COLLATION of NUMBERS AND DATES

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1704			1705			1706			1707
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1	April	24	37	Jan.	1	90	Jan.	7	142	Jan.	6
2	May	1	38		8	91		14	143		13
8		8	39		15	92		21	144		20
4		15	40		22	93		28	145		27
5		22	41		29	94	Feb.	4	146	Feb.	3
6		29	42	Feb.	5	95		11	147		10
7	June	5	43		12	90		18	148		17
8		12	44		19	97		25	149		24
9		19	45		26	98	March	4	150	March	3
10		26	46	March	5	99		11	151		10
11	July	8	47		12	100		18	152		17
12		10	48		19	101		25	153		24
13		17	49		26	102	April	1	154		31
14		24	50	April	2	103		8	155	April	7
15		31	51		9	104		15	156		14
16	Aug.	7	52		16	105		22	157		21
17		14	53		23	106		29	158		28
18		21	54		30	107	May	6	159	May	5
19		28	55	May	7	108		13	160		12
20	Sept.	4	56		14	109		20	161		19
21		11	57		21	110		27	162		26
22		18	58		28	111	June	3	168	June	2
23		25	59	June	4	112		10	164		9
24	Oct.	2	60		11	113		17	165		16
25		9	61		18	114		24	166		2
26		16	62		25	115	July	1	167		30
27		23	63	July	2	116		8	168	July	7
28		30	64		9	117		15	169		14
29	Nov.	6	65		16	118		22	170		21
30		13	66		23	119		29	171		28
31		20	67		30	120	Aug.	5	172	Aug.	4
32		27	68	Aug.	6	121		12	173		11
33	Dec.	4	69		13	122		19	174
34		11	70		20	123		26	175		25
35		18	71		27	124	Sept.	2	176	Sept.	1
36		25	72	Sept.	3	125		9	177		8
			73		10	126		16	178		15
			74		17	127		23	179		22
			75		24	128		30	180		29
			76	Oct.	1	129	Oct.	7	181	Oct.	6
			77		8	130		14	182		13
			78		15	131		21	183		20
			79		22	132		28	184		27
			80		29	133	Nov.	4	185	Nov.	3
			81	Nov.	5	134		11	186		10
			82		12	135		18	187		17
			83		19	136		25	188		24
			84		26	137	Dec.	2	189	Dec.	1
			85	Dec.	3			9	190		8
			86		10			16	191		15
			87		17			23	192		22
			88		24	141		30	193		29
			89		31

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1708			1709			1710			1711
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
194	Jan.	5		Jan.	3		Jan.	2		Jan.	1
195		12			10			9			8
196		19			17			16			15
197		26			24			23			22
193	Feb.	2			31			30			29
199		9		Feb.	7		Feb.	6		Feb.	5
200		16			14			13			19
201		23			21			20	357		12
202	March	1			28			27	358		26
203		8		March	7		March	6	359	March	5
204		15			14	308		13	360		12
205		22	257		21			20	361		19
206		29	258		28			27	362		26
207	April	5		April	4		April	3	363	April	2
208		12			11			10	364		9
209		19			18			17	365		16
210		26			25			24	366		23
211	May	3		May	2		May	1	367		80
212		10			9			8	368	May	7
213		17			16			15	369		14
214		24			23			22	370		21
215		31			30			29	371		28
210	June	7		June	6		June	5	372	June	4
217		14			13	321		12	373		11
218		21			20			19	374		18
219		28			27	323		26	375		25
	July	5		July	4		July	3	376	July	2
		12			11			10	377		9
		19			18			17	378		16
		26			25			24	379		23
	Aug.	2		Aug.	1			31	380		30
		9			8		Aug.	7	381	Aug.	6
		16			15			14	382		13
		23			22			21	383		20
		30			29			28	384		27
	Sept.	6		Sept.	5		Sept.	4	385	Sept.	3
		13			12			11	386		10
		20			19			18	387		17
		27			26			25	388		2
233	Oct.	4		Oct.	3		Oct.	2	389	Oct.	1
234		11			10			9	390		8
235		18			17			16	391		15
236		25			24			23	392		22
237	Nov.	1			31			30	393		29
238		8		Nov.	7		Nov.	6	394	Nov.	5
239		15			14			13	395		12
240		22			21			20	390		1
241		29			28			27	397		26
242	Dec.	6		Dec.	5		Dec.	4	398	Dec.	3
243		13			12			11	399		10
244		20			19			18	400		17
245		27			26			25	401		24
									402		31

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1712			1713			1714			1715
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
403	Jan.	7	455	Jan.	5	507	Jan.	4	559	Jan.	3
404		14	450		12	508		11	560		10
405		21	457		19	509		18	561		17
406		28	458		26	510		25	562		24
407	Feb.	4	459	Feb.	2	511	Feb.	1	563		31
408		11	460		9	512		8	564	Feb.	7
409		18	461		16	513		15	565		14
410		25	462		23	514		22	566		21
411	March	3	463	March	2	515	March	1	567		28
412		10	464		9	516		8	568	March	7
413		17	465		16	517		15	569		14
414		24	466		23	518		22	570		21
415		31	467		30	519		29	571		28
416	April	7	468	April	6	520	April	5	572	April	4
417		14	469		13	521		12	573		11
418		21	470		20	522		19	574		18
419		28	471		27	523		26	575		25
420	May	5	472	May	4	524	May	3	576	May	2
421		12	473		11	525		10	577		9
422		19	474		18	526		17	578		16
423		20	475		25	527		24	579		23
424	June	2	476	June	1	528		31	580		30
425		9	477		8	529	June	7	581	June	6
426		16	478		15	530		14	582		13
427		23	479		22	531		21	583		20
428		30	480		29	532		28	584		27
429	July	7	481	July	6	533	July	5	585	July	4
430		14	482		13	5:34		12	586		11
431		21	483		20	535		19	587		18
432		28	484		27	536		26	588		25
433	Aug.	4	485	Aug.	3	537	Aug.	2	589	Aug.	1
434		11	486		10	538		9	590		8
435		18	487		17	539		16	591		15
430		25	488		24	540		23	592		22
437	Sept.	1	489		31	541		30	593		29
438		8	490	Sept.	7	542	Sept.	6	594	Sept.	5
439		15	491		14	543		13	595		12
440		22	492		21	544		20	596		19
441		29	493		28	545		27	597		26
442	Oct.	5	494	Oct.	5	546	Oct.	4	598	Oct.	3
443		13	495		12	547		11	599		10
444		20	496		19	548		18	600		17
445		27	497		26	549		25			24
446	Nov.	3	498	Nov.	2	550	Nov.	1	602		31
447		10	499		9	551		8		Nov.	7
448		17	500		16	552		15	604		14
449		24	501		23	553		22			21
450	Dec.	1	502		30	554		29	606		28
451		8	503	Dec.	7	555	Dec.	6	607	Dec.	5
452		15	504		14	556		13			12
453		22	505		21	557		20			19
454		29	506		28	558		27			26

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1716			1717			1718			1719
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
611	Jan.	2	661	Jan.	7	716	Jan.	6	768	Jan.	5
612		9	662		14	717		13	769		12
618		16	603		21	718		20	770		19
614		23	664		28	719		27	771		26
615		30	668	Feb.	4	720	Feb.	3	772	Feb.	2
616	Feb.	6	669		11	721		10			9
617		13	670		18	722		17			16
618		20	671		25	723		24			23
619		27	672	March	4	724	March	3	776	March	2
620	March	5	673		11	725		10	777		9
621		12	674		18	726		17			16
622		19	675		25	727		24			23
623		26	676	April	1	728		31			30
624	April	2	677		8	729	April	7		April	6
625		9	678		15	730		14			13
626		16	679		22	731		21			20
627		23	680		29	732		28	784		27
628		30	681	May	6	733	May	5	785	May	4
629	May	7	682		13	734		12	786		11
630		14	683		20	735		19	787		18
631		21	684		27	736		26	788		25
632		28	685	June	3	737	June	2	789	June	1
633	June	4	686		10	738		9	790		8
634		11	687		17	739		16	791		16
635		18	688		24			23	792		22
636		25		July	1	741		30	793		29
637	July	2			8	742	July	7	794	July	6
638		9			15	743		14	795		18
639		16	692		22	744		21	796		20
640		23			29	745		28	797		27
641		30		Aug.	5	740	Aug.	4	798	Aug.	3
642	Aug.	6			12	747		11	799		10
643		13			19	748		18	800		17
644		20			26	749		25	801		24
645		27		Sept.	2	750	Sept.	1	802		31
646	Sept.	8			9	751		8	803	Sept.	7
647		10			16	752		15	804		14
648		17	701		23	753		22	808		21
649		24			30	754		29	806		28
650	Oct.	1		Oct.	7		Oct.	6	807	Oct.	5
651		8			14			13	808		12
652		15			21			20	809		19
653		22			28			27	810		26
654		29		Nov.	4		Nov.	3	811	Nov.	2
655	Nov.	5			11			10	812		9
656		12			18			17	813		16
657		19			25			24	814		2
658		26		Dec.	2	763	Dec.	1	815		80
659	Dec.	3			9	704		8	816	Dec.	7
657		10			16	705		15	817		14
658		17			23	766		22	818		21
659		24			30	767		29	819		28
660		31

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1720			1721			1722			1723
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
820	Jan.	4		Jan.	2		Jan.	1	988	Jan.	7
821		11			9	936		8	989		14
822		18			16	937		15	990		21
828		25			23			22	991		28
824	Feb.	1			30			29	992	Feb.	4
825		8		Feb.	6	940	Feb.	5	993		7
826		15	883		13	941		12	994		14
827		22			20	942		19	995		21
828		29			27	943		26	996		28
829	March	7		March	6	944	March	5	997	March	7
830		14			18	945		12	998		15
830		17			20	946		19	999		21
831		21			27			26	1000		28
831		23	890	April	3		April	2	1001	April	4
832		28	891		10			9	1002		11
833	April	4	892		13	950		16	1003		18
834		11	893		17			23	1004		28
835		14	894		24	952		30	1005	May	2
836		18	895	May	1		May	7	1006		9
837		21	896		8	954		14	1007		16
838		25	897		15	955		21	1008		23
839	May	2	898		22	956		28	1009		30
840		5	899		29	957	June	4	1010	June	6
841		9	900	June	5			11	1011		13
842		16	901		8			18	1012		20
843		19	902		12			25	1013		7
844		23	903		15	961	July	2	1014	July	4
845		80	904		19	962		9	1015		11
846	June	6	905		22	963		16	1016		18
847		9	906		26			23	1017		25
848		13	907		29			30	1018	Aug.	1
849		20	908	July	3		Aug.	6	1019		8
850		27	909		6			13	1020		16
851	July	4	910		10			20	1021		22
852		11	911		17			27	1022		29
853		18	912		24	970	Sept.	3	1023	Sept.	5
854		25	913		31	971		10	1024		12
855	Aug.	1	914	Aug.	7	972		17	1025		19
856		8	915		14	973		24	1026		26
857		15	916		21	974	Oct.	1	1027	Oct.	3
858		22	917		28	975		8	1028		10
859		29	918	Sept.	4	976		15	1029		18
860	Sept.	5	919		11	977		22	1030		24
861		12	920		18	978		29	1031		81
862		19	921		25	979	Nov.	5	1032	Nov.	7
863		26	922	Oct.	2	980		12	1033		14
864	Oct.	3	923		9	981		19	1034		21
865		10	924		16	982		2	1035		29
866		17	925		23	983	Dec.	3	1036	Dec.	5
867		24	926		30	984		10	1037		12
868		31	927	Nov.	6	985		17	1038		10
869	Nov.	7	928		13	986		24	1039		26
870		14	929		20	987		31
871		21	930		27
872		28	931	Dec.	4
873	Dec.	5	932		11
874		12	933		18
875		19			25
876		26

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1724			1725			1726			1727
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1040	Jan.	2	1093	Jan.	7	1145	Jan.	6	1	Jan.	5
1041		9	1094		14	1146		13	2		12
1042		16	1095		21	1147		20			19
1043		23	1096		28	1148		27			26
1044		30	1097	Feb.	4	1149	Feb.	3	5	Feb.	2
1045	Feb.	6	1098		11	1150		10	6		9
1046		13	1099		18	1151		17	7		16
1047		20	1100		25	1152		24	8		23
1048		27		March	4	1153	March	3	9	March	2
1049	March	5	1102		11	1154		10	10		9
1050		12	1103		18	1155		17	11		16
1051		19	1104		25	1156		25	12		23
1052		27	1105	April	2	1157		31	13		31
1053	April	2	1106		8		April	7	14	April	6
1054		9	1107		15	1159		14	15		13
1055		16	1108		22	1160		21	16		20
1056		23	1109		29	1161		28	17		27
1057		30	1110	May	6	1162	May	5	18	May	4
1058	May	7	1111		13	1163		12	19		11
		14	1112		20	1164		19	20		18
1060		21	1113		27	1165		26	21		25
1061		28	1114	June	3	1106	June	2	22	June	1
	June	4	1115		10	1107		9	23		8
1063		11	1116		17	1168		16	24		15
1064		18	1117		24	1169		23	25		22
1065		25	1118	July	1	1170		30	26		29
1066	July	2	1119		8	1171	July	7	27	July	6
1067		9	1120		15	1172		14	28		13
1068		16	1121		22	1173		21	29		20
1069		23	1122		29	1174		28	30		27
1070		30	1123	Aug.	5	1175	Aug.	4	31	Aug.	3
1071	Aug.	6	1124		12	1176		11	32		10
1072		18	1125		19	1177		18			17
1073		20	1126		26	1178		25			24
1074		27	1127	Sept.	2	1179	Sept.	1			31
1075	Sept.	3	1128		9	1180		8		Sept.	7
1076		10	1129		16	1181		15	37		14
1077		17	1130		23	1182		22			21
1078		24	1131		30	1183		29	39		28
1079	Oct.	1	1132	Oct.	7	1184	Oct.	6		Oct.	5
1080		8	1133		14	1185		13			12
1081		15	1134		21	1186		20			19
1082		22	1135		29	1187		27			26
1083		29	1136	Nov.	4	1188	Nov.	3		Nov.	2
1084	Nov.	6	1137		11	1189		11			9
1085		12	1138		18	1190		17			16
1086		19	1139		25	1191		24			23
1087		26	1140	Dec.	2	1192	Dec.	1			30
1088	Dec.	3	1141		9	1193		8		Dec.	7
1089		10	1142		16	1194		15	50		14
1090		17	1143		23	1195		22	51		22
1091		24	1144		30	1196		29			28
1092		31

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1728			1729			1730			1731
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
53	Jan.	4	105	Jan.	2	157	Jan.	1	1406	Jan.	7
54		11	106		9	158		8	1407		14
55		18	107		10	159		15	1408		21
56		25	108		23	160		22	1409		28
57	Feb.	1	109		30	161		29	1410	Feb.	4
58		8	110	Feb.	6	162	Feb.	5	1411		11
59		15	111		13	163		12	1412		18
60		22	112		20	164		19	1413		25
61		29	113		27	165		26	1414	March	4
62	March	7	114	March	6	166	March	5	1415		11
63		14	115		13	167		12	1416		18
64		22	116		21	168		19	1417		20
65		28	117		27	169		26	1418	April	1
66	April	4	118	April	3		April	2	1419		8
67		11	119		10	171		9	1420		15
68		18	120		17	172		16	1421		22
69		25	121		24	173		23	1422		29
70	May	2	122	May	1	174		30	1423	May	6
71		9	123		8	175	May	7	1424		13
72		16	124		15	176		14	1425		20
73		23	125		22	177		21	1426		27
74		30	120		29	178		28	1427	June	3
75	June	6	127	June	5	179	June	4	1428		10
70		13	128		12	180		11	1429		17
77		20	129		19	181		18	1430		24
78		27	130		26	182		25	1431	July	1
79	July	4	131	July	3	183	July	2	1432		8
80		11	132		10	184		9	1433		15
81		18	133		17	185		16	1434		22
82		25	134		24	186		23	1435		29
83	Aug.	1			31	187		30	1436	Aug.	5
84		8		Aug.	7	188	Aug.	6	1437		12
85		15			14	189		13	1438		19
86		22	138		21	190		20	1439		26
87		29			28	191		27	1440	Sept.	2
88	Sept.	5	140	Sept.	4	192	Sept.	3	1441		9
89		12	141		11	193		10	1442		16
90		19	142		18	194		17	1443		23
91		26	143		25	195		24	1444		30
92	Oct.	3	144	Oct.	2	196	Oct.	1	1445	Oct.	7
93		10	145		9	197		8	1446		14
94		17	146		16	198		15	1447		21
95		24	147		23	199		22	1448		29
90		31	148		30	200		29	1449	Nov.	4
97	Nov.	8	149	Nov.	6	139741	Nov.	5	1450		11
98		14			13	1398		13	1151		18
99		21	151		20	1399		19	1452		25
100		28			27	1400		26	1453	Dec.	2
101	Dec.	5		Dec.	4	1401	Dec.	3	1404		9
102		12			11	1402		10	1455		16
103		19			18	1403		17	1456		23
104		26			25	1404		24	1457		30
						1405		31

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1732			1733			1734			1735
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1458	Jan.	6	1510	Jan.	4	1562	Jan.	3	1612	Jan.	2
1459		13	1511		11	1563		10	1613		9
1460		20	1512		18	1564		17	1613		16
1461		27	1513		25	1565		24	1614		23
1462	Feb.	3	1514	Feb.	1	1566	Feb.	7	1615		30
1463		10	1515		8	1567		14	1616	Feb.	6
1464		17	1516		15	1568		21	1617		13
1465		24	1517		22	1569		28	1618		20
1466	March	2	1518	March	1	1570	March	7	1619		27
1467		9	1519		8	1571		14	1620	March	6
1468		16	1520		15	1572		21	1621		13
1469		23	1521		22	1573		28	1622		20
1470		30	1522		30	1574	April	5	1623		28
1471	April	7	1523	April	5	1575		11	1624	April	3
1472		13	1524		12	1576		18	1625		10
1473		20	1525		19	1577		25	1626		17
1471		27	1526		26	1578	May	2	1627		24
1475	May	4	1527	May	3	1579		9		May	1
1476		11	1528		10	1580		16	1629		8
1477		18	1529		17	1581		23	1629		15
1478		25	1530		24	1582		30	1631		22
1479	June	1	1531		31	1583	June	6	1632		29
1480		8	1532	June	7	1584		13	1633	June	5
1481		15	1533		14	1585		20	1634		12
1482		22	1534		21	1586		27	1685		19
1483		29	1535		28	1587	July	4	1636		26
1484	July	6	1536	July	5	1588		11		July	3
1485		13	1537		12	1589		18			10
1486		20	1538		19	1590		2	1639		17
1487		27	1539		26	1591	Aug.	1			24
1488	Aug.	3	1540	Aug.	2	1593		8			81
1489		10	1541		9	1593		15		Aug.	7
1490		17	1542		16	1594		22			14
1491		24	1543		23	1594		29			21
1492		31	1544		30	1595	Sept.	5			28
1493	Sept.	7	1545	Sept.	6	1596		12		Sept.	4
1494		14	1546		13	1597		19			11
1495		21	1547		20	1598		26			18
1496		28	1548		27	1599	Oct.	3			25
1497	Oct.	5	1549	Oct.	4	1600		10	1650	Oct.	2
1498		12	1550		11	1601		17	1651		9
1499		19	1551		18	1602		24	1652		16
1500		27	1552		25	1603		31	1653		28
1501	Nov.	2	1553	Nov.	1	1604	Nov.	8	1654		30
1502		9	1554		8	1605		14	1655	Nov.	6
1503		16	1555		15	1606		21	1656		14
1504		23	1556		23	1607		28	1657		20
1505		30	1557		29	1608	Dec.	5	1658		27
1506	Dec.	7	1558	Dec.	6	1609		12	1659	Dec.	4
1507		14	1559		13	1670		19	1660		11
1508		21	1560		20	1611		26	1661		18
1509		28	1561		27				1662		25

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1736			1737			1738			1739
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1663	Jan.	1	1714	Jan.	6	1763	Jan.	5	1815	Jan.	4
		8	1715		13	1764		12	1816		11
		15	1716		20	1765		19			18
1666		22	1717		27	1766		26	1818		25
1667		29	1718	Feb.	3	1767	Feb.	2	1819	Feb.	1
1668	Feb.	5	1719		10	1768		9	1820		8
		12	1720		17	1769		16	1821		15
		19	1721		24	1770		23	1822		22
1671		26	1722	March	3	1771	March	2	1823	March	1
1672	March	4	1723		10	1772		9	1824		8
1672		11	1724		17	1773		16	1825		15
1673		18	1725		24	1774		23	1826		22
1674		25	1726	April	1	1775		30	1827		30
1675	April	2	1727		8	1776	April	6	1828	April	5
1676		8	1728		14			13	1829		12
1677		15	1729		21			20	1830		19
1678		22	1730		28			27			26
1679		29	1731	May	5	1780	May	4	1832	May	3
1680	May	6	1732		12			11	1833		10
1681		18	1732		19			18	1834		17
1682		20	1733		26	1783		25			24
1683		27	1734	June	2	1784	June	1	1836		31
1684	June	3	1735		9	1785		8	1837	June	7
1685		10	1736		16			15	1838		14
1686		17	1737		23			22	1839		21
1687		24	1738		30			29	1840		28
1688	July	1	1739	July	7		July	6		July	5
		8	1739		14			13			12
		15	1740		21			20	1842		19
		22	1741		28	1792		27	1825		26
		29	1742	Aug.	4		Aug.	3	1826	Aug.	2
	Aug.	5	1743		11	1794		10	1826		9
		12	1744		18	1795		17	1827		16
		19	1745		25			24	1828		23
1695		26	1746	Sept.	1			31	1829		30
1696	Sept.	2	1747		8		Sept.	7	1830	Sept.	6
1697		9	1748		15			14	1831		13
		16	1749		22			21	1832		10
1699		23	1750		29	1801		28	1833		27
1700		30	1751	Oct.	6	1802	Oct.	5	1834	Oct.	4
1701	Oct.	7	1752		13			12	1835		11
1702		14	1753		20			19	1836		18
1703		21	1753		27			20			23
1704		28	1754	Nov.	3	1806	Nov.	2	1838	Nov.	1
1705	Nov.	4	1755		10	1807		9	1839		8
1706		11	1756		18	1808		16	1840		15
1707		18	1757		24	1809		24			22
1708		25	1758	Dec.	1	1809		30	1842		30
1709	Dec.	2	1759		8	1810	Dec.	7		Dec.	6
1710		9	1760		15	1811		14			13
1711		16	1761		22	1812		21	1845		20
1712		23	1762		29	1814		28	1846		27
1713		30

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1740			1741			1742			1743
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
1867	Jan.	3	1919	Jan.	1		Jan.	7	2024	Jan.	6
1868		10	1920		8			14	2024		18
		17	1921		15	1974		21	2025		20
		24	1922		22	1975		28	2026		27
1871		31	1923		29		Feb.	4	2027	Feb.	3
1872	Feb.	7	1924	Feb.	5			11	2028		10
1873		14	1925		12			18	2029		17
1874		21	1926		19			25	2030		24
1875		28	1927		27	1980	March	4	2031	March	3
1876	March	6	1928	March	5	1981		11	2032		10
1877		13	1929		12	1982		18	2033		17
1878		20	1930		19	1983		25	2034		26
1879		28	1931		26	1984	April	1	2035		31
1840	April	3	1932	April	2	1985		9	2036	April	7
1841		10	1924		9	1986		15	2037		14
1842		17	1925		16	1987		22	2038		21
		24	1926		24	1988		29	2039		28
1844	May	1	1927		30	1989	May	6	2040	May	5
1845		8	1928	May	7	1990		13	2041		12
1885		15	1929		14	1991		20	2042		19
1886		22	1939		21	1992		27	2043		26
		29	1940		28	1993	June	3	2044	June	2
1888	June	5	1905	June	4	1994		10	2045		9
1889		12	1951		11	1995		17	2046		11
1891		19	1952		18	1996		24	2047		28
1892		26	1944		25	1997	July	1	2048		80
1893	July	3	1945	July	2	1998		8	2049	July	7
1894		10	1946		9	1999		15	2050		14
1895		17	1947		16	2000		22	2051		21
1896		24	1948		23	2001		29	2052		28
1897		31	1949		30	2002	Aug.	5	2053	Aug.	4
1898	Aug.	7	1950	Aug.	6	2003		12	2054		11
1899		14	1951		13	2004		19	2055		18
1900		21	1592		20	2005		26	2056		25
1901		28	1953		27	2006	Sept.	2	2057	Sept.	1
1902	Sept.	4	1954	Sept.	3	2007		9	2058		8
1903		11	1955		10	2008		16	2059		15
1904		18	1956		17	2009		23	2951		22
1905		25	1957		24	2010		30	2952		29
1906	Oct.	2	1958	Oct.	1	2011	Oct.	7	2953	Oct.	6
1908		9	1459		8	2012		14	2954		14
1908		16	1960		15	2013		21	2955		20
1909		23	1961		22	2014		28	2956		27
1910		30	1962		29	2015	Nov.	4	2957	Nov.	8
1911	Nov.	6	1963	Nov.	5	2016		12	2958		10
1912		14	1964		13	2017		18	2959		17
1913		20	1965		19	2018		25	2960		26
1914		27	1956		26	2019	Dec.	2	2961	Dec.	1
1915	Dec.	4	1957	Dec.	3	2020		9	2962		8
1916		11	1958		10	2021		16	2962		15
1917		18	1959		17	2022		23	2963		22
1918		25	1960		24	2023		30	2964		29
			1961		31

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1744			1745			1746			1747
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
2965	Jan.	5	2126	Jan.	3	2280	Jan.	2	2333	Jan.	1
2966		12	2127		10	2281		9	2334		8
2077		19	2128		17	2282		16	2335		15
2078		26	2129		24	2283		23	2336		22
2079	Feb.	2	2130		31	2284		30	2337		29
2080		9	2131	Feb.	7	2285	Feb.	6	2338	Feb.	5
2081		16	2132		14	2286		13	2339		12
2082		23	2133		21	2287		20	2340		19
2083	March	1	2134	March	1	2288		27	2341		26
2084		8	2135		7	2289	March	6	2342	March	5
2085		15	2130		14	2290		14	2343		12
2086		22	2137		21	2292		20	2345		19
2087		29	2138		28	2293		27	2345		26
2088	April	5	2139	April	5	2294	April	3	2346	April	2
2089		13	2140		11	2295		10	2347		10
2090		19	2141		18	2296		17	2348		10
2091		26	2142		25	2297		24	2349		23
2092	May	3	2125	May	2	2298	May	1	2350		30
2093		10	2126		9	2299		8	2351	May	7
2094		17			16	2300		15	2352		14
2095		24	2128		23	2301		22	2353		21
2096		31	2129		30	2302		29	2354		28
2097	June	7	2130	June	6	2303	June	5	2355	June	4
2098		14	2131		13	2304		12	2356		11
2099		21	2250		20	2305		19	2357		18
2100		28	2251		27	2306		26	2358		25
2101	July	5	2252	July	4	2307	July	3	2359	July	2
2102		12	2253		11	2308		11	2300		9
2103		19	2254		19	2309		17	2361		16
2104		26	2255		25	2310		24	2362		23
2105	Aug.	2	2256	Aug.	1	2311		31	2363		30
2106		9	2257		8	2312	Aug.	7	2364	Aug.	6
2107		16	2258		15	2313		15	2365		13
2108		23	2259		22	2314		21	2366		20
2109		30	2260		29	2315		28	2307		27
2110	Sept.	6	2261	Sept.	5	2316	Sept.	4	2368	Sept.	3
2111		13	2262		12	2317		11	2369		10
2112		20	2262		20	2318		18	2370		17
2113		27	2263		26	2319		25	2371		24
2114	Oct.	4	2264	Oct.	3	2320	Oct.	2	2372	Oct.	l
2115		11	2265		10	2321		9	2373		8
2116		18	2269		17	2322		17	2374		16
2117		25	2270		24	2323		23	2375		22
2118	Nov.	1	2271		31	2324		30			29
2119		8	2272	Nov.	7	2325	Nov.	6	2377	Nov.	5
2120		15	2273		14	2326		13	2378		12
2121		23	2274		21	2327		20	2379		19
2122		29	2275		28	2328		28	2380		27
2123	Dec.	6	2276	Dec.	6	2329	Dec.	4	2381	Dec.	3
2124		13	2277		12	9323		11	2382		10
2125		20	2278		19	2331		18	2383		17
2126		27	2279		26	2332		25	2384		24
									2385		31

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1748			1749			1750			1751
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
2386	Jan.	7		Jan.	5	2487	Jan.	4	5373	Jan.	3
2387		14			12	2488		11			10
2388		21			19	2489		18	5339		17
2389		29			26	2490		25	5340		24
2390	Feb.	4		Feb.	2	2491	Feb.	1	5341		31
2391		11			9			8		Feb.	7
2392		18			16			15			14
2393		25			23			22			21
2394	March	3		March	2	2495	March	1			28
2395		10	2447		9	2496		8	2546	March	7
2396		17	2448		16	2497		16			14
2397		24	2449		24	2498		22			21
		31	2450		30	2499		29			28
	April	7	2451	April	6		April	5	2550	April	4
		14	2452		13	2501		12	2551		11
2401		21			20			19	2552		18
2402		29			27	2502		26			25
2403	May	5	2446	May	4	2503	May	3		May	2
2404		12	2447		11	2504		10	2555		9
2405		19	2448		18	2505		17	2556		16
2406		26			25	2506		24			23
2407	June	2	2458	June	1	2507		31			30
2408		10	2459		8	2508	June	7	2554	June	6
2409		16	2460		16			14	2555		13
2410		23	2461		22	2510		21	2556		20
2411		30	2402		29	2511		28			27
2412	July	7	2463	July	6	2512	July	5	2558	July	4
2413		14	2464		13	2513		12			11
2414		21	2465		20	2514		19	2560		18
2415		28	2466		27	2515		26			25
2416	Aug.	4	2467	Aug.	3	2516	Aug.	2		Aug.	1
2417		11	2467		10	2517		9	2563		8
2418		18	2468		17	2518		16			15
2419		25	2468		25	2519		23	2565		22
2420	Sept.	1	2470		31	2520		30			29
2421		8	2471	Sept.	7	2521	Sept.	6	2567	Sept.	5
2422		15	2471		14	2522		13	2568		12
2423		22	2473		21	2523		20	2566		19
2424		29	2474		28	2524		27	2570		26
2425	Oct.	6	2475	Oct.	5	2525	Oct.	4	2571	Oct.	3
2426		13	2476		12	2526		11	2572		10
2427		20	2477		19	2527		18	2573		17
2429		27	2478		26	2528		25			21
2429	Nov.	3	2479	Nov.	2	2529	Nov.	2			31
2430		10	2480		9	2530		8	2558	Nov.	3
2431		17	2480		17	2531		15	2559		14
2432		25			23	2532		22	2578		21
2433	Dec.	1			30	2533		29			28
2434		8		Dec.	7	2534	Dec.	6	2580	Dec.	5
2435		15			14	2535		13	2581		12
2436		22			21	2536		20			19
		29	2486		28	2537		27			20

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1752			1753			1754			1755
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
	Jan.	2	2635	Jan.	4	2687	Jan.	3	2739	Jan.	2
2585		9	2636		11	2688		10	2740		9
2586		16	2637		18	2689		17	2741		16
2587		23	2638		25	2690		24	2742		23
2588		30	2639	Feb.	1	2691		31	2743		30
2589	Feb.	6	2640		8	2692	Feb.	7	2744	Feb.	6
2590		13	2641		15	2693		14			13
2591		20			22	2694		21	2746		20
2592		27	2643	March	1	2695		28	2747		27
2593	March	5	2644		8	2696	March	7	2748	March	6
2594		12			15	2697		14			13
2595		19	2646		22	2698		21			20
2590		21	2647		29	2699		28	2751		27
2597	April	2	2648	April	5	2700	April	5	2752	April	3
2598		9	2649		12	2701		12	2753		10
2599		16	2650		20	2702		18	2754		17
2600		23	2651		26	2703		25	2755		24
2601		30	2652	May	3	2704	May	2	2756	May	1
2602	May	7	2653		10			9	2757		8
2603		14	2654		17	2706		16	2758		16
2604		21	2655		24	2707		23	2759		22
2605		28	2656		31			30	2760		29
2606	June	4	2657	June	7	2709	June	6	2761	June	5
2607		11	2658		14	2710		13			12
2608		18	2659		21	2711		20			19
		25	2660		28	2712		27	2764		26
2610	July	3	2661	July	5	2713	July	4		July	3
		9	2662		12	2714		11			10
2612		16	2663		19	2715		18	2767		17
2613		23	2664		26	2716		25	2768		24
2614		30	2665	Aug.	2	2717	Aug.	1			81
2615	Aug.	6	2666		9	2718		8		Aug.	7
2616		13	2667		16	2719		15	2771		14
2617		20	2668		23	2720		22	2772		21
2618		21	2669		30	2721		29	2773		29
2619	Sept.	14	2670	Sept.	6	2722	Sept.	5	2774	Sept.	4
2620		21	2671		13	2723		12			11
2621		28	2672		20	2724		19	2776		18
2622	Oct.	5	2673		27	2725		20			25
2623		12	2674	Oct.	4	2726	Oct.	3		Oct.	2
2624		19	2675		11	2727		10			9
2625		26	2676		18	2728		17			16
2626	Nov.	2	2677		25	2729		24	2781		23
2627		9	2678	Nov.	2	2730		31	2782		30
2628		17	2679		8	2731	Nov.	7		Nov.	6
2629		23	2680		15	2732		14	2784		18
2630		30	2681		22	2733		21	2785		20
2631	Dec.	7	2682		29			28			27
2632		14	2683	Dec.	6		Dec.	5		Dec.	4
2633		21	2684		13			12			11
2634		28	2685		20			19			18
			2686		27	2738		26			25

BOSTON NEWS-LETTER

1756			1757			1758			1759
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
2791	Jan.	1	2844	Jan.	6	2896	Jan.	5	2992	Jan.	4
2792		9	2845		13	2897		12	2993		11
2793		15	2846		20	2898		19	2994		18
2794		22	2847		27	2899		26	2995		25
2795		29	2848	Feb.	3	2990	Feb.	2	2996	Feb.	1
2796	Feb.	5	2849		10	2901		9	2997		8
2797		12	2850		17			16	2998		18
2798		19	2851		24	2902		22	2999		22
2799		26	2852	March	3	2902		23	3000	March	1
2800	March	4	2853		10	2903	March	2	3001		8
2801		11	2854		17	2904		9	3002		15
2802		18	2855		24	2905		16	3003		22
2209		25	2856		31	2906		23	3004		29
2210	April	1	2857	April	7	2907		30	3005	April	6
2211		8	2858		14	2908	April	7	3006		12
2212		15	2859		22	2909		13	3007		19
2213		22	2860		28	2910		20	3008		20
2808		30	2861	May	5	2911		27	3009	May	3
2809	May	6	2862		12	2912	May	4	3010		10
2810		13	2863		19	2913		11	3011		17
2811		20	2864		26	2914		18			24
2812		27	2865	June	2	2915		25	3013		31
2813	June	3	2806		9	2916	June	1	3014	June	7
2814		10	2867		16	2917		8	3014		14
2815		17	2868		23	2918		15			21
2816		24		July	1	2919		22	3016		29
2817	July	1			7	2920		29	3017	July	5
2818		8	2871		14	2921	July	6	3018		12
		15			21	2922		13	3019		19
2820		23	2873		28	2923		20	3020		20
2821		29	2874	Aug.	4	2924		27	3021	Aug.	2
2822	Aug.	5	2875		11	2925	Aug.	3	3022		9
2823		12	2876		18	2926		10	3023		10
2824		19	2877		25	2927		17	2034		23
2825		26	2878	Sept.	1	2928		24	2035		30
2826	Sept.	2	2879		8	2929		31	2036	Sept.	6
2827		9	2880		15	2930	Sept.	7	2037		18
2828		16	2881		22	2931		15	2038		20
2829		23	2882		29	2932		21	2039		27
2830		30	2883	Oct.	6	2933		28	2040	Oct.	4
2831	Oct.	7			13	2934	Oct.	5	2041		11
2832		14	2885		20	2935		12	2042		18
2833		21	2886		27	2936		19	2043		20
2834		28	2887	Nov.	3	2937		26		Nov.	1
2835	Nov.	4	2888		10	2938	Nov.	2	2045		8
2836		11	2889		18	2984		9	2046		16
2837		18	2890		24	2985		16			22
2838		26	2891	Dec.	1	2986		24			29
2839	Dec.	2	2892		8	2987		30	2049	Dec.	6
2840		9	2893		15	2988	Dec.	7	2050		18
2841		16	2894		22	2989		14	2051		20
2842		23	2895		29	2990		21	2052		27
2843		30				2991		28

BOSTON NEWS-LETTER

1760			1761			1762			1763
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
2053	Jan.	3	2948	Jan.	1	3001	Jan.	7	3081	Jan.	6
2054		10	2949		8	3002		14	3082		13
2055		17	2950		15	3003		21	3083		20
2056		24	2951		22	3004		28	3084		27
2057		31	2952		29	3005	Feb.	4	3085	Feb.	3
2058	Feb.	7	2953	Feb.	5	3006		11	3086		10
2059		14	2954		12	3007		18	3087		17
2060		21	2955		19	3008		25	3088		24
2061		28	2956		26	3009	March	2	3089	March	3
2062	March	6	2957	March	5	3001		4	3090		10
2063		13	2958		12	3011		11	3091		17
2064		21	2959		19	3012		18	3092		24
2065		27	2960		26	3013		25	3093		31
2606	April	4	2961	April	2	3014	April	1	3094	April	7
2607		10	2962		9	3015		8			14
2680		17			16	3016		15	3096		21
2609		24	2964		23	3017		23	3097		23
2610	May	1	2965		30	3018		29	3098	May	5
2611		8	2966	May	7	3019	May	6	3099		12
2612		15	2967		14	3020		13			19
2613		22	2968		21	3021		20	3101		26
2614		29	2969		28	3022		27	3102	June	2
2615	June	5	2970	June	4	3023	June	3	3103		9
2616		12	2971		11	3024		10	3104		16
2617		19	2972		18	3025		17	3105		23
3618		26	2973		25	3026		24	3106		30
3619	July	3	2974	July	2	3027	July	1	3107	July	7
3620		10	2975		9	3028		8	3108		14
3621		17	2976		16	3029		15	3109		21
3622		24	2977		23	3030		22	3110		28
3623		31	2978		30	3031		29	3111	Aug.	4
3624	Aug.	7	2979	Aug.	6	303242	Aug.	5	3112		12
3623		14	2980		13	3033		12	3113		18
3624		21	2981		20	3034		19	3114		25
2930		28	2982		27	3035		26	3115	Sept.	1
2931	Sept.	4	2983	Sept.	4	3036	Sept.	2	3116		8
2932		11	2984		10	3037		9	3117		15
2933		18	2985		17	3038		16	3118		22
2934		25	2986		24	3039		23	3119		29
2935	Oct.	2	2987	Oct.	1	3040		30	3120	Oct.	6
2936		10	2988		8	3041	Oct.	8	3121		13
2937		16	2989		15	3042		14			20
2938		23	2990		22	3043		21	131443		27
2939		30	2991		29	3044		28	3115	Nov.	3
2940	Nov.	6	2992	Nov.	5	3045	Nov.	4	3116		10
2941		13	2993		12	3046		11	3117		17
2942		20	2994		19	3047		18	3118		24
2943		28	2995		26	3075		25	3119	Dec.	1
2944	Dec.	4	2996	Dec.	4	3076	Dec.	2	3120		9
2945		11	2997		10	3077		10	3121		15
2946		18	2998		17	3078		16			22
2947		25	2999		24	3079		23	3123		29
			3000		31	3080		30

BOSTON NEWS-LETTER

1764			1765			1766			1767
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
3124	Jan.	5	3176	Jan.	3	0	Jan.	2	3300	Jan.	1
3125		12	3177		10	0		9	3301		8
3126		19	3178		17	0		16	3302		15
3127		26	3179		24	0		23	3303		22
3128	Feb.	2	3180		31	0		30	3304		29
3129		9	3181	Feb.	7	0	Feb.	6	3305	Feb.	5
3130		16	3812		14	0		13	3306		12
3131		23	3813		21	0		20	3307		19
3132	March	1	3814		28	0		27	3308		26
3133		8	3815	March	7	0	March	6	3309	March	5
3134		15	3816		14	0		13	3310		12
3135		22	3817		21	0		20	3311		19
3136		29	3188		28	0		27	3312		26
3137	April	5	3189	April	4	0	April	3	3313	April	2
3138		13	3190		11	0		10	3314		10
3139		19	3191		19	0		17	3315		16
3140		26	3192		25	0		25	3316		23
3141	May	3	3193	May	2	0	May	1	3317		30
3142		10	3194		9	0		8	3318	May	7
3143		17	3195		16	0		15	3319		14
3144		24	3196		23	3268		22	3320		21
3145		31	3197		30	3269		29	3321		28
3146	June	7	3198	June	6		June	444	3322	June	4
3147		14	3199		13	3670		5	3323		11
3148		21	3200		20	3271		12	3324		18
3149		28	3201		27	3272		19	3325		25
3150	July	5	3202	July	4	3273		26	3326	July	2
3151		12	3203		11	3274	July	3	3327		9
3152		19	3204		18	3275		10	3328		16
3153		26	3205		25	3276		17	3329		23
3154	Aug.	2	3206	Aug.	1	3277		25	3330		30
3155		9	3207		8	3278		31	3331	Aug.	6
3156		16	3208		15	3279	Aug.	7	3332		13
3157		23	3209		22	3280		14	3333		20
3158		30	3230		29	3281		21	3334		27
3159	Sept.	6	3231	Sept.	5	3282		28	3335	Sept.	3
3160		13	3232		12	3283	Sept.	4	3336		10
3161		20	3233		19	3284		11	3337		17
3162		27	3234		26	3285		18	3338		24
3163	Oct.	4	3235	Oct.	3	3286		25	3339	Oct.	1
3164		11	3236		10	3287	Oct.	2	3340		8
3165		18	3237		17	3288		9	3341		15
3166		25	3238		24	3289		16	3342		22
3167	Nov.	1	3239		31	3290		23	3343		29
3168		8	045	Nov.	7	3291		30	3344	Nov.	5
3169		15	0		14	3292	Nov.	6	3345		12
3170		22	0		21	3293		13	3346		19
3171		30	0		28	3294		20	3347		26
3172	Dec.	6	0	Dec.	6	3295		28	3348	Dec.	4
3173		13	0		12	3296	Dec.	4	3349		10
3174		20	0		19	3297		11	3350		17
3175		27	0		26	3298		18	3351		24
						3299		25	3352		31

BOSTON NEWS-LETTER

1768			1769			1770			1771
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
3353	Jan.	7	3405	Jan.	5	3457	Jan.	4	3509	Jan.	3
3354		14	3406		12	3458		11	3510		10
3355		21	3407		19	3459		18	3511		17
3356		28	3408		26	3460		25	3512		24
3357	Feb.	4	3409	Feb.	2	3461	Feb.	1	3513		31
3358		11	3410		9	3462		8	3514	Feb.	7
3359		18	3411		16	3463		15	3515		14
3360		25	3412		23	3464		22	3516		21
3361	March	3	3413	March	2	3465	March	1	3517		28
3361		4	3414		9	3466		8	3518	March	7
336246		10	3415		16	8467		15	3519		14
3363		17	3416		23	3468		22	3520		21
3364		24	3417		30			2347	3521		28
3365		31	3418	April	7	3469		29	3522	April	4
3366	April	7	3419		18	3470	April	6	3523		11
3367		15	3420		20	3471		12	3523		10
3368		21	3421		27	3472		19	3524		26
3369		28	3422	May	4	3473		26	3525	May	2
3370	May	5	3423		11	3474	May	3	3526		9
3371		12	3424		18	3475		10	3527		16
3372		19	3425		25	3476		17	3528		23
3373		26	3426	June	1	3476		24	3529		30
3374	June	2	3427		8	3477		31	3530	June	6
3375		9	3428		15	3478	June	7	3531		13
3376		16	3429		22	3479		14	3532		20
3377		23	3430		29	3480		21	3533		27
3378		30	3431	July	6	3481		28	3534	July	4
3379	July	7	3432		13	3482	July	5	3535		11
3380		14	3433		20	3483		12	3536		18
3381		21	3434		27	3484		19	3537		25
3382		28	3435	Aug.	3	3485		26	3538	Aug.	1
3383	Aug.	4	3436		10	3486	Aug.	2	3541		8
3384		11	3437		17	3487		9	3540		15
3385		18	3438		24	3488		16	3541		22
3386		25	3439		31	3489		23	3542		29
3387	Sept.	1	3440	Sept.	7	3490		30	3543	Sept.	5
3388		8	3441		14	3491	Sept.	6	3544		12
3389		15	3442		21	3492		13	3545		19
3390		22	3443		28	3493		20	3546		26
3391		29	3444	Oct.	5	3494		27	3547	Oct.	3
3392	Oct.	6	3445		12	3495	Oct.	4	3548		10
3393		13	3446		19	3497		11	3549		17
3394		20	3447		26	3498		18	3550		24
3395		27	3448	Nov.	2	3499		25	3551		31
3396	Nov.	3	3449		9	3500	Nov.	1	3551	Nov.	7
3397		10	3450		17	3501		8	3553		14
3398		17	3451		23	3502		15	3554		22
3399		24	3452		30	3503		22	3456		28
3400	Dec.	2	3453	Dec.	7	3504		29	3457	Dec.	5
3401		8	3454		14	3505	Dec.	7	3458		12
3402		15	3455		21	3506		13	3459		19
3403		22	3456		28	3507		20	3460		26
3404		29				3508		27

BOSTON NEWS-LETTER

1772			1773			1774			1775
Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date		Number	Date
3461	Jan.	2	3614	Jan.	7	3666	Jan.	6	3719	Jan.	5
3462		9	3615		14	3667		13	3720		12
3463		16	3616		21	3668		20	3721		19
3464		23	3617		28	3669		27	3722		26
3465		30	3618	Feb.	4	3670	Feb.	3	3723	Feb.	2
3466	Feb.	6	3619		11	3671		10	3724		9
3467		13	3620		18	3672		17	3725		16
3468		20	3621		25	3673		24	3726		23
3469		27	3622	March	4	3674	March	3	3727	March	2
3470	March	5	3623		18	3675		10	3728		9
3471		12	3624		11	3676		17	3729		17
3472		19	3625		25	3677		24	3730		23
3473		26	3626	April	1	3678		31	3731		30
3474	April	3	3627		8	3679	April	7	3732	April	6
3475		9	3628		16	3680		15	3733		13
3476		16	3629		22	3681		21	3734		20
3477		23	3630		29	3682		28			27
3478		30	3631	May	6	3683	May	5		May	4
3479	May	7	3632		13	3684		12			11
3480		14	3633		20	3685		19	3735		19
3481		21	3634		27	3686		26	3736		25
3482		28	3635	June	3	3687	June	2		June	1
3483	June	4	3636		10	3688		9			8
3439		11	3637		17	3689		16			15
3485		18	3638		24	3690		23			22
3486		25	3639	July	1	3691		30			29
3487	July	2	3640		8	3692	July	7		July	6
3488		9	3641		15	3693		14	3743		13
3489		16	3642		22	3694		21			20
3490		23	3643		29	3695		28			27
3491		30	3644	Aug.	5	3696	Aug.	4		Aug.	3
3492	Aug.	6	3645		12	3697		11			10
3493		13	3646		19	3699		18			17
3494		20	3647		26	3700		25			24
3495		27	3648	Sept.	2	3701	Sept.	1	3746		31
3496	Sept.	3	3649		9	3702		8	3747	Sept.	7
3497		10	3650		16	3703		15			14
3498		17	3651		23	3704		22			21
3599		24	3652		30	3705		29			28
3500	Oct.	1	3653	Oct.	7	3706	Oct.	6		Oct.	5
3601		8	3655		14	3707		13			1348
3602		15	3655		21	3708		20	3751		19
3603		22	3656		28	3709		27	3751		26
3604		29	3657	Nov.	4	3710	Nov.	3		Nov.	2
3605	Nov.	5	3658		11	3711		10			9
3606		12	3659		18	3712		17	3754		16
3607		19	3660		26	3713		24			23
3608		26	3661	Dec.	2	3714	Dec.	1	3757		30
3609	Dec.	4	3662		9	3715		8		Dec.	7
3610		10	3663		16	3716		16	3759		14
3611		17	3664		23	3717		22	3760		21
3612		24	3665		30	3718		29	3760		28
3613		31

BOSTON NEWS-LETTER

1776
Number	Date
3762	Jan.	4
3762		11
		18
		25
3766	Feb.	1
		8
		15
		22

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.