History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . nt of Boston Water-Power Company ;Presidential elector, , 56, 60. He has been many yearsa leading politician in the Democratic party. He died inBoston, Oct. 24, 1878. Maj. Elijah Williams, son of Rev. John, was born in graduated at Harvard College in 1732 ; , 1758. Hemarried, in 1736, Lydia Dwight, of Hatfield ; (2d) 1750, Mar-garet Pynchon, of Springfield. He was a man of decidedability and activity; was a civil engineer; town clerk twen
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . nt of Boston Water-Power Company ;Presidential elector, , 56, 60. He has been many yearsa leading politician in the Democratic party. He died inBoston, Oct. 24, 1878. Maj. Elijah Williams, son of Rev. John, was born in graduated at Harvard College in 1732 ; , 1758. Hemarried, in 1736, Lydia Dwight, of Hatfield ; (2d) 1750, Mar-garet Pynchon, of Springfield. He was a man of decidedability and activity; was a civil engineer; town clerk twenty-five years ; selectman twenty-five years ; representative seven-teen years. He lived on his fathers homestead, and went intotrade in a building on the southwest corner of it, in 1742. Thisbuilding, with additions, was known to this generation as theWare store. It was removed in 1877, to make way for theDickinson Academy. Maj. Williams took a prominent partin the French-and-Indian-wars; was captain of snow-shoe menin 1743, and controlled the military operations in this regionthrough the war. He was four or five years in trade in En-.
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