Individual Biography

William James Lewis

• Formal Name:
• First Date: 1764
• Last Date: 1766
• Function: Printer
• Locales: Williamsburg
• Precis: Printer who worked in the Williamsburg printing office (1764-66) of Joseph Royle (368).
• Notes: Printer
  Williamsburg
  Printer who worked in the Williamsburg printing office (1764-66) of Joseph Royle (368).
  Lewis is a fleeting presence in the historical record; he appears only in the Williamsburg printing office journal of Joseph Royle as a journeyman printer there during Royle's fatal decline. No imprints produced by him have been found in the bibliographic record, nor has a record of him been found in surviving court records, particularly those for Williamsburg proper. So this limited evidence and a fairly common name makes a fuller identification impossible without more data.
  
  
  No Personal Data yet discovered.
  
  Sources: Royle Journal ([Virginia Gazette Daybook], 1764-66), University of Virginia.
  
• Related Bios:
  • Joseph Royle

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