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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, governor of the HBC; d. 14 Jan.  in Brixton (London), England.

Before William Williams joined the Hudson’s Bay Company he served in the East India Company, possibly as a ship’s captain.

In an affidavit in the East India’s records a person with the same name declared that he had been born in Shirley (London), on 3 April , and a William Williams is listed for voyages to India between and Whatever the details, there appears to be no doubt that our subject was a seafaring man; in the s Captain John Franklin called him an “expert sailor.” Williams was engaged by the HBC as governor-in-chief of Rupert’s Land on 20 May  at a salary of £1, a year.

He was described by the company as a man who had an “Enterprising and active mind & whose talents & habits of life are calculated to command obedience & to insure strict Discipline in all under his authority.”

Williams arrived at York Factory (Man.) aboard the Prince o