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William HunterPrinter,  Bookbinder and Account BookbinderWilliamsburgVirginia (1750) 1.1. Succeeded William Parks. The authors attribute the binding of one of GeorgeWashington’s account books to John Strech who worked for Parks’ and laterHunter.  A daybook, from this shop, 1750-1752 survives. The Bookbinder inEighteenth-Century Williamsburg, pub. by Colonial Williamsburg, 1978, pg.14

Eleazer Huntington,Engraver and Copper-plate PrinterMain 315,Hartford,Connecticut,Geer’s Hartford Connecticut 1828 Business Directory, page 32 

Samuel HuntingtonBookbinding, Blank-book bindinga few doors east of V. Harrington’s BookstoreBurlingtonVermont *11.(1837) “The subscriber has purchased of C. Goodrich, his Book-Binding tools, Stock & c.”… . Burlington Free Press January 27, 1837.2.(1842) Strong’s Building, corner Church and College street opposite Hagar and Arthur’s Sign Red Ledger. Burlington Free Press July 8,1842.

George Huntress, Jr.Bookbinder and Blank Book Manufacturer and LibrarianDaniel streetPortsmouthNew Hampshire 1.1. (1839) “Paper Ruled to any pattern. Fancy Binding, in Russia, Calf, orMorocco, and Common Binding of all descriptions, neatly and faithfullyexecuted.”2. (1842) ” Apprentices’ Library Removed to the Shop of G. Huntress,Bookbinder, Daniel street” New Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, April, 19, 1842.

Benjamin Hurd*BookbinderDerne Street res.BostonMassachusetts* ( 1813, 1816) Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding in America” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.101.1. (1813) Boston City Directory same listing in ’16 (gone in 1818)2. (1820) “Sale of Real Estate,…being part of the estate of Benjamin Hurd,late of said Boston, Bookbinder, deceased, and sold for the payment of hisdebts.” Boston Patriot, Boston, Aug. 30. 1820.