No Dates
Slave-owner in Demerara and merchant of Lancaster. Partner with Robert Dodson and John Dodgson in a mercantile firm in Stabroek, then partner with Robert Dodson (q.v.) in Lancaster: the two men were individually bankrupt in 1811.
Essequebo & Demerara Gazette, 15/12/1804: Notice of dissolution of the partnership of Jacob Ridley and Robert Dodson, of Lancaster (Lancashire), and Wm. Dodgson [sic], of Stabroek, merchants as Ridley, Dodson & Co.; London Gazette 17034 4 July 1815 p. 1331.
Absentee?
British/Irish
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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Not known
'Assignee of Ridley'. Inferred to be Jacob Ridley |
Commercial (1) |
Name partner
Ridley & Dodson
West India merchant |
Business partners
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