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, from 1727 until 1797.Cranfield, G.A. (1963). "The ''London Evening Post'', 1727–1744: A Study in the Development of the Political Press". ''

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'', Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 20–37Harris, Bob
"The ''London Evening Post'' and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Politics"
''The English Historical Review'', Vol. 110, No. 439 (Nov., 1995), pp. 1132–1156 The paper was first published on 17 December 1727 by Richard Nutt (1694–1780) on a tri-weekly schedule matching the primary post nights (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday). It appears to have been immediately successful. Samuel Nevill took over the enterprise in 1730, and started to cover politics more than his predecessor (who mainly avoided it). (Nevill later emigrated to

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, where he served as a judge and speaker of the assembly in New Jersey, and as mayor of

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, before dying in 1764).''Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections'', Volume 6
p. 159 (1874) John Meres (1698–1761, grandson of Sir

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) took over management of the paper in 1737, first as a partner with Nutt, also printing the '' Daily Post''.''Dictionary of National Biography: Masquerier–Millyng'', Vol. 33
p. 274 (1894). Meres was jailed for 10 weeks in 1740, for printing remarks about a parliament act regarding trade. Richard Nutt was found guilty of libel after publishing a letter about the government in 1754, and was sentenced to the pillory in addition to being fined. Meres was also once fined, for mentioning a nobleman in the newspaper. After Meres died in 1761, his son (also John) took over the business. The younger Meres was called before the House of Lords in 1764 to explain a "vague and slightly anti-Scottish remark" regarding Lord Hertford.Cody, Lisa Forman (2005)
''Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons''
p. 224 After Richard Nutt died in 1780, the paper also reportedly folded,Deacon, Edward (1898)
''The Descent of the Family of Deacon of Elstowe and London''
pp. 345–46 though archives exist of the paper in the same name dated later than 1780. John Miller (c. 1744–1807), who was printer of the ''Post'' in the 1770s, was charged with libel five times and at times jailed for it; he later moved to

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in 1783 and started newspapers there.Note, Letter to Thomas Jefferson from John Miller, 26 March 1801
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