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==Early life==

==Early life==

Williamson was born in West Nottingham, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of December, 1735. At the age of sixteen, he entered the first class in the College of Philadelphia, and at the first commencement held in that college he received the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterward commenced the study of divinity with Dr. Samuel Finley, and prosecuted it with such success that in 1759 he was licensed to preach.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cMhJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182 The United States Manual of Biography and History: To which is Prefixed An Introductory History of the United States]</ref>

Williamson was born in West Nottingham, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of December, 1735, to John and Mary Davidson Williamson.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LeQQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA101 The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 39]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Biographical_Memoir_of_Hugh_Williamson/hx8rAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA17 A Biographical Memoir of Hugh Williamson]</ref> At the age of sixteen, he entered the first class in the College of Philadelphia, and at the first commencement held in that college he received the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterward commenced the study of divinity with Dr. Samuel Finley, and prosecuted it with such success that in 1759 he was licensed to preach.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cMhJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182 The United States Manual of Biography and History: To which is Prefixed An Introductory History of the United States]</ref>  During this time his father passed, and Hugh was appointed sole executor of his fathers estate and spent two years with his mother at Shippensburg.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Biographical_Memoir_of_Hugh_Williamson/hx8rAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA18 A Biographical Memoir of Hugh Williamson]</ref>

==Career==

==Career==