Background
Williams was born in Sault Saint Louis, Quebec, Canada, the son of Thomas Williams, and was educated at Dartmouth College.
Williams was born in Sault Saint Louis, Quebec, Canada, the son of Thomas Williams, and was educated at Dartmouth College.
Dartmouth College.
He published tracts and a spelling book in the Iroquois language, translated the Book of Common Prayer into Iroquois, and wrote a biography of Chief Te-ho-ra-gwa-ne-general (Thomas Williams). In 1817, Bishop John Henry Hobart appointed Williams to be a missionary to the Oneida people in upstate New New York Historians have disputed the significance of Williams" leadership to this migration compared to that of the Oneida people themselves, including Oneida leader Daniel Bread.
In 1826 he was ordained a deacon.
In 1839 and afterwards, Williams began to make the claim that he was the French Lost Dauphin. During the 1850s he openly became a pretender, but he died in poverty at Hogansburg, New New York
Williams was buried at Saint James" Cemetery in Hogansburg on August 28, 1858. In 1947, his remains and tombstone were moved to Holy Apostles Cemetery in Oneida, Wisconsin.