William Abrams

William Abrams (c. 1785 – 6 February 1844) was a businessman with a military and judicial career in New Brunswick.

Abrams was born in Plymouth, England and was in businesses in Greenock, Scotland before emigrating to New Brunswick in 1819. There, he started a business funded by himself and five partners in Scotland. He and his family settled in the Miramichi region and he ran a business there, first with partners and later on his own, until his death.

In Rosebank, Abrams founded a shipyard, which suffered in the Miramichi Fire of 1825. Total losses were approximately £40,000. Trans-Atlantic trade was rising, however, and the company financially recovered. In total, the shipyard built 25 sailing vessels.

In 1838, the Miramichi Abrams shipyard built the Actaeon, which sailed to Liverpool and registered there in the year of its construction. The ship, a three-masted barque, was scuttled in 1853 in the Falkland Islands.