Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William Smith” in chapter 2 of Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order:

...Jeffries, chosen, Mar. 12, 1749 Peter Boyer, chosen, Mar. 11, 1782 Joseph Russell, chosen, Mar. 14, 1791 Samuel Clapp, chosen, Mar. 14, 1796 Benjamin Sumner, chosen, Mar. 16, 1803 William Smith , chosen, Mar. 10, 1806 Andrew Signorey, chosen, June 27, 1814 a notorious felon, escaped from Boston jail, Sep. 16, 1822 for criminals, advocated, 1823 Orange. A noted ...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
William Smith 1,389 4 165 0 0 user votes
William Smith O'Brien 13 0 1 0 0 user votes
William Smith Patterson 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Smith Clark 6 0 2 0 0 user votes
William Smith Greenough 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Franklin William Smith 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Frederick William Smith 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Coimmander William Smith 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
F. William Smith 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Frederic William Smith 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
I. William Smith 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Smithers 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Smithtall 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. William Smith 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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