as found in Soe Longe As There Comes Noe Women W. Gordon Handcock

  THOMAS ROW (#016)

p. 178    By the 1780's he (Capt. Wm. Fox) had become a sea captain, as well as part owner of the brig Aurora in partnership with Thomas Row, merchant of St. Nicholas. Subsequently in 1793 he commanded the brig BRITTANIA which he jointly owned with Row and Richard Westlake of Bishopsteignton.  In 1796 Row and Fox acquired the brigantine COGNAC. 
          
p. 181    Row's notice of October 12, 1816 actually bore the names of 59 offending passengers .........

Between 1810 and 1812 South Devon ships landed some 3000 men, 376 women and 88 children in St. John's.  The owners included Bulley, Codner, Job and Row of the Teignmouth-Shaldon area .........
 

ELIAS ROWE (#392)

p. 172    Among other Teign valley men such as ..........., Elias Rowe, John Job was a member of the Grand Jury appointed in St. John's in 1794 .....

ROWE Family

p.125   The Rowe family moved from Trinity (1750's) to Hearts Content(1801).

p.164   ......Stokeinteignhead families such as .... Row, ..... (common names in Newfoundland)
          occur with a high degree of regularity.

p.171   .....it is possible to recognize a small but persistent group of families such as ...
          Row, ...... who participated consistently throughout the byeboat and banking phases
          of the Newfoundland fishery.

p.173   Some of the local families appeared persistently in these operations (byeboatkeepers
          or bankers) included the .... Row,..... families - patrilines with long-standing parishioner status.

p.174   ...... the larger merchant/shipowners of St. Nicholas (...and Row) clearly formed the
          most affluent socio-economic class in their community.

p.250   In the Teignmouth-Shaldon area, families such as ...... Row, .....are found among the
          ranks of shipowners, mariners, boatkeepers,and fishermen in the NF trade for over two
          centuries.