Hugh Williamson
Subtitle: physician, patriot, and founding father
By: George F. Sheldon
Contributors: Friday, William C. (William Clyde)
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781591027706
Description: 361 p., [8] p. of plates : 22 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by William Friday; title: Prologue: "He was no ordinary man"; title: Chronology; title: Early years; title: Scientist; title: Revolutionary War spy; title: Continental Congress and secret committees; title: The War for Independence in North Carolina; title: The Revolutionary War moves South; title: State and national legislator; title: Williamson in the Continental Congress; title: The Constitutional Convention; title: The struggle for ratification of the Constitution; title: Educator; title: Entrepreneur; title: Williamson the man; title: Appendix A : "remarks on the new plan of government"; title: Appendix B : publications by Hugh Williamson in the New York Historical Society.