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MASSACHUSETTS SPY

The Massachusetts Spy was an American newspaper founded at Boston, on August 1st, 1770. This newspaper was established to support the Whig element in the New England colonies in opposition to the Boston Chronicle which favoured the British Government. It was edited by Isaiah Thomas, and was suspended in six months for a time, but was begun again and removed to Worcester. Contributions were at first made by members of both political parties, but its sympathies were so evidently revolutionary that the royalist writers withdrew.
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