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Thomas, Isaiah (1749-1831)
  
ARCHÆOLOGIA AMERICANA.
  
TRANSACTIONS AND COLLECTIONS OF THE American Antiquarian Society.
  
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CONTENTS.

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HISTORY OF NEWSPAPERS,
  
EXPLANATION OF THE INDIAN GAZETTE,
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MASSACHUSETTS.
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BOSTON.
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MAGAZINES, ETC. PRINTED IN BOSTON BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
  
The Boston Weekly Magazine.
  
The Christian History.
  
The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle.
  
The New-England Magazine.
  
The Censor.
  
The Royal American Magazine.
  
SALEM.
  
NEWBURYPORT.
  
WORCESTER.
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RHODE ISLAND.
  
NEWPORT.
  
PROVIDENCE.
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CONNECTICUT.
  
NEW HAVEN.
  
NEW LONDON.
  
HARTFORD.
  
NORWICH.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
  
PORTSMOUTH.
  
EXETER.
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NEW YORK.
  
NEW YORK.
  
OTHER PERIODICAL WORKS PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BEFORE 1775.
  
ALBANY.
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NEW JERSEY.
  
MAGAZINE, &c., PUBLISHED IN NEW JERSEY BEFORE 1775.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
  
PHILADELPHIA.
  
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS, PRINTED IN PHILADELPHIA PREVIOUSLY TO THE YEAR 1775.
  
MAGAZINES, &c., PUBLISHED IN PHILADELPHIA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
  
GERMANTOWN.
  
LANCASTER.
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DELAWARE.
  
WILMINGTON.
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MARYLAND.
  
BALTIMORE.
  
VIRGINIA.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
  
NEWBERN.
  
WILMINGTON.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
  
CHARLESTON.
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GEORGIA.
  
SAVANNAH.
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NEW STATES, &c.
  
VERMONT.
  
KENTUCKY.
  
TENNESSEE.
  
OHIO.
  
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
  
LOUISIANA.
  
NOTE.
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BRITISH COLONIES, ON THE CONTINENT.
  
NOVA SCOTIA.
  
HALIFAX.
  
CANADA.
  
QUEBEC.
  
MONTREAL.
  
NEW BRUNSWICK.
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BRITISH ISLANDS.
  
JAMAICA.
  
BARBADOES.
  
ST. CHRISTOPHER.
  
ANTIGUA.
  
DOMINICA.
  
GRANADA.
  
ST. CROIX.
  
BERMUDA.
  
BAHAMA ISLANDS.
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FRENCH ISLANDS.
  
PORT AU PRINCE.
  
CAPE FRANÇOIS.
  
MARTINICO.
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SPANISH AMERICA.
  
CUBA.
  
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
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BOOKSELLERS.
  
BOSTON.
  
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts.
  
CHARLESTOWN, Massachusetts.
  
NEWBURYPORT.
  
SALEM.
  
PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire.
  
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut.
  
HARTFORD.
  
NEWPORT, Rhode Island.
  
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island.
  
NEW YORK.
  
PHILADELPHIA.
  
GERMANTOWN, Pennsylvania.
  
LANCASTER, Pennsylvania.
  
WILMINGTON, Delaware.
  
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland.
  
CHARLESTON, South Carolina.
  
SAVANNAH, Georgia.
  
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 A. 
APPENDIX A.
 B. 
APPENDIX B.
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APPENDIX C.
 D. 
APPENDIX D.
 E. 
APPENDIX E.
 F. 
APPENDIX F.
 G. 
APPENDIX G.
 H. 
APPENDIX H.
 I. 
APPENDIX I.
 J. 
APPENDIX J.
 K. 
APPENDIX K.
 L. 
APPENDIX L.
 M. 
APPENDIX M.
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APPENDIX N.
  
MAGAZINES, AND OTHER PERIODICAL WORKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1810.
  
LIST OF NEWSPAPERS, PUBLISHED IN THE COLONIES, NOW THE UNITED STATES, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, IN 1775, AND THOSE PUBLISHED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1810.
  
FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS.
  
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS IN WHAT IS NOW THE UNITED STATES, PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1775–6.
  
ADDENDA.
  
INDEX
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GERMANTOWN.

A public journal was printed in the German language
at Germantown, as early as the summer of 1739, by Christopher
Sower.[14] The title of it in English, was,

The Pennsylvania German Recorder of Events.[15]

At first this paper was printed quarterly, at three shillings
per annum; it was afterward published monthly, and continued

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for several years. This was, undoubtedly, the first
newspaper printed in the German language in America.

Germantanner Zeitung (Germantown Gazette).

This Gazette was printed by Christopher Sower, jun.,
and, probably, as a substitute for the Germantown Recorder,
which had been published by his father. It was a weekly
paper, and commenced about 1744. As an appendage to
it, Sower for some time published, every fortnight, a small
magazine of eight 8vo. pages, containing, chiefly, moral and
religious essays; with which, it is said, he, for some time,
supplied his newspaper customers gratis. It was entitled
Sin Seistliches Magazin.[16] The Zeitung was continued until
the troubles occasioned by the revolutionary war obliged
the publisher to drop it. It had an extensive circulation
among the Germans settled in Pennsylvania. Its publication
was continued till 1748.

 
[14]

This person was a native of Germany, born 1793, and immigrated 1724.
He wrote his name Saur (pronounced sour), for which reason, it is probable,
his son altered the orthography of his own name to Sower. For a
particular description of Saur and his enterprises, Simpson's Eminent
Philadelphians, 902; Printer's Circular, VII, 356; O'Callaghan's List of
American Bibles, passim.—M.

[15]

This paper was entitled Der Pennshlvanische Seschict Schreiber oder Sammlung wichtiger Hachrichten and Sem Hatur-und Airchen-Heich,
signifying in English, the High-Dutch Pennsylvania Historiographer,
or collection of Impartial Intelligence from the Kingdoms of
Nature and the Church. Saur designed it to serve as a journal for the sect
of Tunkers, with whom he was identified, and at first published it only
occasionally on one side of a sheet for gratuitous distribution. It took a
more definite form in 1736, as a folio, 9 by 13 inches. See Printer's Circular,
VII, 356.—M.

[16]

For a more correct account of this work see Simpson's Eminent Philadelphians,
903–4, note.—M.

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