Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:

...osity and the guides and organs of opinion. On the twenty-fourth day of April, in 1704, the Boston News-Letter, the first ever published on the western continent, saw the light in the metropolis of New England . In 1719, it obtained a rival at Boston, and was imitated at Philadelphia In 1740, the number of newspapers in the English colonies on the continent had increased to eleven, of which one appeared...
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New England (United States) 12,382 218 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Georgia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (West Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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