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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaHugh WILLIAMSON
(1735-1819)
WILLIAMSON, Hugh, a
Delegate and a Representative from North Carolina; born on Oterara
Creek, in West Nottingham Township, Pa., December 5, 1735; attended
the common schools; prepared for college at Newark, Del., and was
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in
1757; studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1758;
resigned, owing to ill health, in 1760; professor of mathematics in
the College of Philadelphia; studied medicine in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and Utrecht, Holland; returned to Philadelphia and
practiced; engaged in business; member of the American
Philosophical Society, and was a member of the commission to
observe the transits of Venus and Mercury in 1773; at the time of
the “Boston Tea Party” he was examined in England by
the privy council regarding it; returned to America in 1776 and
settled in Edenton, N.C.; engaged in mercantile pursuits; during
the Revolutionary War was surgeon general of the North Carolina
troops 1779-1782; Member of the State house of commons in 1782 and
1785; member of the Continental Congress 1782-1785, and 1788;
delegate to the Federal Convention in 1787; member of the State
ratification convention in 1789; elected as a Federalist to the
First and Second Congresses and served from March 19, 1790, until
March 3, 1793; moved to New York City in 1793; engaged extensively
in literary pursuits until his death in New York City, May 22,
1819; interment in the Apthrop tomb in Trinity Churchyard.
Bibliography
Potts, Louis W. “Hugh Williamson: The Poor Man’s
Franklin and the National Domain.” North Carolina
Historical Review 64 (October 1987): 371-93.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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