Boston Gazette and Country Journal

American newspaper

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The Boston Gazette and Country Journal was an influential American newspaper founded in 1755 by Benjamin Edes and John Gill. As a leading voice for American independence, the Gazette published articles by prominent patriots like Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The newspaper's anti-British stance was so strong that participants in the Boston Tea Party reportedly gathered at Edes's home and the Gazette's office before their raid. British authorities even offered a reward for Edes's arrest due to the paper's content. The Gazette ceased publication in 1798.12

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Benjamin Edes
…the New England newspaper, the Boston Gazette and Country Journal. As editor and publisher of the Gazette, Edes made the paper a leading voice favouring American independence.
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…the New England newspaper, the Boston Gazette and Country Journal. As editor and publisher of the Gazette, Edes made the paper a leading voice favouring American independence.
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John Gill
…the second established there, the Boston Gazette and Country Journal. Gill (and Edes) also published pamphlets and broadsides, an occasional textbook, and religious materials. They became known for the increasingly anti-British, pro-independence stance of their publications as well as for their Gazette.
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…the second established there, the Boston Gazette and Country Journal. Gill (and Edes) also published pamphlets and broadsides, an occasional textbook, and religious materials. They became known for the increasingly anti-British, pro-independence stance of their publications as well as for their Gazette.
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