Samuel Williams
Auteur : Samuel Williams
Date de publication : 1778
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Résumé du livre
Williams' papers, 1778-1806, include a letter written to his friend Rev. Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798) of Dover, N.H., concerning an invitation to visit Belknap in 1778; and a letter to Governor James Bowdoin (1726-1790) summarizing the research being conducted into establishing the boundary between New York and Massachusetts in 1787. There are also seven pages of "Astronomical Observations ..." performed by Williams to determine the northern boundary of Vermont, 1806; and a typescript summary of statistics contained in Williams' account book for the period September 1798 to September 1803, divided into Sales, Advertisements, and Printing commissions.