The Essex Gazette
''The Essex Gazette'' was a weekly newspaper established in 1768 by Samuel Hall (printer), Samuel Hall in Salem, Massachusetts, as the city's first newspaper and the first published in Massachusetts outside Boston, the colony's capital. it was the third newspaper to appear in Massachusetts. From its start, the newspaper was a strong proponent of American Revolution, American independence. The ''Gazette'' was relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge in 1775 following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. In early 1776, after the British army was driven from Boston, Hall moved the ''Gazette'' to the city, changing its name to ''The New England Chronicle''. History Samuel Hall, at the age of twenty-six, announced that he was about to open a printing shop in Salem in April 1768.#tapley, 1927, Tapley, 1927, p. 5 Salem became the third place in the province of Massachusetts in which a press and a new ...
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