The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-28

The article on "The Pioneer Press OF
Virginia" which appeared in the Dispatch
OF May %, 1882, was compiled chiefly
from manuscripts. l wish to make some
remarks or some references TO printing in
Virginia in print.
cond edition, Albany, n. Y, 1874, says,
vol. H., PIP. 8, 1853 In 1875 there were but
two Gazettes printed in Virginia-viz. Ill,
295), Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Pur-
die and Dixon; Virginia Gazette, Williams
burg. William Rind. Vol. l., PIP. 1886, 337,
Rind died August 10, 1913. John Piialcrey
continued the Gazette in 1851
Volume H., page 16j-note: "a paper
was printed at Norfolk in 1875 by John
Hunter Holt. whose press was carried off
bya British force landed from war ships
in the harbor September 80" (See Forces
Archives, Ill.,. 8i7, 923, 1881; Howe's
Historical Collections Of Virginia, page
39G; Burke's History OF Virginia, volume
wi
Volume H., page 165. A Virginia Ga
zette was first published in april, 1915,
and continued weekly, OH Saturday, by
but volume l.. page 337, gives the first date
as april, 177S, which date, think, cor
rect. "Clarkson was nephew to Alexan-
der Purdie. Davis was born in Yorktown,
and was taught printing by Prdie," and
/ think they succeeded TO Purdie's paper.
I'm my article stated that Purdie "died
prior to the 18th OF January, IT'S"
Thomas says he "died in 1779 OF the
dropsy." On again referring to Colonel
Cabells memoranda, 1t seems his figures
may be 1910, but am not sure.)
think there were at least four GazetteS
published in Virginia in l775--yiz., Alex.
ander Purdie's, John Pinkney's, John Hun.
ter Hollis, Dixon Il Hunters.
II GARRISON & Davis began in april 1915
then think there were five.
Thomas, l., page 329, note: civilian
Goddard IA printer in Baltimore, Md.
l773-l792l loaned press and types L
George Richards, who first published
newspaper in Richmond, entitled The TiT
ginto Gazette" When was this paper frs
published.
Forests Historical and Descriptiy,
- Sketches Of Norfolk. PIP. 90, 100, note
Z" Palmer's Register states that the frs
press in this State was imported by the cit,
OF Williamsburg in 1880. The prices OF
advertising and subscriptions Of those times
are thus stated in the following extract
IRON the terms Of the paper contained in
the first issue; 'All persons may be sup
pied with this paper at fifty dollars year
and have advertisements (of moderate
lengthy inserted for ten dollars the first
week and seven dollars for each week
AFTER"
The Norfolk Herald says "The year
is evidently misprinted 1850 instead of
1885," &c.
do not think The year Is a misprint: but
the statement that this was the first press
In the State is an error. The prices named
were the prices payable in advance at the
beginning OF the year 1880; in few
months the prices had doubled, and at the
beginning Of 1881 they were five times
greater. These were Continental-money
prices. In Palmer's Calendar Of State pa
pers, Vol. l.. PIP. 443, 455, there are refer
ences OF date, JANUARY, 1881, 10 the purchase
OF printing apparatus for the State by James
Hays, printer. think Hays was publish
ing gazette in Richmond as early as 1888.
IL the following pedigree is correct II
am not sure as TO the Holt branch(. the |
father Of William Hunter, Sr., might be |
called the ancestor OF Virginia printers. |
Mr.. HUNTER Il have been unable TO find his |
first name) was the father Of William Hun
Ter, Sr., (who succeeded Parks Of dasaqh.
ter who married first, Joseph Rovle (who
succeeded his brother-in-Iaw William Hun
ter, Sr. second, by John DiSon (who sue
succeeded her first husband Joseph Rople).
and think Of Miss Elizdbeth Hunter, who
married John Holt, Printer OF Virginia
and New York. and the father, l think, OF /.
John Hunter Holt, Printer OF Norfolk, Va. /,
Willtam Hunter, Sr., was the father Of
WILLIAM Hunter, dr. the heir to the W. /