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established by Benjamin Russell. It continued its predecessor, the ''Massachusetts Centinel and the Republican Journal'', which Russell and partner William Warden had first issued on March 24, 1784. The paper was "the most influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the Revolution." In the

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it was aligned with Federalist sentiment. Until c. 1800 its circulation was the largest in Boston, and its closest competitor was the anti-Federalist '' Independent Chronicle'' ("the compliments that were frequently exchanged by these journalistic adversaries were more forcible than polite"). Russell "can be justly characterized as the

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of his time." In 1828 Russell sold the ''Centinel'' to Joseph T. Adams and Thomas Hudson, who continued publishing it. In 1840, the ''Centinel'' merged with a number of other Boston papers—the ''Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot'', the ''Boston Commercial Gazette'', and the ''New-England Palladium''—to form the ''Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser'', which eventually became the ''

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''.

Titles

*''The Massachusetts Centinel: and the Republican Journal''. Mar. 24 – Oct. 13, 1784. *''The Massachusetts Centinel''. Oct. 16, 1784 – June 12, 1790. *''Columbian Centinel''. June 16, 1790 – Oct. 2, 1799. *''Columbian Centinel & Massachusetts Federalist''. Oct. 5, 1799 – July 2, 1800. *''Columbian Centinel. Massachusetts Federalist''. July 5 – Dec. 31, 1800. *''Columbian Centinel''. Sept. 5, 1804 – May 23, 1840.

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* Library of Congress
''Massachusetts Centinel''. Boston: Published by Warden & Russell, 1785.
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