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Huey Williamson

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  • date of birth

    date of birth

    Huey was born December 5, 1735

  • schooling

    went to the College of Philadelphia 1757,

  • education

    graduated and was fond of Mathematics,
    and became a proficient

  • education

    he received the degree of A.M. in Philadelphia College;

  • medical school

    in 1764, he went to prosecute his medical
    studies at the University of Edinburgh.

  • society

    In 1768, he was chosen a member of the American
    Philosophical Society

  • pamphlet

    williamson wrote a pamphlet called "the plea of the colonies"

  • delegate

    and in 1787, he was a Delegate,
    from North Carolina, to the Convention which formed the
    Constitution of the United States.

  • congress

    He served in
    the first and second Congress, and then declined a
    re-election. In January, 1789

  • family

    he married Miss Maria Apthorpe,
    of New York, where he came to reside; and had two sons, who
    both died young.

  • state convention

    and was a member of
    the State Convention, in 1789, which adopted it.

  • books

    Williamson moved to New York City to facilitate his literary and philanthropic pursuits. Over the years, he published many political, educational, economic, historical, and scientific works

  • date of death

    Huey died in on May 22, 1819