Individual Biography

William Stafford

  • Formal Name:
  • First Date: 1806
  • Last Date: 1806
  • Function: Apprentice Printer
  • Locales: Alexandria
  • Precis: Apprentice printer in the Alexandria office of Samuel Snowden (393) in 1806.
  • Notes: Apprentice Printer
    Alexandria
    Apprentice printer in the Alexandria office of Samuel Snowden (393) in 1806.
    Stafford is known to have been a part of the Virginia print trade from his appearance in the Alexandria city census for 1806. He was then an apprentice printer in the press office of Samuel Snowden, and lived with his master in the First Ward there. However, no further information on Stafford has been uncovered, leaving his identity and fate unknown.


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    Sources: Artisans & Merchants.
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