Many of the papers, however, which were kept alive or brought to life during the war could not adapt themselves to the new conditions of peace. Perhaps only a dozen of the survivors held their own in the new time, notably the "Boston Gazette", which declined rapidly in the following decade, The "Connecticut Courant" of Hartford, "The Providence Gazette", and "The Pennsylvania Packet" of Philadelphia, to which may be added such representative papers as the "Massachusetts Spy", Boston's "Independent Chronicle", the "New York Journal and Packet", the "Newport Mercury", the "Maryland Gazette" of Annapolis, the "Pennsylvania Gazette" and "The Pennsylvania Journal", both of Philadelphia. Practically all were of four small pages, each of three or four columns, issued weekly. In 1783, the "Pennsylvania Evening Post" became the first American daily. The next year, the "Pennsylvania Packet" was published three times a week, and the "New York Journal" twice a week, as were several of the papers begun in that year. There was a notable extension to new fields. In Vermont, where the first paper, established in 1781, had soon died, another arose in 1783; in Maine, two were started in 1785. In 1786, the first one west of the Alleghenies appeared at Pittsburgh, and following the westward tide of immigration the "Kentucky Gazette" was begun at Lexington in 1787.