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The Newport Mercury.
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- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Standardized Title:
- Newport Mercury (Newport, R.I. : 1775)
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 98 v. : ill. ; 43-65 cm.
- Weekly
- No. 900 (Dec. 4, 1775)-no. 2471 (Aug. 19, 1809); v. 49, no. 2472 (Aug. 26, 1809)-v. 114, no. 5981 (May 31, 1873).
- Continues:
- Freshest advices, foreign and domestic
- Continued By:
- Newport weekly Mercury
- Place of Publication:
- [Newport, R.I.] : Printed by S. Southwick, 1775-1873.
- Notes:
- Publishers: H. Barber, Jan. 1780-Apr. 1785; Southwick & Barber, May 1785-Jan. 1787; S. Southwick, Jan. 1787-Nov. 1787, Dec. 1787-<1788>; H. Barber, <Jan. 1788>-Sept. 1800; A. Barber, Sept. 1800-Aug. 1809.
- Suspended from Dec. 2, 1776 to Jan. 5, 1780, Nov. 8-Dec. 22, 1787.
- Also issued in daily edition called: Newport evening Mercury.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, p. 998
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