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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
Portsmouth (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
Thomas Neale (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
Richard Fairbanks (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
Postal service, colonial
In 1639 a post-office was established in Boston at the house of Richard Fairbanks for all letters which are brought from beyond the seas, or are to be sent thither.
The Virginia Assembly passed an act in 1657 for the immediate transmission of official letters from plantation to plantation on penalty of one hogshead of tobacco for each default.
The government of New York established a monthly mail to Boston in 1672, and in 1676 the colonial court of Massachusetts established a post-office in Boston, appointing John Heyward postmaster.
The first parliamentary act for the establishment of a post-office in the English-American colonies was passed in April, 1692, and a royal patent was granted to Thomas Neale for the purpose.
He was to transport letters and packets at such rates as the planters should agree to give.
Rates of postage were accordingly fixed and authorized, and measures were taken to establish a post-office in each town in Virginia, when Nea
Benjamin Franklin (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
William Goddard (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
John Heyward (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
London (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
1639 AD (search for this): entry postal-service-colonial
Postal service, colonial
In 1639 a post-office was established in Boston at the house of Richard Fairbanks for all letters which are brought from beyond the seas, or are to be sent thither.
The Virginia Assembly passed an act in 1657 for the immediate transmission of official letters from plantation to plantation on penalty of one hogshead of tobacco for each default.
The government of New York established a monthly mail to Boston in 1672, and in 1676 the colonial court of Massachusetts established a post-office in Boston, appointing John Heyward postmaster.
The first parliamentary act for the establishment of a post-office in the English-American colonies was passed in April, 1692, and a royal patent was granted to Thomas Neale for the purpose.
He was to transport letters and packets at such rates as the planters should agree to give.
Rates of postage were accordingly fixed and authorized, and measures were taken to establish a post-office in each town in Virginia, when Neal