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"Reflexions upon Ridicule; or, What it is that makes a Man ridiculous; and the Means to avoid it. Wherein are Represented / The different MANNERS and CHARACTERS of Persons of the present Age." in two volumns, the Fifth Edition, published in London (printed for D. Midwinter, W. Innys and R. Manby, in St. Paul's Church-yard; A. Ward in Little-Britain; T. Longman in Pater-noster-Row; and C. Bathurst in Fleet Street) in 1739. The title page is inscribed in ink, "Thos. Williams," for Dr. Thomas Williams (1718-1775) of Deerfield. 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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