To the customers for Thomas's Massachusetts spy. ... The tax on news-paper advertisements has a direct tendency not only to restrain, but to destroy those necessary vehicles of publick information, by taking away their only support ... These considerations have induced the printer of the Massachusetts spy, although with greatest reluctance, to discontinue the publication of that news-paper ...

People / Organizations

• Isaiah Thomas (Author)

Imprint

[Worcester, Mass.: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1786]

Added name

Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831, printer.

Publication year

1786

ESTC No.

W10565

Grub Street ID

319699

Description

1 sheet ; 34 x 22 cm

Note

Includes also proposals for publishing the Worcester magazine in lieu of the Massachusetts spy since "advertisements accompanying magazines are not subjected to a duty." - Signed and dated: Isaiah Thomas. Printing-office, Worcester, April 3d, 1786.

Printed area measures 28.4 x 16.5 cm.

Uncontrolled note

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides