Biographies

Richmond bookseller (1815-22) and resident partner in the firm of William Bartow & Co.

Journeyman printer working in Norfolk in 1803.

Publisher of the short-lived Monongalia Herald in partnership with James M. Barbour (020), apparently a relative.

Richmond-based journeyman and job printer between 1785 and about 1820.

Publisher at Martinsburg of the Republican Atlas (1800-01) with Armstrong Charlton (088), and at Charlestown, the Patriot (1802-03), the Farmers' Register (1804+), and the Farmers' Repository (1808-09) with Richard Williams (447); also brother of Matthew Brown (057).

Printer and publisher of Richmond's first successful daily paper, The Commercial Compiler (1814-16) with Louis Hue Girardin (180) and Leroy Anderson (011), his brother in law; then publisher of The American Beacon and Commercial Diary (1816-23) at Norfolk as partner to Henry Ashburn (015), Seymour P. Charlton (090), and Hamilton Shields (380), his brother; also a proprietor of the Steam-Boat Hotel Reading Room there (1820-23).

Virginia-trained printer who died in York, Penn. in 1818.

Apprentice in the Alexandria printing office of John (438) and James D. Westcott (437).

Apprentice printer absconded in 1802 from Alexandria office of James D. Westcott (437).

Publisher the American Gazette and Norfolk & Portsmouth Advertiser (1792-97), initially with Charles Willett (445); and later of the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger (1805-16) with John Cowper (110); also proprietor of the Independent Ledger (1793) in Petersburg.

Founder and only publisher of the short-lived Norfolk and Portsmouth Gazette (1789).

Lynchburg bookseller (1818-25) initially with Giles Ward (429) as Ward & Digges (1818-21).

Publisher of the Lynchburg Press (1819-20), first with Jacob Haas (196), then independently, and finally with John Hampden Pleasants (330).

Founding publisher of the ill-fated Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1774-75).

Philadelphia-based printer who operated a paper mill in Petersburg (1807-08) with his brother Nathaniel (294).

Publisher of the Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette in 1800.

Publisher of the Virginia Telegraphe & Rockbridge Courier (1804) at Lexington with Samuel Walkup (426); of Candid Review (1805-07), Political Censor (1808-09), Republican Farmer (1809-10) successively at Staunton; and reading-room proprietor (1810-28) in Norfolk.

Publisher of the Winchester Gazette (1808-11) and brother to John Heiskell (210), his successor, and Frederick S. Heiskell (209).

Bookseller in Richmond from 1790s to 1830s, partially in partnerships with John Pumfrey (344) and Walter Potter (339).

Official printer to the Virginia colony (1750‐1761); publisher of the original Virginia Gazette (1751‐1761); and deputy postmaster general for British North America (1753‐1761).

Printer in the Alexandria office (1806) of Samuel Snowden (393).

Bookseller in Alexandria (1816) with Richard Horwell (226) and Robert Gray Jr. (191).

Printer who worked in the Williamsburg printing office (1764-66) of Joseph Royle (368).

Librarian and bookseller in Alexandria (1817-22) as successor to Conrad A. Shutz (384).

Bookbinder and almanac publisher in Petersburg (1809-24), partly with John Frayser (174) there, and in Richmond (1807-09); brother of Deborah Whitehead Lownes Pleasants (328), so brother-in-law of Samuel Pleasants (331) and uncle of Samuel Madison Pleasants (332).

Publisher of a religious tract in Richmond (1804) from the press of Thomas Nicolson (315).

Publisher of the Monongalia Spectator (1816-19) at Morgantown with Ralph Berkshire (032) and Nicholas B. Madera (276), and of the Independent Virginian (1819-24) at Clarksburg.

Bookseller in Alexandria in 1791.

Proprietor of a commercial circulating library (1786) in Alexandria.

First printer to conduct a press in Virginia (1683), financed by John Buckner (475).

First authorized printer in Virginia; first "public printer" for the colonial government (1730-50), publisher of the first authoritative collection of Virginia's laws (1733), and proprietor of its first newspaper, the Virginia Gazette (1736-50), all at Williamsburg.

Printer in Richmond in 1794.

Partner in a Richmond job-printing concern (1817-27) with Samuel Shepherd (379); later publisher of Richmond Commercial Compiler (1823-27), initially with Samuel Cary (085).

Printer in Virginia in 1809; probably died in Norfolk in 1816.

Publisher of the original Virginia Gazette (1778-85) with Thomas Nicolson (315), first at Williamsburg, then at Richmond; publisher of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Chronicle (1789-92) with Daniel Baxter (027); and founding publisher of the Petersburg Intelligencer (1786-1804), partly in brief partnerships with Miles Hunter (229), William Yates Murray (310), and Tarleton Woodson Pleasants (333).

Bookseller and publisher in Richmond (1792-1815), largely as an independent, but also in short partnerships with John Davidson (117) and Lewis Adams (002).

Printer and publisher of the Virginia Patriot (1819-22), succeeding founder Augustine Davis (119); of the Virginia Daily Times (1823); and of the Daily Richmond Whig (1828) with John Hampden Pleasants (330).

Proprietor of the first political press established in Virginia (1766-73) and so publisher of the second Virginia Gazette in Williamsburg; husband of Clementina Rind (356) and father of James Rind (357) and William Alexander Rind (359); employer of John Pinkney (325).

Publisher of an imprint in Petersburg in 1816 regarding Federalists and the War of 1812.

Proprietor of the short-lived American Standard (1811) in Richmond; also publisher of a collection of newspaper essays on civic improvements for Richmond issued from the press of Samuel Shepherd (379) and William Pollard (336) in 1817.

Bookbinder in Williamsburg (1766-67) in partnership with Thomas Worrall (461).

Apprentice printer in the Alexandria office of Samuel Snowden (393) in 1806.

Publisher of the Staunton Spy (1793-95), with one Chapman (087), and of its successor, The Virginia Gazette (1795-96), independently.

Publisher of the Commercial Register (1802-03) at Norfolk with Meriwether Jones (242); of the Examiner (1804) at Richmond with Skelton Jones (243); and of the Richmond Enquirer (1804-05) with Thomas Ritchie (360).

Misidentification of Samuel Walkup (426).

Printer working in Alexandria in 1801, probably for Samuel Snowden (393).

Publisher of the Lynchburg Press (1810-11), of The Echo (1816) at Lynchburg with Samuel G. Dawson (131), and of The Spirit of Union (1817) at Richmond with Thomas Burling (066); also journeyman printer in the offices of Samuel Pleasants (331) and the Franklin Press; a nephew of William Waller Hening (213).

Editor and publisher in Richmond (1795-1826) of numerous legal imprints using the offices of twelve different Virginia printers, as well as four other presses in Philadelphia and New York; brother-in-law of Gerard Banks (019) and uncle of William Waller Gray (193).

Carrier for the Virginia Argus in December 1813

Editor and essayist for the Richmond Enquirer (1804-06) of Thomas Ritchie (360) and the Petersburg Republican (1806-07) of Edward Pescud (324); later joint-editor of the National Intelligencer (1812-64) in Washington as part of the firm of Gales & Seaton.