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William Charles Jarvis (1782–1836)

Description

William Charles Jarvis was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied law and received an honorary master's degree from Williams College before opening a practice in Pittsfield.

Citations

General Catalogue of the Officers, Alumni and Honorary Graduates of Williams College (Williamstown, MA: Williams College, 1890).

William C. Jarvis, The Republican: Or, a Series of Essays on the Principles and Policy of Free States: Having a Particular Reference to the United States of America and the Individual States (Pittsfield, MA: Phineas Allen, 1820). 

"William Charles Jarvis to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1820," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-16-02-0205. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 16, 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 255–256.]

William C. Jarvis in North America, Family Histories, 1500–2000 (Ancestry.com).

William C. Jarvis in Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635–1991 (Ancestry.com).

Boston Post, 10 October 1836, page 2, column 2 (Newspapers.com).