Individual Citation

The Informer and Weekly Advertiser

• ID: 392
• End Date: before July 12, 1820
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 0
• Proprietors: G. W. Sappington & Co.
• Start Date: August 5, 1819
• Variant Number: Shepherdstown 05-01
• Notes: Only surviving number of this paper is that issued July 12, 1820 by Thomas Trice; but both its original proprietor and its start date are known from a notice found in the National Intelligencer for September 1, 1819, part of its ongoing reporting of new journals received in its office, to wit: "The Informer, Shepherdstown, Va. weekly, by G. W. Sappington & Co. at two dollars per annum. First No. published August 5th." The date that Trice acquired paper indefinite, but change possibly came in late April 1820, at the end of a six-month agreement between printer (Trice) and editor (Sappington); it also appears he printed this weekly from its start, using press formerly owned by Robinson & Harper.
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• Related Bios:
  • George Washington Sappington
  • Thomas Trice

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