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GEORGIA.

SAVANNAH.

Was first published on the 17th of April, 1763, printed
on a new long primer type, on a foolscap sheet, folio, two
columns in a page, and continued weekly, on Wednesday.
Imprint, "Savannah: Printed by James Johnston, at the
Printing-Office in Broughton-Street, where Advertisements,
Letters of Intelligence, and Subscriptions for this Paper, are
taken in.—Hand-Bills, Advertisements, &c., printed on the
shortest Notice." After a few years, it was enlarged and
printed on a sheet of crown size.

The publication of this Gazette was for some time suspended,
like that of several others on the continent, when
the British American stamp act was to take place in 1765;
but it was, at the end of seven months, revived. It reappeared
in May, 1766; and, in September of that year, a cut
of the king's arms was introduced into the title. It was
again suspended for some time during the war. The Gazette
was published twenty-seven years by Johnston, and
continued by his successors. It was the first and only
newspaper published in the colony, before the revolution.