Boston Post-Boy is first published.

It is published by Boston postmaster Ellis Huske, initially from a shop at the site of Scollay’s Building, then on Dorsett’s Alley at the corner of today’s Court Street and Franklin Avenue near today’s 35 Court Street, then on School Street next to the Cromwell Tavern. It subsequently merges with the Massachusetts Gazette, Post-Boy and Advertiser. While pro-British, the newspaper opposes the Stamp Act. Rival publisher Isaiah Thomas later claims, “Nothing extraordinary attended this publication.” The weekly newspaper suspends publication from 1754 to 1757, then resumes publication. Its last issue appears on April 17, 1775.