James Ayres
- formal_name:
- first_date: 1798
- last_date: 1798
- function: Bookseller
- locales: Alexandria
- precis: An employee in the Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402).
- notes: Bookseller
Alexandria
An employee in the Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402).
Ayres is known to have been a part of the Virginia print trade from his appearance in the Alexandria city census for 1806. Therein he was recorded as being the "book store keeper" for Cottom & Stewart, living in the city's First Ward. However, no further information on Ayres has yet been uncovered, leaving his identity and fate unknown.
No Personal Data discovered
Sources: Artisans & Merchants.
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