Individual Citation

The Virginia Gazette, or The American Advertiser

• ID: 274
• End Date: August 23, 1786
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 70
• Proprietors: James Hayes
• Start Date: December 22, 1781
• Variant Number: Richmond 02-01
• Notes: Hayes was appointed public-printer in August 1780 in partnership with noted Philadelphia printer John Dunlap, his mentor; the press they planned to use was lost in October 1780 to British ship patrolling the Chesapeake while enroute to Richmond; replacement did not arrive until April 1781, when Hayes was then forced to flee Richmond, with the rest of the government as a result of British invasion of central Virginia; thus start of this semi-official paper was postponed to December 1781, more than a year after its intended start, once Hayes found means to return his press to Richmond from Charlottesville.
• Lineage Title: American Advertiser
• Related Bios:
  • James Hayes

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