P_10433_3032 – Rowland Webster
Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Rowland Webster was a co-investor with Robert Smith, William Christopher and John Middleton – two of whom have been identified further – together with William Welbank, George Sharpe and George Brown, who were partners in London as ‘brokers’ – in a voyage by the ship the Francis [sic] and Harriott to the Gold Coast and Grenada in 1792. The Frances and Harriott appears in Lloyd’s Register 1792 under Webster & Co., built in Stockton. There is a strong Stockton-on-Tees connection among at least the Welbank and Brown families, William Christopher and Rowland Webster. The 1797 will of William Christopher gentleman of Stockton on Tees, Durham, is of the Hudson Bay Co. captain and correspondent of James Banks, while the will of Rowland Webster of Stockton proved 1810 shows no obvious connection to past connections in the slave-trade but refers to a roperythat he owned.