Henry Howell Williams

[1] After ending his tour with the Colombian Navy, he visited San Felipe de Austin, where his brother Samuel was a legal secretary for the colony.

He instead returned to the United States to work in Baltimore for a merchant, his uncle, Nathaniel Felton Williams.

He managed a family commission house in Baltimore, where he transferred his letters of credit to Samuel, who supplied the Texas Navy with the ammunition, guns, and the schooner Invincible.

Threat of invasion by Mexico, however, dampened commerce between Galveston and the United States as firms in New Orleans avoided putting their ships as risk.

[6] In 1847, Williams raised capital in New York and New Orleans for Commercial & Agricultural Bank, a firm founded by Samuel.