[761] This was the first newspaper in the colonies. [762] _Boston News Letter_, August 6; August 13; August 20, 1711. [763] _Ibid._, August 6, 1711. [764] _Ibid._, April 7, 1718; May 23, 1745; July 4, 1751; _Boston Gazette and Weekly Journal_, November 1, 1743; _New York Gazette_, July 23; August 6; August 20, 1733; February 13, 1739; _Boston News Letter_, October 30, 1760; November 6, 1760; November 28, 1760. [765] _Boston News Letter_, March 2, 1732; October 4, 1739; June 28, 1750; _New England Weekly Journal_, October 16, 1727; _New England Courant_, August 19, 1723; _Pennsylvania Mercury_, August 28, 1729; _Pennsylvania Journal_, June 18, 1767; _New York Gazette_, June 24; July 8; July 15; July 29; August 12; August 26, 1734; _New York Weekly Mercury_, October 27, 1740; November 3; November 10, 1740; May 30; June 13, 1757. [766] _Boston News Letter_, October 7, 1742; August 23, 1744; _New York Mercury_, June 12, June 19, June 26, July 3, 1758. [767] _Boston News Letter_, November 10, 1748; _Boston Post Boy_, July 25, 1743. [768] _Boston Post Boy_, July 6, 1752; July 18, 1753; _Boston Gazette_, August 1, 1749. [769] _Boston Post Boy_, May 2, 1743; July 2, 1750; August 6, 1750; _New England Courant_, June 17, 1723; _Boston Weekly Mercury_, October 2, 1735; _New York Weekly Mercury_, August 16, 1756. [770] _Boston Post Boy_, February 11, 1745; April 15, 1751. [771] _Boston Post Boy_, December 5, 1748. [772] _Pennsylvania Gazette_, October 5, 1738. [773] _Pennsylvania Mercury_, July 30, 1730. [774] _Boston News Letter_, August 6; August 13; August 20, 1711; _American Weekly Mercury_, May 24, 1726; _New York Weekly Mercury_, June 12; June 19; June 26; July 3, 1758. _Boston Gazette_, April 7, 1718. [775] _Boston News Letter_, September 10, 1711. [776] _Connecticut Colonial Records_, iv, p. 40. [777] Nevill, _Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey_, pp. 18, 22. [778] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, p. 343. [779] _Messages from the Governors of New York State_, i, p. 116. [780] Weise, _The History of the City of Albany_, etc., p. 209. [781] _The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania_, iv, p. 62. [782] Hening, _op. cit._, iii, p. 217. [783] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, p. 343. [784] Drake, _The Book of the Indians_, etc., ninth edition, pp. 60–70; Winthrop, _Journal_, i, p. 267; ii, p. 8, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_. [785] Lechford, _Note Book kept in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from 1638 to 1641_, p. 434. [786] O’Callaghan, _Calendar of Historical Manuscripts_, pt. ii, p. 433. [787] _North Carolina Colonial Records_, ii, pp. 315, 534, 536, 570, 674; iii, p. 218; xi, pp. 10, 23. [788] _Plymouth Colony Records_, ix, pp. 6–7. This was the first fugitive slave law in America. [789] Hazard, _Historical Collections_, etc., ii, p. 63; _Plymouth Colony Records_, ix, p. 71. See full text of the resolution, p. 207.