Samuel Williams family papers, ca. 1723-1993.

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Samuel Williams family papers, ca. 1723-1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612802386

Collection includes correspondence of: Loammi Baldwin (1745-1807); Jonas Fay (1737-1818); Harvard College; Chauncy Landgon (1763-1830); Count Benjamin Rumford (1753-1814); Isaac Tichenor (1754-1838); Timothy Todd (1758-1806); Charles Kilborn Williams (1856-1920); Charles Langdon Williams (1821-1861); Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson (1864-1937); Samuel Williams (1743-1817), and many others. There is also substantial correspondence with the Williams family from repositories and individuals interested in acquiring the Williams family collection for their institution or in doing research using these papers. Autograph manuscript compositions and documents include sermons by Warham Williams (1699-1751) and Samuel Williams (1743-1817); an essay by Count Benjamin Rumford (1753-1814); two natural history journals by Samuel Williams (1743-1817), titled: Vermont - No. 1. Notes on the state of Vermont (1792), and Natural History (ca. 1783-1786); journals of voyages taken by various Williams family members; and other items. Manuscript documents relating to the Williams family include: financial records; wills; deeds; genealogical charts and lists; estate inventories; transcripts of historical documents on the Williams family from various repositories; and certificates and diplomas. There is a large series of images of Williams family members, the majority of which are modern prints made of historic photographs. The collection also includes original photographs, such as tintypes, silhouettes, cartes-de-visite (card photographs), daguerreotypes, and a photograph album. Also in this collection are some objects formerly belonging to the Williams family: Comb (hair ornament) mount with detachable frontlet, ca. 1800-1840; man's knee buckles (strap accessories), 17??; sliding-temple spectacles, said to have been worn by Samuel Williams; 19th-century? silk woman's lace-up boots and pumps (shoes)); as well as numerous folders of printed materials collected about various Williams luminaries.

3 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799124

Houghton Library

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Baldwin, Loammi, 1744-1807

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Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773–1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777–1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888) were also well-known engineers. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middl...

Williams, Samuel, 1743-1817

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Wilson, Lucy Langdon Williams, 1864-1937

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Harvard College (1780- )

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Special students were those who took courses in Harvard College but were not degree candidates; they had not gone through the standard admissions process completed by AB degree candidates. From the description of Records of special students, 1876-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064523 It is unclear whether F.C. Fabel ever attended Harvard College. F.C. Fabel may be Frederick Charles Fabel, who received an AB from the University of Rochester in 1893. ...

Williams, Charles Kilborn, 1856-1920.

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Tichenor, Isaac, 1754-1838

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Isaac Tichenor was born on February 8, 1754 in Newark, New Jersey. A 1775 graduate of Princeton College, Tichenor studied law in Schenectady, New York before his appointment as assistant to Jacob Cuyler, Deputy Commissary General of purchases for the Northern Department, in 1777. His job as purchasing agent took him throughout New England, and he settled in Bennington and opened a law practice at the close of the Revolutionary War. Tichenor's political career began in 17...

Langdon, Chauncy, 1763-1830

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Williams, Charles L. (Charles Langdon), 1821-1861

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Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814

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Scientist and inventor; lived in New Hampshire; also known as Sir Benjamin Thompson Rumford. From the description of Family papers, 1747-1852. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963873 Rumford, an applied physicist and inventor, as well as a soldier of fortune, and philanthropist, was born in Massachusetts, but after siding with the British in the American Revolution, lived mostly in England, Bavaria, and France. He studied heat, gunpowder, coo...

Williams, Charles Kilborn, 1782-1853

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Williams, Warham, 1699-1751

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Fay, Jonas, 1737-1818

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Todd, Timothy, 1758-1806

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