The South-Carolina and American General Gazette
The South-Carolina and American General Gazette was an 18th-century newspaper published in colonial Charleston, South Carolina. The paper was founded as "The South-Carolina Weekly Gazette" in 1758 by Robert Wells and G. Bruce, and changed names to "The South-Carolina and American General Gazette" in 1764. Aside from some periods of suspension during the American Revolutionary War, it published until February 1781. When Charleston and the paper fell under British control, it published under the title "The Royal Gazette" from March 1781 and into 1782. Wells was a loyalist and  left for England in 1775 once war seemed inevitable, and the paper was continued by his son John Wells. The paper's competition was the "South Carolina Gazette" (founded 1732) and "South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal" (founded 1765), all located in Charleston. Wells' paper was the only one of the three to support the Stamp Act. But it was also the only paper in the state to publish the entirety of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. An original copy of that publication (the August 2-14, 1776 issue) was sold at auction for $140,000 in 2000. The