Independent Chronicle
The Independent Chronicle was a newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts. It originated in 1768 as The Essex Gazette in Salem, and The New-England Chronicle in Cambridge, before settling in 1776 in Boston as The Independent Chronicle. Publishers included Edward E. Powars, Nathaniel Willis, and Adams & Rhoades; Capt. Thomas Adams was the editor prior to his death in 1799. Thomas Adams. and for some time it operated from offices on Court Street formerly occupied by James Franklin. As of the 1820s, "the Chronicle the oldest newspaper... published in Boston; and has long been considered one of the principal republican papers in the state; and its influence has, at all times, been in exact proportion to the popularity of the cause which it has so warmly espoused." After 1840 the paper continued as the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser published by Nathan Hale.Variant titles
;Volumes 1–9
- The Essex Gazette : Vol. 1, no. 1 -v. 7, no. 353
- The New-England Chronicle, or, the Essex Gazette : Vol. 7, no. 354 -v. 8, no. 400
- The New-England Chronicle : Vol. 8, no. 401 -v. 9, no. 411
;Volumes 9–77
- The Independent Chronicle: Vol. 9, no. 422 -v. 9, no. 428
- The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser: Vol. 9, no. 429 -v. 33, no. 2162
- The Independent Chronicle: Vol. 33, no. 2163 -v. 49, no. 3768
- Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot: Vol. 49, no. 3769 -v. 77, no. 6166
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