1. [n]  a city of northeastern New Jersey
2. [n]  American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806)

Paterson
Williams`s five-volume saga, which takes as its subject the supremely ordinary industrial city of Peterson, New Jersey, expresses the poet`s complex--and not always optimistic--view of American life in the mid-20th century.

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