Elizabeth Hunter Holt | |
Birth Name: | Elizabeth Hunter |
Birth Date: | 1726 |
Birth Place: | Yorktown, Virginia |
Death Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Resting Place: | Christ church burial ground, Pennsylvania |
Elizabeth Hunter Holt (1726-1788) was a colonial American newspaper publisher from the U.S. state of Virginia.
Elizabeth Hunter Holt was the sister of William Hunter of Yorktown, Virginia. She married John Holt (1726-1784) of Williamsburg, Virginia, whom she succeeded at the New York Journal, 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 state printer.