''The Herald of Freedom'' (1788–1791) or ''Herald of Freedom and the Federal Advertiser'' was a newspaper published 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 Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, in the late 18th century by

Edmund Freeman Edmund Freeman II, More simply known as just Edmund Freeman (c. July 25, 1596 – 1682) was one of the founders of Sandwich, Massachusetts and an Assistant Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1640 to 1647, serving under Governor William Bradford and ...

, Loring Andrews, and John Howel. In 1790–1791 the paper "was engaged in the first libel-suit tried in Massachusetts after the Revolution, ... for a savage attack on a member of the Legislature," John Gardiner. The ''Herald''s printer, Edmund Freeman, was "charged ... with publishing in his paper ... a most ... scandalous and malicious libel." "The libel complained of, charged Mr. Gardiner, with the atrocious murder of his late excellent lady argaret Harries by cruelty." On February 3, 1790, "at 12, o'clock, at noon" Freeman "was taken into custody, by virtue of a warrant from Mr. Justice Crafts." "The case was decided in favor of the newspaper. Harrison Gray Otis, one of the most brilliant men of his day, was counsel for the editor."Frederic Hudson. 1873; p.181

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* From the Centinel. Proceedings on the Examination of the Printer of the ''Herald''. ''Herald of Freedom'', Date: 02-12-1790 * Massachusetts. Boston, February 1. ''Vermont Journal'', and the Universal Advertiser; Date: 02-17-1790. * ccount of the trial ''Herald of Freedom''; Date: 03-04-1791. * Supreme Judicial Court; trial for a libel: ''Commonwealth vs. Freeman''. ''Herald of Freedom''; Date: 03-11-1791 * Trial for a Libel. ''Middlesex Gazette'' (Connecticut); Date: 03-26-1791 * Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, Volume 1. Redding and Co., 1852
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