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The Newport Mercury, was an early American colonial newspaper founded in 1758 by Ann Smith Franklin (1696–1763), and her son, James Franklin (1730–1762), the nephew of Benjamin Franklin. The newspaper was printed on a printing press imported by Franklin's father , James Franklin (1697–1735), in 1717 from London . [ 1 ]
Mercury, published monthly and owned by Gatehouse Media. An alternative weekly -style paper covering Rhode Island arts, entertainment and food in Newport and Middletown . Defunct
Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company, the family-owned publisher of the Daily News, also prints three free weekly newspapers in southern Rhode Island: Mercury, a Wednesday alternative weekly covering Bristol, Newport and Washington counties; the Friday Newport Navlog, the U.S. Navy's oldest base newspaper (founded 1901), covering Naval Station Newport; and Ocean State Independent, mailed to ...
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Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin. [1] She published the Newport Mercury, printed an almanac series, and printed Rhode Island paper
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The Newport Daily News (originally published as The Newport Mercury in 1758) Hartford Courant (1764, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States) The Register Star (Hudson, New York, 1785) Poughkeepsie Journal (1785) The Augusta Chronicle (1785) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 1786) Daily Hampshire Gazette (September 1784)
The first online edition of The Ocean Springs Weekly Record launched March 1 and will update online every Friday morning.