16.4.1798 call on Cowie
On GD website the above entry is not underlined as unidentified but there is no person record for Cowie. See letters Abinger c4 f18-19(8.5.1798), c4 f20-1(10.5.1798), c15 f20-1, c22 f86 (2.1.1798), c22 f96 (Wed - presumably 9.5.1798). Cowie appears to have been a business associate of Gilbert Imlay and also of R Sherman. Cowie and or Sherman must have been assignees of Moore & Co, carpet manufacturers, founded by Thomas Moore DNB 1700?-1788 and their attorneys must have been Rowland & William Maltby. Sherman referred to a letter from Mrs Godwin (Mary Wollstonecraft) of 17.7.1797 on the subject of the debt (£15 and sixpence), for carpeting which Cowie had apparently assured Mrs Godwin would be covered by goods of Imlay's.
Cowie may have been one of two brothers, Robert & George. Robert was born Montrose c1760 and died Islington 24.8.1834. He was a merchant of Lime St 1789-1834 and insurance broker as Chalmers & Cowie, 50 Lime St in 1794. He lived in Highbury Place Islington in 1811and was connected with the Union Chapel, Compton Terrace Islington. George was a merchant, sometimes as Runquist & Cowie at 5 Bury Court, St Mary Axe and 17 Nicholas Lane, Lombard St in 1794, his will PCC 1831 of Gt St Helens, he married Rachael Buxton at St Margaret Pattens 6.5.1795. There was also a George Cowie bookseller of 31 Poultry will PCC 1829, a Thomas Cowie of Hammersmith will PCC 1825, and a James Cowie shoe factor of Orange Court, Leicester Fields will PCC 1823. John Cowie of 27 Falcon St Aldersgate refiner 1794 was probably another brothe rof Robert & George, he married Hellen renny at Montrose in 1802 and died 8.7.1842 at Wandsworth age 72. He may have been the John Cowie indigo manufacturer Bengal 1800 or John Cowie trader of Cawnpore, Calcutta 1800