Re: MtMan-List: Re: Pennsylvania Gazette's

[bspen@aye.net (Bob Spencer)]

>Could you give us the URL for the Pennsylvania Gazette,

Sure, Buck, glad to. This database has become my very favorite site on the
internet. The URL is:

http://204.170.102.11/cgi-bin/accessible/verify.pl

In case anyone else is interested, here is the description of the database
from the blurb at the site:

THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, 1728-1800

(100,000 records; more than 40 MILLION words)

Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette
is considered The New York Times of the
18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial
America, the American Revolution and the New
Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives
of each of the periods. Thousands of articles,
editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western
Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces,
through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed
glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also
included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from
a Farmer, Thomas Payne's Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.

These include:

       Folio I - (1728 - 1750) "Benjamin Franklin's Newspaper"
       Folio II - (1751 - 1765) "The French & Indian War"
       Folio III - (1766 - 1783) "The American Revolution"
       Folio IV - (1784 - 1800) "The New Republic"
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Bob

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