Imprint Record

General Orders of Adjutant General (January 12, 1815).

• Imprint Number: 1815.009
• Title: [General orders of the adjutant general. Jan. 12, 1815].
• Sequence Number: 9
• Year: 1815
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Thomas Ritchie
• Author: Virginia. Adjutant General.
• Notes: No copy known extant; Ritchie was paid for producing 100 copies of these orders.
  Thomas Ritchie became printer to the Commonwealth on January 1, 1815, when the brief license granted to Deborah W. L. Pleasants expired; she had assumed the formal title on the death of her husband, Samuel Pleasants, in October, six days before this session opened; but as of January 1st, that title dell to Ritchie, printer to the Senate, with his protégé, Thomas Burling, taking on his old assignment. Still, for the last three weeks of the session, the House journals continued to be produced by the Argus Office of the Pleasants estate.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Thomas Ritchie
  • Daniel Trueheart

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