Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress

TENNESSEE

KNOXVILLE

704. The Knoxville gazette. bi-w., Nov. 5, 1791-Aug. 1, 1796.

Note: This paper was first printed at Rogersville, a town about fifty miles from Knoxville; removed to Knoxville with the issue of Oct. 6, 1792, Knoxville having been laid out the preceding year. This was the first newspaper published in Tennessee. The last issue located is that of Aug. 1, 1796. Continued by the Knoxville gazette, and weekly advertiser, the first issue located of the new title being that of Nov. 7, 1796, no. 2.

Publisher: Nov. 5, 1791, George Roulstone and Robert Ferguson.
May 4, 1793, George Roulstone & co.
Feb. 27, 1795, George Roulstone.

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