This edition of the Boston Gazette includes a reference on page 3 to John Howard Payne as an actor in Hamlet. Russell and Cutler published the Boston Gazette under that title from 1803-1816. John Howard Payne was widely considered to be the first American actor to play the role of Hamlet.
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