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EXETER.

The third newspaper which appeared in New Hampshire,
was issued from the press in Exeter, near the close
of the year 1775, and published, irregularly, by Robert
Fowle, under various titles, in 1776 and part of 1777, until
discontinued. It was printed on a large type, small paper,
and often on half a sheet. It was first entitled, A New Hampshire
Gazette, afterwards The New Hampshire Gazette;
The New Hampshire Gazette, or Exeter Morning Chronicle;
The New Hampshire [State] Gazette, or, Exeter Circulating
Morning Chronicle; The State Journal, or The New Hampshire
Gazette and Tuesday's Liberty Advertiser. These and
other alterations, with changes of the day of publication,
took place within one year. It was published, generally,
without an imprint. In the last alteration of the title, a
large cut, coarsely engraved, was introduced; it was a copy
of that which had for several years been used in The Pennsylvania
Journal,[4] and the same which Rogers, some time
before, had introduced into the Salem Gazette and Advertiser.

Several other newspapers since 1777, have had a beginning
and ending in Exeter.