The American Apollo was a newspaper published in Boston

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 in the late 18th-century, featuring "political and commercial intelligence, and other entertaining matter." It was issued by printers Joseph Belknap, along with Alexander Young (as "Belknap & Young," January-May 1792) and Thomas Hall (as "Belknap & Hall," May 1792-July 1794) on State Street

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In 1792, the newly formed Massachusetts Historical Society

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's "collections were at first published in ... the American Apollo. ...This method was continued for nine months." The newspaper itself ceased in December, 1794.

Further reading

• J.T. Buckingham. Specimens of Newspaper Literature: with Personal Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Reminiscences. Boston: Redding & Co., 1852; p.147+
• Clarence Brigham. Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. April 1915; p.193-194.