The Virginia Gazette
- id: 466
- end_date: April 8, 1780
- frequency: Weekly
- lineage_id: 109
- proprietors: Dixon & Nicolson
- start_date: February 12, 1779
- variant_number: Williamsburg 01-07
- notes: After dissolution of his partnership with Hunter Jr., Dixon formed a new arrangement with Nicolson. Though he retained both press and paper in that transaction, a suspension of six weeks ensued to allow for settlement of estates of Hunter Sr. and Joseph Royle, which had claims on those divided assets. When publication resumed, the paper evinced a new numbering scheme, starting with no. 1, leading Brigham and others to mistakenly report that the Dixon & Nicolson Gazette was an entirely new periodical; however, Dixon held an interest in the Virginia Gazette from the 1761 death of William Hunter Sr. onward, making the dissolution of the firm of Dixon & Hunter a division of shared assets in which Dixon simply kept and continued their existing paper. Dixon & Nicolson continued its publication through April 8, 1780, when they suspended publication in order to relocate their office to Richmond, in conjunction with the removal of the seat of the state's government to that town; publication resumed there on May 9, 1780.
- lineage_title: Virginia Gazette I
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