It originated from the efforts of "a society for compiling a magazine in the town of Boston;" the society consisted of John Eliot, James Freeman, George R. Minot, Aaron Dexter, John Clarke, John Bradford, Benjamin Lincoln, Christopher Gore, and others.

[1] Publishers included John Norman, James White, Edmund Freeman, and Joseph Greenleaf.

[2] "An interesting feature of The Boston Magazine was the printing of a Geographical Gazetteer of Massachusetts, which came out as a serial number at the end of certain issues.

In this supplement an account of twenty-one towns in Suffolk County is given.

"[2] This article relating to a magazine connected with culture is a stub.