Description:
"Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg / From the Earliest Accounts to the Death of Frederic I.. King of Prussia. To which are added FOUR DISSERTATIONS I. On Superstition and Religion. II. On Manners, Customs, Industry, and the Progress of the Human Understanding in the Arts and Sciences. III. On the antient and modern Government of Brandenburg. IV. On the Reasons for the Enacting and Repealing of Laws." This was written by Frederick II (1712-1786) who was a King of Prussia (1740–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty; in his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV (Friedrich IV.) of Brandenburg, and became known as Frederick the Great. This edition was printed in London for J. Nourse at the Lamb opposite Katherine-Street in the Strand,1758. The front pages are inscribed in ink, "Thos Williams"; "Elijah Williams"; "Elijah Williams 1801"; and "Harry T. Williams, M.D. from O.B. Williams, Nov. 14, 1908." 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).
Subjects:
Leather Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+69.0177 |
