The Advertiser was the direct descendant of John Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, the country's first successful daily paper.

When Arnold's household was searched, the letter from Andre to Peggy surfaced, the Pennsylvania Packet editorialized against her, and she was run out of town.

Columbian Centinel, July 5, 12, 16, 23, 1788; Pennsylvania Packet, July 30, 1788.

As of September 21, 1784, the paper was issued as the Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser, reflecting the paper's move to daily publication.

Three Rondos for piano by William Brown was announced in the pages of the Pennsylvania Packet on January 23, 1787.

First published as a serial by the Pennsylvania Packet, the book was an instant best-seller; it is still available today.

The Pennsylvania Packet, which appeared three times a week, became in 1784 the first daily paper.

The final statues are to be displayed near the first public printing of the Constitution, published in a colonial newspaper, The Pennsylvania Packet.

Two days later, the Pennsylvania Packet published the Constitution, devoting its entire issue to the text.

In November 1771, Dunlap began the publication of the Pennsylvania Packet, or General Advertiser, a weekly newspaper.