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"Select Works of Henry Fielding. / In Two Volumes with A Memoir of the Life of the Author, by Sir Walter Scott; and an Essay on his Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq.", published by Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 1834. The fly leaves of both volumes are inscribed "E. D. Williams / Oct. 1835." Elijah Dwight Williams (1817-1842), the son of Elijah Williams (1767-1832) and Hannah Barnard (1772-1853), graduated from Harvard College in 1835, studied law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. The donor, Captain Edgar Miller Williams (1889-1986), was the son of Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams (1863-1951) who married Anna M. Miller (1860-1955), the daughter of Dr. J. M. Miller of Springfield, Ohio, in 1888; his grandfather was Orson Bennet Williams (1834-1912), who was born in Ashfield and married Pamelia L. Floyd of Springfield, Ohio, in 1862; his great-grandfather was Samuel Barnard Williams (1803-1884) of Deerfield who married Mary A. Bennet (d.1839) of Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1834, and Caroline Johnson (d.1885) in 1844; his great-great grandfather was Elijah Williams (1767-1832) who married Hannah Barnard (1772-1853), daughter of Samuel Barnard (1721-1788) of Deerfield, in 1803; and his great-great-great grandfather was Dr. Thomas Williams (1718-1775) of Deerfield. This branch of the Williams family is also related to Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850-1922), a well-known writer of her period, who was the half-sister of Orson Bennet Williams and the wife of the artist, James Wells Champney (1843-1903).
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