Newspapers in the colonial times of America were the biggest way of communication throughout the colonies. A newspaper is a serial publication containing news, other informative articles, and usually advertisements. They are relatively inexpensive, both to print and/or purchase, and provide a lot of useful information to people that otherwise, would have remained clueless about what was happening outside their town. “Hand-written newsletters” had been around much longer than what we would call “newspapers”, although after the invention of the printing press, newspapers were less often handwritten. The first colonial newspapers began in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century. In 1690, the first English-American news-sheet made its