George Hudson payment of 12 shillings and 6 pence recorded in the Howsham poor book as being “received of George Hudson for bastardry”. Hudson was apprenticed to Bell and Nicholson, a firm of drapers in College Street, York. He finished his apprenticeship in 1820, was taken on as a tradesman, and given a share in the business early in 1821. On 17 July that year he married Nicholson's daughter Elizabeth. When Bell retired, the firm became Nicholson and Hudson. By 1827 the company was the largest drapery, indeed the largest business, in York. In 1827, his great-uncle Matthew Botrill fell ill and
USS Hudson (1826) Bahia on 5 August. She remained at New York as a receiving ship until 1844, when she was broken up and sold. USS Hudson (1826) The first USS "Hudson" was a wooden hulled, three-masted sailing frigate in the United States Navy. "Hudson", formerly "Liberator", was built in 1826 for the Greek government by Smith & Dimon of New York. When Greece was unable to pay for her, she was purchased by the Navy and commissioned at New York. In 1828, "Hudson" began fitting out for what was to be her only cruise, and during this period was inspected by President