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The following issues of The Pennsylvania Gazette were digitized by the American Antiquarian Society with the support of a Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 

The Pennsylvania Gazetterepresents one of the most prominent newspapers in colonial America, printed by Benjamin Franklin himself. Given Franklin’s active role in the Paxton debate, his paper offers a backdrop against which to read his arguments and to measure changes in colonial settlement policy.

The Gazetteoffers a rich, weekly record of affairs within in the colony and across the Atlantic. The publication traverses the Paxton print debate (1763-64) and situates that massacre in a wider context of indigenous warfare. 

The 22 issues that we have digitized span from Pontiac’s Rebellion (June 9, 1763) through the 1764 election results (December 27, 1764).
 
 We have currently digitized 22 issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette, arranged chronologically in the path below "Contents."