Mason locke weems biography
Mason locke weems biography husband!
Mason locke weems biography wikipedia
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Weems, Mason Locke
WEEMS, Mason Locke, historian, b. in Dumfries, Va., about 1760; d. in Beaufort. S. C., 23 May, 1825.
Mason locke weems biography
He studied theology in London, took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, and for several years was rector of Pohick church. Mount Vernon parish, Va., of which Washington was an attendant. The necessities of Weems's large family compelled him to resign that charge about 1790, and he became a book agent for Mathew Carey, the Philadelphia publisher.
He was remarkably successful in that employment, “ travelling throughout the south with his books in his saddle-bags, equally ready for a stump, a fair, or a pulpit.” He was eccentric in mind and manner, and whenever he heard of a public meeting he would attend it, and, collecting a crowd around him, urge on his hearers the merits of his books, interspersing his remarks with anecdotes and humorous sallies.
With his temperance pamphlet, entitled the &