''The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle'' (1743-1746) was a periodical in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
Massachusetts
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, printed by Rogers & Fowle (
Gamaliel Rogers and
Daniel Fowle), and published by Samuel Eliot and Joshua Blanchard. Scholars suggest that
Jeremiah Gridley
Jeremiah Gridley or Jeremy Gridley (1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, colonial legislator, and attorney general in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the Masons in North America" around the 1760s, and wa ...
served as editor.
[John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 265-281.]
References
Further reading
* Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Majestick Shape: 1745. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct. 1949), pp. 74–80.
* James M. Farrell and Joseph M. Noone. Rhetoric, Eloquence, and Oratory in Eighteenth-Century American Periodicals: An Annotated Bibliography. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 72–80.
External links
* http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/american/text5/text5read.htm
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