Biographies

Bookseller and publisher in Alexandra (1798-1819), in partnership with son and successor, Alexander T. Kennedy (250) after 1810.

Editor and publisher of Jeffersonian newspapers in Alexandria, Petersburg, Richmond, and Staunton (ca. 1800), largely as an absentee, with a series of journeymen as his partners.

Practical printer and publisher of the short-lived Monongalia Herald in partnership with William Barbour (022), apparently a relative.

Winchester bookbinder and publisher who partnered with printer Jonathan Foster (168) in a bookstore there in 1818.

Publisher of The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald (1795-1819), initially with Charles Willett (445), then later with Thomas G. Broughton (055).

Editor of the Virginia law compilations of 1792 and 1801 issued from the Richmond presses of Augustine Davis (119) in 1794, and of Samuel Pleasants (331) in 1803; son of William (358) and Clementina (356) Rind; brother of William Alexander Rind (359); posthumously father-in-law of Daniel Trueheart (420).

Publisher of the Roanoke Sentinel (1819-22) at Danville.

Notorious polemicist who published a book in 1800 at Richmond that brought a prosecution under the Sedition Act; who then wrote for the Republican papers of James Lyon (274) and Meriwether Jones (242) from the Richmond jail; finally editing the anti-Jefferson Recorder (1801-03) for Henry Pace (319) there.

Printer of the Genius of Liberty (1800) at Fredericksburg for founder Robert Mercer (301); then publisher there of the succeeding Courier (1800-01) and Apollo (1803-04).

Publisher of The Spirit of the Press (1811-12) at Staunton, hiring Charles B. Rhoades (352).

Publisher of a Presbyterian sermon (1798) through the Alexandria press of John V. Thomas (410) and James D. Westcott (437).

Engraver & Copperplate Printer in Norfolk (1818) and Richmond (1819).

Publisher of his own religious works (1800-29) from presses in Richmond and Alexandria.

Subscription agent in Alexandria (1818) for a sermon collection published by Mason Locke Weems (435), his father.

Publisher of The Virginia Gazette (1796-98) at Staunton, in initial partnerships with Robert Douthat (147) and one Adams (001), and of The Phenix (1798-1803), its successor.

Bookbinder in Richmond (1819).

Bookseller in Winchester (1787-1836), ostensibly first merchant to conduct a book store there.

Editor of the Lynchburg Weekly Museum (1797-98) for John Davis (124) and publisher of the subsequent Lynchburg Weekly Gazette (1798-1803).

Founder and proprietor of the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger (1804-16) with George Lewis Gray (188) and William Davis (127) as his editorial partners.

Partner in firm that held the public-printing concession (1780-86) with James Hayes (207).

Publisher of two religious imprints (1797 & 1798) in Alexandria from the press of Henry Gird Jr. (181) and Ellis Price (342); later collector of debts owed to Gird and Price individually.

Publisher of the Herald of Zion & Philomathean Magazine (1810) with John O. Laidley (258).

Bookbinder in Norfolk County (1622-48).

Compiler and publisher of Richmond's first city directory in 1819.

Publishers of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Journal (1786-89), the first weekly issued in Norfolk after the Revolutionary War, with his brother Archibald (296).

Publisher of the short-lived Republican Press (1810-11) at Leesburg.

Self-published author of travelogue (1792) issued by Richmond press of John Dixon Jr. (141).

Printer & editor of Winchester's Republican Constellation (1814) for Jonathan Foster (168).

Apprentice printer absconded from Fredericksburg office of James Walker (425) in 1803.

Editor and publisher Lynchburg Gazette (1804-05) as successor to John Carter (083).

Engraver in Martinsburg (1810).

Bookseller and bookbinder in Alexandria (1798-1813) and Fredericksburg (1803-11) with Peter Cottom (107), then independently in Alexandria (1813-37).

Founder of the Martinsburg Gazette in 1799 and its proprietor until late 1822; previously journeyman in the Martinsburg office of Nathaniel Willis (449).

Publisher of first newspaper in Botetourt County, The Herald of Virginia (1800), a short-lived joint venture with his youngest brother David Ammen (008).

Journeyman in the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger office of William Davis (127) in 1809.

Editor of the Virginia Patriot for Augustine Davis (119) in about 1819.

Bookbinder in Leesburg (1817-18).

Stationer and Bookbinder in Richmond (1809-13) and Lynchburg (1812-18) who branched into Bookselling as a sideline with his brother Joseph Boyce (047).

Second publisher of The Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1775), the first newspaper in Virginia issued outside of Williamsburg.

Publisher at Richmond of a religious tract printed in Baltimore on infant salvation (1815).

Proprietor of the first press in Virginia (1683), employing William Nuthead (316).

Printer in the office of Alexander Purdie (345) during the 1770s; proprietor of Purdie's office after his death with Augustine Davis (119); publisher of the third Virginia Gazette (1779-80).

Publisher of The Wheeling Repository (1807-08) with Alexander Armstrong (014).

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

Publisher of the Alexandria Herald (1811-21) with Nathaniel Rounsavell (367).

Noted Jeffersonian polemicist responsible for producing the first document-based history of Virginia: The History of Virginia, From its First Settlement to the Present Day (1804-16).

Partner in Richmond bookstore (1795-99) with William Prichard (343).

Founder and publisher of the Lynchburg Weekly Museum (1797-98).

Printer in office of his father Augustine Davis (119) and possibly for Thomas Ritchie (360).

Publisher of Petersburg Intelligencer (1804-14), initially as partner to Edward Pescud (324).