Individual Biography

John Thompson

• Formal Name:
• First Date: 1764
• Last Date: 1765
• Function: Apprentice Printer
• Locales: Williamsburg
• Precis: Apprentice printer in the Williamsburg office of Joseph Royle (368) in 1764-65.
• Notes: Apprentice Printer
  Williamsburg
  Apprentice printer in the Williamsburg office of Joseph Royle (368) in 1764-65.
  Thompson is a fleeting presence in the historical record; he appears only in the order books of the York County Court in 1764, when he was bound out on a year-long indenture as an apprentice to printer Joseph Royle of Williamsburg. That one glimpse and a fairly common name make a fuller identification of Thompson impossible without more direct evidence.
  
  
  No Personal Data yet discovered.
  
  Sources: Gill, Apprentices.
  
• Related Bios:
  • Joseph Royle

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