Virginia Argus

• id: 308
• end_date: March 25, 1815
• frequency: 2/week (Tues, Sat)
• lineage_id: 75
• proprietors: Philip DuVal & Company
• start_date: February 4, 1815
• variant_number: Richmond 07-08
• notes: Deborah Pleasants – Samuel Pleasants's widow & administratrix – sold the three elements of his business (newspaper, press office, and bookstore) in three transactions at the end of January 1815. The Virginia Argus was sold to a new company headed by financier Philip DuVal and printer John Burke, who had conducted the Argus press previously; they took control of the paper with the issue of February 4, 1815.
• lineage_title: Virginia Argus
• Related Bios:
  • John McDonald Burke
  • Philip DuVal
  • Deborah Whitehead Lownes Pleasants

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