William Lindow

Slave-owner on St Vincent, where he appears to have been active in the 1760s and 1770s, and then a Lancaster-based merchant, associated with the Rawlinson family in the town. Original purchaser of land that became Keartons estate on St Vincent in 1765. In 1767 he transferred a half share to George Kearton (q.v.). William Lindow was the uncle of Henry Lindow Lindow (q.v.), who inherited William Lindow's estates in St Vincent, Grenada and Great Britain: Henry Lindow Lindow was born Henry Lindow Rawlinson, son of Henry Rawlinson (q.v.), William Lindow's brother-in-law.

In an indenture of 10/06/1777, William Lindow and Rene Augier both of St Vincent bought 14 named enslaved people (Kingsale, Mercure, Haffey, Ranger, Prince, Reynolds, Pickering, Archer, Kitty, Cole, Louise, Nancy, Charlotte and her child Dick) for £640 from Luke Roch Phipps, the executor of Robert Heron who had died c. 1776.