Doxing, 1770
From the Providence Gazette, May 5, 1770; recall that back then an article published in one newspaper would often be reprinted verbatim in others as well. For those having trouble reading the newspaper image, here’s the text (paragraph breaks added):
To the PRINTERS.
Please to give the following a Place in your Paper, which will oblige a Friend to Liberty.
As informers against Printers for publishing papers friendly to liberty, are justly to be considered as enemies to freedom; it is thought a particular description of the vile miscreant that lodged an information against Mr. Parker, Printer of the New-York Gazette, for printing the paper signed a Son of Liberty (for
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