William Stith (1707–1755)
William Stith, minister, historian, and college president, was born in Charles City County, Virginia. A graduate of Queen's College, Oxford, he was ordained in the Anglican Church before returning to Virginia to serve as master of The College of William & Mary's Grammar School and chaplain of the House of Burgesses. Stith was president of William & Mary from 1752 to 1755. He is perhaps best known for The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay towards a General History of the Colony (1747), one of the first histories of Virginia.
"William Stith," Special Collections Research Center, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
"William Stith (1707–1755)," in Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel, eds., Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006), 384–85.
Armistead C. Gordon, "The Stith Family," in Lyon G. Tyler, ed., William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 22 (1914), 44–51.
William Stith at Find a Grave.
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