Individual Biography

James Ayres

• Formal Name:
• First Date: 1798
• Last Date: 1798
• Function: Bookseller
• Locales: Alexandria
• Precis: An employee in the Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402).
• Notes: Bookseller
  Alexandria
  An employee in the Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402).
  Ayres is known to have been a part of the Virginia print trade from his appearance in the Alexandria city census for 1806. Therein he was recorded as being the "book store keeper" for Cottom & Stewart, living in the city's First Ward. However, no further information on Ayres has yet been uncovered, leaving his identity and fate unknown.
  
  No Personal Data discovered
  
  
  Sources: Artisans & Merchants.
  
• Related Bios:
  • Peter Cottom
  • John Ainsworth Stewart

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