Biographies

Apprentice and printer in Alexandria (ca. 1805-15); son of John Winter Sr. (453).

Printer in Alexandria (1806-21) who attempted the Alexandria Weekly Messenger in 1819.

Co-editor of the Virginia Gazette (1802-05) of Augustine Davis (119) in Richmond; publisher of Petersburg Daily Courier (1814) with Francis G. Yancey (463) and John Netherland (312).

Printer in office of The Times and District of Columbia Daily Advertiser (1799-1802) for his father, John Westcott, Sr. (438), and his brother, James D. Westcott (437).

Printer in Fredericksburg in 1817, possibly in the office of the Virginia Herald.

Publisher of Republican Constellation (1810-19) at Winchester, initially in partnership with his son Thomas Foster (169).

Bookseller in Alexandria (1784-96) as a sideline in his dry-goods store there.

Bookseller and bookbinder in Petersburg (1799-1804) as partner to George Douglas (144).

Publisher of The Philanthropist (1806-09) at Winchester with Matthias E. Bartgis (025), then of the succeeding Democratic Lamp or Winchester Aurora (1809) on his own.

A journeyman printer who died in Richmond in the late spring of 1812.

Publisher of The Observer (1814) in Staunton in partnership with Philip DuVal (155); also of the Lynchburg Press (1822) and Lynchburg's Virginian (1822-23), and of the Constitutional Whig (1824) at Richmond, all with John Hampden Pleasants (330).

Bookbinder in Petersburg (1818-20).

Founding publisher of The Monongalia Gazette (1804-10) at Morgantown in partnership with Forbes Britton (053).

Publisher of Virginia North-Western Gazette (1818) in Wheeling with Thomas Tonner (416).

Printer in the Fincastle press office of Joseph F. Caldwell (073) from 1820 to 1823; then in Caldwell's office in Lewisburg from 1823 to 1831.

Publisher of the Virginia Reformer (1819-20) in Winchester with an unidentified Russell (369); later of the Herald of the Valley (1821-23) in Fincastle with William E. Robinson, and of the Palladium of Virginia (1823-31) in Lewisburg; also brother of James Caldwell (071).

Printer and publisher of the Independent Register (1804-05) at Winchester as partner to Peter Isler (235).

Stationer and Bookbinder in Richmond (1809-13) and Lynchburg (1812-18) who branched into Bookselling as a sideline with his brother John Boyce (046).

Journeyman printer who worked in Williamsburg printing office (1751-52) of William Hunter (230); son of Joseph Johnson Sr. (238).

Printer in the office of Alexander Purdie (345) in Williamsburg (1773-79), who later worked in Richmond in the offices of Augustine Davis (119) and Samuel Pleasants (331).

Official printer to the Virginia colony (1761‐66); publisher of the original Virginia Gazette (1761‐66) as successor to William Parks (321) and William Hunter Sr. (230).

Journeyman printer who worked in Williamsburg printing office (1751-52) of William Hunter (230); father of Joseph Johnson Jr. (239).

Bookseller in Virginia (1796-1807), probably in the Shenandoah Valley.

Author and publisher of several religious imprints in Winchester (1813-19) issued from the press office of Jonathan Foster (168) there.

Bookbinder and blank-book maker in Alexandria in 1787.

Presumed publisher of the American Eagle (1817-19) at Shepherdstown with a partner named Maxwell (283), and its continuation, the Potomack Register (1819), with a partner named Robinson (361); later the well-known publisher of the Staunton Spectator (1823-49).

Misidentification of Ebenezer P. Cady (070).

Printer and publisher of Republican Citizen, and Farmer and Planter's Chronicle (1796-97) at Fredericksburg; agent there for booksellers Mathew Carey and Mason Locke Weems (435).

Printer employed in New Market (1810-14) by Solomon Henkel (218) and in Harrisonburg (1813-15) by George Bourne (043) and Andrew B. Davidson (116); subsequently publisher of the Rockingham Register (1822-40) at Harrisonburg.

Apprentice bookbinder absconded in 1815 from Alexandria office of John A. Stewart (402).

Bookseller in Staunton (1798-1841) while also the Federal Postmaster there.

Bookbinder in Richmond (1799-1815) and in Petersburg (1816).

Original editor of Richmond's first successful daily newspaper, The Daily Compiler (1813-15), and so a partner to Philip DuVal (155) and William C. Shields (381), his brother in law.

Bookbinder in Richmond (1817-20) as Carter & Blake.

Partner in Richmond bookstore with William Prichard (343) in 1808-09; on own until 1816.

Copperplate printer in Norfolk (1814).

Editor and publisher of the Richmond Daily Compiler (1815-16) with William C. Shields (381) and of Virginia Argus (1816) with John McDonald Burke (065); also prospective publisher in 1805 of the still-born monthly Amoenitates Graphicae with Frederick Bossler (042).

Bookbinder in Richmond (1818-19).

Printer in Winchester office of William Heiskell (211) and John Heiskell (210), his brothers.

Adolescent apprentice printer (1764) in the Williamsburg office of Joseph Royle (368).

Publisher of Richmond's first Judaic imprint (1804) from the press of John Dixon Jr. (141).

Bookseller, bookbinder, and job-printer in Norfolk (1802-19); brother of A. C. Jordan (244).

Bookbinder apprentice in Fredericksburg (1820) with William F. Gray (192).

Proprietor of the Steam Boat Hotel Reading Room in Norfolk (1820-21) in partnership with Hamilton Shields (380) and Henry Ashburn (015), owners of the American Beacon there.

Printer who conducted a job-printing office in Petersburg from 1815 to 1824, with Samuel Dillworth (138) in 1815 and with Thomas W. Lorrain (270) in 1817; also publisher of The American Star (1817-18) there, first with Lorrain, then with John H. Perkins (323).

Journeyman printer working in Alexandria in 1803.

Publisher of the Alexandria Advertiser (1800-02) as financier and editor with printer Samuel Snowden (393), the paper's resident proprietor; also brother of William Brown (058).

Publisher of the Lynchburg Gazette (1805) as the successor to his brother John (433).

Publisher of The Philanthropist in Winchester in partnership with Joseph A. Lingan (266) between 1806 and 1809; eldest son of publishing entrepreneur Matthias Bartgis (024).

Newspaper publisher, job-printer, paper-mill owner, and post-stage operator based out of Frederick, Maryland, who issued weekly papers in partnerships with resident proprietors in Winchester and Staunton between 1787 and 1809.