Biographies

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette and Agricultural Repository (1791-93) at Dumfries, initially in partnership with Thomas Updike Fosdick (167).

Bookbinder apprentice in Richmond (1804-07); then Bookbinder in Richmond (1817-20) as Carter & Blake.

Publisher of the first city directories issued in Norfolk (1801 & 1806) employing the press of Augustus C. Jordan (244).

Journeyman printer in a job-printing partnership with Samuel Dillworth (138), originally in Norfolk (1816), then in Vincennes, Indiana (1817), later publisher in St. Louis (1825-49).

Twice an editorial partner to the printer-publisher Augustine Davis (119) in his Federalist journals in Richmond (1805 and 1816-17).

Journeyman printer in Richmond in 1795.

Publisher of The Visitor (1809-10) at Richmond with John O. Lynch (273).

Publisher of The American Gazette, and Norfolk & Portsmouth Advertiser (1792-94) with William Davis (127); then of The Herald, and Norfolk & Portsmouth Advertiser (1794-1804), eventually with James O'Connor (317).

Bookbinder and Bookseller in Norfolk from 1817 to about 1846.

Briefly publisher of the Virginia Mercury (1807) at Petersburg in a partnership with James L. Edwards (156).

Publisher of Central Gazette (1820-27) at Charlottesville with brother J. H. McKennie (293); probably partner to Joseph Caldwell (071) in Palladium of Liberty (1818-19) at Warrenton.

Public printer for the Virginia colony (1773-74), as successor to her husband William Rind (358), and publisher of his second Virginia Gazette (1773-74) at Williamsburg; mother of James Rind (357) and William Alexander Rind (359); employer of John Pinkney (325).

Publisher of Richmond Enquirer (1820-28) as partner to its founder Thomas Ritchie (360).

Printer and publisher of the Petersburg Intelligencer (1804-05) with John Dickson (134); of the Petersburg Republican (1805-27); then of the Old Dominion (1827-31); uncle of Thomas Pescud Manson (278).

Publisher of the Virginia Mercury (1808-09) in Petersburg with Cincinnatus Stith (403).

Publisher of Central Gazette (1820-21) at Charlottesville with brother C. P. McKennie (292).

Publisher of The Monongalia Spectator (1815-19) at Morgantown, as a partner to William McGranahan (276) and Nicholas B. Madera (288).

Bookseller in Fredericksburg (1810-34), first as manager (1810-14) for Timothy Green (194), then as partner (1815-19) to Ebenezer P. Cady (070), then independently; also brother of booksellers John (189) and Robert (190) Gray of Alexandria.

Press owner in Dumfries in 1795.

Bookbinder in Richmond (1803).

Apprentice printer (ca. 1802) in the Richmond Recorder office of Henry Pace (319) and James T. Callender (xxx); nephew of Thomas Nicolson (315).

Bookseller and proprietor of a commercial circulating library in Alexandria (1802-17); also publisher there of a travel narrative from the press of John Westcott (438) in 1802.

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

Bookbinder in Stafford County (1757).

Partner in the firm of J. & D. Kyle (1801-06) with J. Kyle (256) selling the almanacs of Samuel Saur of Baltimore.

Long-lived practical printer who briefly published Norfolk and Portsmouth Chronicle (1789-94), first with William Prentis (340) and then with Thomas Wilson (452).

Publisher of the first secular books issued in Harrisonburg, the first through the press of Andrew B. Davidson (116) and George Bourne (043) in 1813, the second from that of Laurentz Wartmann (431) in 1815.

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

Job printer in Richmond (1812-13) with Charles Blagrove (036); publisher of the Richmond Enquirer (1813-16) with Thomas Ritchie (360); publisher of the Richmond Compiler (1816-23) with Ritchie, Philip DuVal (155), and Samuel Cary (085); son-in-law to James Rind (357).

Final publisher of the Virginia Argus (1816), as partner to John Burke (065), his brother.

Publisher of first newspaper in Botetourt County, The Herald of Virginia (1800), a short-lived joint venture with his eldest brother John Ammen (009).

Apprentice in the Alexandria office of Samuel Snowden (393), his uncle.

Fredericksburg merchant who sold bound books in his dry-goods store from 1792 to 1826.

Journeyman printer who died in Richmond in 1804.

Printer who died in A;exandria in 1820.

Bookseller at Wellsburg (1806-07), best known as the editor and publisher of the journal of Patrick Gass, a member of the Lewis & Clark expedition, in Pittsburgh in 1807.

Bookseller in Winchester (1816-20).

Publisher of the Virginia Argus (1814) at Richmond with her son Samuel M. Pleasants (332) as successors to her husband, Samuel Pleasants (331); sister of William Lownes (271).

Printer of the Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1774-75) with Alexander Cameron (076) William Duncan (151), Robert Gilmour (179), John Brown (056) and John Hunter Holt (223); was retained by Lord Dunmore (153) when the press was seized to publish his Virginia Gazette (1775-76), and went north with him in 1776.

Publisher of the weekly literary journal The Alexandrian (1820-21) with Henry Pittman (327); also publisher of a collection speeches at Alexandria (1820) with one Hawe (206).

Publisher of the Lynchburg Press (1811-15) in partnership with Jacob Haas (196).

Publisher of The Press (1800) at Richmond with Meriwether Jones (242), Alexander McRae (299), and James Lyon (274); brother-in-law of Thomas Ritchie (360).

Publisher of the Alexandria Expositor (1802-09) both with James Lyon (274) and on his own.

Publisher of numerous German language imprints issued from the family-owned Henkel Press in New Market (1807-47); publisher of the Virginische Volksberichter und Neumarket Wochenschrift there (1807-09) with brother Ambrose (214) and father Paul (217) Henkel.

Publisher of The Virginia Gazette and Alexandria Advertiser (1789-93) in partnership with Samuel Hanson (200).

Publisher of The Virginia North-Western Gazette at Wheeling (1818-20), initially with Joseph Clingan (095).

Editor and Publisher of the Virginia Monitor (1820-23) at Shepherdstown.

Bookseller in Norfolk in 1815.

Connecticut native who partnered with Timothy Green (194) to publish the Virginia Herald (1812-15), and with William Fairfax Gray (192) to sell books in Fredericksburg (1815-19).

Bookbinder in Petersburg (1816-18).