Williams (Nathaniel) is born in Boston.

Nathaniel Williams graduates from Boston Latin School and Harvard College and became a missionary in the West Indies. Williams returns to Boston to become a teacher and then the first former student to become headmaster (1708-33) at Boston Latin. He studies medicine with his uncle, then opens his own practice, treating patients that include the wealthy and the poor of Boston as well as Native Americans. Williams founds the Club of Physicians during the town’s major smallpox epidemic in 1721,* and the Boston Medical Society during a scarlet fever epidemic in 1735.* He dies in Boston on January 10, 1738.