The Constitutional courant
Subtitle: containing matters interesting to liberty, and no wise repugnant to loyalty
Contributors: Philo-Patria; Goddard, William, 1740-1817
Publisher: Printed by Andrew Marvel [i.e., William Goddard], at the Sign of the Bribe Refused, on Constitution Hill, North America.
Published: 1765
Place of publication: Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Great Britain
Notes: Though issued in the form of a newspaper, in fact a political manifesto in opposition to the Stamp Act. Contains two essays, signed Philoleutheros and Philo Patriæ, preceded by prefatory remarks 'To the public,' signed 'Andrew Marvel' (i.e., William Goddard), and followed by a report of changes in the Ministry in Great Britain.

At head of title: Saturday, September 21, 1765. [Numb. 1.]. In midst of title is a device of a snake divided into 8 parts, with motto: Join or die.

"... the Courant, directed against the obnoxious Stamp-Act, was printed by William Goddard at James Parker's press in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in a large edition, which was secretly forwarded to New York City and there sold by hawkers rapidly. It was reprinted there, and at Boston, and at Philadelphia."--Evans. See also Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, v. 1, p. 525-526 (where the New York hawker is identified as Lawrence Sweeney); and the paper by Albert Matthews in Publications of the Colonial Society of Mass., v. 11, p. 421-453.

False imprint; a Boston reprint, printed in three columns, the third column of which is significantly narrower than the first two; in this edition, the imprint appears at the foot of the third column on p. [2].