Below is a list of the 33 American newspapers (English-language only) being published at the start of the American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775):

No. NEWSPAPER YEAR FOUNDED CITY STATE FOUNDER END YEAR
1 Boston News-Letter 1704 Boston MA John Campbell 1776
2 Boston Gazette 1719 Boston MA William Brooker 1798
3 Pennsylvania Gazette 1728 Philadelphia PA Samuel Keimer 1815
4 Evening-Post (Weekly Rehearsal until 1735) 1731 Boston MA Jeremiah Gridley 1775
5 South-Carolina Gazette 1731 Charleston SC Thomas Whitmarsh 1802
6 Boston Weekly Post-Boy 1734 Boston MA E. Huske 1775
7 Virginia Gazette 1736 Williamsburg VA William Parks 1780
8 Pennsylvania Journal 1742 Philadelphia PA William Bradford III 1793
9 Maryland Gazette (2nd) 1745 Annapolis MD James Green 1839
10 North-Carolina Gazette 1751 New Bern NC James Davis 1778
11 New York Mercury 1753 New York NY Hugh Gaine 1783
12 New Hampshire Gazette 1756 Portsmouth NH Daniel Fowle 1939
13 Newport Mercury 1756 Newport RI James Franklin 1928
14 South Carolina Weekly Gazette 1758 Charleston SC Robert Wells 1782
15 Providence Gazette 1762 Providence RI William Goddard 1829
16 Georgia Gazette 1763 Savannah GA James Johnston 1776
17 Connecticut Gazette 1763 New London CT Timothy Green 1844
18 Connecticut Courant 1764 Hartford CT Thomas Green Present
19 South Carolina Gazette and County Journal 1765 Charleston SC Charles Crouch 1775
20 New York Journal 1766 New York NY John Holt 1782
21 Virginia Gazette (2nd) 1766 Williamsburg VA William Rind 1776
22 Connecticut Journal 1767 New Haven CT Thomas and Samuel Green 183?
23 Essex Gazette (later New-England Chronicle) 1768 Salem MA Samuel Hall 1876
24 Massachusetts Spy 1770 Boston MA Isaiah Thomas 1781
25 Pennsylvania Packet 1771 Philadelphia PA John Dunlap 1820
26 Loyal Gazette (later Royal Gazette) 1773 New York NY James Rivington 1783
27 Maryland Journal 1773 Baltimore MD William Goddard 1797
28 Essex Journal 1773 Newburyport MA Isaiah Thomas 1777
29 Norwich Packet 1773 Norwich CT John Trumbull 1807
30 Virginia Gazette (3rd) 1774 Norfolk VA William Duncan 1775
31 Pennsylvania Evening Post 1775 Philadelphia PA Benjamin Towne 1784
32 Pennsylvania Ledger 1775 Philadelphia PA James Humphreys 1778
33 Story and Humphrey’s Pennsylvania Mercury 1775 Philadelphia PA Enoch Story and Daniel Humphreys 1775