the imprint, “Printed and sold by Green and Russell, at their Printing House in Queen Street. Sold also by J. Draper, at his Printing Office in Newbury Street.” Draper was the publisher of the Boston News-Letter. This is the only instance known to the Editor where an imprint bears the name of a rival publisher.

230 Imprints have been the means of detecting other errors in binding. Thus, the Boston Public Library file of the Boston News-Letter for 1768 contains a copy of the issue of the Massachusetts Gazette of 17 October, 1768, which ought to be bound in the file of the Boston Post-Boy, as it was published not by Draper but by Green and Russell. Again, the Boston Athenæum file of the Massachusetts Gazette contains a second leaf which belongs not to the issue of the Massachusetts Gazette of 8 August, 1768 (which contained a single leaf only), but to the issue of the Boston Post-Boy of 1 August, 1768. and should be bound in the file of the Boston Post-Boy, where will be found the first leaf of the issue of 1 August, 1768.

231 A device was occasionally omitted. Thus, the Independent Ledger of 17 April, 1780, was of smaller size than usual and was without a device. Occasionally, too, a device suddenly changed. Thus, the supplement to the Boston Evening-Post of 7 May, 1764, bore for a device a crown and under it a heart, all enclosed within a border. The design of this device was very different from the design of the device usually employed in the Boston Evening-Post.

232 In the Lenox Library, each leaf of every issue is hinged on guards of thin strong paper, and the issues are interleaved with blank leaves of stiff paper of somewhat larger size of leaf. When issues are missing the two leaves of thin strong paper used for guards are inserted full size, and when an issue is supplied these blank leaves are cut down to the inner margins and the issue is hinged to them. No more than one year is bound in a volume. At the beginning of each volume is inserted a typewritten list giving the number and date of each issue for the year included in the volume, those issues actually in the volume being indicated by a mark. This method is at once the best for the preservation of the papers, for their ready examination, and for the convenience of the inquirer; and its general adoption by librarians is to be desired.

233 See p. 477, below.

234 The only known copy of the original is in the Massachusetts Archives, xxxv. 83. It has been reprinted in the Massachusetts Magazine for October, 1789, i. 642–646; in the Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society (1824, 1866), i. 252–255, viii. 258–260; in the Andros Tracts (1869), ii. 15–18; in facsimile by Mr. William G. Shillaber for the Club of Odd Volumes (1902); and in facsimile by Dr. Samuel A. Green in his Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to Various Subjects (1903).

235 Publications, x. 310–320.

236 The only known copy of the original is in the Public Record Office, London. It has been reprinted by Dr. S. A. Green in the Historical Magazine for August, 1857, i. 228–231; in the National Intelligencer of 3 September, 1857, p. 4/1; by Frederic Hudson in his Journalism in the United States, from 1690 to 1872 (1873), pp. 44–48; and again, this time in facsimile, by Dr. Green in his Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to Old Boston and Neighborhood (1901).

237 Several of these news-letters, written in 1703, are printed in 1 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ix. 485–501.

238 The only known copies of the issue of 24 April, 1704, are in the American Antiquarian Society, the Harvard College Library (a fragment only), the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the New York Historical Society. The copies in the American Antiquarian Society and in the New York Historical Society are identical, while the copy in the Massachusetts Historical Society differs from the former two and is probably the second or later edition. Dr. Green writes:

Both issues were struck off with the same font of type, as might be supposed, but the variations in the two editions show that there was a new setting up of the matter. It is not easy now to give the reason why this should have been so. It seems hardly probable that the first edition was so soon exhausted; and then, again, perhaps, the change in the advertising agency from Boone to Campbell, — who was now both editor and proprietor, — had something to do with the fact (Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to Various Subjects, p. 16).

An examination of the present volume will show that the publication of two editions of the same issue, though of course not common, was by no means unknown.

The first issue of the Boston News-Letter has been reproduced several times, notably by Dr. Green in the volume quoted above, where facsimiles of both editions are given. The issue of 15 September, 1763, has also been reprinted.

239 A somewhat similar, but more elaborate practice was also employed for several years iu the New-England Weekly Journal. See pp. 458, 459, below.

240 Introductory Note, p. 410, above.

241 John Draper married Deborah Green, daughter of Bartholomew Green.

242 Temporary Acts and Laws (1755), pp. 146–148.

243 The Boston Evening-Post of 5 May, 1755, contained these lines (p. 1/1):

On the pretty Bird in the Margin.

The little pretty Picture here,

o’th Side looks well enough;

Though nothing to the Purpose ’tis,

’t will serve to set it off.

Again.

Although this Emblem has but little in’t

You must e’en take it, or you ’l have no Print.

244 The American Antiquarian Society’s file of the Boston Evening-Post is remarkable for its completeness, and also for the fact that many of the issues published between 30 April, 1755, and 30 April, 1757, are not stamped. The omission is explained by the following entry written in ink in the margin of the first page of the issue of 5 May, 1755:

Many of these papers appear without the Stamps. In this Paper it should first appear — but it is customary for Printers to print a few for their own files without stamps. This file was kept by Mr. Fleet for his own use, which accounts for the want of the stamps.

This entry, in the opinion of Mr. Edmund M. Barton, is possibly but not probably in the handwriting of Isaiah Thomas.

245 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 475. The petition is printed, except the place, date, and the petitioner’s name, which are in the hand of Richard Draper.

246 Council Records, xv. 189.

247 Richard Draper remained the publisher of the paper, but associated with him as printer his cousin, Samuel Draper. The issues of 2 December, 1762 – 6 January, 1763, bore no imprint; the names of Richard and Samuel Draper as printers appeared in the issue of 13 January, 1763; and Richard Draper’s name as publisher first appeared in the issue of 7 April, 1763. Later, Samuel Draper became publisher as well as printer. See p. 438, below.

248 Council Records, xv. 232.

249 Ibid. xv. 241.

250 Statutes at Large (Cambridge, England, 1764), xxvi. 193, 194.

251 The facts in regard to the Boston News-Letter were set forth at length by Dr. Green in his Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to New England (1903), pp. 40, 41. Throughout that period the Fleets omitted their names and imprint from the Boston Evening-Post; Green and Russell omitted their names and imprint from some, but not all, of the issues of the Boston Post-Boy; while of the Boston Gazette — the only other paper published in Boston during the same period — most of the issues bore the names and imprint of Edes and Gill, but a few issues had no imprint. The presence or absence of an imprint, as pointed out in the Introductory Note (p. 417, above), was apparently largely a matter of chance; and hence caution must be used in drawing conclusions from its omission.

On 7 November, 1765, the title of the Boston News-Letter was changed from “The Massachusetts Gazette. And Boston News-Letter” to “The Massachusetts Gazette;” and on 22 May, 1766, it was changed back again to “The Massachusetts Gazette. And Boston News-Letter.” Thomas stated that —

In the troublesome times occasioned by the Stamp act in 1765, some of the more opulent and cautions printers, when the act was to take place, put their papers in mourning, and, for a few weeks, omitted to publish them; others not so timid, but doubtful of the consequence of publishing newspapers without stamps, omitted the titles, or altered them, as an evasion: — for instance the Pennsylvania Gazette, and some other papers, were headed “Remarkable Occurrences, &c.”—other printers, particularly those in Boston, continued their papers without any alteration in title or imprint.

The facts recited in the text and in this note show that Thomas’s statement in regard to Boston papers was not quite accurate.

252 No other publishers changed the numbering of their papers.

253 How to treat this Massachusetts Gazette, published jointly by Draper and Green and Russell, is the most difficult problem that arises in connection with the Boston newspapers of the eighteenth century. The problem is solved in this volume by regarding the Massachusetts Gazette as a separate paper. See pp. 470, 471, 484–493, below.

254 This is the only notice regarding the peculiar arrangement between the Boston News-Letter and the Boston Post-Boy which has been noted in the Boston News-Letter or in the Boston Post-Boy or in the Massachusetts Gazette.

255 If by “its primitive Title” is meant its first title, the publisher made a mistake. The title adopted 26 May, 1768, was the third of the eleven titles under which the Boston News-Letter was known during its existence, and was originally adopted 5 November, 1730.

256 This was the eleventh and last title. But it should be added that the issue of 13 October, 1775, was entitled “The Massachusetts Gazette: Published Occasionally.”

257 April is doubtless a misprint for May.

258 The only known copy of this issue is somewhat mutilated, and the words within square brackets are conjectural.

259 A passage which appeared in the New-England Chronicle of 28 September, 1775, is pertinent (p. 3/2):

[The following curious Paragraphs were taken from Mrs. Draper’s last Boston Paper. The Impudence they contain is so gross, and the Falshood so notorious, as to render any Remark or Contradiction unnecessary.]

BOSTON, September 21.

Then follow several extracts which are of further interest as showing that an issue of the Boston News-Letter of which no copy is known was published on 21 September, 1775. It may be added that an issue of the Boston News-Letter of which no copy is known was also published on 8 February, 1776, for in the issue of 22 February there is an allusion (p. 1/1) to the issue of 8 February. Another fact of interest may be recorded here. Buckingham quotes from the issue of 16 November, 1775. When the Check-List in this volume was revised, no copy of that issue was known; but in May, 1906, a copy was given to the Boston Public Library.

260 John Campbell died 4 March, 1728 (Boston News-Letter, 7 March, 1728, p. 2/1).

261 Bartholomew Green died 28 December, 1732 (Boston News-Letter, 4 January, 1733, p. 2/1).

262 John Draper died 29 November, 1762 (Boston News-Letter, 2 December, 1762, p. 3/1).

263 Samuel Draper died 21 March, 1767 (Boston News-Letter, 26 March, 1767, p. 3/2).

264 Richard Draper died 5 June, 1774 (Boston News-Letter, 9 June, 1774, p. 1/1).

265 John Boyle died 18 November, 1819 (Publications of this Society, vi. 322 note).

266 Margaret Draper died in London, where her will was proved 12 February, 1807 (Suffolk Probate Records, no. 17015).

267 See pp. 435, 436, above.

268 John Howe died 29 December, 1835 (Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, vi. 120).

269 In the issues of 6 January – 31 March, 1763, the Royal Arms had the letters “GR” above them. In the issue of 7 April, 1763, and in all subsequent issues, these letters were omitted. The same design was used in the issues of 7 April, 1763–31 October, 1765; of 22 May, 1766–19 May, 1768; and of 28 September, 1769–22 February, 1776; while the same design was also employed in the portion of the Massachusetts Gazette published by Draper on Thursdays from 26 May, 1768, to 21 September, 1769. See p. 473, below.

Isaiah Thomas said that Richard Draper “added, ‘The Massachusetts Gazette,’ to the title of ‘The Boston News-Letter,’ and decorated it with the king’s arms;” and remarked:

It had become fashionable, many years before the revolution, among publishers of newspapers, especially those whose title embraced the word Gazette, to ornament the titles with this ensign of royalty. But the printers in Boston had not followed this fashion.

However it may have been elsewhere, the evidence given in our text (pp. 426–429) shows that at least in the Boston newspapers the assumption of the Royal Arms was not a matter of whim or of individual taste on the part of publishers. The only Boston papers to assume the Royal Arms were the Boston News-Letter, the Boston Post-Boy, and the Massachusetts Gazette, the publishers of which were also the official publishers to the Government.

270 Attention has already been called to the curious signatures used in the Boston News-Letter and in the New-England Weekly Journal (p. 423, above, pp. 458, 459, below). Another peculiarity of certain Boston newspapers, which might cause confusion, should also be pointed out. In the early years of several newspapers, the letters “N.E.” or the words “New-England” were printed at the top of the first page, above the title; but such letters or words did not form part of the title.

271 Exactly how long Thomas Lewis remained Postmaster has apparently never been ascertained. Philip Musgrave died 18 May, 1725, and the Boston News-Letter of 27 May, 1725, contained the following notice (p. 2/2):

THese are to give Notice, That the Post-Office is Removed from Cornhill unto Mrs. Proctors in Queen-Street, Boston.

There are no known copies of the Boston Gazette between 17 May and 19 July, 1725. The imprints of the issues of 19 July–1 November, 1725, read: “Printed by S. Kneeland, for Thomas Lewis, Postmaster, at his Office in Queen-Street.” The imprints of the issues of 8 November–13 December, 1725, read: “Printed by S. Kneeland, for Thomas Lewis, at the Post Office.” The imprints of the issues of 20 December, 1725–21 February, 1726, read: “Printed by S. Kneeland, for Thomas Lewis, at Mrs. Proctor’s in Queen-Street.” The imprints of the issues of 28 February–18 April, 1726, read: “Printed for Thomas Lewis, by S. Kneeland, at the Printing-House in Queen-Street.” The imprint of the issue of 25 April, 1726, reads: “Printed for Henry Marshall Post Master, & Thomas Lewis, and Sold at the Post Office.”

272 The dates are those given by Brooker himself in the Boston Gazette of 11 January, 1720 (p. 1). In the Boston News-Letter of 8 September, 1718, the name of John Campbell as Postmaster occurred for the last time in the imprint. In the issue of 15 September, 1718, was printed this notice (p. 2/2):

ON Saturday last the 13th Currant the Post-Office in Boston was removed to the fifth Door to the Southward of the old Office, where all Persons are to receive out, and give in their Letters that come and go either by Post or Shipping.

273 The issue of 12 April, 1731, did not contain the words in question; hence they were resumed either on 3 May, or in some issue between 12 April and 3 May of which no copy is known.

274 The issue of 31 May, 1736, did not contain the words in question; hence they were used for the last time either in the issue of 31 May, or in some issue between 3 and 31 May of which no copy is known.

275 See pp. 466, 467, below.

276 Attention may be called to certain facts. The issues of the Boston Gazette dated 27 October and 3 November, 1741, were numbered 943 and 944, respectively. The issue of 10 November was numbered 1029. The New-England Weekly Journal had been printed on a much larger page than that on which the Boston Gazette was printed; the former contained one leaf, while the latter contained two leaves; and the former had three columns to a page, while the latter had but two. The New-England Weekly Journal had no device; the issue of the Boston Gazette dated 20 October had no device. The issue of 19 October had the same two devices which the Boston Gazette had borne for over six years. The issue of 27 October had two devices, one entirely new, the other newly cut of a different size. It seems probable that in giving the number 942 to the issue of 20 October, and in omitting the devices, the printers were somewhat confused between the New-England Weekly Journal and the Boston Gazette.

277 The only known copy of the issue of 26 December, 1752, is mutilated, but the issue of 19 December was numbered 1708.

278 Dr. Samuel A. Green writes:

The practice of reproducing odd numbers of early Boston newspapers in fac-simile without any token or explanation of the fact, may cause hereafter some confusion among librarians and others not familiar with the circumstances of the case (Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to Various Subjects, p. 19).

Dr. Green then goes on to describe various issues which have thus been reproduced, though a few have escaped his attention, and he himself gives facsimile reproductions of the Boston News-Letter of 24 April, 1704, of the New-England Courant of 11 February, 1723, and of the New-England Weekly Journal of 8 April, 1728.

279 Philip Musgrave died 18 May, 1725 (Boston News-Letter, 20 May, 1725, p. 2/2). Presumably, therefore, Thomas Lewis became the publisher on 24 May, 1725.

280 The imprint of the issue of 28 February, 1726, contained the words “at the Printing-House in Queen-Street.” This is apparently the first definite statement as to the place of publication found in the Boston Gazette.

281 Thomas Lewis and Samuel Hirst (a grandson of Judge Sewall) died on 14 January, 1727, through an accident the exact nature of which is not known. The Boston News-Letter of 19 January certainly, and the Boston Gazette of 16 January presumably, contained an account of the accident; but no copies of those issues are known. There is a gap in Judge Sewall’s Diary at that period, but there are references to the event in his Letter-Book (ii. 221). Two sermons were preached on the occasion — one by the Rev. Thomas Prince, the other by the Rev. Joseph Sewall; and but for those sermons, both of which were published by Judge Sewall, the exact date of the accident would apparently be unknown. In his sermon, entitled “Morning Health No Security Against the Sudden Arrest of Death before Night. A Sermon Occasioned By the very sudden Death of Two young Gentlemen in Boston, on Saturday January 14th, 1726, 7. Dedicated to the Youth of the Town,” Prince gives the names of the two victims in a note to the Dedication, and elsewhere speaks of “THE unexpected & surprizing Suddenness of their Destruction” (p. 3). In his sermon, entitled “The Duty of every Man To be Always Ready to Die. A Sermon Occasion’d By the very Sudden Deaths of Mr. Thomas Lewis, Aged 32. And Mr. Samuel Hirst, Aged 22. On Saturday Jan. 14. 1726, 7,” Sewall speaks of “the very Sudden Deaths of the last Week” (p. 18).

282 The issues of 25 April, 1726 – 12 June, 1727, bore no printer’s name in the imprint. In advertisements inserted in the issues of 9 May, 1726 (p. 2/2), of 7 November, 1726 (p. 2/2), of 2 January, 1727 (p. 2/2), and of 20 February, 1727 (p. 2/2), purchasers were requested to inquire of “the Printer in Queen Street,” or at “the Printing-House in Queen Street,” or of “the Printers in Queen-Street,” or at “the Printing-house in Queen-Street.” In an advertisement in the issue of 12 June, 1727 (p. 4/2), purchasers were requested to “Inquire of B. Green, jun. the Printer hereof.” It is certain, therefore, that Green was the printer on 12 June, 1727; and the change in printers may have taken place on 25 April, 1726, or at some time between 20 February and 12 June, 1727. The location of Green’s printing-office was first given in the issue of 1 April, 1734, the imprint of which reads: “Printed by B. Green, at his Printing-House in Newbury Street.”

283 Henry Marshall died 4 October, 1732 (New-England Weekly Journal, 9 October, 1732, p. 2/2).

284 There are no known issues between 2 October and 20 November, 1732, but presumably John Boydell became the publisher on 9 October.

285 On the death of his father on 29 December, 1732, Bartholomew Green, Jr., of course became Bartholomew Green. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was buried 29 October, 1751 (Burial Register of St. Paul’s Parish, Halifax, p. 67).

286 John Boydell died 11 December, 1739 (Boston Gazette, 17 December. 1739, p. 2/1).

287 During this period no publisher’s name appeared. Hannah Boydell died 15 October, 1741 (Boston Gazette, 19 October, 1741, p. 4/1; 20 October, 1741, p. 3/2).

288 Timothy Green died 3 October, 1763 (Boston Post-Boy, 10 October, 1763, p. 3/2; Boston News-Letter, 13 October, 1763, p. 2/1).

289 Throughout the year 1753, Kneeland’s name did not appear in the imprint.

290 Samuel Kneeland died either 12 December, 1769 (Boston Chronicle, 18 December, 1769, ii. 405/2), or 14 December, 1769 (Boston Gazette, 18 December, 1769, p. 2/3; Boston Evening-Post, 18 December, 1769, p. 2/3; Boston Post-Boy, 18 December, 1769, p. 3/1; Boston News-Letter, 21 December, 1769, p. 1/2).

291 The issue of 28 July, 1755, contained this notice (p. 1/1):

☞ The Publishers of this Paper, hereby give Notice, That they have removed from their Office in King-street, to the Printing-Office in Queen-street, formerly improved by Messieurs Rogers & Fowle, next Door to the Prison.

292 Publication suspended between 17 April and 5 June, 1775.

293 The imprint reads Benjamin Edes and Sons, the sons being Benjamin Edes, Jr., and Peter Edes. Benjamin Edes died 11 December, 1803 (Columbian Centinel, 14 December, 1803, p. 2/3); Benjamin Edes, Jr., died 14 May, 1801 (Columbian Centinel, 16 May, 1801, p. 2/4); Peter Edes died 29 March, 1840 (Boston Evening Transcript, 6 April, 1840, p. 2/4).

294 This was a new cut of the Ship and Lighthouse, smaller than the previous one

295 This device is thus described by Isaiah Thomas:

For the want of a more appropriate device, a very singular cut was used in its title, which had been designed and engraved for the lxxvth fable of Croxall’s Esop, representing the boy viewing himself in the glass; his little sister, who was offended with his vanity, and their father who moralized on the subject of their difference.

296 The second device is the same as that used in the Independent Advertiser. See p. 479, below.

297 This device is thus described by Isaiah Thomas:

Before this event [the revolutionary war] took place, the device in the title underwent a change. The figure of Britannia was exchanged for that of Minerva, seated; before her was a pedestal on which was placed a cage; Minerva with her left hand supported a spear, on which was placed the cap of Liberty, and with her right, opened the door of the cage, and liberated a bird which appeared in the act of flying towards a tree that stood at a distance from the city.

There has been some confusion, in previous accounts of the Boston Gazette, between the device of Britannia liberating a bird, adopted on 7 April, 1755 — a device which had previously been used in the Independent Advertiser — and the device of Minerva freeing a bird from a cage, adopted 1 January, 1770. The differences between the two devices can best be seen in Buckingham’s Specimens of Newspaper Literature (i. 156, 165), where also will be found reproductions of most of the devices used in the Boston papers.

298 The date almost invariably assigned is Monday, August 17, 1721. This error — in spite of the easily ascertained fact that that date is an impossible one, since August 17, 1721, did not fall on Monday — is so persistent that it seems worth while to show how it arose. In his account of the Boston News-Letter, Isaiah Thomas wrote that “On the 7th of August, 1721, a third newspaper in Boston was published, entitled The New England Courant;” and proceeded to give at length the passage quoted in our text from the Boston News-Letter of 14 August, 1721. But in his account of the New-England Courant, Thomas said that this “was first printed and published Monday, August 17, 1721.” Hence August 17 was a misprint.

299 Massachusetts House Journals, 7 July, 1722, p. 64.

300 These words were inadvertently omitted. See the Massachusetts House Journals, 14, 16 January, 1723, pp. 79, 82.

301 Council Records, vii. 452, 453; Suffolk Court Files, no. 16480. For this “last instance of an attempt to revive and enforce censorship” of the press in Massachusetts, see, besides the accounts mentioned in the Introductory Note (pp. 412, 413), Professor Clyde A. Duniway’s Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts (Harvard Historical Studies), 1906, pp. 97–103.

302 Works (Bigelow’s edition), i. 55, 56.

303 James Franklin died 4 February, 1735 (Boston News-Letter, 13 February, 1735, p. 2/1).

304 See p. 423, above.

305 Introductory Note, p. 416, above.

306 On and after 18 May, 1736, the hyphen was omitted in “New England.”

307 The issue of 4 August, 1735, contained this notice (p. 2/3):

☞ This Paper for the future will be Published every Tuesday Morning; . . .

308 The date of the last issue of the Weekly Rehearsal is sometimes wrongly given as 14 August, 1735.

309 See pp. 474–476, below.

310 A quondam owner of the file in the American Antiquarian Society attempted to write in numbers in ink, often obliterating the printed number. Needless to say, the result is hopeless confusion.

311 See p. 462, above.

312 Jeremiah Gridley died 10 September, 1767 (Boston Gazette, 14 September, 1767, p. 3/1).

313 “Ellis Huske (his son) was post-master at Boston, and the publisher of the Boston Weekly Post Boy” (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, iv. 335 note). In the first edition (1870) of his Wentworth Genealogy, John Wentworth said: “There was an Ellis Huske, who was Post-master at Boston, and who established ‘The Boston Weekly Post Boy,’ in 1734, . . . His relationship to the above [Chief Justice Ellis Huske] is not known” (i. 160 note). In the second edition (1878) of the same work, Wentworth wrote: “Ellis Huske, jr., who established the Boston Weekly Post Boy, in 1734, and continued it about twenty years. He was postmaster at Boston” (i. 287 note). This statement was repeated by the editors of Part I of the Belcher Papers (6 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vi. 3 note), but the error was corrected in Part II (ibid. vii. 114 note).

314 Ellis Huske “is the person, it is said, who recommended to the British government the Stamp Act of 1765” (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, iv. 335 note). This statement was repeated in 1873 by Hudson, who pictures Ellis Huske’s astonishment over “the excitement and indignation that his measure created in the colonies” (Journalism in the United States, p. 96). Ellis Huske died in 1755. and the person intended was his son, John Huske, who, on account of his alleged share in the passage of the Stamp Act, was hanged in effigy in Boston on November 1, 1765 (Boston Gazette, 4 November, 1765, p. 1/1). There is, however, no proof that John Huske favored the Stamp Act, while it is certain that he was an earnest advocate of its repeal.

315 6 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 468.

316 6 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 114. The marriage on October 25, 1720, of Captain Ellis Huske and Mrs. Mary Plaisted is recorded in the Salem Book of Marriages, iv. 29.

317 6 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 471.

318 Hence all dates in the Check-List previous to 21 April, 1735, are conjectural.

319 See in particular what has been said about the numbering of the Weekly Rehearsal on p. 463, above.

320 New Hampshire Provincial Papers, vi. 339.

321 There is apparently no record of his death in Boston, in Portsmouth, or in Concord, New Hampshire.

322 There were no newspapers in New Hampshire at that time.

323 This notice was again printed in the Boston Evening-Post of 6 January, 1755 (p. 2/2), and also in the Boston News-Letter of 2 and 9 January, 1755 (pp. 2/2, 2/2). John Franklin was a brother of Benjamin Franklin.

324 This notice was again printed in the Boston Evening-Post of 6 January, 1755 (p. 2/2), and also in the Boston News-Letter of 2, 9, and 16 January, 1755 (pp. 2/2, 2/2, 2/2). It was again printed in the Boston News-Letter of 27 February, 1755 (p. 2/2), but with the words “are once more desired” substituted for the words “are desired.”

325 See C. W. Ernst’s “Postal service in Boston, from 1639 to 1893,” in Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts (1894), ii. 443–504.

326 In the Boston Evening-Post of 30 December, 1754, and of 6 January, 1755, there was printed immediately after the notice signed by Holbrook the following:

Delinquent Readers,

☞ AS the Season is now come on, when Victuals, Firing, and many other Things that will be wanted to make the Publisher’s Life comfortable, and to enable him to carry on this Paper, as well for your Entertainment as his Advantage, he therefore hopes and desires you to take his Case into most serious Consideration.

As this notice appeared in the Boston Evening-Post only, and not in the Boston News-Letter, it may safely be regarded as relating not to the Boston Post-Boy but solely to the Boston Evening-Post.

327 John Bushell removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he published the Halifax Gazette, the first issue of which appeared on 23 March, 1752. He died in January, 1761, and was buried January 22 (Burial Register of St. Paul’s Parish, Halifax, p. 51).

328 There are so few known copies of the early issues of the paper that the statement in the text is necessarily imperfect.

329 See pp. 430–432, above, and pp. 484–492, below.

330 On 26 April, 1773, the comma after the word “Gazette” was displaced by a semicolon.

331 Ellis Huske died 24 April, 1755. See p. 468, above.

332 John Green, who was a son of Bartholomew Green, Jr., died 21 November, 1787 (Massachusetts Centinel, 24 November, 1787, viii. 79/2). Joseph Russell died 29 November, 1795 (Columbian Centinel, 2 December, 1795, p. 3/1).

333 This was the same device which had been used in the portion of the Massachusetts Gazette published by Green and Russell on Mondays. See p. 439 note, above.

334 See p. 463, above.

335 Each paper thus far considered has been called the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth newspaper to be published in Boston; for in regard to those six papers there can be no doubt. But after 1734 such a characterization becomes impossible. The Weekly Rehearsal and the Boston Evening-Post may be regarded either as two distinct papers or merely as the same paper with a change in title. Cf. pp. 414, 415, 444, 445, above.

336 The numbers of the last issue of the Weekly Rehearsal and of the first issue of the Boston Evening-Post are sometimes wrongly given.

337 See p. 463, above.

338 Thomas Fleet died 21 July, 1758 (Boston Evening-Post, 24 July, 1758, p. 2/2).

339 The issue of 24 July bears the imprint, “Printed by T. Fleet;” but as Thomas Fleet, Senior, had died three days before, it is obvious that that issue could not have been published by him. His successors were his sons, Thomas and John Fleet, whose imprint first appears in the issue of 31 July, 1758. Thomas Fleet, Jr., died 15 March, 1797 (Massachusetts Mercury, 17 March, 1797, p. 3/1). John Fleet died 18 March, 1806 (Columbian Centinel, 19 March, 1806, P. 2/4).

340 The Boston Evening-Post of 19 December, 1748 (p. 4/2), contained an advertisement of Thomas Fleet and a cut of his sign, the Heart and Crown. This design is different from either of the devices printed in the title of the paper itself from 19 March, 1759, to 24 April, 1775.

341 The only issue published on a Tuesday was that of 5 December, 1749.

342 Gamaliel Rogers is stated by Thomas to have died in 1775. Daniel Fowle died 8 June, 1787 (New-Hampshire Gazette, 16 June, 1787, p. 3/3).

343 This device is thus described by Isaiah Thomas:

The device in the centre of its title, was a large cut of Britannia liberating a bird confined by a cord to the arms of France. Britannia is represented sitting; the arms of France lying on the ground before her; the bird is on the wing, but being impeded by the cord, one end of which is fastened to the arms of France, and the other to the bird, Britannia is in the act of cutting the cord with a pair of shears, that the bird may escape.

In 1799 the Rev. John Eliot suggested a different interpretation:

. . . the Independent Advertiser . . . was supported by the whigs, who gave a device indicative of their principles, a bird let loose by the hand of Britannia, or the goddess of liberty. It was thus designed; but may as well represent America in the character of a female, active in doing good, profuse of her favours, and pregnant with blessings for future times (1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vi. 69).

344 It is believed that this printer’s name — in previous accounts of Boston newspapers spelled Fleming — is given correctly in this volume for the first time.

345 During a portion of the years 1720 and 1721, the Boston News-Letter was published twice a week; but those were sporadic issues.

346 The inability to distinguish sharply between publisher and printer has already been commented upon. Isaiah Thomas wrote:

John Mein was a bookseller, and John Fleming a printer. The Chronicle was published by Mein. . . . Before the close of the second year of publication, its publisher, Mein, was engaged in a political warfare with those who were in opposition to the measures of the British administration. In the Chronicle he abused numbers of the most respectable whigs in Boston; and he was charged with insulting the populace. To avoid the effects of popular resentment, it became necessary for him to leave the country. Fleming continued the Chronicle during the absence of Mein, in the name of the firm.

From a passage in the Boston News-Letter of 21 September, 1769 (p. 2/1) it seems certain that Mein was at that time still in Boston. In the Boston Evening-Post of 6 November, 1769, was printed the following (p. 3/1):

MR. John Mein, our intrepid asserter of truth and falshood, has kept himself out of the way (for reasons best known to himself) since Saturday last: . . .

In the Boston Evening-Post of 20 November, 1769, it was stated: “We hear, that John Mein went for England last week in the Hope schooner” (p. 3/2). In the Boston Gazette of 20 November, 1769, appeared the following (p. 3/1):

Since our last sailed the Hope Schooner in his Majesty’s Service, . . . for England; She is to stop at Halifax, . . .

We hear that J. Mein, late Publisher of the Boston Chronicle, is gone home in the above Schooner, in order to [here the item abruptly ends].

In the Boston Gazette of 18 December, 1769, a correspondent said: “Mein we know has eloped, and it is said has been seen at Halifax” (p. 2/3).

347 One edition of the issue of 21 December, 1767, consists of pp. 1–8, without a supplement, the first of John Dickinson’s famous Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies being printed on pp. 1, 2. Another edition contains: (1) the main paper, filling pp. 1–8; (2) one unnumbered leaf, on which is printed the first of the Farmer’s Letters; (3) a supplement filling pp. 9–12, the second of the Farmer’s Letters being printed on pp. 9–11.

348 One edition of the issue of 28 December, 1767, contains pp. 9–16, the second of the Farmer’s Letters being printed on pp. 9–11. Another edition contains pp. 13–20.

349 Two explanations of the absence of pages 153–156 are possible: it may have been a printer’s error; or a supplement which has not been preserved may have been published between 11 and 18 April, 1768.

350 At the end of Mein and Fleeming’s Register for New-England and Nova-Scotia for 1768 are two unnumbered leaves, the first of which contains a prospectus beginning as follows:

Boston, October 22d, 1767. / Proposals / For printing a New Weekly Paper, called / The Boston Chronicle. / Conditions.

351 See pp. 430–432, 470, 471, above.

352 See p. 431, above.

353 Council Records, xvi. 293.

354 Boston News-Letter, 4 March, 1768 (p. 1/1). Neither the message of the Governor nor the address of the Council is recorded in the Council Records, but both are printed in the Boston News-Letter of 4 March, 1768 (p. 1), and in the Boston Post-Boy of 7 March, 1768 (pp. 1, 2).

355 See Council Records, xvi. 293; Massachusetts House Journals under dates of 1, 2, 3 March, 1768, pp. 206, 207, 210, 211; Boston News-Letter of 4 March, 1768, Boston Post-Boy of 7 March, 1768, where the proceedings are printed in full; C. A. Duniway, Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts, pp. 126–128.

356 Council Records, xvi. 294.

357 Ibid. xvi. 302.

358 See Collation of Numbers and Dates, p. 357, above.

359 See pp. 426–428, above.

360 It is probable that the printers arrived at the number 277 by subtracting 3094, the number of the issue of the Boston News-Letter dated 7 April, 1763, from 3372, the number of the issue dated 19 May, 1768; but if so, the result was again a blunder, for the subtraction gives 278 and not 276. But even if the printers had subtracted correctly the result would still have been inaccurate, for the numbering of the Boston News-Letter in the years 1763–1768 was erratic.

361 More space has been given to the Massachusetts Gazette than perhaps is warranted either by its importance or by the length of time during which it was published. The excuse lies in the fact that Thomas — upon whose account all subsequent accounts have been based — was for him singularly inaccurate in his description of what he called “this ‘Adams and Eve paper,’ joined together ‘by authority.’”

362 This was the case with the issues of 9, 16 March, 1769, etc.

363 This was the case with the issues of 23 May, 13, 27 June, 1768, etc.

364 The following (and perhaps other) issues of the Boston News-Letter contained two leaves each: 1768, May 26, June 2, 9, July 28, August 4, 18; 1769, June 1. For the issues which contained a supplement as well, see the Check-List, pp. 79, 80, above. Such notices as the following were often printed:

1768, June 2: See the GAZETTE for other Articles and new Advertisements (p. 2/3).
1768, June 9: See Gazette (p. 3).
1768, June 23: Articles of Intelligence respecting Major Rogers, &c. and Advertisements are in the POSTSCRIPT (p. 2/1).
1768, July 21: ☞ Corrigenda in the philological Piece in the Gazette of this Day (p. 1/2).
1768, July 28: The latest Articles See Gazette (p. 3/3).
1768, August 4: For other Articles See Gazette (p. 3/3).
1768, August 18: The latest Articles are in the Gazette (p. 3/3).
1768, October 13: This Postscript is wholly taken from three of the Monday’s Papers of October 10 (supplement, p. 1/1).
1768, November 3: See the Gazette Extra (p. 1/3).
1769, May 25: See SUPPLEMENT (p. 2/3).
1769, June 1: See GAZETTE (p. 3/3).
1769, June 22: The other foreign and domestic Articles are in the Supplement (p. 2/3).

The supplement to the issue of 25 August, 1768, was a broadside, and contained this notice (p. 1/1):

ALTHO the Particulars of the Celebration [of the repeal of the Stamp Act] of the 14th of August, were kept back from last Thursday’s Paper, yet it is humbly requested that LIBERTY may be given to re print them from Monday’s Papers, for the Perusal of the Customers of this Paper who do not see the others.

365 The following (and perhaps other) issues of the Boston Post-Boy contained two leaves each: 1768, August 1, September 19. For the issues which contained a supplement, see the Check-List, pp. 263, 264, above. The supplement of 24 April, 1769, contains two leaves. Such notices as the following were sometimes printed:

1768, August 1: For more News, &c. See the Gazette (p. 3/3).
1768, October 10: [See the Supplement.] (p. 1/3).

366 The following (and perhaps other) issues of the Massachusetts Gazette contained two leaves each: 1768, May 26, July 7, 21; 1769, January 19.

The following notices appeared in the portions of the Massachusetts Gazette printed on Monday by Green and Russell:

1769, April 24: [See SUPPLEMENT.] (p. 1/1).
1769, June 5: [See Supplement.] (p. 2/2).

As no supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette was, so far as is known, issued on the above dates, the references are doubtless to the supplements of the Boston Post-Boy of those dates.

The following notices appeared in the portions of the Massachusetts Gazette printed on Thursday by Draper:

1768, July 7: See News-Letter (p 3/3).
1768, September 15: Other Foreign and Domestic Articles, and new Advertisements are in the POSTSCRIPT (p. 1/3).
1769, January 12: [The other London Articles are in the Supplement.] (p. 1/3).
1769, January 19: For other Articles of Intelligence see News-Letter (p. 3/3).
1769, February 9: Two Political Pieces from the English Prints are in The SUPPLEMENT (p. 1/2).
1769, March 2: The other Articles from the Liverpool Papers are in the SUPPLEMENT. HARTFORD Post not come in at XII. o’clock (p. 1/1).
1769, April 20: For other Articles, &c. See the SUPPLEMENT (p. 1/3).

As no supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette was, so far as is known, issued on the above dates, the references are doubtless to the supplements to the Boston News-Letter of those dates.

367 Mechanical reasons alone made it necessary in this volume to treat the Massachusetts Gazette as a separate paper. The practice of librarians differs. In some files, the portions of the Massachusetts Gazette printed on Monday are bound with the Boston Post-Boy, while the portions printed on Thursday are bound with the Boston News-Letter. The Boston Athenæum has a file of the Massachusetts Gazette bound by itself, — and perhaps this is the best plan.

368 The “Journal of Occurrences” was not a newspaper of the day, but was a series of articles which under various titles — “Journal of Transactions,” “Journal of the Times,” “Journal of Occurrences,”— appeared at intervals in the New-York Journal from 13 October, 1768, to 14 September, 1769. These articles were frequently alluded to in the Boston papers and were reprinted at intervals in the Boston Evening-Post from 12 December, 1768, to 18 December, 1769. One of the articles was quoted in 1851 by Lossing in his Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution (i. 480 note) in such a way as to give the impression that “the Boston Journal of the Times” was a newspaper.

369 The Massachusetts Gazette of 26 January, 1769, p. 1.

370 This design was used in the Boston Post-Boy on 2 October, 1769.

371 This design was used in the Boston News-Letter on 28 September, 1769, and had previously been used in the Boston News-Letter in 1763–1765 and in 1766–1768. See p. 439, above.

372 The issue of 17 July had no imprint.

373 Zechariah Fowle died in December, 1783 (Independent Ledger, 29 December, 1783, p. 3/2).

374 The issue of 11 October, 1770, has the imprint of Fowle and Thomas. The issues of 13–27 October have no imprint. The issue of 30 October has the imprint of Thomas. Hence it is impossible to say exactly when Fowle’s connection with the paper ceased. Thomas’s own statement is:

The publication of the Spy commenced with No. 2, August 7, 1770, and was printed in this form for three months, by Z. Fowle and I. Thomas; the partnership was then dissolved; and the Spy was continued by Thomas.

375 Isaiah Thomas died 4 April, 1831.

376 This device is thus described by Thomas:

“Massachusetts Spy,” was in large German text, engraved on type metal between two cuts; the device of the cut on the left was, the goddess of Liberty sitting near a pedestal, on which was placed a scroll, a part of which, with the word spy on it, lay over on one side of the pedestal, on which the right arm of liberty rested. The device on the right was, two infants making selections from a basket filled with flowers, and bearing this motto — “they cull the choicest.”

377 This device is thus described by Thomas:

On the 7th of July, 1774, . . . a new political device appeared in the title of this paper — a snake and a dragon. The dragon represented Greatbritain, and the snake the colonies. The snake was divided into nine parts, the head was one part, and under it N.E. as representing Newengland; the second part N.Y. for Newyork; the third N.J. for Newjersey; the fourth P. for Pennsylvania; the fifth M. for Maryland; the sixth V. for Virginia; the seventh N.C. for Northcarolina; the eighth S.C. for Southcarolina; and the ninth part or tail, for Georgia. The head and tail of the snake were supplied with stings, for defence against the dragon, which appeared furious, and as bent on attacking the snake. Over the several parts of the snake, was this motto, in large capitals, “join on die!” This device, which was extended under the whole width of the title of the Spy, appeared in every succeeding paper whilst it was printed in Boston.

Though this particular device had never, so far as the Editor is aware, been used before, yet it was not wholly original with Thomas. The idea apparently first occurred in a paragraph which appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette of 9 May, 1754 (p. 2/1). Speaking of the raids of the French and of “the present disunited State of the British Colonies,” the writer made an appeal for concerted action on the part of the American Colonies, and enforced his plea by a pictorial design of a snake divided into eight parts—the head representing New England and the tail South Carolina. Beneath the snake were the words “JOIN or DIE.” The article in the Pennsylvania Gazette, with its accompanying design, was copied into several newspapers of the period. The snake design was again used in what has sometimes been called a newspaper, but what was really a political skit, and is now a bibliographical curiosity. This was The Constitutional Courant, dated 21 September, 1765. Here the snake appeared at the top of the first page. A similar design, divided into nine parts (as described by Thomas), with slight variations, was used as a device by John Holt in his New-York Journal of 23 June — 8 December, 1774, and by William and Thomas Bradford in their Pennsylvania Journal of 27 July, 1774 — 18 October, 1775. Another snake device, of a quite different design, was used by Holt in the New-York Journal of 15 December, 1774, and continued into the next year. In the design used in the Massachusetts Spy, the dragon was apparently original with Thomas. An account of The Constitutional Courant and of the snake devices was given at the meeting of this Society held in March, 1907.

378 A copy of these proposals is in the Essex Institute. Cf. p. 483 note, above.

379 Strictly speaking, the New-England Chronicle did not become a Boston paper until 25 April, 1776; but it has seemed advisable to include in this volume the issues published at Cambridge.

380 The heading of this broadside is worth giving, for it is curious from the fact of its having been issued on a Sunday—perhaps the first instance of the sort:

BOSTON, Sunday, January 12, 1777.

The Letters, whereof the following are Extracts, being wrote by several Field Officers in the American Army, arrived in Town last Evening, and are made Public for the Perusal of the several Gentlemen who subscribed to defray the Expences of obtaining Intelligence from the Army.

The matter is printed in three columns, and at the bottom of the third column is the imprint, “Printed by POWARS and WILLIS.” The Massachusetts Historical Society has a duplicate of this broadside, bound in its file of the Continental Journal between the issues of 6 and 13 January, 1777.

381 Ebenezer Hall died 14 February, 1776. See p. 499, above. The issue of 22 February has no imprint.

382 Samuel Hall died 30 October, 1807 (Columbian Centinel, 31 October, 1807, p. 2/3).

383 Nathaniel Willis died 1 April, 1831 (C. D. Warner’s Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1885, p. 6).

384 This was the device adopted by the Essex Gazette on 2 August, 1768. Buckingham said, “I find no explanation of the device.” Isaiah Thomas wrote:

In the centre of the title was a cut, of which the design was taken from the official seal of the county. The principal figure — a bird with its wings extended, and holding a sprig in its bill; perhaps intended to represent Noah’s dove; and this device was far from being ill adapted to the state of our forefathers, who having been inhabitants of Europe, an old world, were become residents in America, to them a new one; above the bird is a fish, which seems to have been intended as a crest, emblematical of the cod-fishery, formerly the principal dependence of the county of Essex, of which Salem is a shire town. The whole is supported by two aborigines, each holding a tomahawk, or battle axe.

385 This device was a modification of the Seal adopted by Massachusetts in August, 1775, when it was voted that, “Instead of an Indian holding a Tomahawk and Cap of Liberty, there be an English American, holding a Sword in the Right Hand, and Magna Charta in the Left Hand, with the Words ‘Magna Charta,’ imprinted thereon.” See Massachusetts House Documents, 1885, No. 345.

386 See p. 444, above.

387 John Gill died 26 August, 1785 (Massachusetts Centinel, 27 August, 1785, p. 3/2).

388 Draper and Folsom published the Independent Ledger from 15 June, 1778, to 24 November, 1783, after which the paper was published by Folsom alone. The firm name only is given, and the identification of Draper in the text is not absolutely certain. Yet there can be little doubt that he was Edward Draper, a brother of the Samuel Draper who died 21 March, 1767. Writing of Samuel Draper, Isaiah Thomas said that “Edward, with a partner, published, for some time during the late war, a newspaper in Boston.”

389 Edward Draper died 16 November, 1831 (Boston Evening Transcript, 18 November, 1831, p. 2/4). John West Folsom died 7 February, 1825 (Boston Daily Advertiser, 8 February, 1825, p. 2/5).

390 The date of the adoption of this device is sometimes wrongly given. In the issue of 27 July, 1778, and in subsequent issues, the word “enflamed” became “inflamed;” in the issue of 5 October, 1778, and in subsequent issues, the word “and” was omitted.

391 This paper is apparently not mentioned in previous accounts of Boston newspapers, and is now described for the first time.

392 This title varies in form, reading, in some issues: The Morning Chronicle & General Advertiser.