The Virginia Gazette
- id: 473
- end_date: ca.February 3, 1776
- frequency: 2/week
- lineage_id: 110
- proprietors: John Pinkney
- start_date: December 6, 1775
- variant_number: Williamsburg 02-06
- notes: With issue for December 6, 1775, Pinkney both reduced the sheet-size of his newspaper and increased the frequency of its production to twice-weekly because of "the exigencies of the times rendering a speedy circulation of intelligence of the highest importance," so making his paper the first issued in Virginia more than once per week. Publication of the paper ended sometime after number issued on February 3, 1776, the latest surviving issue known. In April 1776, Williamsburg merchant Jacob Bruce was appointed to settle the debts of both Clementina Rind's estate and John Pinkney's business, indicating that the Gazette had ceased publication by then; a notice published in Gazette of Dixon & Hunter, reports that Pinkney had published sixteen months of the weekly, a count suggesting that the February 3, 1776, number was the last issued. Pinkney continued operating the press until May or June 1777, when he closed shop in preparation for moving to North Carolina to assume position of that state's new public printer.
- lineage_title: Virginia Gazette II
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