Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Virginia (December 1805).

• imprint_number: 1806.008
• title: Proceedings of a grand annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. : Begun and held in the Mason's Hall, in the city of Richmond, on the second Monday in December, being the ninth day of the month, anno lucis 5805--anno Domini 1805.
• sequence_number: 8
• year: 1806
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Samuel Pleasants
• author: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Virginia.
• notes: Journal is signed in print [p. 14]: "William Waller Hening G.M.[Grand Master] and William. H. Fitzwhylsonn, G.S." [Grand Secretary]; Henning was a legal scholar who published many law titles in Virginia; Fitzwhylsonn was also a Richmond publisher and bookseller.
  First publication of the Grand Lodge following the death of John Dixon Jr., who had been the group's printer since 1792; Pleasants was both the public printer and operated the largest job-press office in Richmond then.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • William Henry Fitzwhylsonn
  • William Waller Hening
  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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