The Weekly Rehearsal

The Weekly Rehearsal or The Rehearsal (1731–1735) was a literary newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1730s.^[1] Jeremiah Gridley served as editor and publisher (1731-1733);^[2] other publishers/printers included John Draper and Thomas Fleet.^[3][4] In 1735 it was continued by Thomas Fleet's Boston Evening Post.^[5]

The Weekly Rehearsal, September 27, 1731 (American Antiquarian Society)

See also

• The Boston Evening-Post, successor to The Rehearsal^[6]

Image gallery

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  Thomas Hancock on Ann Street served as conduit for The Rehearsal's correspondence, 1731
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  Announcement of newly elected Boston selectmen, 1733
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  Item about execution of Julian the Indian 1733
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  Item about public marketplaces in Boston, 1734
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  Announcement of art sale at John Smibert's house, Queen Street, Boston, 1735

References

1. "Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division)". loc.gov.
2. Lyon N. Richardson. A History of Early American Magazines, 1741-1789 (New York, 1931. Google books.
3. Matthews. 1907
4. Notice by Thomas Fleet about change of publishers; cf. Weekly Rehearsal; Date: 04-02-1733
5. "Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division)". loc.gov.
6. "Massachusetts - Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Serial and Government Publications Division)". loc.gov.

Further reading

• Isaiah Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Thomas. The history of printing in America: with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers, Volume 1. J. Munsell, printer, 1874.
• Albert Matthews. Check-list of Boston newspapers, 1704-1780. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1907.
• John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 265-281.
• Charles E. Clark. Boston and the Nurturing of Newspapers: Dimensions of the Cradle, 1690-1741. New England Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1991).