The Boston Recorder was a Congregationalist newspaper established by Nathaniel Willis ( Nathaniel Parker Willis's father) and Sidney E. Morse in 1816 in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] It published weekly newspapers from 1817 to 1824. [2] The paper primarily published religious news and accounts of missionary and other religious organizations, and it also published civic, agricultural, political news, and other topics. [1] It also published Nathaniel Parker Willis's biblical poems. [1] It merged with the Boston Telegraph to form the Boston Recorder and Telegraph. [2]