Benjamin Sewell

He left Howe for London and joined the mahogany merchant firm Neck & Woodward. The company was in effect a family business as the Necks and Sewells had a long-standing relationship.

This company was mentioned in 1799 with the address 74 Bank-side. In 1802 the company was named Neck Son & Sewell, and possibly Benjamin was then a partner. In 1806 the address was Honduras Wharf, Bank-side. 1810-1865 the address was 1 Chatham Place, New Bridge, St.Blackfriars. The company description changed to timber merchants and in 1812 the company name changed to Sewell & Neck and in 1822 changed to Benjamin Sewell. In 1830 the company Norman & Co. was merged with the company and in 1832 it changed once again to (Norman)Newman & Sewell, in 1838 Sewell, Newman & Sewell. In 1840 the company description was merchants.. In 1844 the companies name was Benjamin Sewell & Sons. Benjamin died in 1849 and the firm was named Sewell Hanbury & Sewell, but in 1853 changed again to Sewell & Neck. In 1862-65 a change once again to Sewell Bros & Co, with address 8 Finch Lane (80 Cornhill), later Sewell & Neck traded from the same address. His nephew John Neck inherited the businnes and named in 1871 the company John Neck & Sons.

he was mentioned as a Cabinet-maker in 1810!

He lived possibly at his son Clares marriage in Charlton, Kent (Southwest on the outskirts of London). When he died in 1849 he was recorded living in Blackheath Park, Charlton. A witness to his death was a Sabina Skudder. The same Sabina Skudder was present at the death of his widow in 1850, she died in 6 Fountain Terrace, Campberwell.

Sources:

• Sewell Pedigree-1904.
• Family of Sewell, (written in the 1930s ?)
• Sewell of Bracon Ash in Norfolk genealogy volume 13, 1981.
• Edmund Timothy Sewell & Joan Caroline Sewell: "A history of the ancestors of Wilfred Sewell, tracing his descent from Thomas Sewell of Howe Norfolk"
• http://www.arkivportalen.no/side/aktor/detaljer?aktorId=no-a1450-01...
• http://www.sole.org.uk/awalkin.htm
• http://www.archive.org/stream/economyofcapital00pattuoft/economyofc...
• http://archive.org/stream/historisktidssk104foregoog/historisktidss...
• http://books.google.no/books?id=Rw2lF36fqHEC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=me...

John Moses var i 1814 33 år gammel, «annengenerasjons nordmann, usedvanlig begavet, handlekraftig og smart» . Han viste «en helt genial forretningsdyktighet og gjorde store og til dels innviklede forretninger». Han var en av byens fremste redere og kjøpmenn, lokalpolitiker (eligert mann) sammen med en annen brite; William Dall, og hadde «nobelt utseende». Men han var en global aktør og forsto ikke følelser som nasjonal patriotisme og sjåvinisme. Han higet etter fred og frihandel, en politikk regjeringen i København også hadde stått for siden «utenriks- og statsminister» Andreas Peter Bernstorffs tid. Britiske redere så likedan på dette. Kristiansund og flere norske byer fikk våren 1814 besøk fra representanter fra handelshusene Sewell & Necks og Boulton & Baker, som ville inngå kontrakter om varebytte og framtidige forbindelser.

1821: Westye Egeberg skriver at han Søndag 26. aug. ble invitert ut til hr. B. Sewells landsted i Peckham, en liten landsby utenfor London. Stedet lå i enden av landsbyen og kun hvis man gikk ned i hagen kunne man se utover landet, da gjerdene var så høye at utsikten til husene ble skjult. Sewell viste han et slags 6 fot høye trær Arbutus, jordbærtrær. Som lignet våre jordbær, men ikke like god smak. https://www.nb.no/items/b6f24f28c0dfed957134e94aeb1c9765?page=111

1823: Neck & Sewell var Kreditorer i boet etter det Ankerske Fideikomiss.

Da handelsmann og skipsrededer i Skien Simon Zachariassen (Wesseltoft) døde i 1791 satt enken Karen Chrystie igjen med 8 barn, da mottok hun uoppfordret en stor gave fra handelshuset Sewell & Norman i London. 1200 pd. sterling i gull bestemt til oppdragelsen av hennes barn. Det sies at hun hadde fått en koffert med gull innsatt i en livrente-societet i København som hun nøt meget godt av, spesielt i sine siste år, da hun mottok 200 Spd. i året.

Kilder: https://www.nb.no/items/1bae78d2170279404b0ebb5e5841fcfd?page=29

1828: Rittmester Jacob Meyer var kommisjonær for B. Sewell i London