The ''American Apollo'' (January 6, 1792 - December 25, 1794) was a newspaper published in
Boston
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,
in the late 18th century, featuring "political and commercial intelligence, and other entertaining matter." It was issued by printer Joseph Belknap, along with Alexander Young (as "Belknap & Young," January–May 1792) and Thomas Hall (as "Belknap & Hall," May 1792-July 1794) on
State Street. In 1792, the newly formed
Massachusetts Historical Society
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's "collections were at first published in ... the ''American Apollo.'' "
Correspondence between Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard
pt.2. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1846); p.277. The newspaper ceased in December 1794.
References
Further reading
* J.T. Buckingham
Specimens of Newspaper Literature
with Personal Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Reminiscences. Boston: Redding & Co., 1852; p. 147+
* Clarence Brigham
"Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 Part III: Maryland to Massachusetts(Boston)"
''Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society'' April 1915; p. 193-194.
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Publications established in 1792
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