Title: George Wilson Publishing Accounts Payable List

Date/Date Range :   1801 June-October

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This folder contains a list of accounts payable from June to October 1801 to East Tennessee publisher George Wilson of George Wilson Publishing. Wilson, as partner to George Raulston, was the publisher of the Knoxville Gazette . After the partnership dissolved, Wilson moved to Jonesborough to start his own newspaper, The Washington Newspaper and Advertiser , which was established in 1803. Items on the list include: whiskey and workmen, gate and window hinges, and an account payable from David Deaderick.

Call number: MS-2768

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Item was purchased by Special Collections in December 2005.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], George Wilson Publishing Accounts Payable List, MS-2768. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of single folder.

George Wilson and partner George Raulston published Tennessee's first newspaper, the Knoxville Gazette in 1791. After the newspaper, and partnership, dissolved, Wilson moved on to Jonesborough where he started the Washington Newspaper and Advertiser ; the paper was primarily a political weekly with little local coverage; however, advertisements were plentiful, hence the name. In addition to the Washington Newspaper and Advertiser , Wilson's press also produced Jonesborough's first non-newspaper imprint, Thomas Embree's 1801 pamphlet, "Remarks on an Act of the Assembly of the State of Tennessee, pass in the year 1799, giving a single justice jurisdiction of fifty dollars." Wilson's paper ceased publication in 1804 when he moved back to Knoxville. The town would be without a newspaper for the next fifteen years.

This folder contains accounts payable from June to October 1801 to George Wilson Publishing. Wilson, as partner to George Raulston, was the publisher of the Knoxville Gazette . After the partnership dissolved, Wilson moved to Jonesborough to start his own newspaper, The Washington Newspaper and Advertiser , which was established in 1803. Items on the list include: whiskey and workmen, gate and window hinges, and an account payable from David Deaderick.

• Wilson, George, 1767-1804
• Tennessee -- history
• Publisher's and publishing
• Newspaper -- Tennesee -- Jonesborough
• Newspaper -- Tennessee -- Knoxville