William Parks

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Endings and Beginnings

2 The Worcestershire Apprentice

3 Striking Out on His Own

4 All the Encouraging Prospects of Success

5 Printing and Publishing in “The Age of Clamour”

6 “Printer to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, and the Province” of Maryland

7 Economics, Enlightenment, and the Maryland Gazette

8 Transforming the Discourse

9 Serving Two Masters

10 The Williamsburg Print Shop

11 Controversy and the Virginia Gazette

12 William Parks, Gent.

Epilogue

Appendix: Parks’s Family Background

Notes

Index

“This study is a valuable guide to the contexts in which religious, social and political print discourse took place in the southern colonies during the first decades of the eighteenth century.”

—Chris Fauske, Anglican and Episcopal History