Independent Chronicle

It originated in 1768 as The Essex Gazette, founded by Samuel Hall (v.1–7) in Salem, and The New-England Chronicle (v.7–9) in Cambridge, before settling in 1776 in Boston as The Independent Chronicle.

Publishers also included Edward E. Powars, Nathaniel Willis, and Adams & Rhoades; Capt.

For some time it operated from offices on Court Street formerly occupied by James Franklin.

[2] As of the 1820s, "the Chronicle [was] the oldest newspaper ... published in Boston; and has long been considered one of the principal republican papers in the state; and its influence has, at all times, been in exact proportion to the popularity of the cause which it has so warmly espoused.

"[3] After 1840 the paper continued as the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser published by Nathan Hale.