Elizabeth Hunter Holt (1726-1788) was a
colonial American
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newspaper publisher from the
U.S. state
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of
Virginia
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.
Biography
Elizabeth Hunter Holt was the sister of William Hunter of
Yorktown, Virginia
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. She married
John Holt (1726-1784) of
Williamsburg, Virginia
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, whom she succeeded at the ''
New York Journal
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal''
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'', which for a short time was renamed the ''Independent New York Gazette''. They had a son, John Hunter Holt (d. 1787) and a daughter, Elizabeth Oswald, who was also a publisher. In 1784, she was named
New York
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state printer.
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1726 births
1788 deaths
Women in publishing
18th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
Women printers
18th-century American businesswomen
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