"The limits, to which ... the contents of these volumes were circumscribed, have necessarily confined the selections of specimens to New-England (except in one or two instances) and chiefly to Massachusetts, and precluded all notices of publications that have had their origin since the commencement of the present century."--Vol. 1, p. viii Includes indexes Erratum: v. 2, p. 356 v. 1. The Boston News-Letter -- The Boston Gazette. Brooker's -- The New-England Courant -- The New-England Weekly Journal -- The Weekly Rehearsal -- The Boston Evening Post -- The Boston Weekly Post-Boy -- The Independent Advertiser -- The Boston Gazette : Kneeland & Green's -- The Boston Gazette : Edes & Gill's -- The Boston Weekly Advertiser -- The Boston Chronicle -- The Essex Gazette -- The New-England Chronicle -- The Massachusetts Gazette -- The Massachusetts Spy -- The Constitutional Courant -- The Independent Chronicle -- The Pennsylvania Journal -- The Essex Journal -- The Independent Ledger -- The Continental Journal -- The Connecticut Journal and New-Haven Post-Boy -- The New-London Gazette -- The Herald of Freedom -- Appendix (James Franklin's imprisonment. Letters of Rev. S. Peters. Benjamin Edes. Leonard Worcester) -- Index -- v. 2. The Massachusetts Centinel -- The Columbian Centinel -- The Salem Mercury -- The Salem Gazette -- The National Gazette -- The American Apollo -- The Massachusetts Mercury -- The New-England Palladium -- The Farmer's Weekly Museum -- The Federal Orrery -- The Boston Gazette -- The Rural Repository -- The Village Messenger -- The Polar Star -- The Federal Gazette -- The Constitutional Telegraphe -- The Greenfield Gazette -- The Political Gazette -- The Newburyport Herald -- The Salem Register -- Appendix -- Index