It is true that there isn't much documentation for Clementina Rind before she and her husband William came to Williamsburg from Maryland. However, local records here do give us the names of the five Rind children (several from the Bruton Parish Register), care of the orphaned sons by the Williamsburg Lodge of Masons, the fate of daughter Maria Rind, and the fact that one if not two of the Rind sons were printers. Journals of the House of Burgesses detail voting for the position of public printer and the York County records contain Rind estate information and indebtedness.
Linda Rowe
Historian
Department of Training and Historical Research
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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There are very few primary sources that I know of for Clementina Rind
(note spelling), except the newspapers that she published and her
obituary in the competing newspapers.
There are some secondary sources:
Martha Joanne King, "Making an Impression: Women Printers in the
Southern Colonies in the Revolutionary Era" (Ph.D. diss., The College of
William and Mary, December, 1992).
Roger Mellen, "The Origins of a Free Press in Prerevolutionary Virginia:
Creating a Culture of Political Dissent" Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen
Press, (c)2009.
Mellen, "An Expanding Public Sphere:Women and Print in Colonial
Virginia; 1736-1776"
Publication: /American Journalism/ : the publication of the American
Journalism Historians Association. 27, no. 4, (2010): 7
Publisher: [Conway, AR] : American Journalism Historians Association
Feel free to have your colleague contact me off-list for more information.
Roger Mellen, Ph.D.
New Mexico State University
On 3/16/11 6:35 AM, Michelle Krowl wrote:
> Hi all:
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> A colleague recently came across a woman named Clementine Rind (hopefully I have the spelling right), who briefly published one of the Virginia Gazettes in Williamsburg and was an official printer for the government. My colleague wondered if there are good sources of information on Rind, especially any manuscript collections, so I turn to the experts in colonial Virginia history for guidance!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michelle Krowl
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