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October 12, 1789

Virginia General Assembly, House of Delegates, Speaker, Executive Communications, Letters and Certificate, 1789 December 14, Accession 36912, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

John Dixon Wrote a Certificate to the Clerk of the Council

This letter was an enclosure to a December 14, 1789, letter from Governor Beverley Randolph (1754–1797) to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, concerning the request of Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) for compensation for supplies that Franklin had provided a Virginia printer during the Revolutionary War. John Dixon (ca. 1741–1791) related to Archibald Blair (ca. 1753–1824) that his former partner Alexander Purdie (d. 1779) had received printing materials from Philadelphia. Purdie and Dixon published the Virginia Gazette from 1766 to 1774. Subsequently Dixon published the newspaper with other partners. General Assembly records do not indicate that the state compensated Franklin.