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About The Virginia gazette. [microfilm reel] (Williamsburg [Va.]) 1736-1781
Williamsburg [Va.] (1736-1781)
- Title:
- The Virginia gazette. [microfilm reel] : (Williamsburg [Va.]) 1736-1781
- Place of publication:
- Williamsburg [Va.]
- Geographic coverage:
- Publisher:
- William Parks
- Dates of publication:
- 1736-1781
- Description:
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- Began in 1736; ceased in 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.
- Williamsburg County (Va.)--Newspapers.
- Notes:
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- Description based on: No. 6 (Sept. 3-Sept. 10, 1736).
- Has occasional supplements.
- 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).
- Microfilm.
- 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 Hunter, <Jan. 28, 1751-Jan. 16, 1761>; Joseph Royle and Co., <1761-1766>; Alexander Purdie & Co., <Mar. 7>-June 13, 1766; Alex. Purdie and John Dixon, June 20, 1766-Dec. 29, 1774; John Dixon and Wm. Hunter, Jan. 7, 1775-<Dec. 4, 1778>; John Dixon and Thomas Nicolson, <Feb. 12, 1779-May 19, 1781>
- Split into: Virginia gazette, or weekly advertiser, and: Virginia gazette, or, The independent chronicle.
- Suspended <May>-Dec. 1750; Nov. 1765-Feb. 1766.
- LCCN:
- 2017260252
- OCLC:
- 37290567
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- Holdings:
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