Background
Nathanael Williams was born on August 25, 1675 in Boston, Massachussets, the son of Deacon Nathanael Williams and his second wife, Mary (Oliver) Shrimpton.
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The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of ... of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visi
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Excerpt from The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of Boston in N. E.; Published for the Common Advantage, More Especially of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visited With That Distemper It was his Method to reduce to Writing the more ream-ht? 61a Cafi: with the various Symptoms occuring, and the Comic he took that he might form his own Practice in like Cafes afterwards. And by this Means we are favoured with the fillor'wi'hg Trails-3 which appear to be wrote' with great Judgment and Concifenefif tho' without the leafi: Thought of their being ever pnbliihed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of ... of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visi
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Excerpt from The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of Boston in N. E.; Published for the Common Advantage, More Especially of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visited With That Distemper It was his Method to reduce to Writing the more ream-ht? 61a Cafi: with the various Symptoms occuring, and the Comic he took that he might form his own Practice in like Cafes afterwards. And by this Means we are favoured with the fillor'wi'hg Trails-3 which appear to be wrote' with great Judgment and Concifenefif tho' without the leafi: Thought of their being ever pnbliihed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Nathanael Williams
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He graduated at Harvard in 1693.
Career
On August 16, 1698, he "was ordained in the Colledge Hall at Cambridge, to go and preach the gospell and dispense the ordinances to a non-conformist Church at Barbadoes". After two years the tropical climate drove Williams back to Boston, where he was "employ'd by several Gentlemen to instruct their Sons in Learning".
Upon the recommendation of the clergy he was appointed to assist Ezekiel Cheever in the Boston Latin School, where he entered upon his duties July 12, 1703. Five years later, upon the death of Cheever, he succeeded to the mastership. There is some evidence that he edited at least one edition of Cheever's famous Accidence. Besides teaching and occasionally preaching - he was a pillar of the Old South Church - Williams "studied Chymistry and Physick, under his Uncle the Learned Dr. James Oliver of Cambridge".
He appears, with Zabdiel Boylston and William Douglass, in an imaginary debate on inoculation for the smallpox in an anonymous satirical pamphlet by Isaac Greenwood entitled, A Friendly Debate; or, A Dialogue between Academicus and Sawny and Mundungus (1722).
In April 1723, Williams was offered the rectorship of Yale, but his family, apparently for financial reasons, induced him to decline it. Ten years later he resigned from the Latin School, but after some months succumbed to the call of form and ferule and opened a private school "for the Teaching and Instructing of Children or youth in Reading, Writing or any other Science".
He died, a substantial and heartily respected citizen, at the age of sixty-two. Of his eight children, six died young.
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The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of ... of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visi
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The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of ... of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visi
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The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox: With Observations on the Way of Inoculation; Taken From a Manuscript of the Late Dr. Nathanael Williams, of ... of the Country Towns, Who May Be Visi
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Quotes from others about the person
When he entered the chambers of the sick, his "lively Voice and Countenance, " said Thomas Prince, "did good like a Medicine, reviv'd our Spirits, and lighten'd our Maladies".
Connections
In the New England colony in Barbados he married Anne, the daughter of Samuel Bradstreet, and granddaughter of Gov. Simon Bradstreet.
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American