The Richmond and Manchester Advertiser

• id: 303
• end_date: November 19, 1796
• frequency: 2/week (varies)
• lineage_id: 75
• proprietors: Samuel Pleasants Jr.
• start_date: April 30, 1795
• variant_number: Richmond 07-03
• notes: Pleasants simplified paper's title with issue of April 30, 1795, removing the now confusing phrase "Virginia Gazette"; the conjunctive "and" in title was built into masthead ornament bearing the face of Argus, all-seeing guardian of the Olympian goddess Hera, presaging the paper's subsequent retitling in November 1796.
• lineage_title: Virginia Argus
• Related Bios:
  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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