| Maker(s): | Hume, David
| | Culture: | Scottish (1711-1776)
| | Title: | book: The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688
| | Date Made: | 1850
| | Type: | Book
| | Materials: | paper, ink. leather, gilding
| | Place Made: | United States, Massachusetts, Boston
| | Measurements: | overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in x 1 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm x 3.175 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 70.111D
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Captain & Mrs. Edgar Miller Williams
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
"The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688" in 6 volumes by David Hume, and this edition published by Phillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston, 1851. "S. B. Williams." is stamped in black ink on the first page, for Samuel Barnard Williams (1803-1884). 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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