Below is a list of the 30 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 | South Carolina Gazette and County Journal | 1765 | Charleston | SC | Charles Crouch | 1775 |
| 18 | New York Journal | 1766 | New York | NY | John Holt | 1782 |
| 19 | Virginia Gazette (2nd) | 1766 | Williamsburg | VA | William Rind | 1776 |
| 20 | Essex Gazette (later New-England Chronicle) | 1768 | Salem | MA | Samuel Hall | 1876 |
| 21 | Massachusetts Spy | 1770 | Boston | MA | Isaiah Thomas | 1781 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania Packet | 1771 | Philadelphia | PA | John Dunlap | 1820 |
| 23 | Loyal Gazette (later Royal Gazette) | 1773 | New York | NY | James Rivington | 1783 |
| 24 | Maryland Journal | 1773 | Baltimore | MD | William Goddard | 1797 |
| 25 | Essex Journal | 1773 | Newburyport | MA | Isaiah Thomas | 1777 |
| 26 | Norwich Packet | 1773 | Norwich | CT | John Trumbull | 1807 |
| 27 | Virginia Gazette (3rd) | 1774 | Norfolk | VA | William Duncan | 1775 |
| 28 | Pennsylvania Evening Post | 1775 | Philadelphia | PA | Benjamin Towne | 1784 |
| 29 | Pennsylvania Ledger | 1775 | Philadelphia | PA | James Humphreys | 1778 |
| 30 | Story and Humphrey’s Pennsylvania Mercury | 1775 | Philadelphia | PA | Enoch Story and Daniel Humphreys | 1775 |
