Boston Weekly Advertiser Explained

The Boston Weekly Advertiser
Type:	Weekly newspaper
Foundation:	1757
Ceased Publication:	1775
Publisher:	Green & Russell
Language:	English
Headquarters:	Boston, Massachusetts

The Boston Weekly Advertiser (1757–1775), also called The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts by John Green (1727 - 1787) and Joseph Russell (1734 - 1795).^[1]

The paper "loyally sustained the British Government" during the American Revolution.^[2]

Nathaniel Mills and John Hicks published the paper in its final years, 1773 - 1775.^{[3] [4]}

Varying titles

• The Boston Weekly Advertiser. Aug. 22, 1757- Dec. 25, 1758.
• Green & Russell's Boston Post-boy & Advertiser. Jan. 1, 1759-May 23, 1763.
• The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser. May 30, 1763- Sept. 25, 1769.
• The Massachusetts Gazette, and the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser. Oct. 2, 1769-Apr. 17, 1775.^[3]

See also

• Boston Post-Boy, published 1834-1854

Notes and References

1. Isaiah Thomas. The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. From the press of Isaiah Thomas, 1874.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qvYMAAAAYAAJ King's hand-book of Boston
3. Web site: Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division). Library of Congress.
4. Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences; v.1. Redding and Co., 1852.