Individual Citation

The Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser

• ID: 3
• End Date: July 4, 1789
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 2
• Proprietors: George Richards & Co.
• Start Date: February 5, 1784
• Variant Number: Alexandria 01-01
• Notes: First new weekly issued in Virginia after the Revolutionary War outside of Richmond. Richards published the paper first with the support of Baltimore printer and publisher William Goddard (ca, 1784-86), and then with Alexandria land-agent Thomas Bond (ca. 1787-89). The paper experienced a brief three week suspension following the unexpected death of Richards in July 1789, during which time Bond joined with Samuel Hanson, a local forwarding agent, to create the firm that then published the successor to this title.
• Lineage Title: Virginia Journal
• Related Bios:
  • Dr. Thomas Bond, Jr.
  • George Richards

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