Lawson, John, Cambridge, cm, u and joiner (1763–66). John Lawson is first recorded when on 4 June 1763 he advertised in the Cambridge Chronicle, saying that ‘he has taken a SHOP next Door to the Black-Bear in Bridge-Street’. On 24 September of the same year he advertised that he would have a Booth ‘with a very great Choice of Goods’ at the annual Sturbridge Fair, held just outside Cambridge. He advertised again on 7 April 1764, when moving to a shop on the corner of Shoemaker Row, Cambridge, describing himself as an ‘Upholsterer and Cabinet Maker from London’. On 7 June 1766 a two-day auction was advertised of all ‘the Shop Goods of John Lawson, Upholsterer and Cabinet maker … leaving off those Branches of Business except bespoke Goods … The Carpenters and Joiners Work carried on … as before’.

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