Biographies

Results 451-500 of 553

This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection. For more information, please see David Rawson Index of Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Solomon

Enslaved pressman absconded from Richmond office of Edward C. Stanard (399) in 1810.

Spengler

Bookseller in Virginia (1803-07), probably in the Shenandoah Valley.

Stephen P. Rose

Journeyman printer in Norfolk in 1809.

Stone

Printer in the New Market printing office of Solomon Henkel (218) in 1815.

Straith

Proprietor of the Charlestown Circulating Library (1820) as a partner to one Hunter (227).

Tarleton Woodson Pleasants

Printer in the Richmond office of Augustine Davis (119), and editor of his Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser in the 1790s; then publisher of the Petersburg Intelligencer (1799-1800) with William Prentis (340); also uncle of John Hampden Pleasants (330).

Tertulian Sehut

Apparently bookseller in Henrico County in 1700 & 1701.

Thomas Chaddock

Indenture bought by William Hunter (230) in 1752.

Thomas Morgan

Press owner in Petersburg in 1808.

Thomas Morton

Bookbinder apprentice in Richmond (1795) with Thomas Brend (051); later bookbinder in Petersburg (1810).

Thomas Armistead

Apprentice engraver recorded in York County records in 1752.

Thomas Balls

Music publishers & sheet-music sellers in Norfolk (1817-22).

Thomas Brend

A bookbinder In Williamsburg (1766-83) who joined Archibald Currie (113) In Richmond (1783-99) to form the bindery firm of Brend & Currie.

Thomas Burling

Printer and publisher who managed the Richmond Enquirer (1804-17) for Thomas Ritchie (360); also proprietor of the Spirit of Union (1817-18) with William Waller Gray (193).

Thomas Erskine Birch

Publisher of an oratorical collection in Richmond in 1808, and of the newspaper Signi Argus (1812) in Evansham, the seat of Wythe County.

Thomas Field

Publisher of the Petersburg Republican (1800-1805), initially with James Lyon (274).

Thomas Foster

Publisher of the Republican Constellation (1810) at Winchester with Jonathan Foster (168), his father; then a journeyman printer there until at least 1833.

Thomas Grayson Bradford

Well-travelled newspaper publisher who was possibly involved with James Caldwell (071) in the Palladium of Liberty (1817-21) in Warrenton.

Thomas Greene Broughton, Sr.

Publisher of Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald, first as a hand in the office of James O'Connor (317), then as O'Connor's partner (1817-19), and finally its proprietor (1819-61).

Thomas Jones

Printer in Richmond in 1793.

Thomas Longden

Bookseller employed by John A. Stewart (402) in Alexandria (1806), unsuccessful newspaper publisher there (1808), probably employed by Samuel Snowden (393), his brother-in-law.

Thomas Nicolson

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette (1779-81) at Williamsburg and then at Richmond with John Dixon Sr. (140); later publisher of the Virginia Gazette or Weekly Advertiser (1782-97) at Richmond, initially with William Prentis (340); uncle of J. B. Nicolson (314).

Thomas Pescud Manson

Printer and publisher in Richmond of the Impartial Observer (1806-07) with Samuel Brooks (054) and The Virginian (1808) for Gerard Banks (019); nephew of Edward Pescud (324).

Thomas Rainbow

Bookseller and bookbinder in Norfolk (1796-98) with Robert Hannah (199).

Thomas Ritchie

Printer to the Virginia Senate (1804-15), then to the Commonwealth (1815-34 & 1835-39); publisher of the Richmond Enquirer (1804-45), in part with William W. Worsley (462), Daniel Trueheart (420), Philip DuVal (155), Claiborne W. Gooch (182), and John L. Cook (105); employer of Thomas Burling (066); publisher of the Richmond Commercial Compiler (1816-45), in part with Trueheart, Samuel Cary (085), William Pollard (336), among others; also brother-in-law of John H. Foushee (170).

Thomas Shore

Publisher of guide to maritime commerce and postal communication at Petersburg (1819).

Thomas Smith

A journeyman printer who died in Richmond in early 1794.

Thomas Smith

Printer in Richmond in 1793.

Thomas Thornton

Publisher of Republican Journal and Dumfries Weekly Advertiser (1795-96), initially with James Kempe (247), and then independently.

Thomas Trice

Publisher of The Informer & Advertiser (1820) at Shepherdstown.

Thomas Updike Fosdick

Printer and publisher of the Virginia Gazette and Agricultural Repository (1791-92) at Dumfries in partnership with Charles Fierer (163).

Thomas W. Lorrain

Publisher of The American Star (1817) at Petersburg with Marvel W. Dunnavant (154).

Thomas Watts Ustick

Apprentice in Abingdon (1810-20) office of John G. Ustick (421), his uncle.

Thomas Whitworth

Publisher of the Petersburg Intelligencer (1814-19) with Francis G. Yancey (463).

Thomas Willis White

Apprentice in office of William Alexander Rind (359) and John Stewart (401) at Richmond (1799-1800); printer in office of Augustine (119) and George (122) Davis at Richmond (1807-08); and of William Davis (127) at Norfolk (1808-10); contract printer to the Virginia Senate (1827-28); later publisher of Southern Literary Messenger (1834-43) at Richmond.

Thomas Wilson

Publisher of the Virginia Chronicle and Norfolk & Portsmouth General Advertiser (1792-94) at Norfolk with Daniel Baxter (027).

Thomas Worrall

Bookbinder in Williamsburg (1766-67) in partnership with William Siddall (385).

Timothy Green IV

Founder and publisher of the Virginia Herald (1787-1819) at Fredericksburg; in his last years with Ebenezer P. Cady (070), William F. Gray (192), and John D. Harrow (204).

Timothy, Jr. Mountford

Prospective publisher (1819) and reading-room manager (1816-19) in Alexandria.

Tubal Early Strange

Printer of a small religious pamphlet in Lynchburg (1817) for its author and publisher.

W. Sullivan

Publisher of the True American at Leesburg (1798) as partner of Matthias Bartgis (024).

Walter Potter

Bookbinder, bookseller, and stationer in Richmond (1802-17), largely as the partner of W. H. Fitzwhylsonn (165).

William Cocke

Blacksmith & Bookbinder in Surry County, (1720).

William Keating

Apprentice printer absconded in 1820 from Alexandria office of John Corse (106) and Namthaniel Rounsavell (367).

William Owens

Bookseller in Lynchnurg in 1818.

William Puckett

Bookbinder apprentice in Richmond (1815) with W. H. Fitzwhylsonn (165).

William Thomson

Bookbinder in Botetourt County, an indentured-servant who absconded in 1774.

William Alexander Dromgoole

Publisher of Republican Luminary in Wythe County (1809-10) with Robert Engledow (158).

William Alexander Rind

Publisher of Virginia Federalist (1799-1800) at Richmond in partnership with John Stewart (401); son of William (358) and Clementina (356) Rind, brother of James Rind (357), and brother-in-law of James Bagnall (467); trained by Thomas Nicolson (315); later partnered with Charles Prentiss (341) in Washington.

William Allen

Employee in the Richmond printing office of James Hayes (207) in 1786.

Results 451-500 of 553

This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection. For more information, please see David Rawson Index of Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

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