Nathan Pollard (d. 1836), educator and publisher, was in Richmond by 1817, when he advertised his school at Masons’ Hall. Later that year he and William A. Chapin added an evening school. Pollard took up printing by 1820 at the Franklin Press of the Presbyterian clergyman John H. Rice. He eventually became its proprietor, publishing under his own name and later in the partnerships of Pollard & Goddard and Pollard & Converse. From 1820 to about 1828 Pollard published Rice’s Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine. He also published Rice’s newspaper, the Richmond Family Visitor, beginning in 1822. Pollard purchased the paper about 1827 and combined it with the Fayetteville North Carolina Telegraph, continuing publication in Richmond under the new title of Visitor and Telegraph until he sold his share in 1828. He owned three slaves in 1830. Pollard had resumed teaching by 1831, when he operated a classical school (Margaret Meagher, History of Education in Richmond [1939], 57; Richmond Commercial Compiler, 25 Aug., 25 Nov. 1817, 18 Sept. 1818; The Richmond Directory, Register and Almanac, for the Year 1819 [Richmond, 1819], 63; James A. Bear Jr. and Mary Caperton Bear, A Checklist of Virginia Almanacs, 1732–1850 [1962]; Lester J. Cappon, Virginia Newspapers, 1821–1935 [1936], 175, 185; A. J. Morrison, “Presbyterian Periodicals of Richmond, 1815–1860,” Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 1 [1920]: 174–6; Richmond Enquirer, 28 Oct. 1828, 6 Jan. 1831; DNA: RG 29, CS, Richmond, 1830; Richmond Courier and Daily Compiler, 15 Dec. 1836).