The Virginia Gazette

• id: 460
• end_date: early June 1750
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 109
• proprietors: William Parks
• start_date: August 6, 1736
• variant_number: Williamsburg 01-01
• notes: First newspaper published in Virginia; initial number issued at beginning of 1736 Assembly session. Parks died on April 1, 1750 while enroute to England on business trip; his will was entered for probate on June 18, 1750, by which time the publication of Gazette had been suspended. His shop foreman and heir Hunter resumed publication on January 3, 1751, after acquiring paper from his estate.
• lineage_title: Virginia Gazette I
• Related Bios:
  • William Hunter, Sr.
  • William Parks

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