Independent Advertiser is first published.

It is published and printed by Rogers and Fowle from a shop next to the Court House near today’s 26 Court Street. Although the publishers declare that they are not members of any party and would not “promote the narrow and private Designs of any such,” the newspaper is used as a vehicle by Samuel Adams and others to protest the impressment of Boston seamen by the British navy. Its last issue is published on December 5, 1749.