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Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 976 (August 27, 1747)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06670.108 Author/Creator: Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Newspaper Date: 27 August 1747 Pagination: 4 p. ; 31 x 21 cm. Order a Copy

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Address from the Council of Proprietors for the Eastern Division of New Jersey to Jonathan Belcher, Governor in Chief, welcoming him to that province's government. Includes Belcher's reply and subsequent correspondence. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

Continues "The Universal instructor in all arts and sciences, and Pennsylvania gazette." Issues have a subtitle, "Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick." Suspended publication at Philadelphia with the issue of Sept. 10, 1777, upon the arrival of the British troops. Published at York, Pa., Dec. 20, 1777-June 20, 1778. Continued by "The Pennsylvania gazette, and weekly advertiser," published in Philadelphia, starting with the issue of Jan. 5, 1779. Published by Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith, 2 October 1729. Benjamin Franklin 11 May 1732. Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, 12 January 1748. No name given 21 November 1765. David Hall, 6 February 1766. David Hall and William Sellers, 8 May 1766. William and David Hall and William Sellers, 30 December 1772.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757

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