Individual Citation

The Norfolk and Portsmouth Journal

• ID: 170
• End Date: May 6, 1789
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 51
• Proprietors: John & Archibald McLean
• Start Date: June 18, 1788
• Variant Number: Norfolk 03-02
• Notes: In June 1788, McLean brought his younger brother to New York to increase the frequency of his paper there, so making him a partner in both the Norfolk and New York papers; John Mclean died unexpectedly in May 1789, bringing publication of Journal to an end; Archibald sold office to William Prentis and Daniel Baxter, who used it to begin publishing a succeeding paper in August 1789.
• Lineage Title: Norfolk & Portsmouth Journal
• Related Bios:
  • Archibald McLean
  • John McLean

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