Individual Biography

John Knott

• Formal Name:
• First Date: 1806
• Last Date: 1807
• Function: Printer
• Locales: Norfolk, Richmond
• Precis: Journeyman printer in the office of the Virginia Argus in Richmond in October 1807.
• Notes: Printer
  Norfolk, Richmond
  Journeyman printer in the office of the Virginia Argus in Richmond in October 1807.
  The only evidence of Knott in the printing trade is seen in the death notices published in Richmond newspapers, first in the Virginia Argus of Samuel Pleasants (331) and then copied in the Virginia Gazette of Augustine Davis (119), who erroneously spelled his name as Knox. Pleasants reported that he was "lately from Norfolk," suggesting that Knott was an itinerant printer who was working in Richmond to produce in the torrent of printing connected to the then-ongoing trial of Aaron Burr; the brevity of his death notices, and so the lack of personal detail, is also likely the result of the substantial coverage of that trial in both papers, which consumed at least half of their pages during that trial.
  
  
  Personal Data
  
  Died:
  Oct. 6
  1807
  Richmond, Virginia.
  
  No other personal data yet discovered.
  
  Sources: Death notices in Virginia Argus and Virginia Gazette, Oct. 10 & 11, 1807.
  
• Related Bios: None

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