In a Carpenter's Own Words: Letters of Seth Williamson, 1810-1835

From: The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc. | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Only an exceptional life left testimony enough for a full biography and the most exceptional of men often left no clue to their inner thoughts.

HISTORIAN KENNETH LOCKRIDGE1

Seth Williamson was not an "exceptional" man, and there is no biography of him. Threads of his life surfaced in a few public records: a marriage listing in a church archives, some real estate transactions, a pension application after the War of 1812, a short probate will, and a cemetery headstone telling of his birth in 1782 and his death eighty years later.'2 I lowever, in a lifelong correspondence with his younger ...

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