Biographies

Richmond-based publisher of The Virginia Gazette and Public Advertiser (1787-93) with his father, John Dixon Sr. (140); of The Richmond Chronicle (1793-96) and The Observatory or A View of the Times (1797-98) independently; and of The Examiner (1798-99) as partner to Meriwether Jones (242); later partner in a job-printing firm with John Courtney Jr. (109).

Publisher of the original Virginia Gazette in Williamsburg (1766-80) and in Richmond (1780-81); later publisher of the Virginia Gazette and Independent Chronicle in Richmond (1783-91), and Printer to the Commonwealth (1786-91). Partnered with Alexander Purdie (345), William Hunter Jr. (231), Thomas Nicolson (315), John Hunter Holt (223), and John Dixon Jr. (141), his son and heir; employed Daniel Baxter (027), Robert Mosby Bransford (049), James [1] Carey (079), Augustine Davis (119), William Prentis (340), William Alexander Rind (359), and John Courtney Jr. (109), among many unnamed others; administrator of the estates of both William Hunter Sr. (230) and Joseph Royle (368); husband to Royle's widow Roseanna, a sister of Hunter Sr.

Publisher and editor of the Alexandria Gazette (1812-15) with Samuel Snowden (393).

Bookseller and bookbinder in Petersburg (1811-15), initially with William Lownes (271); in Norfolk (1816); and in Richmond (after 1816), initially with Frederick A. Mayo (284).

Publisher of the Rockbridge Repository (1804) at Lexington with John McMullin (298); of the Holston Intelligencer (1806-10) and the succeeding Political Prospect (1810-20) at Abingdon; and of the Wythe Gazette (1820-27) at Wytheville, then called Evansham.

Bookseller in Petersburg in 1818 and 1819.

Bookseller in Petersburg from the 1780s to about 1816, and postmaster there 1790 to 1804.

Proprietor of a large Alexandria bookstore and bindery (1800-12) in partnership with his brother Robert Gray (190).

Publisher of The American Star (1818) at Petersburg with Marvel W. Dunnavant (154).

Publisher of the Lynchburg Press (1820-22) in successive partnerships with William Duffy (150) and Joseph Butler (069); then publisher of The Virginian (1822-24) in Lynchburg with Butler; and finally publisher of the Richmond Whig (1824-41).

Publisher of the Winchester Triumph of Liberty (1799-1801) with George Trisler (419).

Publisher of the Winchester Gazette (1811-26) and brother to William Heiskell (211), his predecessor, and Frederick S. Heiskell (209).

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1775) with his son John Hunter Holt (223); brother-in-law of William Hunter (230) and uncle to William Hunter Jr. (231).

Bookbinder in Petersburg in 1812.

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1775) with assistance of his father, John Holt (222), and the Virginia Gazette and Independent Chronicle (1783-87) at Richmond as partner to his uncle, John Dixon Sr. (140).

Publisher of Baptist religious tract (1808) through Abingdon press of John G. Ustick (421).

Printer who died in Fredericksburg in September 1800.

Journeyman printer in the office of the Virginia Argus in Richmond in October 1807.

A Richmond-trained printer who published the Virginia Apollo (1807) in Petersburg with Nathaniel McLaughlin (294) and Richmond Enquirer (1828-36) with Thomas Ritchie (360).

Bookseller, stationer, and library operator in Alexandria between 1792 and 1794.

Printer of a Wheeling broadside reported erroneously as issuing in 1812.

Printer and publisher of the Political Mirror or The Scourge of Aristocracy at Staunton (1800-02), initially with James Lyon (274), his cousin.

Final proprietor of the Virginia Argus office (1814-17), in conjunction with Philip DuVal (155), Arthur G. Booker (031), Louis Hue Girardin (180), and David Burke (064), his brother.

Publisher of the Rockbridge Repository at Lexington (1801-05), briefly with the Philadelphia-trained printer John Gano Ustick (421).

Richmond engraver, associated with Edward Carter Stanard (399), his brother-in-law, in the Spirit of Seventy-Six (1808-1814); original publisher of Arator by John Taylor of Caroline.

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette, printed "by Authority" off Norfolk in 1775-1776.

Publisher of the American Eagle (1816-17) at Shepherdstown, and of the Lexington News-Letter and Western Virginia Telegraph (1819-20).

Publisher of the Petersburg Daily Courier (1814) in partnership with John Wood (456).

Misidentification of John Lynch (273).

Publisher of The Monongalia Gazette and Morgantown Advertiser (1810) as successor to its founder, Joseph Campbell (078).

Bookseller in Alexandria (1814-16) in conjunction with his school there.

Publisher of the second Virginia Gazette (1774-76) at Williamsburg as the successor to its founders William (358) and Clementina Rind (356); employed by them previously.

Bookbinder and bookseller in Richmond (1799-1808), initially in partnerships with Archibald Currie (113) and W. H. Fitzwhylsonn (165), before conducting an independent bindery.

Bookbinder in Richmond (1799-1801).

Publisher of reprints of religious titles through press of John Alburtis (004) at Martinsburg and of Jonathan Foster (168) at Winchester.

Bookseller and bookbinder in Richmond from 1809 until sometime after mid-1812.

Apprentice bound out to Charles Fierer (163) in 1792.

Printer trained in Martinsburg under John Alburtis (004), a journeyman in Charlestown for Richard Williams (447), publisher of Virginia Free Press at Harper's Ferry and Charlestown (1821-35); editor and publisher of the Richmond Compiler (1835-36); editor and publisher of Richmond Whig (1837-40) and The Yeoman (1840), a Whig campaign paper at Richmond.

Founding publisher of Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette (1792-93) in conjunction with Ellis Price (342).

Bookseller and bookbinder in Petersburg (1800-18), in part with the Conrad brothers (101-104) of Philadelphia (1803-10).

Publisher of The Times and District of Columbia Daily Advertiser (1799-1802) with James D. Westcott (437), his son; also father of John Westcott Jr. (439).

Editorial partner of William Alexander Rind (359) in publishing his Virginia Federalist (1799-1800) at Richmond and his Washington Federalist (1800-01) in the District of Columbia.

Bookbinder in the Williamsburg printing office, possibly under William Parks (321) before 1750, then under William Hunter (230) to 1759; publisher (1756-59) of first Virginia Gazette.

Bookbinder at Winchester (1811-28) and publisher of an 1817 historical novel through the press of Jonathan Foster (168) there.

Apprentice printer in the Williamsburg office of Joseph Royle (368) in 1764-65.

Bookseller in Alexandria (1794-1806) and publisher of The Times and Alexandria Advertiser (1797-99) with James D. Westcott (437).

Purported bookbinder at a Fairfax paper mill who may have fled to Norfolk in 1815.

Proprietor of a job-press in Richmond (1809-58) and publisher of the long-lived Warrock's Virginia and North Carolina Almanac; associated prior to that with William Prentis (340) and Thomas Nicolson (315); cousin of Robert M. Bransford (049) and Samuel Bransford (050).

Publisher of poetry volume (1814) from the Winchester press of Jonathan Foster (168).

Bookseller and schoolmaster in Petersburg (1806-42) who also published texts befitting his classical pedagogy; also father of the well-known Virginia historian, Charles Campbell.