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William Kerin Constable (1751/52–1803)

Role

In 1795 Bushrod Washington wrote William Kerin Constable regarding the execution of a will. 

Description

William Kerin Constable, the son of a British Army surgeon, was born on 1 January 1751 or 1752 in Dublin, Ireland. After spending his childhood in Montreal and upstate New York, he returned to Dublin to attend Trinity College. Constable then served in the Revolutionary War as an aide-de-camp to Lafayette, settled in New York City, and co-founded William Constable and Company, a pioneering mercantile firm that would outfit the first American ship to trade with China and India.

Citations

Constable-Pierrepont papers, 17621911, New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts, New York City.

William Constable papers, 17901805, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York.

"Our Story," Constable Hall.

New York Evening Post, 23 May 1803, page 3, column 2 (Newspapers.com).

William Constable at City Readers: Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library.

William Kerin Constable at House Histree.

William Kerin Constable at Find a Grave.