No. NEWSPAPER YEAR FOUNDED CITY STATE FOUNDER END YEAR
1 Publick Occurrences 1690 Boston MA Benjamin Harris 1690
2 Boston News-Letter 1704 Boston MA John Campbell 1776
3 Boston Gazette 1719 Boston MA William Brooker 1798
4 American Weekly Mercury 1719 Philadelphia PA Andrew Bradford 1749
5 New-England Courant 1721 Boston MA James Franklin 1727
6 New York Gazette 1725 New York NY William Bradford 1745
7 New-England Weekly Journal 1727 Boston MA Samuel Kneeland 1741
8 Maryland Gazette 1727 Annapolis MD William Parks 1734
9 Pennsylvania Gazette 1728 Philadelphia PA Samuel Keimer 1815
10 Evening-Post (Weekly Rehearsal until 1735) 1731 Boston MA Jeremiah Gridley 1775
11 South-Carolina Gazette 1731 Charleston SC Thomas Whitmarsh 1802
12 Rhode Island Gazette 1732 Providence RI James Franklin 1734
13 South-Carolina Weekly Journal 1732 Charleston SC Eleazer Phillips 1732
14 New York Weekly Journal 1733 New York NY John Peter Zenger 1751
15 Boston Weekly Post-Boy 1734 Boston MA E. Huske 1754
16 Virginia Gazette 1736 Williamsburg VA William Parks 1780
17 Pennsylvania Journal 1742 Philadelphia PA William Bradford III 1793
18 New-York Weekly Post-Boy (later Gazette) 1743 New York NY James Parker 1773
19 New-York Evening Post 1744 New York NY Henry DeForeest 1753
20 Maryland Gazette (2nd) 1745 Annapolis MD James Green 1839
21 North-Carolina Gazette 1751 New Bern NC James Davis 1778
22 New York Mercury 1753 New York NY Hugh Gaine 1783
23 Connecticut Gazette 1755 New Haven CT James Parker 1768
24 New Hampshire Gazette 1756 Portsmouth NH Daniel Fowle 1939
25 Newport Mercury 1756 Newport RI James Franklin 1928

*List only includes English-language American newspapers. Between 1732 and 1758, eight German-language newspapers started printing in America.