> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 325](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066665) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11710-1) LSID 11710-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21612735) QID Q21612735 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Williams, Samuel (1743-1817), American historian, naturalist and clergyman; minister at Bradford, Mass. 1765-1780; Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy Harvard University 1780-1788; minister at Rutland, Vt. 1789-1795, editor of the Rutland Herald 1795-1804. **Abbreviated name**: *S. Williams* \[standard form in IPNI: *Williams*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 500; Dawson p. 874 (1789: helping to found Univ. Vermont); ME 2: 42, 3: 358-359; TL-2/16.041. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 3: 2749. 1880. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 258: 478. 1965; Sibley's Harvard graduates 15(1761-1763): 134-146. 1970 (biogr.) - Drake, F.S., Dict. Amer. Biogr., Suppl. 988-989. 1872 (b. 23 Apr 1743, d. 2 Jan 1817). - McCorison, A., Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc. 7682): 293-395. 1967 (daybook Rutland Herald). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1331. 1863. - Sabin, J., Dict. books rel. America 18: 124. 1889, 28: 443-445. 1936. #### Note Samuel Williams (c. 1898-1965), B.Sc. Manchester 1920, was lecturer in botany at Glasgow University 1923-1964 and published on the morphology of ferns (e.g. in F. Verdoorn, Man. pteridol. 1938). See Desmond p. 663. ### Publications ##### n.17.789. The natural and civil history of Vermont **Title** *The natural and civil history of Vermont*... Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire (By Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle, Jun....) 1794. Oct. (in 4-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. civ. hist. Vermont*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1794 (p. iii: 16 Jul 1794), map, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[17\]-416. *Copies*: HH, NY, PH "vegetable productions" on p. 66-80. *Ed. 2*: 1809, "The second edition, corrected and much enlarged". Burlington, Vt. (printed by Samuel Mills...) 1809. 2 vols. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY. *1*: 1809, p. \[1\]-514, \[515\]. *2*: 1809, p. \[1\]-487, \[488, err.\].