The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers : to which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World : in Two Volumes, Volume 2 |
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... Weekly Courant . In 1639 , a paper was printed at Newcastle upon Tyne , by Robert Baker . The Mercuries succeeded , being first published August 22 , 1642 , and continued occasionally through the protectorate of Cromwell , and after his ...
... Weekly Courant . In 1639 , a paper was printed at Newcastle upon Tyne , by Robert Baker . The Mercuries succeeded , being first published August 22 , 1642 , and continued occasionally through the protectorate of Cromwell , and after his ...
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... week ; and there were nineteen weekly , including eleven Sunday papers . Ninety - eight were printed in all other parts of England . The same year , nineteen were printed in Scotland , and thirty - five in Ireland , making the whole ...
... week ; and there were nineteen weekly , including eleven Sunday papers . Ninety - eight were printed in all other parts of England . The same year , nineteen were printed in Scotland , and thirty - five in Ireland , making the whole ...
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... weekly , and the average number of copies did not exceed six hundred from each press . No paper had then been issued in Connecti- cut , or New Hampshire . Some years before , one was printed for a short time in Rhode Island , but had ...
... weekly , and the average number of copies did not exceed six hundred from each press . No paper had then been issued in Connecti- cut , or New Hampshire . Some years before , one was printed for a short time in Rhode Island , but had ...
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... Weekly ; and all Persons who have any Houses , Lands , Tenements , Farmes , Ships , Vessels , Goods , Wares or Merchandizes , & c . , to be Sold or Lett ; or Servants Runaway ; or Goods Stoll or Lost , may have the same Inserted at a ...
... Weekly ; and all Persons who have any Houses , Lands , Tenements , Farmes , Ships , Vessels , Goods , Wares or Merchandizes , & c . , to be Sold or Lett ; or Servants Runaway ; or Goods Stoll or Lost , may have the same Inserted at a ...
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... week . In No. 71 , Campbell inserted the following notice . " At the Desire of several Gentlemen , Merchants and others , who are willing to Contribute towards ' supporting this Publick Print of Intelligence , the Undertaker has be- gun ...
... week . In No. 71 , Campbell inserted the following notice . " At the Desire of several Gentlemen , Merchants and others , who are willing to Contribute towards ' supporting this Publick Print of Intelligence , the Undertaker has be- gun ...
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