WILLIAMS, Samuel, pioneer, born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 16 October, 1786; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 February, 1859. In his youth he learned the trade of a hatter, and removed with his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1807. He served in the war of 1812, and was with a detachment at River Raisin, Michigan, when General William Hull surrendered Detroit. An ac-.count of this military expedition, written by him, was published in 1870, entitled "Two Western Campaigns." In 1815 he was appointed by the surveyor-general of Ohio chief clerk of that office, which post he filled for thirty years. His familiarity with the public surveys was of great value to the service, and he compiled for the general land-office the "Instructions to Surveyors-General of Public Lands," which is still used, and of which several editions have been issued. He was one of the founders in 1845 of the Ohio Wesleyan university, and in 1843 of the Wesleyan female college at Cincinnati, of both of which he was for many years a trustee and patron, bequeathing to the former a valuable private library. He left in manuscript copious memoirs of his own life and times, and a genealogy of his family.