The Royal Gazette (Jamaica)

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The Royal Gazette was a Jamaican newspaper. It was founded in 1779{{cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn99058117/ | title=The Jamaica mercury, and Kingston weekly advertiser | website=Library of Congress }} as The Jamaica Mercury, and Kingston Weekly Advertiser by David Douglass and William Aikman{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CafgAAAAMAAJ&q=alexander+aikman|title=A History of Printing in the United States: Middle and South Atlantic States|last=McMurtrie|first=Douglas Crawford.|date=1936|publisher=R. R. Bowker Company|location=Vol. 2. New York|pages=328–329|language=en}} and became The Royal Gazette in 1780 after it obtained government patronage.[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/15301 Alexander Aikman senior.] Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 9 January 2018. {{PD-notice}} It was aimed at the white planters and slave-owners on the island and in its early years often contained notices of escaped slaves.[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/carviews/t/022trgj19051781u00120000.html The Royal Gazette (Jamaica) -19 May 1781 Page 120.] British Library. Retrieved 9 January 2019. It later became the Royal Gazette and Jamaica Times.{{cite web | url=http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01013891765 | title=The Royal Gazette. - British Library }}