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Webster, John (1776)

Webster, John, Charles St, Liverpool, joiner and cm (d. by 1776). By November 1776 John Webster was dead and an auction sale of his stock was announced for 5 December. On offer were a quantity of deal, oak and mahogany boards, utensils and implements and ‘some very neat Cabinet & Household Goods, mostly new’. The Charles St premises included a ‘shop & yard’ which in November 1776 were being used by John and William Webster, probably sons of the deceased. [Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 29 November 1776]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.