Nathaniel Willis, Sr.

• formal_name: Nathaniel Willis, Sr.
• first_date: 1788
• last_date: 1799
• function: Printer, Publisher, Editor
• locales: Winchester, Shepherdstown, Martinsburg
• precis: Printer and publisher of Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser (1788-89) with Henry Willcocks (444) and Matthias Bartgis (024); then of Willis's Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser (1790), which moved to Shepherdstown as The Potowmac Guardian and Berkeley Advertiser (1790-92) and then to Martinsburg as The Potomak Guardian (1792-99), briefly with Nathaniel Baldwin (018); father of Nathaniel Willis, Jr. (450).
• notes:
• Related Bios:
  • John Alburtis
  • Nathaniel Baldwin
  • Matthias Echternach Bartgis, Sr.
  • Armstrong Charlton
  • Nathaniel Willis, Sr.

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