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Sources consulted for the biography of:Clementina Rind ( –1774)
Primary Sources
- Letters from Clementina van Grierson to Augusta Smith, October 30, 1756, and Mrs. Jacobs, October 31, 1756, in Public Record Office, High Court of Admiralty 30/258, National Archives, Kew, Eng. (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm at Library of Virginia).
- Virginia Gazette (Rind), esp. September 2, 1773 (second quotation); September 23, 1773 (first quotation); December 30, 1773; April 14, 1774 (third quotation); August 25, 1774.
- William Rind's estate inventory and sale recorded in York County Wills and Inventories, Book 22, 197–199, 225–226.
- Clementina Rind to John Blair, Robert Miller, James Southall, and John Tazewell, April 13, 1774, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.
- Appointment as public printer in John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1773–1776, Including the Records of the Committee of Correspondence (1905), 77, 124–125.
Secondary Sources
- Jane Carson, "Clementina Rind," typescript research report, n.d., microfiche edition, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
- Karen A. Weyler, Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America (2013), 165–203.
- Martha J. King, "Clementina Rind: Widowed Printer of Williamsburg," in Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times (2015), 1:74–94.
Obituaries
- Virginia Gazette (Pinkney), September 29, 1774; October 10, 1774 (memorial poem).
- Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon), September 29, 1774 (fourth and fifth quotations).
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