Biographies

Partner of printer & publisher John Wise (455) in Staunton's Virginia Gazette in late 1796.

Publisher of the Lynchburg Centinel (1814-15) with a partner named Rives (5400.

Publisher of The Wheeling Repository (1807-08), the first newspaper issued in Ohio County, and later publisher of the Wheeling Compiler (1830) there.

Founding publisher of the first newspaper issued in Clarksburg (1810-15) with his brother Forbes Britton (053).

Printer of the Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1774-75) with William Duncan (151), Robert Gilmour (179), Donald McDonald (286), John Brown (056) and John Hunter Holt (223); retained by Lord Dunmore (153) when that press was seized to publish his Virginia Gazette (1775-76), and went north with him in 1776.

Publisher of Western Virginian (1815-17) at Clarksburg with Gideon Butler (067), and later of the Clarksburg Gazette (1822-23) and Clarksburg Intelligencer (1823-27).

Publisher of The Press (1800) at Richmond with John H. Foushee (170), Meriwether Jones (242), and James Lyon (274).

Revolutionary-era printer in Williamsburg, first as an employee (1759-66) of William Hunter Sr. (230) and Joseph Royle (368), then as partner to John Dixon, Sr. (140) in firm of Purdie & Dixon (1766-74), and finally as an independent proprietor (1775-79); Virginia's public printer (1775-79); father of Alexander Purdie. Jr. (346); and uncle of John Clarkson (093), Augustine Davis (119), and Joseph Mathews Davenport (115).

Job printer in Richmond (1808-12) and publisher of The Visitor (1809-10) there, initially with Charles Southgate (395), then with George Davis (122).

Compiler and publisher of religious songsters and hymnals in Rockingham County.

Bookseller in Lynchburg (1816-18) in partnership with Giles Ward, Jr. (429).

Non-resident proprietor of bookselling firms in Norfolk (1803-10) & Petersburg (1803-11).

Bookseller and publisher in Alexandra (1810-29) and Washington D.C. (1823-29), initially in partnership with his father, James Kennedy (251).

Early bookseller in Wheeling; publisher of a small book of religious poetry in 1807 through the Wheeling press office of Alexander Armstrong (014).

Bookbinder in Northampton County (1735).

Richmond bookbinder in partnership with Thomas Brend (051) In firm of Brend & Currie (1783-99); then with John Pumfrey (334) in firm of Currie & Pumfrey (1799-1801).

Stationer, blank-book manufacturer, and bookseller in Richmond (1818) and Alexandria (1818-28) in partnership with James Douglass (146), probably his brother.

Publisher of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Journal (1786-89), the first weekly issued in Norfolk after the Revolutionary War, with his brother John (297).

Printer in Richmond (1801-03), who died there in 1803.

Publisher of a literary collection (1816) and several religious titles (1828-30) in Richmond.

Publisher of the Potomac Guardian (1800-01) at Martinsburg with William Brown (059).

Practical printer working in Richmond during the War of 1812; proprietor of a job-printing office that printed The Christian Monitor weekly for Rev. John Holt Rice (354) in 1815.

Printer and publisher from Williamsburg who dominated the first thirty years of the printing trade in Richmond, working for Alexander Purdie (345) and John Dixon Sr. (140), then with John Clarkson (093), Joseph Matthews Davenport (115) and Samuel Major (277); partner to Clarkson, James [2] Carey (080), William Prentis (340), Samuel Pleasants (331), Samuel Livermore (267), Charles Prentiss (341), and William Ramsay (348); employer of William Allegre (005), Seymour P. Charlton (090), John Wood (456), and Nathaniel Charter (091); also father of Edmund (121), George (122), John (125), and Augustine (120) Davis Jr.; father-in-law of Samuel Shepherd (379); uncle of Thomas W. White (442); and cousin of William Davis (127).

Printer's devil in press office of his father Augustine Davis (119).

Bookseller and job-printer in Norfolk; publisher of the Epitome of the Times; or Historical, Political, and Commercial Miscellany there (1798-1802); brother of M.T.C. Jordan (245).

Bookseller in Petersburg in 1804.

Publisher of a small poetry book (1817) from the Richmond press of John Warrock (430).

Printer living in Alexandria in 1799.

Publisher of the Woodstock Herald (1817-23) in Shenandoah County with county-clerk Philip Williams (446) as his partner; previously, he operated a job-printing office in Alexandria.

Bookbinder in Norfolk in 1800.

Bookbinder in Charles City County in 1756.

Philadelphia publisher and bookseller who directed a branch store in Richmond (1806-21), initially with Jacob Johnson (237) as the firm of Johnson & Warner (1806-16).

Printer and Publisher of the Wellsburgh Gazette (1814-36) from 1816 to 1822.

Publisher of the original Virginia Gazette (1775-1778) with John Dixon (140), his uncle, and then a Williamsburg bookseller (1778-81).

Apprentice in Lynchburg office of Jacob Haas (196) and Samuel Bransford (050) in 1816.

Publisher of the Genius of Liberty (1819-35) at Leesburg.

Publisher of The Winchester Advertiser in 1790 and 1791 in partnership with the publishing entrepreneur Matthias Bartgis (024), evidently a relative.

Bookseller in Norfolk for nearly fifty years (1803-51), originally as resident partner for the Philadelphia bookselling concern of John Conrad & Co. (103).

Auctioneer in Norfolk (1811-20) occasionally offering large lots of books.

Slave hired by William Hunter (230) in 1752.

Publisher of The Staunton Spy (1793-95) with William Throckmorton (415).

Bookbinder in Fredericksburg (1820).

Engraver & Copperplate printer in Richmond (1818-19).

Printer in Norfolk in 1810.

Printer of The Spirit of the Press (1811-12) at Staunton for James Williamson (448); then publisher of The People's Friend (1812-13) there.

Engraver in Alexandria (1805) and Richmond (1807-08).

Publisher of the Impartial Observer in Shepherdstown in 1797 with Philip Rootes (362); later briefly partner in a Richmond job-printing office with Daniel Trueheart (420).

Engraver & Copperplate Printer in Norfolk (1811-28).

Apprentice printer in the Alexandria office of Samuel Snowden (393) in 1816.

Journeyman printer working in Richmond in 1818.