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The Boston Weekly Advertiser (1757–1775), also called The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts by John Green (1727–1787) and Joseph Russell (1734–1795).

The paper "loyally sustained the British Government" during the American Revolution.

Nathaniel Mills and John Hicks published the paper in its final years, 1773–1775.

Varying titles

• The Boston Weekly Advertiser. Aug. 22, 1757- Dec. 25, 1758.
• Green & Russell's Boston Post-boy & Advertiser. Jan. 1, 1759-May 23, 1763.
• The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser. May 30, 1763- Sept. 25, 1769.
• The Massachusetts Gazette, and the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser. Oct. 2, 1769-Apr. 17, 1775.

See also

• Boston Post-Boy, published 1734–1754

References

1. Isaiah Thomas. The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. From the press of Isaiah Thomas, 1874.
2. King's hand-book of Boston. Moses King. 1889.
3. ^ "Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division)". Library of Congress.
4. Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences; v.1. Redding and Co., 1852.

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