The American Beacon and Norfolk and Portsmouth Daily Advertiser

• id: 214
• end_date: September 30, 1840
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sunday)
• lineage_id: 59
• proprietors: Hugh Blair Grigsby & Co.
• start_date: January 1, 1838
• variant_number: Norfolk 11-11
• notes: Grigsby took full control of the American Beacon from Ashburn's estate with the issue of January 1, 1838; his purchase was financed by William D. Bagnall, whose brother, Henry B. Bagnall, was employed in the Beacon office, alongside printer Thomas F. Boothby.
• lineage_title: American Beacon
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