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Re: Newspaper of Record for Virginia in the 1790s
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"Barbara Vines Little, CG" <[log in to unmask]>
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Which is why Headley's synopsis is helpful.

Barbara Vines Little, CG
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Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
> My experience in researching in the 1790s is that there was no such
> authoritative paper as the old Williamsburg Virginia Gazette during the
> late colonial and Revolutionary period. Even if there had been, the
> surviving issues of most of the papers published during the 1790s are
> scattered and incomplete, making research in that period surprisingly
> and annoyingly difficult.
>
> $0.02 worth from
>
> Brent Tarter
> The Library of Virginia
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> Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at
> http://www.lva.virginia.gov 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:38 PM
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> Subject: [VA-HIST] Newspaper of Record for Virginia in the 1790s
>
> Gentle people--
>
> To my embarrassment, I was unable to answer this question from a
> colleague:
>
> What was the newspaper of record for Virginia in the 1790s?
>
> Many thanks,
> Kevin
> Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
> Department of History
> James Madison University
>
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