Rowland Ash

Slave-owner on St Vincent, Member of the Council there until he 'entirely quitted' the island in 1776. He was the grantor of a series of annuities totalling £325 p.a. in 1771 secured on his estate and enslaved people purchased by a group of London merchants, lawyers and MPs. He was possibly the Rowland Ash jun. who had been active on Antigua in the mid-1750s.

'Journal, November 1776: Volume 83', in Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: Volume 14, January 1776 - May 1782, ed. K H Ledward (London, 1938), pp. 50-56. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/jrnl-trade-plantations/vol14/pp50-56 [accessed 20 October 2020]; Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. I 'Pedigree of Ash' p. 9.