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NEWBURYPORT.

No attempt was made to establish a newspaper in that
place until the year 1773.

Was issued from the press, December 4, 1773, by Isaiah
Thomas, printed on a crown sheet, folio, equal in size to
most of the papers then published in Boston. At first its
day of publication was Saturday; afterwards, Wednesday.
Two cuts were in the title; one, the left, representing the
arms of the province, that on the right, a ship under sail.
Imprint, "Newbury-Port: Printed by Isaiah Thomas &
Henry Walter-Tinges, in King-Street, opposite to the Rev.
Mr. Parsons's Meeting-House," &c. Thomas was the proprietor
of the Journal; he lived in Boston, and there published
the Massachusetts Spy. Tinges, as a partner in the
Journal, managed the concerns of it. Before the full
expiration of a year Thomas sold his right in this paper to
Ezra Lunt, and, about two years after, Lunt sold to John
Mycall. Tinges was a partner to both; but to the latter
only for about six months, when the partnership was dissolved,
and Mycall became the proprietor and sole publisher
of The Essex Journal, the publication of which he continued
many years.