Age 76 years, 5 months. Remains removed from the Methodist Cemetery on April 18, 1879.
Daily National Intelligencer
Monday, March 21, 1842
Death
On Saturday morning last, in the 79th year of his age, William Alexander Rind Esq., formerly editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, a journal well known in its day for the ability and fairness that characterized it. Mr. R. was a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, but for the last forty-two years a resident of the District of Columbia. Few men ever retained more justly the esteem of their fellow citizens and none ever died more sincerely lamented.
The Advocate Tuesday, March 22, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
Since our last publication, an event, considering his age and disease, not altogether unexpected, has taken place in the death of William Alexander Rind Esq. in the 79th year of his age and for the last forty-two years a resident of Georgetown. This worthy and respected man throughout his long and well spent life undeviatingly displayed the qualities of the Christian, the Parent, the Patriot and the Man; and has quietly fallen asleep in the blessed and exalted hope of a glorious resurrection. If the maxim of the ancient sage that no man is to be esteemed happy until after his decease, be a sound one, (and who will dispute it,) surely Mr. Rind may be well placed among the happiest of his race, for, like a shock of corn gathered in due season, he awaits the approbative call of his Maker Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
We need not dilate upon the goodness of heart, the honest simplicity, the manly openness, the sincere and charitable feelings which mark the deceased. Everybody that knew respected him and regret will be felt that the place that knew him shall know him no more.
The funeral, which took place on Sunday afternoon, the day succeeding his decease, was an evidence of the feelings of our citizens, it being most numerously attended by all classes, parties, ages, conditions and sexes.
The Advocate Thursday, March 24, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
To The Editors Of The Advocate:
Sirs – In the very kind and flattering notice you were pleased to take of my deceased parent, you were inadvertently led into an error, which you will oblige me by correcting. You say:
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the “Washington Federalist,” after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
The Washington Federalist was published in the District of Columbia. My father conducted the Virginia Federalist in the city of Richmond and moved to the District of Columbia in 1800, where he established the Washington Federalist, which paper was conducted by him up to 1808, when it passed into other hands and its original name changed. From that time, my father has never been connected with any political paper whatever. There never was a paper called the Washington Federalist in Baltimore and besides Alexander Hamilton was killed many years before the retreat you refer to, took place.
I presume you have been led into the error, by confounding the Federal Republican, a paper printed in Baltimore and afterward in this town, with the Washington Federalist and the name of Alexander Hamilton with Alexander Hanson, the editor of the Republican.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
March 24, 1842, Samuel S. Rind
A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800 by Marie Tremaine
Charlottetown, Island Of St. John
William Alexander Rind, 1790-1798
William Alexander Rind was born and educated in Virginia, the son of William and Clementina Rind. His father, printer of the Virginia Gazette, having died in 1773 and his mother the following year, young William and his brother John received their schooling at the expense of the Williamsburg Lodge of Freemasons and his father’s press in Williamsburg was operated for the benefit of Clementina’s Rind children by John Pinkney. William Rind came to the Island of St. John in 1788, according to his statement in the Washington Federalist, February 19, 1802. He worked as a journeyman in the printing office of James Robertson Sr. and when Robertson left the Island in the following spring, Rind completed the printing of the basic volume of the colony’s laws. As King’s printer he received an annual salary of £40 for the regular printing of the sessions law and Assembly Journal and produced a few other small pieces for the governor. Almost his only other publication probably was the Royal Gazette and Miscellany of the Island of St. John. Rind married on August 24, 1790, Elizabeth Bagnall, daughter of Samuel Bagnall, a loyalist from Philadelphia, who settled in Charlottetown in 1787. Four children born to the Rinds are recorded in the MS baptismal records of St. Paul’s Church, Charlottetown, 1791-1797. On November 9, 1797, a grant of twelve acres of wilderness land in the royalty of Charlottetown was made to Rind and that is the last record we have of his presence on the Island. In October 1798 Lieutenant Governor Fanning wrote the Colonial Office in London that the Printer having lately left the Island with his Family for the United States of America. . . I fear it will be with some delay at least in the future that I shall be able to procure and transmit printed copies of the Acts. Before he left, however, Rind is said to have taught printing to his nephew, James Douglas Bagnall.
Daily National Intelligencer
Monday, March 21, 1842
Death
On Saturday morning last, in the 79th year of his age, William Alexander Rind Esq., formerly editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, a journal well known in its day for the ability and fairness that characterized it. Mr. R. was a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, but for the last forty-two years a resident of the District of Columbia. Few men ever retained more justly the esteem of their fellow citizens and none ever died more sincerely lamented.
The Advocate Tuesday, March 22, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
Since our last publication, an event, considering his age and disease, not altogether unexpected, has taken place in the death of William Alexander Rind Esq. in the 79th year of his age and for the last forty-two years a resident of Georgetown. This worthy and respected man throughout his long and well spent life undeviatingly displayed the qualities of the Christian, the Parent, the Patriot and the Man; and has quietly fallen asleep in the blessed and exalted hope of a glorious resurrection. If the maxim of the ancient sage that no man is to be esteemed happy until after his decease, be a sound one, (and who will dispute it,) surely Mr. Rind may be well placed among the happiest of his race, for, like a shock of corn gathered in due season, he awaits the approbative call of his Maker Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
We need not dilate upon the goodness of heart, the honest simplicity, the manly openness, the sincere and charitable feelings which mark the deceased. Everybody that knew respected him and regret will be felt that the place that knew him shall know him no more.
The funeral, which took place on Sunday afternoon, the day succeeding his decease, was an evidence of the feelings of our citizens, it being most numerously attended by all classes, parties, ages, conditions and sexes.
The Advocate Thursday, March 24, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
To The Editors Of The Advocate:
Sirs – In the very kind and flattering notice you were pleased to take of my deceased parent, you were inadvertently led into an error, which you will oblige me by correcting. You say:
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the “Washington Federalist,” after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
The Washington Federalist was published in the District of Columbia. My father conducted the Virginia Federalist in the city of Richmond and moved to the District of Columbia in 1800, where he established the Washington Federalist, which paper was conducted by him up to 1808, when it passed into other hands and its original name changed. From that time, my father has never been connected with any political paper whatever. There never was a paper called the Washington Federalist in Baltimore and besides Alexander Hamilton was killed many years before the retreat you refer to, took place.
I presume you have been led into the error, by confounding the Federal Republican, a paper printed in Baltimore and afterward in this town, with the Washington Federalist and the name of Alexander Hamilton with Alexander Hanson, the editor of the Republican.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
March 24, 1842, Samuel S. Rind
A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800 by Marie Tremaine
Charlottetown, Island Of St. John
William Alexander Rind, 1790-1798
William Alexander Rind was born and educated in Virginia, the son of William and Clementina Rind. His father, printer of the Virginia Gazette, having died in 1773 and his mother the following year, young William and his brother John received their schooling at the expense of the Williamsburg Lodge of Freemasons and his father’s press in Williamsburg was operated for the benefit of Clementina’s Rind children by John Pinkney. William Rind came to the Island of St. John in 1788, according to his statement in the Washington Federalist, February 19, 1802. He worked as a journeyman in the printing office of James Robertson Sr. and when Robertson left the Island in the following spring, Rind completed the printing of the basic volume of the colony’s laws. As King’s printer he received an annual salary of £40 for the regular printing of the sessions law and Assembly Journal and produced a few other small pieces for the governor. Almost his only other publication probably was the Royal Gazette and Miscellany of the Island of St. John. Rind married on August 24, 1790, Elizabeth Bagnall, daughter of Samuel Bagnall, a loyalist from Philadelphia, who settled in Charlottetown in 1787. Four children born to the Rinds are recorded in the MS baptismal records of St. Paul’s Church, Charlottetown, 1791-1797. On November 9, 1797, a grant of twelve acres of wilderness land in the royalty of Charlottetown was made to Rind and that is the last record we have of his presence on the Island. In October 1798 Lieutenant Governor Fanning wrote the Colonial Office in London that the Printer having lately left the Island with his Family for the United States of America. . . I fear it will be with some delay at least in the future that I shall be able to procure and transmit printed copies of the Acts. Before he left, however, Rind is said to have taught printing to his nephew, James Douglas Bagnall.
Age 76 years, 5 months. Remains removed from the Methodist Cemetery on April 18, 1879.
Daily National Intelligencer
Monday, March 21, 1842
Death
On Saturday morning last, in the 79th year of his age, William Alexander Rind Esq., formerly editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, a journal well known in its day for the ability and fairness that characterized it. Mr. R. was a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, but for the last forty-two years a resident of the District of Columbia. Few men ever retained more justly the esteem of their fellow citizens and none ever died more sincerely lamented.
The Advocate Tuesday, March 22, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
Since our last publication, an event, considering his age and disease, not altogether unexpected, has taken place in the death of William Alexander Rind Esq. in the 79th year of his age and for the last forty-two years a resident of Georgetown. This worthy and respected man throughout his long and well spent life undeviatingly displayed the qualities of the Christian, the Parent, the Patriot and the Man; and has quietly fallen asleep in the blessed and exalted hope of a glorious resurrection. If the maxim of the ancient sage that no man is to be esteemed happy until after his decease, be a sound one, (and who will dispute it,) surely Mr. Rind may be well placed among the happiest of his race, for, like a shock of corn gathered in due season, he awaits the approbative call of his Maker Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
We need not dilate upon the goodness of heart, the honest simplicity, the manly openness, the sincere and charitable feelings which mark the deceased. Everybody that knew respected him and regret will be felt that the place that knew him shall know him no more.
The funeral, which took place on Sunday afternoon, the day succeeding his decease, was an evidence of the feelings of our citizens, it being most numerously attended by all classes, parties, ages, conditions and sexes.
The Advocate Thursday, March 24, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
To The Editors Of The Advocate:
Sirs – In the very kind and flattering notice you were pleased to take of my deceased parent, you were inadvertently led into an error, which you will oblige me by correcting. You say:
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the “Washington Federalist,” after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
The Washington Federalist was published in the District of Columbia. My father conducted the Virginia Federalist in the city of Richmond and moved to the District of Columbia in 1800, where he established the Washington Federalist, which paper was conducted by him up to 1808, when it passed into other hands and its original name changed. From that time, my father has never been connected with any political paper whatever. There never was a paper called the Washington Federalist in Baltimore and besides Alexander Hamilton was killed many years before the retreat you refer to, took place.
I presume you have been led into the error, by confounding the Federal Republican, a paper printed in Baltimore and afterward in this town, with the Washington Federalist and the name of Alexander Hamilton with Alexander Hanson, the editor of the Republican.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
March 24, 1842, Samuel S. Rind
A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800 by Marie Tremaine
Charlottetown, Island Of St. John
William Alexander Rind, 1790-1798
William Alexander Rind was born and educated in Virginia, the son of William and Clementina Rind. His father, printer of the Virginia Gazette, having died in 1773 and his mother the following year, young William and his brother John received their schooling at the expense of the Williamsburg Lodge of Freemasons and his father’s press in Williamsburg was operated for the benefit of Clementina’s Rind children by John Pinkney. William Rind came to the Island of St. John in 1788, according to his statement in the Washington Federalist, February 19, 1802. He worked as a journeyman in the printing office of James Robertson Sr. and when Robertson left the Island in the following spring, Rind completed the printing of the basic volume of the colony’s laws. As King’s printer he received an annual salary of £40 for the regular printing of the sessions law and Assembly Journal and produced a few other small pieces for the governor. Almost his only other publication probably was the Royal Gazette and Miscellany of the Island of St. John. Rind married on August 24, 1790, Elizabeth Bagnall, daughter of Samuel Bagnall, a loyalist from Philadelphia, who settled in Charlottetown in 1787. Four children born to the Rinds are recorded in the MS baptismal records of St. Paul’s Church, Charlottetown, 1791-1797. On November 9, 1797, a grant of twelve acres of wilderness land in the royalty of Charlottetown was made to Rind and that is the last record we have of his presence on the Island. In October 1798 Lieutenant Governor Fanning wrote the Colonial Office in London that the Printer having lately left the Island with his Family for the United States of America. . . I fear it will be with some delay at least in the future that I shall be able to procure and transmit printed copies of the Acts. Before he left, however, Rind is said to have taught printing to his nephew, James Douglas Bagnall.
Daily National Intelligencer
Monday, March 21, 1842
Death
On Saturday morning last, in the 79th year of his age, William Alexander Rind Esq., formerly editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, a journal well known in its day for the ability and fairness that characterized it. Mr. R. was a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, but for the last forty-two years a resident of the District of Columbia. Few men ever retained more justly the esteem of their fellow citizens and none ever died more sincerely lamented.
The Advocate Tuesday, March 22, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
Since our last publication, an event, considering his age and disease, not altogether unexpected, has taken place in the death of William Alexander Rind Esq. in the 79th year of his age and for the last forty-two years a resident of Georgetown. This worthy and respected man throughout his long and well spent life undeviatingly displayed the qualities of the Christian, the Parent, the Patriot and the Man; and has quietly fallen asleep in the blessed and exalted hope of a glorious resurrection. If the maxim of the ancient sage that no man is to be esteemed happy until after his decease, be a sound one, (and who will dispute it,) surely Mr. Rind may be well placed among the happiest of his race, for, like a shock of corn gathered in due season, he awaits the approbative call of his Maker Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the Washington Federalist, after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
We need not dilate upon the goodness of heart, the honest simplicity, the manly openness, the sincere and charitable feelings which mark the deceased. Everybody that knew respected him and regret will be felt that the place that knew him shall know him no more.
The funeral, which took place on Sunday afternoon, the day succeeding his decease, was an evidence of the feelings of our citizens, it being most numerously attended by all classes, parties, ages, conditions and sexes.
The Advocate Thursday, March 24, 1842
Georgetown, District of Columbia
To The Editors Of The Advocate:
Sirs – In the very kind and flattering notice you were pleased to take of my deceased parent, you were inadvertently led into an error, which you will oblige me by correcting. You say:
Mr. Rind was editor and proprietor of the “Washington Federalist,” after its retreat from Baltimore to this place. To this publication Colonel Alexander Hamilton lent the assistance of his powerful pen, indeed he may be said to have been the foremost and ablest of its contributors and sustainers.
The Washington Federalist was published in the District of Columbia. My father conducted the Virginia Federalist in the city of Richmond and moved to the District of Columbia in 1800, where he established the Washington Federalist, which paper was conducted by him up to 1808, when it passed into other hands and its original name changed. From that time, my father has never been connected with any political paper whatever. There never was a paper called the Washington Federalist in Baltimore and besides Alexander Hamilton was killed many years before the retreat you refer to, took place.
I presume you have been led into the error, by confounding the Federal Republican, a paper printed in Baltimore and afterward in this town, with the Washington Federalist and the name of Alexander Hamilton with Alexander Hanson, the editor of the Republican.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
March 24, 1842, Samuel S. Rind
A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800 by Marie Tremaine
Charlottetown, Island Of St. John
William Alexander Rind, 1790-1798
William Alexander Rind was born and educated in Virginia, the son of William and Clementina Rind. His father, printer of the Virginia Gazette, having died in 1773 and his mother the following year, young William and his brother John received their schooling at the expense of the Williamsburg Lodge of Freemasons and his father’s press in Williamsburg was operated for the benefit of Clementina’s Rind children by John Pinkney. William Rind came to the Island of St. John in 1788, according to his statement in the Washington Federalist, February 19, 1802. He worked as a journeyman in the printing office of James Robertson Sr. and when Robertson left the Island in the following spring, Rind completed the printing of the basic volume of the colony’s laws. As King’s printer he received an annual salary of £40 for the regular printing of the sessions law and Assembly Journal and produced a few other small pieces for the governor. Almost his only other publication probably was the Royal Gazette and Miscellany of the Island of St. John. Rind married on August 24, 1790, Elizabeth Bagnall, daughter of Samuel Bagnall, a loyalist from Philadelphia, who settled in Charlottetown in 1787. Four children born to the Rinds are recorded in the MS baptismal records of St. Paul’s Church, Charlottetown, 1791-1797. On November 9, 1797, a grant of twelve acres of wilderness land in the royalty of Charlottetown was made to Rind and that is the last record we have of his presence on the Island. In October 1798 Lieutenant Governor Fanning wrote the Colonial Office in London that the Printer having lately left the Island with his Family for the United States of America. . . I fear it will be with some delay at least in the future that I shall be able to procure and transmit printed copies of the Acts. Before he left, however, Rind is said to have taught printing to his nephew, James Douglas Bagnall.
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