Results 401-450 of 553
This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection. For more information, please see David Rawson Index of Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Author & publisher of an 1810 history of Virginia Baptists using the Richmond press of John O. Lynch (273); also author & publisher of an unrecorded 1809 Baptist catechism.
Editor of the Lynchburg Press (1809-15), so employed variously by Fleming Grantland (185), Jacob Haas (196), and John F. Lamb (259).
Journeyman printer at Alexandria, then publisher of Impartial Journal (1803-04) at Leesburg and later of the Lexington Intelligencer (1823-31).
Printer and first publisher (1788-1808) of the Virginia Centinel – later known as Winchester Gazette; also proprietor of the Staunton Gazette (1790) with Matthias Bartgis (024).
Bookseller in Alexandria and Fredericksburg with the firm of his brother Peter Cottom (107) and John A. Stewart (401); then independently in Petersburg from 1810 to 1823.
Bookseller in Alexandria (1816) with William Isabell (234) and Robert Gray Jr. (191).
Bookbinder in Winchester in 1790 and in Alexandria in 1798.
Printer of the Patriot (1802-03) and the Farmers' Register (1804) at Charlestown for William Brown (058); then publisher of the Farmer's Repository (1808-27), initially with Brown; also employer of John S. Gallaher (177).
Publisher of the Lynchburg Centinel (1814-15) with Addison Davies (539).
Apprentice printer in Richmond office of Augustine Davis (119) in 1796; related to Edward Pescud (324) and Thomas P. Manson (278).
Apprentice bookbinder absconded in 1821 from Alexandria office of J. & A. Douglass (146/145).
Engraver of currency and medals for the Commonwealth of Virginia (1778-81).
Employee in Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402) in 1806.
Publisher of Virginia Gazette (1795-97) of Staunton as partner to John Wise (455).
Publisher of the Republican Luminary in Wythe County (1809-10) with William Dromgoole (149), his brother-in-law.
Master printer in the office of the ill-fated Virginia Gazette or Norfolk Intelligencer (1774-75), so employed by William Duncan (151), John Brown (056), and John Hunter Holt (223).
Proprietor of Alexandria bookstore and bindery (1800-12) with brother John Gray (189).
Bookseller and bookbinder in Norfolk (1795-1803), initially with Thomas Rainbow (347).
Publisher of the Virginia North-Western Gazette (1820-24) at Wheeling and its succeeding Wheeling Gazette (1824-35).
Bookseller in Alexandria (1816) with William Isabell (234) and Richard Horwell (226).
Publisher of Genius of Liberty (1797-1800) at Fredericksburg in successive partnerships with George Carter (082), Henry Pittman (327), an unnamed Field (161), and James Walker (425).
Publisher of the first newspaper in Lynchburg – the Union Gazette, later the Lynchburg and Farmer's Gazette (1793-96) – and Richmond journeyman; also cousin of Samuel Bransford (050), a later Lynchburg publisher, and of John Warrock (430), the noted almanac publisher.
Employee in Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402) in 1806.
Publisher of the American Eagle (1818-19) and the Potomack Register (1819) at Shepherds-town, both with a partner named Harper (202).
Publisher of The Echo (1816-17) at Lynchburg as partner to William Waller Gray (193).
Publisher of The Virginia Reformer and Herald of the Valley at Winchester (1819-20), first with Peter Klipstine (253), and then with Joseph F. Caldwell (073).
Long-time Richmond inhabitant who printed the American Standard (1811) for William Shelton (378); published the daily Richmond Commercial Compiler (1819-26) with Daniel Trueheart (420) and William Pollard (336); then managed the Franklin Paper Mill (1834 48).
Editor of the Virginia Patriot at Richmond (1809) for Augustine Davis (119).
Journeyman printer employed in the Virginia Monitor office at Shepherdstown (1820-21).
Bookseller and stationer in Alexandria in the years straddling 1800; publisher of popular London titles through the firm of Peter Cottom (107) and John A. Stewart (402).
Publisher of The Lynchburg Press (1815-17) with Jacob Haas (196); also the cousin of Robert Mosby Bransford (049), an earlier Lynchburg publisher, and John Warrock (430), the noted Richmond almanac publisher.
Publisher of the weekly Impartial Observer (1806-07) in Richmond; also long-time engraver and jeweler there.
Founder of Leesburg's Genius of Liberty (1817-19) and the main bookseller there from 1819.
Publisher of Fredericksburg's Virginia Express (1803-04) as partner to Isham Burch (062).
Journeyman printer in partnership with Marvel W. Dunnavant (154) in Petersburg (1815) and with Charles Keemle (246) in both Norfolk (1816) and Vincennes, Indiana (1817).
Publisher of The Echo (1816) at Lynchburg with William Waller Gray (193), and of the Lynchburg Press (1817-19) in partnership with Jacob Haas (196).
Publisher of The Virginia Gazette and Alexandria Advertiser (1789-93) in partnership with Thomas Bond (039); subsequently publisher of a newspaper in the District of Columbia.
Publisher of Columbian Telescope (1819-20) at Alexandria and, briefly, of the Alexandria Gazette (1819-20) with Samuel Snowden (393); then publisher of the Winchester Republican (1820-31); later editor of the Wheeling Gazette (1835-37).
Editor and publisher of Virginia Patriot (1809-10) at Richmond with Augustine Davis (119).
Publisher of the Virginia Argus (1814) at Richmond, succeeding his father, Samuel Pleasants (331), as agent for his mother Deborah Whitehead Pleasants (328).
Journeyman printer working in the Williamsburg office of Alexander Purdie (345) in 1777.
Publisher of the long-lived Virginia Argus (1793-1814) at Richmond, initially with Augustine Davis (119); husband of Deborah Whitehead Pleasants (328), father of Samuel Madison Pleasants (332), brother-in-law of William Lownes (271), and uncle of J. J. Pleasants (329).
Publisher of The American Beacon and Commercial Diary (1815-16) at Norfolk as partner to Hamilton Shields (380), William C. Shields (381), and Henry Ashburn (015); proprietor of job printing firms in Richmond (1816-49) first as partner to William Pollard (336) and then to Thomas Ritchie (360); Printer to the Commonwealth (1835 & 1840-48); also a son-in-law of Augustine Davis (119).
Publisher of the long-lived Alexandria Gazette (1800-31), usually independently, though at times with Matthew Brown (057), John D. Simms (387), and Samuel H. Davis (126), as well as other unnamed proprietors.
Publisher of Virginia Telegraphe (1802-10) at Lexington, briefly with William G. Lyford (272); and publisher of The Virginia Religious Magazine (1804-07) for the Lexington Synod.
Publisher of the Charlestown Gazette (1814-15) at Wellsburg, then called Charlestown.
Printer in the press office of Meriwether Jones (242); Richmond job-press owner (1804-05) with John L. Cook (105); publisher of The American Gleaner and Virginia Magazine (1807) in Richmond; printer of The Virginian (1808) for Gerard Banks (019) and others; also brother of Fleming Grantland (185).
Printer in the Richmond office of Augustine Davis (119); later a publisher of the American Beacon in Norfolk (1816-19) with the brothers William C. (381) and Hamilton Shields (380).
Bookseller in Wheeling in 1819.
Publisher of the Richmond Examiner (1803-04), succeeding brother Meriwether Jones (242); intended publisher (1811-12) of The History of Virginia begun by John Daly Burk (063).
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This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection. For more information, please see David Rawson Index of Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
