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Hugh Williamson : physician, patriot, and founding father / George F. Sheldon.
Van Pelt Library E302.6.W6 S447 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheldon, George F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819.
- Williamson, Hugh.
- United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Continental Congress--Biography.
- United States. Continental Congress.
- Physicians--United States--Biography.
- Physicians.
- History.
- North Carolina.
- Politicians--United States--Biography.
- Politicians.
- North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.
- North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- Politics and government.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians.
- United States.
- Politicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 361 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2010.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by William Friday
- Prologue: "He was no ordinary man"
- Chronology
- Early years
- Scientist
- Revolutionary War spy
- Continental Congress and secret committees
- The War for Independence in North Carolina
- The Revolutionary War moves South
- State and national legislator
- Williamson in the Continental Congress
- The Constitutional Convention
- The struggle for ratification of the Constitution
- Educator
- Entrepreneur
- Williamson the man
- Appendix A : "remarks on the new plan of government"
- Appendix B : publications by Hugh Williamson in the New York Historical Society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781591027706
- 1591027705
- OCLC:
- 318872992
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