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The New-England courant
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks 18th Century Newspaper [Photostat]
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- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 255 no
- no. 1-255; Aug. 7, 1721-June 25, 1726.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, J. Franklin, 1721-26.
- Summary:
- "The third paper published in Boston, and the fourth to be continuously published in this country. To evade the order of the Legislature which forbade his printing anything except it was first supervised by the Secretary of the province, the Courant was published after 1723 in the name of Benjamin Franklin, then an apprentice to his brother James, probably until its publication ceased in the year 1726." cf. Evans, American bibliography.
- Notes:
- Published by James and Benjamin Franklin.
- Reproduced from an imperfect copy in the Massachusetts Historical Society, supplemented by scattered numbers in the British Museum. No. 118, 149, 175, 206, and 252 mutilated; no. 7, 119-120, 191, 193, 213, 216, 244, and 253 lacking. Photostat includes the story of the file by Worthington Chauncey Ford photostated from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Proceedings, v. 57, p. [336]-341, 348-353.
- Photostat copy (positive). Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1924-25. 4 v. 37 cm.
- OCLC:
- 269239961
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