He was an original member of the Maine Historical Society. Personal life Williamson was married to Jemima Montague at Amherst, Massachusetts, on June 10, 1806. She was the youngest daughter of Josiah and Submit Rice, who had been adopted into the family of her uncle, Gen. Zebina Montague. Before her death in Bangor, Maine, on June 22, 1822, at the age of 36, they were the parents of five children together: Caroline J. Williamson, who married Nathaniel Haynes, a lawyer. After his death, she married John Chapman of Boston. Harriet H. Williamson (d. 1884), who married Paul R. Hazeltine, a merchant from Belfast, Maine. William F. Williamson (d. 1832), who died, aged 18, during his junior year at Bowdoin College. Mary C. Williamson, who married Richard W. Shapleigh. After his death, she married Livingston Livingston, a lawyer from New York. Frances A. Williamson (d. 1847), who married Mayo Hazeltine of Boston. On June 3, 1823, he remarried to Susan E. White, the daughter of Judge Phineas White of Putney, Vermont. She died, less than a year after their marriage, on March 9, 1824. Williamson married for the third time in 1825 to Clarissa (née Emerson) Wiggin, the widow of Joseph Wiggin and daughter of Edward and Abigail Emerson of York, Maine. Williamson died in 1846 in Bangor and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. Descendants Through his youngest daughter Frances, he was the grandfather of Frances Clarissa Hazeltine, who married Edward Livingston, a prominent businessman and clubman. He was also the grandfather of Professor Henry W. Haynes of Boston, Mayo W. Hazeltine and Philip Livingston, a graduate of Columbia College. Published works The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, A.D. 1602, to the Separation, A.D. 1820, Inclusive, Volume 1, by William Durkee Williamson. The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, 1602, to the Separation, A.D. 1820, Inclusive, Volume 2, by William Durkee Williamson. References External links Representative Men of Maine National Governors Association 1779 births 1846 deaths Governors of Maine Brown University alumni Politicians from Bangor, Maine Massachusetts state senators Members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine American Congregationalists Williams College alumni Historians of Maine Maine Democratic-Republicans Presidents of the Maine Senate Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine) Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States