Moses Williams (antiquarian), Moses Williams
Moses Williams may refer to: * Moses Williams (antiquarian) (1685-1742) * Moses Williams (artist) (1777-c. 1825) * Moses Williams (Medal of Honor) Moses Williams (October 10, 1845 – August 23, 1899) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the American Indian Wars, Indian Wars of th ...

Moses Williams (antiquarian)
Moses Williams (2 March 1685 – 2 March 1742: burial date) was a Welsh antiquarian, scholar and cleric. He oversaw new editions of the Bible and the ''Book of Common Prayer'' in Welsh. Life Williams was born the son of Samuel Williams, Vicar of Llandyfriog and Rector of Llangynllo, Cardiganshire, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Jenkin Powell Prytherch, in Y Glaslyn, near Llandysul, Ceredigion, in south-west Wales. He was ordained deacon in 1708 and priest in 1713. He was married to Margaret Davies of Cwmwysg, Defynnog. Williams later served as Curate of Chiddingstone, Kent (1708–1713), Vicar of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire (1715–1742), Vicar of Defynnog (Devynock), Brecknockshire, where his name is carved on one of the attic beams of the rectory (1716–1732), Rector of Chilton Trinity, Somerset, and finally Vicar of St Mary's, Bridgwater, Somerset (1732–1742). Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1719. He died in Bridgwater. Works Williams supervi ...
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Moses Williams (artist)
Moses Williams (c. 1777 – c. 1825) was an African-American visual artist who was particularly well known as a maker of silhouettes. He was formerly enslaved by the artist Charles Willson Peale. Early life, slavery, and education Moses Williams was born in about 1777 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Scarborough and Lucy Peale, who were enslaved by renowned artist and museum-owner Charles Willson Peale.DuBois Shaw, Gwendoly ''American Philosophical Society'', Retrieved 28 March 2015. It is believed that Williams's parents began to work for Peale sometime between 1769 and 1775. In 1786, Peale manumitted Williams's parents, and Williams's father, Scarborough, changed his name to John Williams and passed along his new last name to his son. Although Williams's parents were freed, the law mandated that the nine-year-old Moses remain in Peale's service until his twenty-eighth birthday, and so Williams grew up in the Peale household among Peale's many artistic children, including Rembra ...
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