Abstract
In starting Publick Occurrences, Benjamin Harris was influenced greatly by religious purposes. The newspaper's suppression after one issue was not, as some historians have declared, the handiwork of Massachusetts' Puritan clergy. On the contrary, the government's action was motivated in part by efforts of an energetic faction opposed to the leading clergyman, Increase Mather.
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