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Original newspapers (not including 18th-century Virginia Gazettes published in Williamsburg)


Date Name
1680/1 January 21 The Weekly Pacquet of Advice From Rome or, The History of Popery continued. The Third Volume.
1681 August 27 The Observator in Dialogue, London.
1736 June 7 Edinburgh [Scotland] Evening Courant, Fleming and Kincaid.
1754 February 25 The Edinburgh Evening Courant.
1755 April 28 The Glasgow Journal.
1755 May 5 The Glasgow Journal.
1756 January 6 The London Gazette, Owen.
1759 October 18 The Boston News—Letter, No. 2042.
1763 October 13 Pennsylvania Gazette.
1768 April 7 Pennsylvania Gazette, Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia.
1768 August 13 The London Chronicle.
1768 November 17 Boston Chronicle Extraordinary, Mein and Fleming, Boston, with regular issue of November 21, 1768, attached.
1768 November 21 Boston Chronicle, Mein and Fleming, Boston.
1772 June 18 Pennsylvania Gazette, Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia.
1773 January 13 Pennsylvania Gazette and Supplement, Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia.
1773 March 2 4 Pennsylvania Gazette and Supplement, Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia.
1774 March The Royal American Magazine, Boston. I. Thomas.
1774 June 15 Pennsylvania Gazette, Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia.
1774 August 29 Pennsylvania Packet or General Advertiser. Vol. 3. # 149. Dunlap, Philadelphia.
1775 January The Pennsylvania Magazine: or American Monthly Museum, Philadelphia. R. Aitken.
1775 May 24 Pennsylvania Packet: Postscript, Dunlap, Philadelphia.
1775 June 15 Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer, Holt.
1781 July 11 New Jersey Gazette, Collins, Trenton.
1781 October 17 New Jersey Gazette, Collins, Trenton.
1781 December 22 Virginia Gazette and American Advertiser, Hayes, Richmond.
1784 June 19–July 31 Virginia Gazette, Richmond.
1785 February 26 Virginia Gazette, or American Advertiser, Hayes, Richmond.
1787 April 11 Virginia Independent Chronicle, Richmond.
1787 July 17 The London Chronicle.
1788 May 31 Virginia Gazette and Independent Chronicle, Dixon, Richmond.
1790 June 5 Gazette of the United States, Fenno, New York.
1800 January 23 Connecticut Journal, Thomas Greene and Son, New Haven.
1804 March 19 Washington Federalist, W.A. Rind, Washington, D.C.
1804 March 21 Washington Federalist, W.A. Rind, Washington, D.C.
1804 September 26 Washington Federalist, W.A. Rind, Washington, D.C.
1814 March 8 Essex Register, Salem, Mass.
1819 May 19 [National Aegis]. Worcester, Mass., newspaper fragment.
1820 September 8 Richmond Enquirer.
1822 September 18 Columbian Reporter and Old Colony Journal, Taunton, Mass.
1827 November 9 Hingham Gazette, Hingham, Mass.
1832 April 20 New York Spectator, New York.
1833 June 8 The New York Mirror.
1834 January 4–January 11 Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.
1837 July 1 Herald of Freedom, Concord, N.H. Published by the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society
1839 March 16 Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal.
1844 March 2 Supplement of the [Connecticut] Courant.
1855 July 5 Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg: J. Hervey Ewing).
1856 January 24 Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg: J. Hervey Ewing).
1862 May 7 Maryland News Sheet, Baltimore.
1862 May 7 The World Morning Courier and New York Enquirer.
1862 May 14 New York Tribune, New York.
1862 May 24 New York Herald, New York.
1917 February 8 Virginia Gazette.
1930–1977 Virginia Gazette. (Reference, bound volumes)