Early Newspapers in America

The Boston News-letter was America's first newspaper that was published for many years. The newspaper was one page on the front and the back and issued weekly. John Cambell was the first editor of the Boston News-letter.
In the Boston News-letter most of the articles was about news with English politics, some events that happened in the European War, there were ship arrivals, sermons, political appointmesnts, fires, accidents, the like, and obituaries. Some famous obituaries were John Adams, Thomas, Mdison, George Washington, and Martha Washington.

In the years 1704-1722 John Campbell was editor of the Boston News-letter. Bartholomew Green was now the new editor. Hre was origanally Campbell's printer when he was editor. During Green's editing he focussed more on domestic news. After about ten years as being editor Green died and his son inherited the Boston News-letter. John Draper would now be editor. In his years as editor he made the paper four pages that had news from Boston, other towns throughout all the colonies, and from abroad.

In the year 1754 the Ben Franklin's paper newspaper published the first political cartoons. The cartoon was a snake broken into eight pieces. Each piece would represent as many Colonial governments as possible. There was also a saying under the snake,"Join or die." Another thing about this political cartoon was that there was a superstition. The superstition was if the snake was cut in two pieces, you will have untill sunset to bring the snake back to life. Soon many other newspapers had this political cartoon in there newspapers. We still have some of these political cartoons in our newspapers today.

This Political Cartoon first appered in the Ben Franklin Newspaper on May 9, 1754. The snake is in eight pieces that represents as many colonial governments. A superstition about the snake was , if it was cut in two you would have untill sunset to put the pieces together and bring the snke back to life. soon many newspapers had this cartoon.