The Boston Weekly Post-Boy (1734–1754) and later Boston Post-Boy was a newspaper published by postmaster Ellis Huske[1] in 18th-century Boston, Massachusetts. The paper appeared weekly, on Mondays.
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Although the paper ceased in 1754, it was more or less later "revived Aug. 22, 1757, by new publishers, under the title Boston Weekly Advertiser."[2]
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- Mary Farwell Ayer and Albert Matthews. Check-list of Boston newspapers 1704-1780. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 9. Boston: 1907.
- Charles E. Clark. The public prints: the newspaper in Anglo-American culture, 1665-1740. Oxford University Press US, 1994.