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Show 174 YO EFORE VENTURING TO VIRGINIA to establish th first permanent printing house {n that Colony, Willia Parks, an Englishman, had lived tn Anpapolis, Maryland where (0 1727 he founded Maryland's first newspaper a In Virgtnga. In1732 he w 736 William Barks established "The Virginta Gasettes the aurliee Peinting house n Virginta, it was suggested that the craft of papermak8 could be carried on with profit in the Colony. A book embracin thepresentstateof Virginia"waswatte by the Reversnd Hugh Jone ublis i this small volume there sa singl Patagraph outlining the possibility of erecting paper mills fn Virgini pith (lfishrewd suggestion thatthese need not fnterfere with Englis aper-Mills,... Digitalimage © 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |