The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury (no. 1491)

New-York Mercury (Previous)

1780

1780

New-York [N.Y.] : H. Gaine,

NEWSPAPER L2001F502

[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves.

No. 848 (Feb. 1, 1768)-no. 1673 (Nov. 10, 1783). Weekly
This issue, no. 1491, May 15, 1780, contains foreign intelligence from Petersburgh to assist Great Britain “against her revolted colonies in America, with a certain number of ships and troops,” as well as other pro-British articles. This newspaper began its run in 1768 and was considered a pro-independence newspaper through the British invasion of New York when Hugh Gaine, the publisher, fled to Newark, New Jersey to continue publishing. Upon his return to New York City in November 1776 and having decided that the British would win the war, Gaine began publishing The New-York Gazette as a loyalist paper.

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