Boston Chronicle

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The Boston Chronicle was an American colonial newspaper published briefly from from 1767 until 1770. Publishers were John Mein and John Fleeming. The paper was a Loyalist paper in the time before the American Revolution. In 1769, Mein printed lists of names in the Boston Chronicle that accused colonial merchants of breaking a British nonimportation agreement. In response, Mein's name appeared on a list of merchants who violated the trade agreement. Mein would retaliate with another letter accusing the Merchants' Committee of using the nonimportation agreement for illegal profiteering. The final result was the Chronicle and Mein's office being ransacked, men who resembed him were beaten in the streets and he was hanged in effigy.

The Chronicle would cease operations by 1770. Mein would eventually die in London in a debtor's prison.