Individual Citation

The Virginia Gazette, or The American Advertiser

• ID: 275
• End Date: ca. December 20, 1786
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 70
• Proprietors: James Hayes & Company
• Start Date: August 30, 1786
• Variant Number: Richmond 02-02
• Notes: Hayes lost his post as public-printer in April 1786 as a result of an inability to produce government work in a "timely" fashion, causing his paper to lose its government subsidy; by August, fiscal distress compelled him to find unnamed financial partners, so changing the recorded corporate name with the issue of August 30th; their participation failed to extend his paper's life beyond the end of 1786; issue of December 20th is last known.
• Lineage Title: American Advertiser
• Related Bios:
  • James Hayes

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