The Virginia Gazette
- id: 474
- end_date: ca.April 12, 1779
- frequency: Weekly
- lineage_id: 111
- proprietors: Alexander Purdie & Co.
- start_date: February 3, 1775
- variant_number: Williamsburg 03-01
- notes: Third newspaper published in Virginia; publication began after the dissolution of an eight-year-long partnership between Purdie and John Dixon at end of 1774; Purdie's new paper replaced the Virginia Gazette of William & Clementina Rind as colony's journal-of-record in June 1775 when Purdie was elected public printer; Purdie and his Gazette continued in those functions under the newly-independent state government in May 1776. Publication suspended in January & February 1778 for want of paper. Purdie remained journal's sole proprietor until his death in April 1779, which came sometime between April 12th, when his will was drafted, and April 16th, when Gazette of Dixon & Nicolson printed an undated death notice. His Gazette was continued by his two journeyman-nephews, John Clarkson and Augustine Davis, as firm of Clarkson & Davis.
- lineage_title: Virginia Gazette III
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