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The following issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette were digitized by the American Antiquarian Society thanks to the support of a Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. One outstanding issue (29 December 1763) has been generously supplied by the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. (Please reference Credits for complete acknowledgements.)

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

The Gazette also offers 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 23 curated issues span from Pontiac’s Rebellion (June 9, 1763) through the 1764 election results (December 27, 1764).

Read Will Fenton's post on Uncommon Sense for a longer a discussion of the Pennsylvania Gazette and the Paxton massacre.

Alongside the aforementioned issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette, LancasterHistory has digitized two excerpts from The Gentleman's Magazine, a periodical published in London between 1731-1922, and one issue of the London Chronicle. Notably, the April 1764 issues of both the Gentleman's Magazine and the London Chronicle include a version of Benjamin Franklin's Narrative of the Late Massacres.
 
 We have currently digitized 27 issues of the Gazette, Gentleman's Magazine, and London Chronicle, arranged chronologically in the path below "Contents."

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  1. The Pennsylvania Gazette - June 9, 1763
  2. The Pennsylvania Gazette - June 16, 1763
  3. The Pennsylvania Gazette - June 30, 1763
  4. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 7, 1763
  5. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 21, 1763
  6. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 28, 1763
  7. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 4, 1763
  8. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 11, 1763
  9. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 18, 1763
  10. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 25, 1763
  11. The Pennsylvania Gazette - October 13, 1763
  12. The Pennsylvania Gazette - October 27, 1763
  13. The Pennsylvania Gazette - November 24, 1763
  14. The Pennsylvania Gazette - December 8, 1763
  15. The Pennsylvania Gazette - December 12, 1763
  16. The Pennsylvania Gazette, December 29, 1763
  17. The Pennsylvania Gazette - February 9, 1764
  18. The Pennsylvania Gazette - March 1, 1764
  19. The Pennsylvania Gazette - March 15, 1764
  20. The Pennsylvania Gazette - April 12, 1764
  21. The Pennsylvania Gazette - May 24, 1764
  22. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 12, 1764
  23. The Pennsylvania Gazette - December 27, 1764
  24. Narrative of the Late Massacres, London Chronicle Vol. 15, no. 140 (April 1764)
  25. The Gentleman’s Magazine - April 1764 (Account of the Murder of a Tribe of Indians in Pennsylvania)
  26. The Gentleman’s Magazine - December 1795 (Letter from Pennsylvania to a Friend in England)
  27. Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review - November 1840 (The Last of the Conestogoes)

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