Individual Biography

Henry Willcocks

• Formal Name:
• First Date: 1786
• Last Date: 1788
• Function: Printer, Publisher
• Locales: Winchester, Richmond
• Precis: Publisher of the Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser (1787-88) with Matthias Bartgis (024); then of the Virginia Centinel or Winchester Mercury (1788) with Richard Bowen (045); also an itinerant journeyman (1786-87) working in Richmond.
• Notes:
• Related Bios:
  • Matthias Echternach Bartgis, Sr.
  • Richard Bowen
  • Nathaniel Willis, Jr.

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