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Gathering of 30 pages, done in several hands. Includes notes on "Brown's Common errors" (i.e., Thomas Brown, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly perceived truths", London, 1658 with later editions); notes on philosophy; description of how to draw a line of meridian; a discussion of the Julian period; and notes on the Book of Luke, Chapter 11, with the statement: "I made this analyses ye 11th of Jan Dom 1736/7" A note in a later hand, signed "J.W." suggests that the notes on Brown's "Common errors" is the work of Rev. John Williams (1664-1729).

[30] p. ; 15 cm.

Historic Deerfield Library

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Historic Deerfield Library

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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682

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Williams, John, 1664-1729

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Clergyman. From the description of John Williams family papers, circa 1721-1776. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981375 Deerfield, Mass., clergyman and author captured with his family in 1703/1704 by French and Indians and taken to Canada. Williams was released in 1706 and returned to his Deerfield ministry in 1707. After graduating from Harvard in 1713, his son, Stephen, began a sixty-six year ministry in Longmeadow. From the descriptio...