The New World was a weekly newspaper in New York, New York, in the United States, published from October 26, 1839, to May 1845 by Jonas Winchester.
[1] The paper was founded and edited by Park Benjamin Sr.
It billed itself as an apolitical "family newspaper",[2] featuring British and American literature[3] and religious discourses.
[2] The paper's masthead read: "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers; The whole unbounded Continent is ours!
", a quote originally attributed to Jonathan M. Sewall from his epilogue to Cato, a Tragedy in 1778.