To the publick of Connecticut. : Perhaps there never was a more unpromising time for the encouragement of another news-paper in this colony...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mecom, Benjamin, 1732-approximately 1776, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41567.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Connecticut gazette (New Haven, Conn.).

Newspaper publishing--Connecticut--New Haven.

Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765).

Newspaper publishing.

Great Britain.

Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765).

United States--Politics and government--To 1775.

United States.

Politics and government.

Connecticut--New Haven.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages))

Place of Publication:

[New Haven] : (Printed by B. Mecom.), [1765]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Concerning the Connecticut gazette, New Haven, which had suspended publication in April 1764, and which was successfully revived by Benjamin Mecom in July 1765, after he issued this encouragement. Also commenting on current political issues. Cf. Brigham, C.S. American newspapers, 1947, volume I, pages 39-40.

Ends with a quotation of sixteen lines from Shakespeare's As you like it.

Imprint from colophon; parentheses substituted for square brackets in transcription.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 41567).

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Bristol B2624

Shipton and Mooney 41567

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