The Beginning
The Gazette was founded on October 7, 1756 by Daniel Fowle, the state’s first printer. Fowle lived in Boston before founding the Gazette, and was the first to print the words of Samuel Adams. He also spent time in prison for printing anti-British pamphlets.
Named “Oldest Newspaper in New England”
By 1810, when Isaiah Thomas’s History of Printing was published, The New Hampshire Gazette had become “the oldest newspaper printed in New England.”
Named “Nation’s Oldest Newspaper”
The New Hampshire Gazette became The Nation’s Oldest Newspaper,™ when The Maryland Gazette, founded in 1745, expired.
Acquired by The Portsmouth Herald
Starting in the 1890s, the Gazette was published by The Portsmouth Herald on weekends as a supplement to the Herald.
In 1989, a descendant of Daniel Fowle’s, Steven Fowle, discovered that the Herald relinquished the trade name for the Gazette. Fowle registered the rights to the name and that spring began publishing the Gazette.