William Hunter (publisher)#Mid life
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| name = William Hunter, Sr.
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| birth_date = June 1, 1700
| birth_place = Yorktown, York County, Virginia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1761|08|14|1700|06|01}}
| death_place = Colonial Williamsburg
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| nationality = Scottish
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| occupation = {{unbulleted list|Colonial printer|Printing press shop foreman|British America Postmaster General}}
| years_active = 1742-1761
| era = {{unbulleted list|Crown Royal Colony Governors|House of Burgesses|Loyalism}}
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| predecessor = William Parks
| successor = {{unbulleted list|John Stretch|Joseph Royle}}
| notable_works = {{unbulleted list|Colony of Virginia official printer (1750-1761)|The Virginia Gazette (1751-1761)}}
| known_for = {{unbulleted list|Colony of Virginia laws (1619-1792)|Deputy postmaster general (1753-1761)|House of Burgesses of Virginia journals (1619-1776)|Williamsburg Bray School}}
| partner = Elizabeth Reynolds
| children = 1
| parents = {{unbulleted list|William Thomas Sempill Hunter Sr. (1682-1742)|Elizabeth Cunningham (1680-1746)}}
| relatives = Matrilineage{{bulleted list||Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 1st Baronet|Sir Archibald Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Blackhall}}
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William Hunter, Sr. (1700-1761) was a Colonial printer and publisher for the Colony of Virginia in British America during the reign of George II of Great Britain.{{cite web |url=https://www.lva.virginia.gov/virginiaprint/bios/bio.php?id=230 |title=William Hunter, Sr. |last=Rawson |first=David |website=Index of Virginia Printing, 1683-1820 |location=Richmond, Virginia |publisher=Library of Virginia}} William Hunter was of scottish lineage firmly established by his parents William Thomas Sempill Hunter Sr. from Clackmannanshire, Scotland and Elizabeth Cunningham from Corsehill, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Hunter was a resolute bachelor during adulthood along the Virginia Peninsula.{{cite web |url=https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/court.cfm |title=Courtship, Sex, and the Single Colonist |last=Gardner |first=Andrew G. |website=Colonial Williamsburg ~ John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library |publisher=Colonial Williamsburg Foundation}} He had a natural son William Hunter, Jr. as an out of wedlock arrangement which excluded a marital union with Elizabeth Reynolds a resident of Colonial Williamsburg.{{cite web |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=227905 |title=Elizabeth Reynolds House - Reconstructed - Colonial Williamsburg |trans-title=Williamsburg, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic) |website=HMDB.org |publisher= The Historical Marker Database}}{{cite web |url=https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hunter-william-d-1761/ |title=William Hunter (ca. 1730–1761) |last=Rawson |first=David |website=Encyclopedia Virginia |publisher=Virginia Humanities}}
Proprietor of Colonial Williamsburg Print Shop
The Colonial Williamsburg Print Shop was built by William Parks in 1736. The colonial American timber framed structure was recognized as the first letterpress printing establishments for the Colony of Virginia in the 18th century.
File:Print Shop & Post Office - Williamsburg.jpg
In 1743, William Hunter was apprenticed as a compositor with William Parks. By 1749, Hunter was delegated as shop foreman for the Colonial Williamsburg Print Shop. In 1750, upon the interment of William Parks, the Colonial Williamsburg publishing operations were lateral to William Hunter acquiring the typesetting talents of John Holt and a brother John Henry Hunter (1714-1774).
The print shop would persevere the publishing of the Colony of Virginia laws, House of Burgesses of Virginia journals, Virginia Almanack, and Virginia Gazette reasonably appeasing the social conscience of the governing British Crown during 18th century loyalism in British America.
The Hunter print shop sustained cordial relations with Colonial Williamsburg clergy publishing journals and sermons for ministers as John Camm, Samuel Davies, and George Whitefield. The clerical relations would flourish during the House of Burgesses litigating the Two Penny Act which eventually coerced Patrick Henry deliberating the ethical dilemma of the Parson's Cause of 1763.{{cite web |url=https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/two-penny-acts-1755-1758/ |title=Two Penny Acts (1755, 1758) |last=Kukla |first=Jon |website=Encyclopedia Virginia |publisher=Virginia Humanities}}
See also
Footnotes
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Franklin Papers Archives regarding William Hunter in British America
- {{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0030 |title=Philadelphia Post Office Record Books, 1737–53 |last=Franklin |first=Benjamin |website=Founders Online |publisher=U.S. National Archives and Records Administration}}
- {{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-05-02-0128 |title=Benjamin Franklin and William Hunter: Commission to Thomas Vernon, 24 December 1754 |last1=Franklin |first1=Benjamin |last2=Hunter |first2=William |date=December 24, 1754 |website=Founders Online |publisher=U.S. National Archives and Records Administration}}
- {{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-07-02-0113 |title=Post Office Account with William Hunter, 29 August 1757 |last=Franklin |first=Benjamin |date=August 29, 1757 |website=Founders Online |publisher=U.S. National Archives and Records Administration}}
- {{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-07-02-0126 |title=To Benjamin Franklin from William Hunter, 30 November 1757 |last=Hunter |first=William |date=November 30, 1757 |website=Founders Online |publisher=U.S. National Archives and Records Administration}}
Bibliography
- {{cite web |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007705882 |title=Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia (1619 - 1776) |author=Virginia General Assembly |website=HathiTrust Digital Library |location=Richmond, Virginia |publisher=Colonial press and E. Waddey Company |oclc=6389173}}
- {{cite web |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009714930 |title=Virginia laws (1619–1792) |last=Hening |first=William Waller |trans-title=The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia |website=HathiTrust Digital Library |location=Richmond, Virginia |publisher=R. & W. & G. Bartow |oclc=228720354}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/articles-and-essays/virginia-records-1606-to-1737/ |title=Virginia Records, 1606-1737 |trans-title=Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606 to 1827 |publisher=United States Library of Congress}}
- {{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t88g9945n |title=A Chronology of Paper and Paper-making |last=Munsell |first=Joel |year=1870 |website=HathiTrust Digital Library |location=Albany, New York |publisher=J. Munsell |lccn=10000968 |oclc=1158638}}
- {{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044080593585 |title=Chronology of the Origin and Progress of Paper and Paper-making |last=Munsell |first=Joel |year=1876 |website=HathiTrust Digital Library |location=Albany, New York |publisher=J. Munsell |lccn=09018808 |oclc=2637748}}
- {{cite web |url=https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/associates-of-dr-bray/ |title=Associates of Dr. Bray and the Bray Schools |last=Wolfe |first=Brendan |website=Encyclopedia Virginia |publisher=Virginia Humanities}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/events/williamsburg-bray-school/ |title=Williamsburg Bray School |website=Colonial Williamsburg Historic Site |publisher=Colonial Williamsburg Foundation}}
- {{cite web |url=https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/library/materials/manuscripts/view/index.cfm?id=Almanacks |title=Virginia Almanacks (1717–1814) |website=Rockefeller Library Collections |publisher=Colonial Williamsburg Foundation}}
- {{cite web |url=https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/DigitalLibrary/va-gazettes/ |title=Virginia Gazettes |website=Rockefeller Library Collections |publisher=Colonial Williamsburg Foundation}}
- {{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t2v41d451 |title=A History of Paper-Manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 |last=Weeks |first=Lyman Horace |year=1916 |website=HathiTrust Digital Library |location=New York, New York |publisher=The Lockwood Trade Journal Company |lccn=17012277 |oclc=566946}}
- {{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011786112 |title=Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries |last=Hunter |first=Dard |year=1930 |website=HathiTrust Digital Library |location=New York, New York |publisher=House of William Edwin Rudge |lccn=30014991 |oclc=1466921}}
Video media archive
- {{YouTube|j3wqzRhzidQ|18th-Century Printing at Colonial Williamsburg}}
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