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PROVIDENCE.

This was the only newspaper printed in Providence
before 1775. It was first published October 20, 1762, by
William Goddard, on a sheet of crown size, folio; a cut
of the king's arms decorated the title. It was printed
every Saturday, from types of english and long primer.
Imprint, "Providence: Printed by William Goddard, at
the Printing-Office near the Great Bridge, where Subscriptions,
Advertisements and Letters of Intelligence, &c., are
received for this Paper; and where all Manner of printing
Work is performed with care and Expedition."

The Gazette was discontinued from May 11, to August
24, 1765. On that day a paper was published, headed Vox
Populi, Vox Dei. A Providence Gazette Extraordinary,
Printed by S. and W. Goddard." After this it was, till
January, 1767, "Printed by Sarah Goddard and Co." It
then appeared with this imprint: "Printed (in the Absence
of William Goddard) by Sarah Goddard & Co." In a
short time after this, it was published by Sarah Goddard
and John Carter.

In 1769, William and Sarah Goddard resigned their
right in the Gazette to John Carter, who has published
it from that time to the present (1810).

This paper zealously defended the rights of the colonies
before the revolution, ably supported the cause of the
country during the war, and has weekly diffused federal
republican principles since the establishment of independence.
The Gazette has, from time to time, been supplied

by various writers, with many well composed political,
moral and entertaining essays. Its weekly collection of
intelligence is judiciously selected, and it was correctly
and regularly printed more than forty years by its respectable
publisher, John Carter.

[See Newburyport, Philadelphia, Baltimore.]