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About The Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg [Va.]) 1736-1781
Williamsburg [Va.] (1736-1781)
- Title:
- The Virginia gazette. [volume] : (Williamsburg [Va.]) 1736-1781
- Place of publication:
- Williamsburg [Va.]
- Geographic coverage:
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Parks
- Dates of publication:
- 1736-1781
- Description:
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- Began 1736; ceased 1781.
- Frequency:
- Weekly
- Language:
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- English
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- Subjects:
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- Richmond (Va.)--Newspapers.
- Richmond County (Va.)--Newspapers.
- Virginia--Richmond County.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01223627
- Virginia--Richmond.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01205345
- Virginia--Williamsburg.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01205036
- Williamsburg (Va.)--Newspapers.
- Notes:
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- Available on microfilm from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Institute for Institute of Early American Hist. and Culture, the Library of Virginia, and the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
- Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers
- Description based on: No. 6 (Sept. 3-Sept. 10, 1736).
- In accordance with the Julian calendar, from 1736-<1739> issues for Jan. 1-Mar. 24 carry the previous year in their date. From <1740>-1751 issues for Jan. 1-Mar. 24 carry both years in their date.
- Latest issue consulted: No. 77 (Aug. 29, 1780).
- Numeric designation began again with no. 1, Jan. 3, 1751?, and again with no. 1, Feb. 12, 1779.
- Published in Richmond, Va., <May 9>, 1780-1781.
- Publishers : William Parks <1736-1750>, William Hunter <1751-1761>, Joseph Royle and Co. <1761-1766>, <Alexander Purdie and Co. <1766>, Alexander Purdie and John Dixon <1766-1774>, John Dixon and William Hunter <1775-1778>, Dixon and Nicholson, <1779-1780>.
- Split into: Virginia gazette, or weekly advertiser, and: Virginia gazette, or, The independent chronicle.
- Suspended <May>-Dec. 1750; Nov. 1765-Feb. 1766.
- LCCN:
- sn 84024739
- OCLC:
- 11078785
- ISSN:
- 2641-1660
- Succeeding Titles:
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- Holdings:
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