The Pennsylvania Journal was an American weekly newspaper published by William Bradford during the 18th century.

The first number of the The Pennsylvania Journal appeared in December 1742. A famous contributor was Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...

, who published his first ever journalism in the Journal in 1775, and contributed a series of pamphleteering essays entitled 'Crisis

The American Crisis

The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine. The first volume begins with the famous words "These are the times that try men's souls". There were sixteen pamphlets in total...

' from December 1776 onwards. After Bradford's death in 1791, his son and business partner Thomas Bradford continued the journal, eventually changing its name to the True American.