| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1876 | 678 | 1749 | (103) | 14 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Williams, B.H. |  
   | Born: |  
   | Died: |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Hillyer (p.116) has a 'Williams' elected recording secretary of the Manhattan club on Nov. 5, 1879. Sarah's Morphy website ('The Returning Hero') has a Williams in Baltimore in 1859? |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 234 |  
   | Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress, page 501 |  
   | van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 165 |  | Web |  
   | Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [The Scandal of 1880, Part 1], page 11 |  |  |