About the Virginia Gazettte Collection
The various printers of the competing Virginia Gazettes are
given below in chronological order (the number of issues and individual
pages in Colonial Williamsburg's collection are also given). Note
that these are only issues known to be extant when the Institute
for Early American History and Culture microfilmed them in the
1950s; other issues may have
been printed but are not currently in the collection.
| Printer |
Year(s) |
No. of Issues
|
No. of Pages
|
| Virginia Gazette 1 |
|
|
|
| Parks, William |
1736-1750 |
217
|
872
|
| Hunter, William |
1751-1761 |
139
|
550
|
| Royle, Joseph |
1761-1765 |
3
|
12
|
| Purdie, Alexander & John Dixon |
1766-1775 |
457
|
1756
|
| Dixon, John & William Hunter (Jr.) |
1775-1778 |
173
|
774
|
| Dixon, John & Thomas Nicolson |
1779-Apr 1780 |
62
|
246
|
| |
| Virginia Gazette 2 |
|
|
|
| Rind, William |
1766-1773 |
235
|
864
|
| Rind, Clementina |
1773-1774 |
57
|
217
|
| Pinkney, John |
1774-1776 |
81
|
307
|
| |
| Virginia Gazette 3 |
|
|
|
| Purdie, Alexander |
1775-1779 |
263
|
892
|
| Clarkson, John & Augustine Davis |
1779-Dec 1780 |
18
|
49
|
| |
|
|
|
| Totals |
|
|
|
| Virginia
Gazette 1 |
|
1051
|
4210
|
| Virginia
Gazette 2 |
|
373
|
1388
|
| Virginia
Gazette 3 |
|
281
|
941
|
| Grand Total |
|
1705
|
6539
|
For more information about the Virginia Gazette see:
- Black, William Priestley. The Virginia gazette, 1766-1774: beginnings
of an indigenous literature. Thesis (Ph.D.), Duke University,
1971.
- Bullock, Helen Claire Duprey. Virginia
Gazette Printing Office Site, Colonial Lot #48, Block 18, #12-B.
Colonial Williamsburg Research Report Series, RR1415, 1938.
- Castles, William Henry. The Virginia Gazette, 1736-1766: its editors,
editorial policies, and literary content. Thesis (Ed.D.), University
of Tennessee, 1962.
- Godfrey, Laurie Elizabeth. The Printers of Williamsburg
“Virginia Gazettes,” 1766-1776: Social Controls and Press Theory. Dissertation (Ph.D.), Regent
University, 1998.
- Printer
and Binder. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation web site (www.history.org).
Accessing the Gazette
You may browse the Gazette holdings by date; however,
if you are looking for particular subjects, you may be better off using the electronic
index. Based on Cappon and Duff's Virginia Gazette Index, this
electronic version offers a direct link to the newspaper image. You may search
by keyword using the alphabetic index pages. Note that there are direct hyperlinks
to the appropriate image.
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