The Intelligencer, & Petersburg Commercial Advertiser

• id: 237
• end_date: before October 20, 1819
• frequency: 2/week (Tues, Fri)
• lineage_id: 60
• proprietors: Whitworth & Yancey
• start_date: ca.December 1817
• variant_number: Petersburg 01-17
• notes: Intelligencer adopted longest-lived title form in about December 1817, though the lack of surviving issues from 1815 to 1819 makes assigning specific date impossible; Whitworth & Yancey partnership dissolved sometime between 1819 issues of August 6th and October 20th, suggesting their arrangement was a five-year one dating to the auction of Dickson's press office on August 26, 1814.
• lineage_title: Petersburg Intelligencer
• Related Bios:
  • Thomas Whitworth
  • Francis Garland Yancey

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