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paper was run by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Timothy. She then sold her interest to her son, Peter Timothy, who published The South Carolina Gazette uninterruptedly until May 7, 1772, when, on his appointment as Deputy Postmaster-General for the Southern Provinces of North America he leased the plant to Powell, Hughes & Company. With the issue for November 8, 1773, Timothy resumed control of The Gazette and was its pub- lisher until 1775, when the paper temporarily suspended on account of the Revolutionary War. Timothy again revived The Gazette on April 9, 1777, with the following change in title, The Gazette of the State of South Carolina. When Charleston fell into the hands of the British in 1780, The Gazette was forced to sus- pend another time and its editor went into exile in St. Augus- tine, Florida. Shortly after his release from St. Augustine he was drowned, but his wife revived the paper on March 28, 1785, with another change in title, The State Gazette of South Carolina. Mrs. Timothy, following the example set by her mother-in-law, sold the paper in 1790 to her son, Benjamin Franklin Timothy, who changed the name to The South Carolina State Gazette and Timothy and Mason's Daily Advertiser. Timothy was associated with the paper until its final suspension in 1802.

Not to be confused with the paper just mentioned was The South Carolina Weekly Gazette at " Charles Town," started by Robert Wells, on November 1, 1758. Wells was on good terms with the British, for when the city fell into their hands he was allowed to continue publication of his paper under the title, The Royal Gazette. Volume I, Number 1, of The Royal Edition appeared on March 3, 1781. A year later, when Charleston was evacuated by the British, the paper ceased publication.

J. FRANKLIN IN RHODE ISLAND

After James Franklin, the founder of The New-England Weekly Courant, left Boston, he went to Newport, Rhode Island, where on September 27, 1732, he established The Rhode Island Ga- zette. It was the first newspaper in that State, and while it made a heroic struggle for existence, it only lasted eight months. After Franklin's death his wife, Anne Franklin, made several unsuccessful attempts to revive the paper.