Smith, William (1753-55)
Smith, William, the Side, Newcastle, u (1753–d. by 1755). Named as the agent to Philip Magee, linen cloth bleacher in 1753. Cloth could be left at Smith's shop or given to Caleb Alder ‘in the Burnt-house entry, on the Side’. By June 1755 Smith was dead and the business was continued by Bartholomew Kent, his son-in-law and formerly his app. [Newcastle Courant, 17 March 1753, 7 June 1755]
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.