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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: Re: [GM-L] Boston Newspapers - circa. 1850
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:11:58 -0400
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At 05:38 PM 4/30/2004, Ed in Ct wrote:

>I have an opportunity to visit Boston tomorrow, and would like to try and
>locate the notice of my ggg parents marriage in Boston. Does anyone know
>of what
>newspapers were around in the 1850's.

I don't offhand (my reference only goes to 1820) but the best place to look
would probably be the Microtext Department at the Boston Public Library:

http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/news.htm

You can download a PDF file listing their holdings of Boston newspapers from:

http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/BostonNewspapers.pdf

Dale H. Cook; Research Member, NEHGS; Member, Mass. Soc. Mayf. Desc.
http://members.cox.net/dalehcook/oldcolony.shtml

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