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The Independent reflector
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- Eighteenth century collections online
- Independent reflector: or, Weekly essays on sundry important subjects
- Occasional reverberator
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- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
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- English
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- New York [New York] : printed by James Parker, at the New Printing-Office in Beaver-Street, by whom subscriptions are taken in at ten shillings per annum, [1752-1753]
- Publication Dates
- Number I. Thursday, November 30, 1752.-number LII. Thursday, November 22, 1753
- Physical Details
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- 52 v. ; 2⁰
- Editors: William Livingston, John M. Scott, Wm. Smith, jr. Editorship also sometimes attributed to the printer of the Reflector: James Parker.
- Title from caption.
- Imprint from colophon; some imprints read: "J. Parker".
- Imprints lack date; years of publication from dates of issues.
- With printer's ornaments at head of title.
- Includes collected essays on politics, government, the judicial system, relations with native people, civil reform, and similar topics. Evidently controversial, the publication ceased as a result of attacks on the editors for their opinions.
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, p. 653
- English Short Title Catalog, P2806.
- A companion paper: The Occasional reverberator, appeared in late 1753 and was collected with these issues.
- Collected, with added prefatory material, by: The Independent reflector, or Weekly essays on sundry important subjects.