History of Newport County, Rhode IslandFrom the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress . J. zwJ< 0 uu QU o a Z HISTOUY OF NEWPORT COUNTY. 511 lished by the Hon. John P. Sanborn, whose first number ap-peared November IGth, 1S72. It has a wide circulationamong the sons of Newport and appears weekly in a doublesheet. Its politics are republican. During the Britisli occupa-tion in 1777-79 the Newport Gazette was published by JohnHowe in Thames street, near the Parade. The Newport Heraldmade its appearance in 1787-88-90, printed by Peter
History of Newport County, Rhode IslandFrom the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress . J. zwJ< 0 uu QU o a Z HISTOUY OF NEWPORT COUNTY. 511 lished by the Hon. John P. Sanborn, whose first number ap-peared November IGth, 1S72. It has a wide circulationamong the sons of Newport and appears weekly in a doublesheet. Its politics are republican. During the Britisli occupa-tion in 1777-79 the Newport Gazette was published by JohnHowe in Thames street, near the Parade. The Newport Heraldmade its appearance in 1787-88-90, printed by Peter Edes onThames street; an intermittent publication, the object of whichwas to oppose paper money. The United States Chronicle ap-peared at Newport and Providence in 1791, the Rhode IslandMuseum in 1794, the Weekly Companion and Commercial -Sfeft-^/^eZin 1798 and 1799. This closes Hanmetts list of publica-tions in the last century. The Rhode Island Republican began September 25th, 1800,published by Oliver Farnsworth, near the Coffee House inThames street, and continued till 1841. There are to-day printed and published in Newport one dai
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