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    The New-England Courant (also spelled New England Courant), one of the first American newspapers, was founded in Boston in 1721, by James Franklin. It...
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  • up courant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Courant may refer to: Hexham Courant, a weekly newspaper in Northumberland, England The New-England Courant...
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  • James Franklin (printer) (category Printers from the Thirteen Colonies)
    in the American colonies. Franklin published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short...
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    New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont...
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  • The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper...
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    Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his...
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    "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late. Instead, he launched a third newspaper, The New England Courant." His associates...
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  • The Wanderer is a weekly newspaper that serves the "Tri-town area" of Marion, Massachusetts, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, and Rochester, Massachusetts...
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    Franklin's The New England Courant was founded in August amid the outbreak and the issue of smallpox and preservation from it became front page news. The Courant...
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    The Boston Post was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before its final shutdown in 1956. The Post was founded in November 1831...
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  • The Boston Courant was a weekly newspaper in Boston, whose coverage focused on issues of local interest to the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown, Fenway...
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    only issue on September 25, 1690. The Weekly Jamaica Courant followed in Kingston, Jamaica from 1718. In 1726 the Boston Gazette began publishing with...
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    broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports events throughout New England with a major focus on Boston area teams, as well as several original...
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    Advice column (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    characters, Benjamin Franklin offered advice in the New England Courant and later in the Pennsylvania Gazette. The popular columnist Dorothy Dix began her column...
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  • responsible for making the Globe the most used Newspaper in New England. He went into greater details regarding social movements such as the Women's Suffrage...
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    Abiah. Franklin was proud of his maternal family (one of the first settlers of New England), and thus, in an era when it was unusual for ordinary people...
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  • The New-England Repertory was a newspaper published from 1803 through 1820. It was first published in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but was moved to Boston...
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  • DigBoston (category Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States)
    Boston magazine since 1971 at the time, was also publishing Elegant Wedding, Concierge, Home & Garden and New England Travel and Life. It had also been...
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    publisher of the New-England Courant. A fan of the Spectator by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, Franklin slipped an anonymous paper under the door of...
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  • Six Flags New England. May 5, 2000. Retrieved October 5, 2015. Marks, Paul. "A PLACE FOR FAMILY FUN SINCE PICNICS RULED IN THE 1800S". courant.com. Retrieved...
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    ""Displaying the Ensigns of Harmony": The French Army in Newport, Rhode Island, 1780–1781". The New England Quarterly. 85 (3): 438. doi:10.1162/TNEQ_a_00208...
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  • newspaper by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the new religious movement Christian Science, Church of Christ, Scientist. The newspaper has been based in...
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  • September 2001. It shares templates and systems with other GateHouse New England properties' websites, at Wicked Local.[citation needed] "2018 Legacy...
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    troops needed to meet it, and the kind of force needed to defend the other New England colonies. An example of George Washington's interest in intelligence...
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  • William Douglass (physician) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    through newspapers like The Boston Gazette and The New-England Courant respectively. By the next year, however, Douglass admitted that the inoculations were...
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    The 2002 season was the New England Patriots' 33rd in the National Football League (NFL), their 43rd overall and their third under head coach Bill Belichick...
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    renamed the "Hartford Whalers". After 25 years in New England, the franchise relocated to North Carolina in 1997 and became the Carolina Hurricanes. The Whalers...
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  • The Dorchester Reporter is a weekly community newspaper founded in 1983 by husband-and-wife Ed and Mary Forry to serve the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston...
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    from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2012. Stacom, Don (May 6, 2000). "The Debut Of Six Flags New England". Hartford Courant. Archived...
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    World Journal 08-25-2014. Wikimedia Commons has media related to World Journal. Official website World Journal - East Coast Boston/New England Branch...
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