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APPENDIX IX—(PAGE 323.)

EXTRACTS FROM THE FIRST NEWSPAPER ISSUED IN BROOKLYN.

The usual channels afford no information whatever concerning this paper; and it is not even mentioned in any of the histories, local or national.

From certain remarks in the Super-Extra Gazette, we might, perhaps, infer that a paper of this name was published regularly at the Brooklyne-Hall, or Looseley’s. If such was the case, it is singular that it has not been recognized and perpetuated by history; and that but one copy—and that evidently an “extra”—should have been preserved. It has been suggested that the Super-Extra Gazette was a Brooklyn extra of the New York Royal Gazette, issued on some special occasion; our own impression, however, is that it was merely a handbill, published by the enterprising Looseley to advertise the lottery which was then drawing at his tavern.This is reprinted from the only copy known to be in existence, and which Mr. Edwin B. Spooner, of the Brooklyn Star, found a number of years ago at the Long Island Hotel, in Fulton street, near the Ferry, where it had been left some time before by a countryman, who requested the proprietor, Mr. Carman, to preserve it for him until his return. Several years having elapsed without any demand having been made for it, Mr. Spooner became its owner; and, subsequently, presented it to the Lyceum at the United States Navy Yard, where it may now be seen.

The “original” is printed on a dirty sheet, in three columns, and on one side only: its spelling and punctuation is here faithfully preserved.

PRO BONO PUBLICO
BROOKLYNE HALL SUPER-EXTRA GAZETTE. SATURDAY.

June 8, 1782. BROOKLYNE

0N Thursday evening last, we were blessed with many refreshing showers attended with hard thunder, &c.—The distance from our