Williams, Isaac H.

Isaac Hite Williams was born in 1780, in Culpeper County Virginia, to John Williams and Eleanor Briscoe Hite. He attended William and Mary College and practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia after graduation. He was so knowledgeable in case law, facts, and authorities that he gained the sobriquet “the Big Book.” He married Lucy Coleman Slaughter and together they had at least five children, including their daughter, Margaret “Peggy” who would later marry John Mercer Patton, and become a great-grandmother of Gen. George S. Patton. Isaac H. Williams died in 1830, and is buried at the Masonic Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, November 2, 1815]

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, while she was attending Madam Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia. She writes that Littleton Dennis Teackle, Elizabeth Ann's father, will be visiting her in Philadelphia in December. Also, Andrew D. Campbell has written the family and asked them to come visit him in Scotland. Elizabeth is very excited by this prospect and thinks it would be a great learning experience for her daughter.