tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62236781084795406592024-03-21T12:44:51.896-07:00The Southern Roots of My Williams FamilyThis Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-4995484238160546002017-10-13T11:54:00.003-07:002018-01-09T11:43:05.751-08:00John Williams son of Theophilus Williams 1721-1770<div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There is no absolute proof that John Williams
the eldest son of Theophilus Williams is the father of Britton Williams, the
patriot of South Carolina who died in 1781. Its all supposition based on 30 years of research. Additionally there is no proof that Abigail was a Creech. There are no land deeds, probate records, nor marriage
records to confirm a relationship between John Williams and Theophilus except an abundance of
circumstantial evidence based solely on proximity of location and social standing in the agrarian culture of the old South.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However the DNA record proves without a doubt that Britton
Williams was related to John Williams the Welsh emigrant who came to Virginia
Colony in 1666. This John Williams also had a brother named Thomas Williams and
possibly another brother named Lewis Williams all who also had sons from whom
Britton would have shared the same Y chromosome that is only passed from father
to son. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Lewis Williams of Surry County Virginia
perhaps a brother of John the Emigrant only had one son, named William, who
does not track with his cousins after 1700. Thomas Williams of Isle of Wight
County, the only known brother of John the Emigrant had several sons many whom migrated
into Bertie County and lived near their cousins, the children of John Williams the
Younger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Emigrant’s son John the Younger of Bertie
County, North Carolina is the most likely ancestor of Britton Williams as his
children and grandchildren migrated to the same locality where Britton Williams
is known to have been in 1767.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As that
colonial families almost always migrated together it is logical to assume that
Britton’s relatives did the same for security and religious reasons. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The difficult search for the ancestry of Britton
Williams is compounded by the frequency that various Williams clans of North
Carolina named their sons John. Indeed this is even more difficult by
the fact that Lewis Williams of Chowan County, North Carolina had a grandson
also named John Williams who tracks to the same locality as John Williams the
son of Theophilus Williams. Both these men are found in what became Duplin
County and within miles of each other. To separate the two men is a daunting
task and can really only be done through tracking their neighbors. While John Williams the Emigrant and Lewis Williams of Chowan do not have a DNA match their descendants may have thought they were related as there were many connections and marriages between these families. John the Emigrant's great grandson Ezekiel Williams married a granddaughter of Lewis Williams of Chowan for an example. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Until further evidence is found, or my
hypothesis is proven wrong, I am convinced that Britton Williams is a descendant
from John the Emigrant through his son John the Younger then through his son
Theophilus Williams who had a son named John the alleged father of Britton
Williams. This is my assumption and I am sticking with it.</span></div>
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Williams was born circa 1721 in the Roquist River area, west of the
Cashie River in what became Bertie County, North Carolina. He may have died circa 1770 in Granville County, South Carolina in an area that today is in Allendale County. All of this is pure speculation as there are no documents that would confirm this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">John Williams<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> was the eldest son of Theophilus Williams and Christian Bryan Busby and probably was named for his grandfather John Williams the Younger a pioneer of the Cashy River area. He also could have been named for Theophilus elder brother, John Williams who died in 1722 unmarried.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The first mention of John Williams, the son of Theophilus, is in the will of his uncle John Williams the third from 1722 who named him his as his “cousin”. Cousin is an old term for nephew or niece.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nearly 25 years later his grandfather John Williams the Younger mentioned him Williams in his will dated March 1747. Often grandchildren who are namesakes were left a legacy in their grandparents will. “I give to my well beloved grand Son John Williams one iron pot & one grist that was my fathers.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Evidently John the Younger wanted his grandson to have items that once belonged to his father, John the emigrant, who died in 1692 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. These items would have been used in a household that was probably already set up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The time between John Williams the Third's legacy and John the Youngers indicated that John the son of Theophilus was a grown man in 1747. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams was nearly 26 years old when his grandfather wrote
his will, but he had to wait another ten years to receive tis legacy as that John
the Younger did not pass away until 1757 in Bertie County, North Carolina. </span></span></div>
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named the members of his household including his slaves in the Bertie County,
in Court Minutes of 11 May 1742. However, John was not included in the list. Theophilus
Williams, “on oath declared his right” listed those still living within his
household were; “Theophilus, his wife Christian, and children Joseph, James,
Esther, Lewis and Feribee Williams”. His enslaved people of African descent were included in his household and were
listed as Toney, Boston, Pompey, Rose, Phillis, Patt, Jenny, Jupiter, Silva,
Chloe, and Pegg.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> Feribee may have been his niece, the daughter of his deceased brother James, of whom Theophilus was her legal guardian.</span></span></span></div>
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recorded within his father’s household at that time probably. meant he may have
already been married or at least had relocated to New Hanover County which
later became Duplin County. Only surmising and circumstantial evidence can track
John Williams, son of Theophilus Williams, whereabouts. If John Williams was born in 1721 he would have already reached his majority age of 21 in 1742. He probably married about 1742 as that in 1765 he stated he had 9 children when he applied for grants in St. George Parish, Georgia Colony. He may have died circa 1770 when his widow Abigail began to acquire property in her own name in March 1771. Land records show that h</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">e lived much of his
adult life in Onslow and Duplin Counties before removing to South Carolina and
Georgia. He may have been around 49 years old when he died and therefore family knowledge of him was not passed down to his own grandchildren.</span></span></div>
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received a land grant on </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">16 February 1739 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">in Onslow County, just south of New Bern, the colony's capital. On 12 March 1745 [1746] Theophilus sold part of it to
his son John. This property was on the south side of the Neuse River above Mill
Creek west of Burnt Marsh. John Williams later sold
the property bought from his father to Robert Lee on 31 March 1752, who in turn
sold it to John’s cousin Isaac Williams in 1766. The witnesses to the 1766
transaction were Johnston County neighbors<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Jethro Butler and John Ingram formerly of Bertie County.</span></span><br />
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side of Neuse River “adjoining Theophilus Williams line, south side of Burnt
Marsh, John Lee’s second corner pine, from a grant made to John Blackman 4
April 1750.” John Blackman had been apprenticed to Theophilus Williams back in
Bertie County when he was a child. Theophilus is thought to have died before
1766 so this could have referred to Theophilus’ property line or perhaps to a
man of the same name, the son of John’s brother, Sheriff Joseph Williams of
Duplin County. </span></div>
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properties in Johnston County in preparation for a move to Granville County
South Carolina. By 1768 this Robert Lee was established in Granville County,
South Carolina, an area that later became Barnwell District. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The first Indian groups to live in and around Duplin County were the Sioua and Tuscarora. When white settlers started getting land grants in this area from the British Crown, a few Coharie Indians were still here at the same time. Their villages appears to have been centered along the east bank of the Great Coharie Creek between present day Kill and Ward Swamps which are tributaries. However, burial mounds and Indian artifacts have been found throughout the entire area. As settlers moved in, the Indians diminished and may have moved further south along the west bank of the Great Coharie, in what is now Herring Township. Two Indian names still in use today in high Sampson County are Coharie and Mingo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Originally a part of New Hanover County, Duplin County was established on 7 April 1750, by the General Assembly. In 1784 the western half of Duplin County was cut off to form Sampson County. Any property along the Great and Little Coharie Creeks are now in Sampson County.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 22 April 1745 John Williams received a land grant of 400 acres on both sides of the “Cohera River”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>for four shilling paid yearly to King George II in New Hanover County, North Carolina. A Quit Rent Tax assessment<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>for John Williams in 1750 showed that he had a land patent of acres 150 on the Great Coheary Creek as early as 1 March 1738 [1739]. The term "Quit rent" is one that was used in Colonial America to refer to a property tax, which was assessed by the Crown. The local county sheriff collected it, and it was sent to the Governor for distribution and administration. It was paid in cash or tobacco. It was also one of the "Taxation Without Representation" issues leading to the Revolution. The 1750 Quit Rent Tax by John Williams was owned to the crown and it stated that he hadn’t paid the tax for 11 years and owed the crown £3: 6 shillings. </span></span><br />
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Williams and Martha Bush. He was also the grandson of Lewis Williams of Chowan Precinct. He was called a
“Merchant<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of Black River” in a document from 1760. On 23 September 1743 his brother Anthony Jr was
granted 640 acres granted on Burn Coat Swamp in New Hanover County which later
became Duplin. John’s other brother, Stephen Williams, died in 1751 in New Hanover
County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In Stephen’s will, written 3 July
1751, he left his estate on White Oak and Beaver Dam Neck to his wife and left
150 acres of land to his brother John Williams “Where William Prescott now
lives”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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his brother Anthony’s will of 1752 as his brother along with a nephew Anthony
Beverley and grandson Cader Powell. who moved to St. George Parish, Georgia. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In a deed dated 3 January 1760 John Williams the “Merchant of Black River” bought 200 acres from Arthur Blackman “of Craven
County on “Little Coheary<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Creek.” A
witness to the deed was Phillip Williams. This Phillip Williams<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>had a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>brother named Hardy Williams and he was kin to Anthony Williams.
Phillip was in Craven County South Carolina by 1769 and had married by
1772<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mrs. Elizabeth Cantey. He was
listed on<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the 1783 Tax List of
Orangeburgh District South Carolina and in 1789 had sold lands to Charles Pyre
in Winton [Barnwell] County. Phillip Williams died in 1799<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in Liberty County, Georgia. Hardy Williams<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in 1763 had lands adjoining<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Sherrod and William Deloach in
Edgecomb County, North Carolina. In 1788 he witnessed a<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>deed between Benjamin and Joseph Williams of Sampson-Duplin
County. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The same year of 1760, John Williams” the Merchant” witnessed
the deed of his nephew Stephen Williams “of Onslow County”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A deed from 7 November 1761 stated he had
lands on the westside of “Little Coheary” a deed witnessed by Joshua Platt .
Three years later 28 October 1764 this John Williams may have bought from Ferguard
Campbell “of Cumberland” county 200 acres on eastside of Black River on
Beaverdam swamp. The witnesses were John Jones and Joshua Platt. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Eighteen months later on 8 February 1766 John
Williams sold these lands on east side of Black River on Beaverdam Swamp
to<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Samuel Sessoms and also on the same
day sold to Richard Sessoms lands on “Little Coheary Creek”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1768 a citation was given to John and Elizabeth
Williams to administer estate of Anthony Williams of St. Mark’s Parish “as
nearest of kin.” </span></div>
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of the Neuse River in North Carolina. It is part of the Neuse River Basin, and
flows for 95 miles between the Buckhorn Reservoir, where it begins, into the
Neuse River near the communities of and Grifton and Kinston.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This area is where the families of Jonas
Williams, James Roberts, and Benjamin Creech settled which was then in Dobbs County about 50
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probably the son of another John Williams and grandson of Thomas Williams and
Mary Parnell. Thomas Williams was the brother of John the Emigrant. This Thomas
Williams’ children were John Williams circa 1680, Richard Williams
circa 1682, Thomas Williams circa 1684, Arthur Williams
circa1686, Mary Williams circa 1688 and Ann Williams circa 1690. The
exact birth order of his children is an estimate.</span></div>
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his will on 12 March 1740/41 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia which was probated
about a year later on 2 February 1741/42. A witness was his cousin Thomas
Parnell. The legatees of John Williams were his son in law Robert Jones and son
Jonas Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jonas’ sister Martha
married Robert Jones, who joined her in
selling the 80 acres left to them by the will of John Williams. The conveyance
was to William Rand. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This couple
thereafter disappears from Isle of Wight records probably moving to North
Carolina. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jonas Williams was married to Catherine, whose maiden name is
unknown. On 13 September 1744, they executed two conveyances in the Isle of
Wight. They deeded 210 acres from the 290 acres that William Moore and wife
Sarah had sold to his father John Williams in 1710. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Moore was the son of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Moor the Shoe Maker who was the father
in law of John the Younger of Bertie County. They also deeded another 200 acres
to William Rand, “willed by Thomas Williams to his sons Thomas Williams and
Arthur Williams.” </span></div>
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Jonas Williams’ uncle Richard Williams and the other 100 acres for want of
issue of said Richard Williams descended to said Jonas Williams.” Arthur Williams moved to Bertie County where he died.</span></div>
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26 September 1766 a Jonas Williams had lands in Dobb Co. NC adjoining John
Williams, James Williams, and Timothy Lee on the north side <span style="margin: 0px;">of the Contenteney River [Contentnae Creek]
now located in Lenoir County.</span></span></span></div>
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following Jonas Williams, Evin Williams, John Williams, Joshua Williams, Nathan
Williams, Benjamin Creech Sr, Benjamin Creech Jr, John Creech, and Jesse Croom.
The names Evan, John, Joshua, and Nathan all show up in land deeds in the next
decade in what became Allendale County, South Carolina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the Revolutionary War it is established that Britton Williams and Abigail Williams were in South Carolina however these Williams were listed as
serving in the Dobbs County Regiment. How many of these men were related to
Jonas Williams is unclear. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">These three Williams were drafted and served under Capt.
John Kennedy and Col. James Glasgow David Williams,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Job Williams and Joshua Williams. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A John Williams and William Williams were known
Privates under Capt. Jesse Cobb and Col. Abraham Sheppard. On 4 November 1780, both
John and William were drafted under Capt. Jacob Johnston and Col. James
Glasgow. William Williams was<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in February
1781, a known Private under Capt. Joshua Davis and Col. James Darnell. <span style="margin: 0px;"> Stephen Williams<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>served in the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Dobbs County Regiment<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and volunteered under Capt. William Speight and Col. James Glasgow 4 November 1780. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Frederick Herring. on 5 July 1779 was a known Captain under Col. James
Glasgow and in 1781 a Captain under Col. Benjamin Exum. A </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Stephen Herring was also a Captain serving
under<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Col. James Glasgow. The Herrings
were grandchildren of John Williams the Younger of Bertie.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Family ties and property transactions brought John Williams the son of Theophilus back to Duplin County from Georgina by 29 February 1764 when he sold lands </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">on west side of Great Coheary to Abraham Odam. He had originally bought the property from Richard Holley. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Richard Holley had sold land to Nathaniel Williams on 6 July 1754 on west side of the Great Coheary Creek adjoining Richard Odam’s Marsh. The witness was Nathaniel's son Timothy Williams. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">What the family relationship between John Williams and Nathaniel Williams, if any, is undetermined. This Nathaniel Williams is not a son nor grandson of John Williams the Younger of Bertie County. He may however be a descendant of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>one of John the Younger’s uncles. This Nathaniel was granted land on the eastside of Great Coheary<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Creek in Duplin County on 27 October 1762. On 15 May 1764 he made three Deeds of Gifts to his three sons, Timothy Williams, Isaac Williams, and Jacob Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His son Isaac<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Williams was given land on east side of Great Coheary Creek, his son Timothy Williams was given 50 acres on the west side of Great Coheary,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>land first granted to Richard Holley, and to his son Jacob Williams he gave 100 acres on Great Coheary in Duplin County. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 13 October 1764 John Williams bought lands from Thomas Gibbs land on Gum Marsh near Coheary Swamp. The transaction was <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>witnessed by Timothy Williams and Isaac Williams sons of Nathaniel Williams. Also on </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 1 October 1764 Timothy Williams witnessed a deed between Richard Bass and Joseph Williams in Johnston County. This may have been Sheriff Joseph son of Theophilus Williams and brother of John Williams</span></span></span><br />
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County, Virginia. He would have been about the same as John Williams who is
believed to have married Abigail Creech. His parents were Richard Creech II and
Mary Etheridge and he was the brother of Captain Richard Creech of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Wilmington who married Ann Williams and
relocated to Orangeburgh [Winton] County after the war. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Benjamin Creech married “Mary Jane” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lewis and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">had 9 children and named 8 of them biblical
names and one a family name. He was </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">the father of Richard Creech, Mary Nancy Creech; Simon
Creech; Rebecca Creech; Benjamin Creech, Jr<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>husband of Louise Mozingo; Joshua Creech, Sr.; Ezekiel Creech, Jonathan
[John] Creech, Sr, and Lewis Creech. Benjamin
Creech died 1780 in Dobbs County [now Greene], North Carolina about 55 years
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Benjamin Creech Sr. was in the area of </span><span style="margin: 0px;">Contentnae Creek</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> as early as 1746
when he received a patent of 75<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>acres.
On 23 April 1748, he paid 2 years delinquent Quit Rents of 6 shillings. On 26
September 1766 Creech had lands in Dobb County adjoining John Williams, James
Williams and Timothy Lee. His son </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Benjamin
Creech Junior on<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>26 September 1766 had
l200 acres on eastside of Falling Creek joining Thomas Martin’s line,
Merry Creek, and White Marsh in Dobb County.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 11 June
1767 Benjamin Creech had 148 acres eastside of Falling Creek but whether this was the father or son is unkown. Benjamin Creech still
had lands in Dobbs and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Johnston Counties
as of 26 Sept 1767 along with Joshua Williams, John Williams, and James
Roberts.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However it is known that James
Roberts was relocating to St. Georgia Parish, Georgia Colony about this time
where his brother John Roberts had relocated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following land grants only refer to a
“Benjamin Creech” so it’s unclear whether they were to senior or junior. On 9
April 1770 King George granted to Benjamin Creech </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>100 acres in Dobbs County on Northside of the Neuse
River at the eastside of Lower Falling Creek between Gum Swamp and White Marsh
adjoining Jack Thompson, and John Walters “within 3 years must clear and
cultivate". He also received 3 acres enrolled in the town of Wilmington<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>on 11 April 1770 by Charles Heron. Benjamin Creech's brother Richard lived within the Wilmington District of New Hanover. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 21 July
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1774 Benjamin Creech had lands
in Dobb County adjoining John Williams and Joshua Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A deed dated </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">21 July 1774 showed he had lands in
Dobb County adjoining John Williams, Jonas Williams, James Roberts, and
Benjamin Creech Jr. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Benjamin Creech Sr. raised 6 sons to manhood and all
of them served in the Revolution War. They were Benjamin Creech, Jr, Ezekiel
Creech, John Creech, and Simon Creech all who served in the Dobbs County
Regiment under Captain John Kennedy. John Creech on 14 July 1780 received a
$300 bounty from Col. James Glasgow for re-enlisting. Joshua Creech was also in
the Dobbs County Regiment as Private under Capt. Joseph Green.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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of Moore's Creek Bridge between North Carolina Loyalists and Patriots. The battle
was fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County, North Carolina on
February 27, 1776. Lieutenant Ezekiel Slocumb acting as a Captain under Col.
Abraham Sheppard, from what would later become Wayne County, and his men moved
downstream during the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, forded the creek,
penetrated the swamp. They made a furious charge on the flank of the Loyalists
and this action decided the fate of the day. The Loyalists broke and ran while <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Slocumb's men captured a wagon containing 300
guns and 75 guineas (lbs.). The victory of North Carolina Revolutionary forces
over Southern Loyalists at Moore's Creek Bridge helped build political support
for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Captain Richard Creech Sr. who married Ann Williams was the brother of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span>Benjamin Creech</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Sr. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Captain Richard<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Creech Sr. was born circa 1730 in Nansemond County, Virginia and died 1787
in present day Allendale County, South Carolina. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He first settled in New Hanover County, North
Carolina and from here he served in the Revolution as a Lieutenant from the
Wilmington District, New Hanover. After the war he moved to old Winton County,
an area. He was listed in the 1783 Tax List of Orangeburgh County which then included
Winton County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In Oct. 1786 the
Court of Winton County made him a Grand Juror and a Commissioner of Roads. His
will is on record in Barnwell County, which was recorded March 11, 1787. His administrators
were his son Richard Creech and his wife Ann Creech. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His estate was appraised 25 August 1788
by John Williams, William Creech, and Reuben Golightly. His widow Ann Williams
Creech </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">signed
for a pension 18 October 1796 for her husband Richard Creech’s service in the
Revolution. </span></span></div>
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between Abigail the widow of John Williams and Captain Richard
Creech also named Richard. She sold off most of her personal estate to Captain Richard's son, and in the 1790 Census of the Southern Part of Orangeburgh District Abigail Williams within a few households of Ann Creech the widow. When Abigail Williams died in 1802, she named Richard Creech Jr as the executor of her estates.</span><br />
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married to Mary Davis, said to have been a cousin, and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the widow of either Owen or Nathan Williams.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Richard Jr. had been appointed
Sheriff of Winton County on 2 November 1790. Richard Creech Jr. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>died in 1808 in Barnwell County while serving
as a state senator. He is buried in the Revolutionary war Cemetery at the
Barnwell Courthouse along with his brother William Creech. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 7 February 1809 Mary Creech "widow of Richard Creech" gave a deed of gift to her married daughter Jane A Harley. She deeded to her four African Americans that consisted of a mother named Dinah and her three children Dora, Julia, and Rachel. She also deeded her household and kitchen furniture as well as five cows and calves. The witnesses were William Barker and Stephen Roberts who was a son of Captain James Roberts.</span></div>
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Creech who died in 1834 also in Barnwell County. He was married to Susan
Kirkland the daughter of George Kirkland. This marriage made him a brother in
law to Wilson Williams the son of Britton Williams whose mother was thought to
be Abigail Creech Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 2 November 1764 a John Williams had lands on southside of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Contentnae Creek</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>along with Joshua Williams, Captain James Roberts, Benjamin Creech in Dobbs County. They lived north of the town of Kinston which was created by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly in December 1762 as Kingston, in honor of King George III. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<br />Captain J<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ames Roberts was married to Amy Creech whose granddaughter Esther Roberts was the third wife of Wilson Williams the son of Britton Williams and presumably the grandson of John Williams and Abigail Creech. Amy Creech was said to be the sister of William Creech. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Captain James Roberts who had been a neighbor of Benjamin
Creech Sr. was married to Amy Creech the sister of a William Creech and
probably daughter of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Richard Creech and Mary
Etheridge and perhaps sister of Abigail Creech. If so this would have made John Williams and Captain James Roberts brothers in law and would explain many of the family connections.</span></span></div>
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</b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was a Revolutionary War Soldier who died 1802 in Barnwell District South Carolina. His known children were Dorcus
Roberts wife of Mr. Curlee, Elizabeth Roberts wife of Mr. Stancell, Irwin
Roberts. James Roberts Jr, Stephen Roberts Sr., Mary Roberts wife of Matthew
Paramore, Roland Roberts, Roger Roberts, Winniford Roberts wife of Mr. Barfield. Stephen Roberts Sr. was the father in law of Wilson Williams, the son of Britton Williams.</span></div>
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where his lands were on Contentnea Creek, in Dobbs County adjoining Edward and
James Coward. But in 1766 Roberts had moved to St. George Parish, Georgia Colony to be eligible for property there. He would not have
gone alone but in the company of other relatives and neighbors from Dobbs and
Duplin Counties for safety as this was still Creek Indian Country. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 3 March1767 Captain James Robert was granted 82 acres in St.
George Parish by David Hughes and Nicholas Fisher.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Later on 1 Sept 1767 he
had acquired 150 acres adjoining William Colsen on the north, on the east side
of Nehemiah Tindall and John Gaspar Hirtschman on the south. </span><br />
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property is the linchpin that connects many of settlers on Brier Creek, a
tributary of the Savannah River. Both John Williams and James Roberts were near
neighbors of John Gaspar Hirtschman in St. George Parish and Hirschman’s<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>vacated lands were granted to Britton
Williams in March 1768. It is possible that </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Captain James Robert and John Williams were brothers-in-law.
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shortly after acquiring his land grant in Georgia, for on </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">26 Sept 1767 he is shown as owning
lands near Joshua Williams and John Williams and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">adjoining Edward Coward in Dobbs County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is also shown of the 1769 Tax List in with
two sons who were over 16 years. </span></span></div>
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James Roberts had a brother named John Roberts<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>who was married to a woman named Sarah. He had lands in 1759 at Rowan Marsh [Creek] in Duplin County adjoining Michael
Mixon who would also migrate to the Savannah River area. Rowan Creek is a tributary of the Six Run Creek. On 23 February 1764 John
Roberts had lands on the west side of Six Run River and Beaver Dam swamp in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 24 October 1766 John Roberts had moved to South Carolina where he filed a plat for 250 acres in Colleton County along the Salkehatchie River with neighbor Alexius Forster. From 1682 to 1768 this original Colleton County was never surveyed or properly laid out. Its boundaries were ambiguous. Its county government never became functional. Most records were kept at the parish level; none were kept at the county level. There was no county seat. In this case the term "county" had no meaning other than to describe an approximate geographical area. It was a county in name only and was abolished in 1768. At that time his property became part of Granville County. </span></div>
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adjoining John Tanner and James Anderson Overstreet in St. George Parish,
Georgia directly across the Savannah River. A deed of John Tanner from 6 October 1767 shows that he owned 100 acres at Rocky Creek. John Roberts the next year filed a plat on 8 December 1768 for 500 acres on Black Creek on the Salkehatchie River in Colleton County. His neighbor was Alexis Forster. Evidently this property was in St. Bartholomew Parish. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However a 1769 Poll Tax List of Dobbs County, showed that John Roberts
was back in North Carolina. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Evidently there
was a steady back and forth between new lands in Georgia, South Carolina and old homesteads in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both Captain James Roberts and his brother John Roberts eventually left North Carolina for good and are found located in Prince William Parish , Granville County, South Carolina in the pre-Revolutionary War period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Here in Prince William Parish Captain James Roberts along with his sister in law <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sarah Roberts, witnessed a deed of Nathaniel Raynor on 7 August 1772. His brother John Roberts was a neighbor of Raynor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 6 October 1772 John Roberts was granted 200 acres in St. George Parish, Georgia on the west side of the Savannah River. A few months later on 5 January 1773 Captain James Roberts was granted an additional 100 acres in St. George Parish, Georgia across the Savannah River from Prince William Parish. These lands in Georgia were adjoining properties of Joseph Allen. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Captain James Roberts must have crossed over the Savannah River several times as on 29 November 1773 he was back in Prince WIlliam Parish where he witnessed a deed of Elias Jordan of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Granville County. This property was on the Coosawhatchie Swamp adjoining John Roberts, William Davis, Thomas Bee and Jacob Kettle. A Peter Roberts<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>also witnessed the deed along with James Roberts and he may have been another relative if not brother.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Just prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, on 21 July 1774 Captain James Roberts was back in Dobbs County where he was granted 250 acres at Polecat Creek adjacent to Joshua Williams, John Williams and Benjamin Creech.<span style="margin: 0px;"> His brother John Roberts however remained in South Carolina. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A deed dated 29 September 1774 for Daniel Boyden stated John Roberts had property at Boggy Gut part of Saltcatchers Swamp in Prince William Parish and that his neighbors were John Roberts, Elias Jourdan and James Stewart. This gives an approximate location for John Roberts lands.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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Mary Roberts, a daughter<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of James
Roberts was listed 28 February 1775 as having lands adjoining Edward Cowards
and James Roberts in Dobbs County on Contentnea Creek. The Paramores would also
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the Revolutionary War Captain James Roberts had moved
to Granville County, South Carolina where John Williams, his possible brother
in law was now residing or at least his widow and sister in law. He was a captain in a partisan unit and in 1782 he sold
corn to support the South Carolina<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Militia. After the war in 1786 he was charged by Sarah Alberson as being
the father of her child. This accusation however could have been against his
son James Robert<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jr. James Roberts was
on a 1787 Tax List for “Orangeburgh District” which included Granville. He died
circa 1802 on his plantation at Turkey Creek in Barnwell District.</span></div>
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James Roberts and John Roberts may have had other brothers who also
owned property in St. George Parish Georgia and in Prince William Parish, South
Carolina. Josiah Roberts on 4 April 1769 was granted 200 acres in St. George
Parish, Georgia and on 5 June 1771 he was granted an additional 150 acres also
in St. George Parish, Georgia. Elias Roberts is connected with John Roberts in
several documents in South Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On
23 July 1771 Elias Roberts filed a memorial title for 100 acres on Davis Branch
on the Saltcatchers River in Granville. His neighbor was Hans Jacob </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Platt.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Barfield family who descend from John Williams the
Younger of Bertie County, North Carolina through his granddaughter Sarah
Castellow Barfield. The surname Castellow is interchangeable with Castellaw. The Barfield family is well represented in Duplin County. Charity Barfield the
daughter of Jesse Francis Barefield and Sarah Castellow married her 2<sup>nd</sup>
cousin Theophilus Williams<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>son of
Sheriff Joseph Williams. Sheriff Joseph Williams and Sarah Castellow were first
cousins.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A daughter of Sheriff Joseph Williams,
Susannah Williams married Frederick Barfield her 2<sup>nd</sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> cousin also. </span></div>
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Barnwell District South Carolina were originally found in Duplin County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Absalom Best the son of John Best and Hannah
married Elizabeth Blanchard and relocated to the Swallow Savannah area in
Barnwell District. Their children were ; Benajah Best, John Blanchard Best<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> Zilpha Best wife of Joshua Campbell
and Thomas Green Arthur, Leodica “Dicy” Best wife of Israel Campbell 1786. The
Campbells were sons of William Campbell.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>By 11 December 1786 Absalom had lands on Kings Creek, Winton County,
South Carolina adjoining Dennis Belgis, Barlette Whittington, and Benjamin
Buxton. Britton Williams lands were also on Kings Creek.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Richard Holley Family lived near John Williams,
Nathaniel Williams and Isaac Williams and had property transactions with them.
This Richard Holley sold land on west side of the Great Coheary Creek adjoining
Richard Odam’s Marsh to Nathaniel Williams on 6 July 1754. The witness was
Timothy Williams. Isaac<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Williams’s land
was given as being on east side of Great Coheary Creek where he gave to his son
Timothy Williams 50 acres first granted to Richard Holley.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On 29 February 1764 John Williams sold lands </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">on west side of Great
Coheary to Abraham Odam that he had originally bought from Richard Holley</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Lee Family of Duplin and Johnston Counties represented by John
Lee Sr and Mary Deas parents of John Lee Jr and Robert Lee. They had family members who moved to Granville County South
Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Lee Sr.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>of
St. Stephen Parish, Johnston County. was
born circa 1705<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>and died after 4 December
1766. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 11 May 1754 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">a John Lee Jr was granted 200 acres in Granville County. Ten years later on 2 March 1764 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Lee Jr was grant for 100 acres in Granville County on the Savannah
River. A deed record from 24 February 1765 showed that John Lee's </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">neighbors on the Savannah River in Granville County were Sampson Griffin. Two months later another deed dated 18 April 1765 showed that </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Lee's neighbors were Benjamin Harris, William
Pinckney, Ezekiel Williams, William Withers, and John Young. </span></span></span></div>
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breeches maker” sold lands on the Savannah River in Granville County to Ezekiel
Williams, John Williams first cousin. The deed was witnessed by James Turner, James Cayson and Samuel Alexander the brother in law of John Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robert Lee the son of John Lee Sr was born circa 1726 and died 1788 in Winton County South Carolina. He married </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Elizabeth Williams the daughter of Joel Williams and granddaughter of Isaac Williams and Martha Hodges. She was John Williams' first cousin.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 29 March 1762 Robert Lee of Johnston Co. NC sold 150 acres to Isaac Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>lands on<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>southside<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of Nuese River in marshes above Mill Creek lands first patented to Theophilus WIlliams 16 Feb 1739 and deeded to Joseph WIlliams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>14 Mar 1745 and to Robert Lee 31 Mar 1752. The Witnesses were Richard Ingram, Jethro Butler and John Ingram. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1762 Robert Lee was granted property on the soutside of the Neuse River adjacent to Richard Ingram and the Great Marsh. The chainbearers who measured out the land was Francis Harrell and William Campbell. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In July 1762 he bought 150 acres from William Campbell "by </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">oath of Isaac Williams". This property was located on the southside of the Neuse River, adjoining the property lines of Mr. Rountree's, Theophilus Williams', the Bryery Marsh and John Lee's lower line.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The witnesses were Isaac Williams, Jethro Butler and Francis Harrell. In </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1763 Lee sold these lands in Johnston County back to William Campbell. Also i</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">n <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1763 Robert Lee received another grant on the southside of the Neuse River at the branch of Mill Creek. The Chain<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bearers were Edward Lee and Thomas Lee.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1766 Robert Lee began selling off his lands in Johnston County in preparation for his move to South Carolina. He sold to Isaac Williams property on the southside of the Neuse River adjoining Theophilus Williams' line, south of the Briery Marsh and John Lee's second corner pine, lands first granted to John Blackman 4 April 1750. The witnesses were Richard Ingram, Jethro Butler, and John Ingram. He also sold to Isaac Williams property located south of the Nuese River west of Burnt Marsh above Mill Creek part of a grant to Theophilus Williams dated 16 February 1739. Theophilus Williams sold it to John Williams 12 March 1745 who sold it tp Robert Lee 31 March 1752. Again the witnesses were John Ingram, Jethro Butler, and Richard Ingram.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">No further land records for Robert Lee have been found in Johnston County after this time. By 17 May 1768 Robert Lee filed a plat for 50 acres on the Savannah River in Granville County near Stoney Point. On 15 February 1769 Robert Lee received 300 acres in Granville County on the Upper Three Runs waters of the Savannah River. He is listed as a Grand Juror for area between The South Fork of The Edisto River and the Savannah River in 1778-1779. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Lee made out his will 28 October 1782 in Granville County witnessed by John Bellenger, Jesse Purvis, and Phereby Collins. His executors were his son Godfrey Lee and sons in law Rev. Henry Peeple and George Robinson. He died by November 1788 when his will was proved in a Johnston County court. A few months later the will was also filed in Winton County on 4 February 1789. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robert Lee and Susannah Williams children were Sarah Lee who married three times, first Edward Bush, second Rev. Henry Peeple, and third Robert Lancaster., Winifred Lee wife of Mr. Blackman and Isaac Ingram, Lewis Lee husband of Dorcus Odam, Mrs. George Robinson and Godfrey Lee, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Thomas Castellow married the widow of William Bush he became the stepfather of Edward Bush,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the eldest son of William Bush and Mary Hare [or Hand] of Johnston County. Edward Bush was born circa 1739 in Chowan County and died 1769 in Granville District South Carolina. He had married Sarah Lee the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Williams Lee. Edward Bush was in his teens in 1754 when he is listed as serving in the Colonial Army "from North side of Trent from Higgans Bridge to head of river under the command of Capt. Lewis Bryan.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1752 John Williams sold lands of his father Theophilus Williams to this Robert Lee, the father in law of Edward Bush.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Robert Lee later sold off his properties in Johnston County in preparation for a move to Granville County South Carolina. By 1768 this Robert Lee was established in Granville County, South Carolina, an area that later became Barnwell District. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;">On 7 Oct 1751 Isaac Bush of Johnston County had sold four African Americans named<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Hannah, Prince, Press, and Grim to his nephews and nieces, Edward Bush, John Bush and Zelphia who had married Ezekiel Williams. In 1754 Isaac was granted 200 acres on the Nuese River adjoining William Bush. However by 19 Jan 1778 he had bought 100 acres from George Galphin of 96</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><sup>th</sup> District on upper side of New Three Runs in Granville County South Carolina. In 1778-1779 he was a Grand Juror for area between The South Fork of The Edisto River and the Savannah River. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When John Williams left Bertie County circa 1741 he moved with other relatives and neighbors to a part of New Hanover County which later became Duplin County in 1750. He lived in what was called the Goshen Settlement of Duplin County named for the Goshen Swamp, a tributary of the North East Cape Fear River. To the west of Goshen Swamp is the Six Run Creek which flows southerly where it joins the Great Cohearie Creek where they both then join the Black River.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This appears to be the region where Theophilus Williams other children settled after leaving Bertie County and Onslow County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The devastating hurricane of 1752 may have had them leave Onslow to seek out lands further away from the low coastal region.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams’ younger brother, James Williams, was “of Goshen Settlement” also. He married Alice McRae the daughter of William McRae, but he died in 1751 in Duplin<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He left only one son William Williams who probably followed his uncle John Williams into St. George Parish, Georgia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THE HERRING</b><b> </b><b>FAMILY of GOSHEN SWAMP</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Herring families of Duplin County were cousins of John Williams through his aunts Ann and Mary who had married brothers Samuel and Abraham in Bertie County. John Herring on 7 October 1751 witnessed a deed between Moses Taylor and Needham Bryan at Goshen Swamp. Needham Bryan was also a kinsman to John Williams’ mother Christian Busby Williams. Another cousin of John Williams, Stephen Herring, son of Samuel Herring and Ann Williams, on 2 October 1766 had 250 acres at Goshen Swamp. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Fryer family was most likely descendants of Richard Fryer of Bertie County. John Fryer had married Sarah Bush the daughter of Isaac and Charity Bush. On 19 April 1750 John Fryer bought land from Moses Taylor “of Johnston County” at Goshen Swamp. The Witnesses were Thomas Castellow and John Slocumb.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Fryer on 8 January 1757 witnessed the deed of Samuel Alexander at Goshen Swamp Duplin County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Alexander was the husband of John Williams’ first cousin Bethiah Castellow, and Thomas Castellow’s sister. Samuel Alexander was granted 148 acres in St. George Parish, Georgia on 5 June 1764. John Fryer was granted 150 acres 2 July 1765 in St. George Parish from land first surveyed 15 August 1759. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A Martin Fryer on 3 May 1755 sold to William McGee land between Great Coheary and Little Coheary Creeks. By 1764 he had moved to Granville County, South Carolina. On 2 March 1764 Martin Fryer filed a memorial title for 100 acres on the Savannah River “summarizing a chain of title to a grant to Christiana Housman dated from 7 November 1756. A title memorial is information recorded on a property title relating to a transaction, interest in or restriction over a piece of land. On 5 September 1766 Martin Fryer witnessed a deed between Ralph Wilson and Daniel Kelly on Three Runs in Granville County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A year later on 7 August 1767 Fryer sold this land to Edward Bush in Granville County for </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 3pt;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" style="height: 14.25pt; width: 6pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata chromakey="white" o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\smoke\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png"></v:imagedata></v:shape></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>500 pounds. The witnesses were Seth Slocomb and Luke Mizzell. This deed was not recorded until 30 December 1790. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Slocomb Family of Goshen was represented by Samuel Slocomb and Seth Slocomb, son of Josias Slocomb. John Williams “of Craven County” on 6 May 1752 sold to Samuel Slocomb 100 acres of land on east side of Northeast Cape Fear River at Marsh Branch and Goshen Swamp in Duplin County. This was the first deed to land given in this Duplin County. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">According to Edward Bush’s will he had bought land from Seth Slocomb. Seth Slocomb first appears in a grant deed of 200 acres of land in Duplin County by the North East <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>branch of the Cape Fear River. This deed is between the dates of 1759 and 1761, and was witnessed by his brothers John C. and Joseph Slocomb. The next record found of him is in Granville County South Carolina dated 13 June 1764 where he filed a plat for 112 acres. His neighbor was Martin Fryer. He didn’t file a memorial title to this property until 2 August 1771. Martin Fryer and Seth Slocomb may have traveled together as that Fryer was also in the same locality in 1764.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Seth Slocomb on 25 August 1766 filed a plat for 43 acres near the Savannah River in Granville County. His neighbors were Thomas Holley, William Reaston, and Henry Wimberly. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This William Reaston or Reason filed a memorial title 5 July 1771 for property along the Savannah River in Granville in which his neighbors were Seth Slocomb and Martin Fryer.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The next record after that shows that Seth Slocomb was granted 100 acres of land in St. George's Parish, across the Savannah River and also 100 acres in same place in 1774. Seth Slocomb sold 100 acres 2 May, 1773, to Jonathan Kemp of same Parish. The last record found naming him shows him a resident of St. George Parish and loyal to the King of England, on 28 September 1774.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another family associated with Goshen Swamp was the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Grimes family, represented by Hugh and Willis Grimes. Hugh Grimes was a wheelwright<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>who on 10 April 1752 had lands on north side of Goshen Swamp near Thomas Castellow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died 1781 in Duplin County. Willis Grimes on 9 October 1764 bought 214 acres<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>from George Bell at Beaver Dam<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and Goshen Swamp in Duplin Co.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Willis Grimes on 11 December 1770 had 275 acres in Duplin County and by 1783 he was on the Tax List of Orangeburgh District South Carolina. On 29 October 1792 Willis Grimes filed a plat for 99 acres on Shaws Creek on the Edisto River in Winton County surveyed by Charles Banks. His neighbor was Capt. John Randall who owned over 1000 acres along the Savannah River in Winton County. The Grimes descendants intermarried with many Barnwell District families.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THE MALLARD FAMILY of DUPLIN COUNTY</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Mallard Family of Dublin County were the in-laws of Wilson Williams, the son of Britton Williams. Wilson’s first wife was Mary Mallard daughter of George Mallard. George Mallard<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>born 1728 and died 1798 in Duplin County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“Nuncupative Will” was dated 27 March 1798 when Phillip Southerland <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>made Oath that Mallard said Southerland to write his will. Mallard “appeared in a very low state but in his proper senses of the best of his knowledge”. To daughter, Mary land. “[Then] the Cough took him of a Sudden and [he] never appeared to be capable of making any <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>further will and died about ten aclock (sic) or som (sic) earlyer (sic) this day. Sworn before Robert Southerland.” He may have been the grandfather of Mary Mallard Williams. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Daniel Mallard was the brother of George and he had a son also named George. This George was </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">born about 1750 and died 12 Sept 1812 in Barnwell District South Carolina. His will probated 30 Oct 1812. His first wife died about 1790 and his 2<sup>nd</sup></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> wife was Esther Allen who remarried Charles Boyles. On 19 June 1802 George Mallard bought 200 acres lands from Joshua Williams adjoining Charles Boyles, Dempsey Phillips, William Bryan and Joshua Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Mallard’s children were Mary Mallard wife of Wilson Williams, Adam Mallard, and Hiram Mallard husband of Maria Moore. His children by his second wife were Sarah Mallard,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rachael Mallard, Nancy Hester Mallard, Daniel Mallard and Duren (Dewring) Mallard.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The will stated that an equal share of 383 acres was to go Daniel Mallard and Duren Mallard lands first granted to John McFail and Aaron Gillette on the Cooswahatchie River. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Six Run Creek is a tributary of the Black
River, approximately 50 miles long, and in southeastern North Carolina. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It rises in northeastern Sampson County,
approximately 15 miles north of the town of Clinton and flows generally south.
In southern Sampson County, approximately 10 miles south of Clinton, it joins the
Great Coharie Creek to form the Black River. In 1781 the Duplin county Courthouse
was situated along a tributary of Six Runs Creek in what later became a part of
Sampson County in 1784. Sampson County was created from a portion of this
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Cohearie and Six Run Creek are now in Sampson while Goshen Swamp is still just
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the Duplin county as early as 1740, moving up the South and Black Rivers from
the seacoast at Wilmington. The southern end of the county once contained farm lands
but this end of the county today is largely devoted to the growing of pine
trees. The dense woods has provided shelter for a large number of deer which
made hunting quite good. </span></div>
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200 acres on east side of Black River on Beaver Dam Swamp. Beaver Dam Swamp is
a tributary of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the Six Run Creek which
was also called Black River.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is
unclear whether this was John the Merchant or John son of Theophilus however
Campbell’s connections to the Whitfield family suggests that this may have been
a transaction of John the son of Theophilus. </span></div>
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Elizabeth Whitfield Smith and as his third wife</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rachel Whitfield widow of Henry Goodman. Rachel was the
daughter of Constantine Whitfield and Barbara Williams. Barbara’s father was
James Williams the son of John Williams the Younger and she was the sister of Ezekiel Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Barbara Williams Whitfield was also John the
son of Theophilus first cousin. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Farquard Campbell was a Highlander Scot who
came to North Carolina at an early age and settled mainly in Cumberland County.
He tried to remain neutral during the Revolutionary War but his dealings with
the Royal Governor led to his arrest as a loyalist after the Battle of Moore's
Creek. He was taken prisoner and the provincial congress on 20 Apr. 1776 found
him guilty of assisting the enemy. Congress, fearing the personal and family
influence of Campbell and other Highlander prisoners, removed them in the
interests of public safety to Philadelphia, later
transferred to Baltimore, and thence sent to Fredericktown, Maryland. On 3 March 1777,
Campbell wrote Governor Richard Caswell, requesting parole to North Carolina,
and offering to mortgage his property as security for his good behavior. Parole
was granted on 12 April 1778 and he became committed to Independence.</span></span></div>
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on 7 October 1756 was granted<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>lands on
eastside of Six Runs. Again on 22 August 1757 while a resident of Carteret
County sold this land Valentines Holllingsworth that was located on the
eastside of Six Runs between John Miller and Joseph Williams’ land . The
witnesses were Joseph Williams, Thomas Hicks and Thomas Boon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In September 1752 a major Hurricane swept
through Onslow County and destroyed the county court house and its records. So
many land deeds and probate records that might have given us more clues to
family connections were lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Charles Royall the father of Arthur, John, and Samuel Royall migrated from Bertie County and settled in Onslow County where he owned a gristmill on Turkey Creek where he died in 1755. He and his wife Ann were the parents of Arthur Royall husband of Susannah Cox, John Royall, Samuel Royall, Thomas Royall, Sarah Royall and Charles Royall. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Arthur Royall is listed in a 1756 deed as the eldest son of Charles Royall. Arthur married Susannah Cox, the daughter of Charles and Rebecca Cox of Onslow. Arthur Royall is listed in the Onslow Will of Charles Cox as his son-in-law. Charles Cox died in 1771. Arthur and family moved to Georgia about 1764. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Samuel Royall is likely the 3rd oldest as he is listed 3rd in his father's will in 1755. Samuel Royall and his brother Arthur Royall enlisted in the Onslow County Militia in 1754. Being a younger son his prospects in North Carolina were not as good as his older brothers or he was more adventurous as he moved to Georgia in 1759. There in Ebenezer he married Esther Williams, daughter of Theophilus and sister of John of Goshen Swamp. He married after Esther's death, Verlinda Godbee</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">John Williams was a neighbor of Arthur Royall and it would have been likely that his sister Esther was acquainted with Samuel in Duplin although they married in Georgia. Why they married there is an enigma. Perhaps they may have even eloped. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On June 13, 1756, Arthur Royall sold to his brother Samuel Royall for £ 100 pounds, 200
acres on South west side of North west Branch of New River at “John Williams
corner, purchased from Samuel Williams deceased”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Who this Samuel Williams was is unknown. Theophilus
Williams on 26 June 1756, nearly two weeks afterwards is shown to be located in
Onslow County near this John Williams. These lands were on the southwest branch
of New River at Mashburns Great Branch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Arthur Royall and John Royall both left North Carolina for Georgia Colony after Samuel Royall who probably told of the rich free land to be had in Georgia and South Carolina. Arthur Royall left in 1764 however a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">land record dated 10 July 1765 shows that John
Royall remained at Beaverdam Swamp a tributary of Six Run Creek in Duplin
County. Two years later John Royall is shown on 7 July 1767 as owning property adjoining
John Williams and James Pierce [Pearce] in St. George Parish, Georgia. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Royall He also
lived in Prince William Parish, Granville Count, South Carolina. By 7 April 1770
he is back in Duplin County, North Carolina buying land from John Bush on the
west side of the Great Coharie Creek [Great Coheary], </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">from
grant first patented 13 Sept 1749. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Bush was the brother of Edward, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>brother-in-law of Ezekiel Williams, and
step-son for Thomas Castellow. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On 29 May
1773 John Royall sold </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">159 acres to William Royal, land on west side
of Great Coheary Creek in Duplin County part of a tract first granted to John
Bush. On 6 September 1774 John Royal is back on Brier Creek in St. George
Parish on lands adjoining the widow Catherine Poole. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Catherine Poole was probably the widow of Lewis Pool and
daughter in law of George Pool of Johnston County, North Carolina. George Poole
sold a tract of land on the northside of the Neuse River to William Campbell.
In 1762 Campbell sold this property to Robert Lee in a deed witnessed by John
Williams’ cousin Isaac Williams son of his uncle and aunt Isaac Williams and
Martha Hodges. On 21 October 1765 Robert Lee gave this property to his married
daughter Elizabeth the wife of Jesse Pearce. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Catherine Poole moved to
South Carolina Colony where on 11 April 1765 she filed a plat for 250 acres in
Granville County on the Lower Three Runs Creek. Her neighbors were Isaac Perry,
John Troup, and Thomas Johnston.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Six
years later Catherine Poole on 4 December 1771 was mentioned as a neighbor of William
Creighton along with Alexius Forster, and Josiah Murdaugh
[Murdock]. This area was probably at the Lower Three Runs a tributary of the
Savannah River and is about 14 miles northwest of the town of Allendale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However by 6 September 1774 Catherine Poole had acquired 200
acres in St. George Parish southwest of Brier Creek and southeast of John
Royal. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She still held lands in Granville
County across the river as that in a memorial title filed 3 November 1774 by Alexis
Forster in which he stated his neighbors were Catharine Poole, William Brown,
William Creech, and William Creighton. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This document shows that William Brown who had
sold lands to Britton Williams and William Creech, brother of Richard Creech
Sr. were her neighbors also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the Revolutionary War
on 17 January 1786, John Wickley filed a plat for 180 acres on the Lower Three
Runs on the Savannah River property surveyed by Harwood Jones for Cinthey
Murdock on 24 August 1784. He said his neighbors were William Brown, Richard
Creech Sr., and Catherine Poole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 19 April 1770 Jesse and Elizabeth Pearce sold to Lewis Bryan 100 acres on north side of Nuese River adjoining upper Mill Creek being all the land granted to Isaac Williams to Elizabeth Pearce being part of lands from George Pool and part from James Stallions. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A near neighbor was James Stallion [Stalling] who had lands in 1770 on the north side of the Neuse River by George Pool and Isaac Williams. James Stallion on 21 March 1774 witnesses a deed between Frederick “Stalling” in Prince William Parish, Granville County, South Carolina and John Scott. The 50 acres sold were first granted to Elias Stalling who was in Prince William Parish as early as 4 March 1757. </span></span></div>
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Roberts, Mixons, and Register families. Michael Mixon as of 8 September 1760
had lands on Six Run River by neighbors William Lee and John Fryer. William Lee
was a son of John Lee Sr. and Mary Deas and born circa 1730 and had witnessed
the 8 September 1760 deed of Michael Mixon.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>son of William and Elizabeth
Mixon<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>born on 15 Apr 1727 in Surry County, Virginia.
He died before 1820 in Burke County, Georgia. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He married Sarah Brittain or Britton on 3 Nov
1747 in Prince Frederick Parish Winyaw Pee Dee District South Carolina. His
children were Sarah Mixon wife of John George Washington Sapp [son of Dylan B.
and Luctretia Sapp], Francis Mixon<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and John
D. Mixon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Michael Mixon was in Craven County South Carolina as early
as 13 July 1757 where he filed a plat for 150 acres in the Welsh tract on Black
Creek. His neighbors were John Marsh, and John Wade. He filed a
Memorial title to this tract of land on 25 February 1760. A title memorial is information recorded on a property title relating to a transaction, interest in or restriction over a piece of land. On 11 April 1775 Michael Mixon received a Royal Grant of 150 acres on a fork of Jeffrey's Creek in Craven County. John Mixon received 150 acres on 8 February 1775 located on the southside of Lynch's Creek in Craven County. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A David Williams on 13 April 1756 sold to Joseph Register
land on Six Runs of the Black River. In1769 Joseph Register was granted 200
acres in Duplin County and the wording of the document indicates that he had
land there already. Joseph Register was probably a relative of William Register
who in 1779 owned lands in Duplin County. The following men with the name
Register are found in a 1783 Tax List of Duplin County; Benjamin Register, John
Register, Joseph Register, Thomas Register, Thomas Jr. Register And William
Register. William Register married Elizabeth Williams daughter of Marmaduke
Williams and had moved to Barnwell District South Carolina where he had
property at Miller Swamp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams, when he was about 35 years old migrated
out of North Carolina to Craven County South Carolina where he settled in Prince Frederick Parish also known as Winyaw Parish along the waters of the Wateree River. The Wateree River is about 75 miles long and is a tributary of the Santee River in central South Carolina which then flows to the Atlantic Ocean. It is an extension of the Catawba River of North Carolina and they are the same river with different names assigned to different sections of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Craven County was one of the three original
counties established by the Lords Proprietor of the English colony of Carolana
in 1682. It stretched <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>from Awendaw Creek
north to the western shore of Winyah Bay and inland. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1706, the Lords Proprietor established the
Church of England Parish system in South Carolina, reducing counties to
geographic designations with no administrative functions; the southwestern half
of Craven County was organized into St. James Santee Parish, and in 1721,
Prince George Parish was organized for the former northeastern half of Craven
County, extending into the unorganized territory to the north and east of the
county. In 1734 Prince Frederick Parish was split from Prince George Parish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are records for many John Williamses in Craven County between 1756 and 1764 but none of them can be specifically applied to him. Certainly he owned property there and may have even migrated there with the Mixon and Odom families. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Names which show up over and over again in the land transaction records are John Bremar, Sir Egerton Leigh, and John Troup. These men were governmental figures and not necessary neighbors of the people in whose deeds they are mentioned. John Bremar was he Surveyor General of South Carolina and Sir Egerton Leigh and John Troup were both attorneys in the court of common pleas during the colonial period. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is however a possible connection through a man named John Evans who was a neighbor of John Wiliams, Abraham Odam, and Michael Mixon on waters of the Wateree River. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 26 November 1756 a John Williams filed a plat for 100 acres on Rogers Creek near the Wateree River in Craven County and his neighbor was John Evans . John Williams filed a memorial title for this property on Rogers Creek 8 October 1759. A title memorial is information recorded on a property title relating to a transaction, interest in or restriction over a piece of land. . </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Earlier that year on 5 January 1756 Abraham Odam filed a plat for 400 acres on the Wateree River in Craven County. One of his neighbors was a John Evans. Later records show that these lands were on the southside of the Wateree. On </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">16 April 1756 Abraham Odam filed a plat for 200 acres on Rogers Creek on the Wateree River for 200 acres. His neighbors were William De Braham, Robert Millhouse and John Evans. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Family ties and property transactions brought John Williams the son of Theophilus back to Duplin County from Georgia by 29 February 1764 when he sold lands <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">on west side of Great Coheary to Abraham Odam. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A plat filed by William Frost on 16 March 1764 showed that Robert Milhouse, and Abraham Odam were all neighbors on Rogers Creek.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Odam Family had a presence in Duplin County, North Carolina, Craven County, South Carolina and St. George Parish, Georgia. Abraham Odam Sr. and Richard Odam were brothers and sons of Jacob and Susan Odam. Richard Odam in 1754 had lands on west side of Great Coheary River in Duplin County however by 1778 he had moved to Granville County South Carolina where he was listed as a “Petit Juror” “of Savannah River” along with John Williams, Richard Kirkland, and John Roberts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Abraham Odom, Sr. was granted land in Craven County, South Carolina on 23 Mar 1755. John Williams may have traveled with Abraham Odam to Craven County as that on 1 September 1756 he witnessed a deed of Abraham Odam<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>for lands located on the Wateree River. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 8 January 1767 Abraham Odam was granted<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>300 acres on Brier Creek in St. George Parish. A month later he was back in Duplin County selling his property he had bought from John Williams “on westside of Great Coheary Creek”. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Abraham Odam Sr was of Granville County, South Carolina when he wrote his out his will on 30 January 1771 which was proved 6 April 1771</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The earliest member of the Odam family in St. George Parish was Joshua Odam who on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></b>8 Jan 1761 had lands on Brier Creek.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Frederick Odam<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was granted on 5 May 1765 200 acres on Brier Creek. Abraham’s brother William Odam received on 6 Oct 1767 100 acres on Brier Creek. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ephraim Odam on 3 Oct 1769 had lands by Abraham Odam in St. George Parish. Jacob Odam on 4 May 1773 also had lands in St. George Parish, Georgia. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Mixon of Duplin County was also in Craven County South Carolina as early as 13 July 1 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">757 where he filed a plat for 150 acres on Black Creek </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1763 John Williams moved to St. George Parish from Fort Winyaw in Craven County, South Carolina <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>with 3 children 3 slaves. This information is found in a grant request from 1764. As that he later in 1765 stated he had a wife and nine children and 3 slaves, he probably only took his oldest sons with him to claim lands in Georgia and after securing property brought the rest of his family from Craven County. As that John Williams had so many children to provide for he most likely moved for better economic advantages for his family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When the Georgia colony was established in
1732, the area now known today as Burke and Screven Counties was called the
Halifax District. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Halifax
District comprised the major part of what became St. George Parish and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">appears to have been
created i</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n 1752-54 as one of the voting districts for the Georgia colonial
assembly formed when the province became a royal colony. The exact boundaries
of Halifax District are not known but appear to have been roughly along both
sides of Brier Creek and the west side of the Savannah River, below Augusta. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Georgia had ended the ban on slavery in 1749, and that made the colony very attractive to people who wanted to bring their slaves with them. The largest percentage of the people moving into the backcountry were migrants from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina—rather than native Georgians. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There was a concentration of settlers were on lower Buckhead Creek and Upper Brier Creek where a fort was built in the area for possible Indian retaliations. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">An Indian trader named George Galphin had trading posts on both the Savannah River and the Ogeechee River in the 1750’s. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Families crossing the Savannah River and moving into the backcountry were part of what was a slow, multi-generational move from those states. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The eastern boundary of Georgia, the Savannah River, was very permeable. One did not have to cross mountains through difficult passes and hostile Indian tribes to get here. A simple ferry crossing was all it took. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The pioneers came down the Savannah River in three directions.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some came down the Savannah River from Augusta, others followed the Brier Creek up stream and still others crossed the Savannah River at Stoney Bluff landing . Stoney Bluff was six miles above court house at Halifax</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1752, after the relinquishment of the
charter Georgia became a Royal Province and under the English Crown and its
Royal Governors, fee simple grants were made to the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">land which gave a clear title to the
grantees. These Royal Grants, in the Georgia Surveyor General Department of the
Office of the Secretary of State, begin in 1755. The three year gap between
1752 and 1755 is variously explained by historians, but in any case, the latter
year is the first date for the grants. There are some 5000 of these recorded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1758 Georgia was divided into eight
parishes: These parishes were really counties and were Christ Church Parish,
including the town of Savannah, St. Matthew's Parish, including the town of Ebenezer;
St. Paul's Parish, including the town of Augusta; St. George's Parish,
including the town of Halifax; St. Philip's Parish, including community of Great
Ogeechee; St. John's Parish, including the towns of Midway and Sunbury; St.
Andrew's Parish, including Darien; and St. James's Parish, including Frederica.
These divisions were made for the better government of the colony. The law
provided for the holding of public worship in each of these parishes. In 1765
four new parishes were added to the number then in Georgia. They were St.
Patrick's, St. David's, St. Thomas's, and St. Mary's, and were all between the
Altamaha and the St. Mary’s rivers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The creation of St. George Parish in 1758
ended the use of Halifax District for elections but in the late 1760's and
early 1770's, the District made a come back as a political entity. Because the
western areas of St. George Parish were largely settled by Scot-Irish (Lowland
Scots from northern Ireland)) Presbyterians, the taxation of that section to
support the Anglican church in St. George Parish was deemed unfair by the
Presbyterians who unsuccessfully attempted to have the parish sub-divided into
Halifax.</span></div>
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Queensborough section for themselves. This action was done, but not for reasons
of religious taxation, on March 12, 1774 when a dividing line was drawn to
separate the two civil courts (courts of conscience) in the Parish. Halifax
Court District was defined as being east of a line that started at the mouth of
Bark Camp Creek to George Williams' ford on Brier Creek to McBean's Creek near
Galphin's Cowpens. In 2 January 1770 George Williams owned land that was bounded on the south by John Tanner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Halifax District Courthouse is shown on
some Revolutinary War maps as the "Old </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Courthouse" and was located near the
present-day Alexander Community in Burke County. The other courhouse in St.
George Parish was in Queensborough Township. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However there were few white
families in the area of St. George Parish before the treaty with the Indians was signed on 10 Nov
1763.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Treaty of 1763 was held with
between 700 Indians, representing all the Southern Tribes, and the Governors of
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Almost all of the first landowners came from the older American colonies, especially after Georgia lifted its ban on slavery. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The first white settlers were "headright
settlers," or those who acquired land via a system that granted parcels to
the heads of families, with more land going to larger families. <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">These families had their own initiatives for obtaining land grants from the crown. They received 100 acres for each head of a family plus 50 acres for each additional member and 50 for each slave.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These head right grants required no money</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Most settlers did not come in large groups
but instead arrived as individuals and in family units. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The majority of these frontier settlers were
farmers with small and medium-sized operations. They were attracted to lands by
the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers, which offered transportation and water for
their livestock. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Many of the families of St. George Parish had connections to
Duplin and Dobbs Counties in North Carolina and settled along Brier Creek [Briar
Creek] a tributary of the Savannah River. The c</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">reek flows eastward from the Georgia side into the Savannah
River directly across from present day Allendale County, South Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Brier Creek itself is a riverine watercourse
traversing much of eastern Georgia between the Ogeechee River and the Savannah
River. This waterway has a length of
approximately 80 miles. In many places along the length of its course it is 30
to 50 feet in width. Near its mouth it is sometimes as broad as 80 feet. The joining of Brier Creek with the Savannah River forms a significant geographic constraint for settlers. The land surrounding Brier creek and the Savannah river is often swampy, and movement across both waterways was difficult except at certain landings. </span></span><br />
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place on Brier Creek near present-day Brannen's Bridges. The patriots were
routed by the British and Loyalists which kept Georgia under Royal rule for
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1763 John Williams moved to St. George Parish from Fort Winyaw in Craven County, South Carolina <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>with 3 children 3 slaves. He was then granted 300 acres in St. George Parish, near James Nesmith, Henry Summerley, and John Maner. A deed from 7 August 1764 said that these 300 acres were on the “north side” of Brier Creek “four miles below Stoney Bluff by James Nesmith.” James Nasmith was born in <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Scotland</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> circa </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">1740</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> and was married to Anne Young and had 2 children. He passed away on </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">1780</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Burke County, Georgia. <span style="margin: 0px;"> Nesmith was granted 150 acres 4 miles below Stoney Bluff on 6 November 1764 on land that had been surveyed 13 December 1760. At the same time he also was granted 250 acres in the same vicinity. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 3 December 1760 Andrew Greiner was granted 200 acres in St. George Parish on waters of the Savannah River. John Gaspar Hirschmann had property to the south of Greiner. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">On <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>27 November 1761 Andrew Greiner he was also granted 50 acres near <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Benjamin Williamson” on Creek Island in the Savannah River. <span style="margin: 0px;"> Six years later Greiner was granted 200 acres on 7 April 1767 bounded on the north by the Savannah River, east by Thomas Bell, and on the west by William Mainer. His own properties lay to the south. At the same time he was granted an additional 500 acres bounded to the east by Samuel Royall, southeast by Samuel Haines and to the north by his own properties. This Samuel Haines had 200 acres on 2 April 1765 first surveyed 18 February 1761 bounded to the southeast by John Royall.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Benjamin Williamson of St. George Parish died in 1775. He first came to Augusta in 1758 </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but relocated to St. George Parish where he was granted <tt><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">250 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">acres on 5 February 1760, lands bounded Northeast by the Savannah River, Southeast by Thomas Red [Read], Northwest by William Newberry. He was granted on 7 August 1764 lands bounded on the southwest by Andrew Griener, West by Savannah River, Northwest by Richard <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Hubbart, North and Northeast, South and Southeast by Kings Creek. On the same date John Williams was granted his 300 acres by James Nesmith and Henry Summerly.</span></tt></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Royall is shown on 7 July 1767 as owning property adjoining John Williams and James Pierce [Pearce] in St. George Parish, Georgia. James Pierce [Pearce] on 7 July 1767 was granted 110 acres in St. George Parish just to the south east of John Williams and North east of John Royall. This deed clearly showed that John Williams and John Royall had adjoining property lines.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This Pearce may have been a relative of Jesse Pearce who married Elizabeth Williams a granddaughter of Theophilus Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Another cousin of John Williams was Thomas Castellow and brother of James Castellow. In March 1767 he applied for a grant stating he had a wife, 10 children, and 1 slave. He was given lands on Brier Creek, in St. George Parish. By November 1770 Thomas Castellow was listed as having 6 slaves on lands on Brier Creek by Arthur Wall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Neighbors of Arthur Wall were Edmund Pearce and Isaac Perry. Isaac Perry was a surveyor in Granville County and Edmund Pearce may have been related to the Pearce Family of Jesse and James Pearce. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">In the Augusta Land Court Thomas Castellow on 8 November 1773 was granted 250 acres on Red Lick Creek adjoining Cader Powell. He stated he was from South Carolina and had one son and seven daughters from 16 to 5 years old. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 27 March 1775 Thomas "Castellow" filed a memorial title for 400 acres on Back Swamp in Granville County. His neighbors were Patrick Butler. Joseph Perry, John Tanner and Ralph Wilson. A title memorial is information recorded on a property title relating to a transaction, interest in or restriction over a piece of land. Thomas died prior to 10 April 1790 in Winton County when his estate went into probate.</span></span></div>
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His children married into Barnwell District families and had connections with
the children of Britton Williams. His children were <span style="margin: 0px;">Alexander Campbell married Elizabeth</span>, Joshua Campbell married
Zilpha Best daughter of Absalom Best, <span style="margin: 0px;">Millicent
Campbell</span> circa 1772 married Mr. Bryan of Northampton County, North
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married James Fullerton and 2ndly before 1824 Cornelius Taylor, and <span style="margin: 0px;">Sarah</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">Campbell</span>. Alexander Campbell and Elizabeth were the parents of
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1764 he sold lands to John Ingram in Johnston County and on 15 October 1764
William Campbell sold to Richard Ingram of Johnston County land “except a 10
foot grave parcel of his child on southside of Neuse River adjoining Theophilus
Williams adjoining John Lee.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>W</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">itnesses
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old son [1770]. <span style="margin: 0px;"> At Rocky Creek there was a man named Asa Williams who had 150 acres on the east side of the creek adjoining Captain James Roberts southern property line. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This
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awarded grants there up to Creek and Cherokee lands. Wilson Williams would eventually move there was a resident between 1791 and 1802. Beginning in 1786, seven counties
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gave a deed of gift to his children of 600 acres in Liberty County Georgia on the Altamaha
River. Liberty county was established in 1777 <span style="color: #262626; margin: 0px;">from St. Andrew, St. James and St. John Parishes.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The
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River in South Carolina. John Among the earliest settlers on the Southside of Brier Creek were William Brown,
John Brunson, James Castellow, John Conyer, Capt. Danel Green, Solomon Kemp,
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McNish and northwest by John Conyers. On 31 May 1768 he received an additional 200 acres on
southwest side of Brier Creek on the east by Benjamin “Moodie”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Benjamin Moodie on <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>6 Aug 1765 received 400 acres on Brier Creek near John Conyers in St. George Parish, Georgia. </span></span></span></span></div>
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John McNish in St. George Parish, Georgia. On 13 April 1761 Conyer received 200
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Creek in St. George Parish, Georgia. <span style="margin: 0px;"> He received 300 acres 3 April 1764 and 50 acres in 6 June 1769 bounded by Benjamin Williamson to the northwest. John Conyers<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was born perhaps in<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Liverpool, England and married Sarah Elizabeth Hicks [Hix]. They had a daughter Esther Conyers who married Capt Joseph William Humphreys of Barnwell District. </span></span><br />
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wife Sarah Jennings and their nine children moved to Georgia and South Carolina in the late 1760’s from Albemarle County, Virginia. William Brown had a brother Bartlett Brown who settled two miles above Matthew's Bluff, on the Savannah river. William Brown </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">had lands on both banks of the Savannah River but lived across from the Burton Ferry. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">William Brown's<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> children were Tarleton Brown husband of Almeda Mathews and Judith O'Bannon, Bartlett Brown, John Brown, Sarah Brown wife of John Cave, Elizabeth wife of John Joyce, Mrs,.Isaac Harden, Mary Brown wife of Henry Best, Emelia Brown wife of Bartless King and Robert Bradley, and Mrs. Alexander Kennedy. William Brown and a son was killed by Tories during the Revolutionary War.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">William Brown on 11 February 1767 filed a plat for 300 acres on King's Creek waters of the Savannah River in Granville County. Across the river in St. George Parish William Brown </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">on 7 April 1767 received 200 acres northwest of Isaac C Copeland. Later that year on 20 August 1767 he received two land grant in Granville County. One was for 400 acres and the other was for 300 acres. Both properties were on King's Creek.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 22 March 1769 William Brown received a land grant for 200 acres in Granville County. William Brown on 30 August 1769 filed a plat for 100 acres on Pipe Creek waters of the Savannah in Granville County. His neighbors were Isaac Perry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">James Joice on 11 October 1769 applied for a grant of 82 acres on King Creek and had a plat surveyed by Isaac Perry. However the land was not granted and the plat unrecorded. His near neighbor was William Brown.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 9 November 1769 William Brown filed a plat for 100 acres on the Salkehatchie River in Granville County. His near neighbors were Joseph Elliott, and Alexius Forster. A month later on 21 December 1769 he received a grant for 100 acres on Pipe Creek in Granville County.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1770 William Brown was listed in deeds as being on Little Briar Creek along with neighbors Absalom Best,Samuel Colding, and Isaac Perry. On 20 December 1770 he filed a plat for 350 acres on the Coosawhatchie River in Prince William Parish. His neighbors were Joshua Brailsford, Stephen Bull, William Hife, Elias Roberts, and Edward Wilkinson.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 10 April 1771 William Brown received a land grant for 350 acres in Granville County, however by <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">4 June 1772 he received an additional 200 acres between Brier Creek and McBean Swamp located by Richard Brown in St. George Parish. On 7 February 1775 he had lands by Edmund Hill in St. George Parish, Georgia from which he later moved to South Carolina where he had lands on Four Mile Branch in Granville County<b>.</b><span style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b>On 2 September 1775 William Brown filed a memorial for 400 acres there with his neighbors being Thomas Philpot and James Wilson. A title memorial is information recorded on a property title relating to a transaction, interest in or restriction over a piece of land. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">In 1775 William Brown sold land in South Carolina<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>between King and Brier Creeks in Granville County on the Savannah River<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>to Britton Williams. </span></span></span></span><br />
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William and Sarah Brown's daughter Elizabeth, who married John Joyce, brother in law was James Joyce. On<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>29 Sept 1795 James Joyce was a neighbor of Britton’s son Wilson Williams and James Lee. On 18 Feb1799 Wilson Williams “of Washington County, Georgia sold lands on King Creek to William Campbell, property<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>that had been first<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>granted to William Brown.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Carolina petitioned for a grant in St. George Parish stating that he owned 12
slaves. The grant was denied at that time however by 1771 he managed to get
land there anyway. In 1773 he was granted lands on the Ogeechee River in St.
George Parish “where Moses Powell first entered”. He is listed with two
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">He may have been a nephew of Nathan Williams and his heir. After<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the Revolutionary War he is on a Winton County Tax List in 1783 and had lands on Cypress Pond. On an application dated 17 October 1787 a citation in behalf of William Williams, "nephew and heir at law of Nathan Williams, deceased" was issued by the Winton County court directed to "Mary Davis, the widow of the said Williams" to show cause why letters of administration not be granted to him of the "estate of Nathan Williams, deceased." On 15 January 1788 the court ordered that Mary Williams should have letters of administration over her late husbands estate with Abraham Richardson and Richard Treadway acting as securitors with 50 pounds. On 7 August 1788 the appraisement of Nathan Williams estate was returned to the court by Elijah Wasden, John Mooney and William Green. His estate was valued at 8 pounds 15 shillings and 4 pence.<br />1788: Winton County, S. C. Inventory of estate of Nathaniel Williams, returned by Elijah Wasden, John Mooney and William Green, appraisers 7 August 1788. Valued 16 Aug._4_.<br />Recorded 27 August 1788.[Winton Court Minute Book from October 1786 - July 1791, page 20]</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1788 William Williams was a Petite Juror and he posted a bond 27 February 1788 with his Surities<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>being <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Isham Clayton, George Kirkland and Nathan Grimes. George Kirkland was the father of Wilson Williams’ second wife Elizabeth Kirkland. In 1790 he received letters of administration for the estate of James Bond along with Isham Clayton. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That year he posted a bond for Benjamin Corbit along with Captain Richard Creech. Corbit was <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>accused of cow Stealing. On 25 August 1790 the Census recorder remarked “Gone to Georgia “ in the enumeration of William Williams in South Orangeburgh District South Carolina. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 14 October 1790 Isham Clayto of Winton County, sold to Nathan Grimes 250 acres located on Barton's Branch waters of the Salkehatchie River adjoining Samuel Perkins. Grimes paid 150 pounds for this property and the deed was witnessed by James Thurston, Richard Creech, and John Grimes.</span></div>
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that was probated 18 May 1770 at Halifax. He named a wife <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Elizabeth and children James Williams, Mary
Webb and Elizabeth Godfrey. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Graham Lewis
was the executor and the witnesses were Thitrell Murdine and Joseph Murdine. As
that his daughters were married women he was not a young man. </span></span></span></div>
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concluded a meeting to resolve boundary disputes with the 1763 Treaty of
Augusta, which ceded some 675,000 acres from the Creek Nation to the state of Georgia.
On 11 June 1773 Wright issued a proclamation describing land recently ceded by
the Creek Indians and encouraged <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>farmers
and artisans to settle with their families. The year <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1774 saw an insurrection among a group of the Lower Creek Indians.</span></span></span></span></div>
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1773, the renegades attacked a stockade fort on Shirrols' Farm in the Ogeechee River. After killing or wounding eleven of the settlers, the Lower Creeks were held at bay by the remaining three survivors until relieved by a party of Georgia
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St. George Parish district was called out. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>party of militia on 21 January 1774 approached
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shirrol's farm to attempt to round up their cattle. They were ambushed by about 100 of the Lower Creeks, who
"were all naked and painted black, with a little red around their Eyes,
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were killed and another was wounded. In consequence of the ineffectiveness of
the Rangers and militia in dealing with the Indian problem, almost all
settlements in the Ogeechee area were abandoned until stockade forts could be
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the settlers, finally lead to the chiefs of the Lower Creeks putting to death
the leader of the renegades, thus ending the hostilities. The insurrection had
lasted less than six months. On </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">20
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Georgia's first counties, named for political philosopher and member of British
Parliament Edmund Burke, who advocated appeasement of American colonial
grievances. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Many residents of Burke
County remained loyal to the king, and ensuing conflicts during the
Revolutionary War (1775-83) led to major property damage. Two military
engagements in 1779 between the king's troops and the revolutionaries were
notable: a skirmish at the Burke County Jail in January, during which the
colonists defeated 400 British troops; and a British victory at the Battle of
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in the originally Barnwell County is complicated due to the changing
jurisdiction of the area. In 1708 one of the original three counties, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Carteret County</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, was renamed </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Granville</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> County. This early Granville County was
never surveyed or properly laid out. Its boundaries were ambiguous. Its county
government never became functional. Most records were kept at the parish level;
none were kept at the county level. There was no county seat. There were no
political connotations to the county's existence. In this case the term
"county" had no meaning other than to describe an approximate
geographical area. It was a county in name only. In 1768 Granville County was
abolished. For documents of people who lived in this area at this time, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">parish</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> records and papers
filed in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Charleston,
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the state church of South Carolina was the Church of England (the Anglican
Church, or Protestant Episcopal Church). Besides keeping parish registers, the
church kept many records of a civil nature in their vestry books. The Vestry
was as much a political body as a religious one. The wardens and commissioners
were responsible for the roads, education, the poor and orphans, voting and
collecting taxes in addition to their church duties. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The three parishes
that roughly served Granville County, where the Williams Family settled were
Prince William Parish created in 1745 from the northwest side of St. Helena's
Parish part of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Granville<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>County</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, <span style="margin: 0px;">St. Luke's Parish</span> which was created in
1767 from the northwest side of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">St. Helena's Parish</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> in the central part of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Granville</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">St. Matthew Parish</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> created in 1768</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> by act of the General Assembly for the
Township of Orangeburgh<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>which had been
laid out in 1765 in Granville County to encourage Swiss, German and Dutch
settlers. </span></span></span></div>
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extended to the Savannah River,-Orangeburg to the south, and Ninety-Six to the
north. The descendants of Ezekiel Williams appear to have been in the northern
part of Orangeburgh while John Williams descendants appear to have been near
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District into Orange, Lewisburg, Lexington, and Winton counties on 12 March
1785.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> However in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1792, the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Winton County as a separate Court was abolished
and was in 1798 Winton County was abolished all together. The area was transformed
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been destroyed. The British burned St. Luke Parish church down in 1779 and
records for </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Orangeburg,
Beaufort, Chesterfield, Colleton, Georgetown, and Lancaster districts were
destroyed during the Civil War. Fortunately Barnwell District records were
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of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>tracking John Williams after he moved
to back to South Carolina has to do with the fact that he had a son of the same
name and of an age to have been acquiring lands as an adult.<span style="margin: 0px;"> John Williams' </span> wife Abigail Williams also was acquiring
property under her own name as early as 1770 which is a conundrum as that married
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John Williams the son of Theophilus so there’s no official record of his family. His nine children can only be assumed by their adjacent properties.
People with the surname Williams who lived in the same proximity of John
Williams were Abigail Williams, Asa Williams, Britton Williams husband of
Elizabeth, Evan Williams, George Williams, John Williams husband of Nancy, Joshua Williams,
husband of Elizabeth, Lewis Williams, and Owen Williams. </span></span></span></div>
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sides of the Savannah River in Georgia Colony and South Carolina Colony,
however he or his family seemed to settled in the Coosawhatchie River area along Miller Swamp
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">His presumed son Britton Williams bought property between King's Creek and the Little Briar Creek waters of the Savannah River from William Brown circa 1775. Kings Creek is about 14 miles southwest of Allendale and Little Briar is about six miles west of the town of Allendale. A deed of Absalom Best from 19 September 1770 showed some of his neighbors living on estates along the <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Little Briar Creek on the Savannah River. Best's property was adjoining William Brown, James Sumpsion, and Samuel Colding. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The deed for the purchase of William Brown's property by Britton Williams was probably lost when Brown's house was burned by the British or when they burned the Prince William Parish church which contained public records as there were no county seats at the time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A surviving deed recorded 3 April 1775 showed that George Kearse "of Granville" on 8 March 1769 <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">sold lands to Aaron Gillette and John Weekley at Boggy Gut a branch of Lower Three Runs waters of the Savannah. The Lower Three Runs was just a few miles north of Brier Creek. This George "Kersh" also in 1775 had property in the Saxagotha Township in Craven County on the Congaree River according to a deed dated 16 February 1775 of William Sneider.</span></span></span></div>
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Granville County was a land grant dated 1 March 1768 in which he was granted
100 acres on the Coosahatchie River, in Prince William Parish. The Coosawhatchie River is about 1 mile southwest of the present day town of Allendale. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Later
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May 1769 John Williams acquired 100 acres on Walker Creek a branch of Long Cane
River adjoining the lands of John Lewis Jervais. A deed dated 21 March </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1768 for
Andrew Kersh [Kearse] showed that Long Cane was on “Waters of the Savannah
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Interestingly on 15 March 1771 Abigail Williams received a Royal Grant for 100 acres on northeast side of a place called Alligator Branch on the southwest branch of the Salkehatchie in what was called Colleton County but actually in Granville County as Colleton had been abolished in 1768.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Alligator Branch or Pond is now known as Kirkland Creek. If she had a husband living at this time it is very unlikely that she would have received a grant under her own name. On 27 November 1771 Abigael [Abigail] Williams had a plat drawn for 100 acres on Alligator <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Creek waters of the Salkehatche River. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Three days later </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">John Williams received a Royal Grant on 18 May 1771 for 100 acres in Granville County but no location was recorded. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Several pre Revolutionary War land records for a John Williams exists in Granville County but it is hard if impossible to determine if they applied to John Williams Senior or John Junior. <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A deed dated 4 February 1771 showed that a John Williams had a<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>plat drawn for 100 acres Long Cane Creek and Walker Swamp in Granville County. This was the same property from 18 May 1769 as the neighbors were listed as John Lewis “Gervais”, Matthew Long, and William Walker. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>28 June 1771 this John Williams filed a “memorial” for the same 100 acres on Long Cane Creek in Granville County. A title memorial is information recorded on a property title relating to a transaction, interest in or restriction over a piece of land. As that this John Williams filed a memorial for the 1769 property after Abigail Williams was granted lands in her own name it would be a safe assumption to believe this John Williams is her son and not her husband.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following year on 7 July 1772 John Williams had a Royal Grant of 150 acres near the Coosahatchie River which he later sold to Thomas and William Haywood on 22 November 1773. <span style="margin: 0px;"> On 16 July 1772 a John Williams had a plat drawn up for these 150 acres on the Coosawhatchie River in Granville County and his neighbor or surveyor was James Thomson [Thompson] which showed that Abigail and this John were in the same proximity.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams was in the same area as of 20 January 1773 when he received a Royal Grant of 250 acres of lands adjoining John Rose’s estates on waters of the Coosawhatchee River and Black Creek in the Orangeburgh District. This new grant may be the reason he sold his earlier 150 acres to the Haywoods. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A plat drawn up for John Rose for 700 acres near Black River and Coosawhatchie River in Granville County filed 16 November 1772 showed that his neighbors were Isaac Oliver, James Peart, and John Williams. The following summer on <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>3 June 1773 Rose filed memorials for two tracts on Coosawhatchie River, one for 300 acres and one for 700 acres in Granville County. His neighbors were Isaac Oliver and John Williams. During the Revolutionary War this John Rose was a Loyalist and after the war on 3 October 1785 his 700 acres on the Coosawhatchie RIver was forfeited as a Loyalist Estate. His neighbors were still James Peart, and John Williams at that time in 1785.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another connection to the Creech family is from a deed dated 6 July 1773 when Stephen Creech “late of the Province of South Carolina now Guilford County North Carolina” sold 100 acres to John Williams. The witnessed were John North and Martha Caldwell who is believed to be Stephen Creech's mother-in-law. Stephen Creech was the son of Richard Creech and Ann Williams and depending who this John Williams was, Stephen Creech was either the nephew or cousin of John Williams.</span></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Besides these Royal Grants for John Williams and Abigail Williams in 1771 there are several transaction for a Lewis Williams. On 15 March 1771, the same date of Abigail's grant, Lewis Williams received a Royal Grant of 200 acres on
Coosawhatchie River in Granville County. The next month of 20 April he filed a
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 12 November 1774 Owen Williams bought from John Weekley 150 acres on a branch of the Salkehatche River "known as Whippy Swamp" bounded on the west by lands of Alexis M Forster.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This Alexis M Forster received a Royal Grant 25 May 1774 for 200 acres bounded on the northwest by William Creighton and "Catharina" Poole, on the southwest by William Brown, and on the southeast by William Creech. The property was surveyed 11 March 1773 by Elias Roberts and Forster filed a memorial title on 3 November 1774.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 21 April 1775 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Owen Williams received a Royal grant for 100 acres in Granville County on Crane Savannah adjoining Thomas Loveless.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Later on 1 June 1775 Owen Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and Abigael [Abigail] Williams both received Royal grants for 100 acres on Miller Creek [Swamp] in Granville County. Their neighbor or surveyor was J. Barron. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Joseph Lawton received a Royal Grant on 12 July 1775 of 330 acres bounded on the southwest by John Kirkland and George Kirkland and on the southeast by John Chisholm. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">William Brown on 2 September 1775 received a 400 acre Royal Grant on Four Mile Branch which runs parallel to the Savannah River before it joined it. His property was bounded by Thomas Filput [Philpot] and James Wilson and was property close to the Upper Three Run area. </span></span></div>
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strong loyalist sentiment there or perhaps because of trouble with the Indians.
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land from William Brown between King and Brier Creeks on the Savannah River in
Granville County, South Carolina. He was a Magistrate in Orangeburgh District
being from Savannah River Section and for two years 1776 to 1778 Britton
Williams was a member of South Carolina’s Second Colonial Assembly in Charleston.
He represented the combine parishes of Orange and St. Matthews which were known
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assemblyman for the region between the Savannah River and north fork of the
Edisto River and also served as a Petit Juror for the area to Savannah River. On </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">30 Dec 1778 Savannah, Georgia fell to
the British and all of Beaufort and Granville County was in peril.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Only 6,000 men was in area to oppose the British
Army's advance. Those opposed to American Independence were called Loyalists or Tories while those who supported independence were known as Patriots or Whigs.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Joseph Glover Esq. of Charleston sold to Joshua Williams of St. Bartholomew Parish, planter, on 15 December 1778 for 500 pounds South Carolina Money 100 acres granted to said Glover 4 March 1760 at the foot of Bear Branch on branches of the Salkehatchie in Colleton County. The deed was recorded 15 March 1779. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The King's forces after securing Savannah pushed quickly inland up the Savannah River and took Augusta by
31 January 1779. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A force of
Loyalist militia led by Col. James Boyd tried to make its way from South
Carolina into Georgia to join the British at </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Augusta. They were badly defeated at the Battle of
Kettle Creek 14 February 1779, by the America forces under the command of Gen. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Andrew Pickens, Col. John Dooly and Lt. Col.
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The destruction of Col. Boyd's command at Kettle Creek led the
British to conclude that their </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">position at Augusta was too vulnerable and they began a slow
retreat to the safety of Savannah. When the British reached Ebenezer, Georgia, they halted. Command was turned over to Lt. Col. Mark Prevost.</span></span></span><br />
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The American forces, led by Brig. Gen. John Ashe, moved across the Savannah <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">River in pursuit. Ashe's total army included around 1,300 men, 200 of whom were light cavalry. The Americans, meanwhile, went into camp near the confluence of Brier Creek and the <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Savannah River on 26 February 1779. The British had destroyed a bridge over the creek during the withdrawal and the Patriots now began the effort of repairing it. </span>They camped with Brier Creek between them and the British, who were thought to be far away at Ebenezer. </span></span></span><br />
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Lt. Col. Prevost however led a larger force of 900 regulars and seasoned militia soldiers north up Brier Creek to a mill owned by Francis Parish. A deed from 1 November 1774 showed that a John Williams owned 100 acres east of Francis Parish and northwest of Brier Creek. He may have been the same John Williams of Granville.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The British quickly repaired the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>destroyed bridge there, using timbers from Parish's house and barn. The British crossing at Parish's Mill went completely undetected by the Americans and Prevost immediately pushed south toward the rear of Ashe's army. <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Prevost took full advantage of the false sense of security in the American ranks by sending a decoy force of around 500 regular and militia to within 3 miles of the burned out bridge being repaired by Ashe's army. They took up a position there to capture and hold the attention of the American commanders.</span></span></span><br />
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enemy force was approaching. Ashe ordered his men to form for battle, but the
effort was hurried and not carried out with precision. The Battle was a decisive victory for the British. The Americans lost between 150 and 200 killed or drowned. <span style="margin: 0px;"> T</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">he British suffered only five killed and eleven wounded and had captured over 200 Americans. Most of the surviving America militia abandoned their guns and
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Lt. Col. John Laurens and his men were in position on a slight rise near the Coosawhatchie bridge guarding the road against the expected assault by about 2,400 British soldiers and Loyalists under Brigadier General Augustine Prevost from Savannah. On May 3rd, Lt. Col. John Laurens and a 250-man detachment of the North Carolina Light Infantry were on a mission to bring back the Patriot rear guard before the British cut them off. When they encountered the British, Lt. Col. Laurens chose a bad position for his troops. The British fired long-range artillery at the Patriots, who were powerless to do anything. Lt. Col. Laurens was shot in the arm and his horse was killed by artillery fragments.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In May 1780 seventy Tories under the command of Daniel McGirt and supported by Indians and armed African Americas operated as raiders independent of the British Army ravaging the "country in a barbarous manner killing people and burning a number of house as they go." These Tories crossed the Savannah river from Georgia, "killing every man they met who had not sworn allegiance to the king." Seventeen of the Inhabitants of the neighborhood of King's Creek were murdered. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Whig William Brown who had sold property to Britton Williams was among those murdered. The Tories burned William Brown's house to the ground, and destroyed everything he possessed. His wife and daughters escaped only by fleeing to the woods. It was the intense Whig sentiments and attachments of the Brown family that made the elder Brown the object of McGirt's wrath. <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Two of William Brown's sons, Tarlton and Barlett, were Revolutionary soldiers in Virginia when they learned of the death of their father.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In January of 1781, Col. Daniel McGirt and his Georgia Loyalists crossed the Savannah River and rode down the South Carolina side. He had vowed to kill everyone who had not sworn allegiance to the king. At Brier Creek Settlement, he kept his word. Seventeen citizens were murdered, among those was Henry Moore. The settlement was burned to the ground. The wife and daughters of Henry Moore ran into the woods to flee the destruction. McGirt's men tried to kill John Cave and left him for dead, but he recovered to tell the story. Because of this atrocity, Capt. James McKay of Georgia and Col. William Harden of South Carolina called out their militia and began looking for any signs of Loyalist raiders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">On January 24th, shortly after midnight, the Patriots made their move. They rode into the camp, terrifying the Loyalist militia. The British Rangers did not panic. They quickly formed into a battle line, fired at the Patriots, driving them out of the camp.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">At 8:00 a.m., the Patriots attacked the camp again. They dismounted their horses and opened fire on the Loyalists. The Tory militia once again fled the camp, with some of them joining the Patriots. The Kings Rangers joined with the Indians, formed into their battle line, and charged the Patriots. Once again, the Patriots were forced back, scattering into the nearby Coosawhatchie Swamp and hiding out on an island. The Battle of Wiggins Hill lasted less than an half hour when Commander Harden retreated due to the superior number of the British forces under the command of Col. Brown. Seven Americans were killed and eleven wounded. Twelve was said to have been captured. For months, the Partisan Rangers were too weak to be much help in the war effort of the low country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 9 March 1781 two property deeds were recorded some of the few that were during the war. Owen Williams and "his wife Mary" sold to John Ayers 100 acres on Colson’s Branch in Granville County for "90 pounds south Carolina money" with the witnesses being William Ray [Wray], Edward Williams, Lisabeth Brake. The deed was not recorded until 2 January 1788. At the same time George Kearse bought 100 acres from Owen Williams also located on Coulson's Branch. </span></div>
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Lt. Kemp hired a guide named William to take him to Capt. McKay's camp on Matthew's Bluff. William did not care for the Loyalists and he alerted Capt. McKay who set up an ambush. Lt. Kemp's troops rode into the ambush site and at the first shot the Loyalists fled without firing a shot, forcing the King Rangers to surrender.<br />
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established a post at Godfrey’s Savannah near the Ashepoo River, severing
communications between Charleston and Fort Balfour.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There he reported to Gen. Marion on April 7
that he had stopped several supply vessels on the Combahee River and that he
was able to keep the road from Purrysburg to Pon Pon clear.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Harden had hoped to join with one or two hundred
more volunteers from the Edisto region but their Colonel Isaac Hayne balked at
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regulars near Parker’s Ferry and then retreated southward.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On April 7 a detachment of Harden’s men under
Major Cooper captured Barton’s Post in Colleton County after a sharp fight.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">That night they crossed the
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Charlestown had been occupied by the British for thirty months and two days when they finally left. Major General Alexander Leslie agreed not to destroy the city if the Patriots would allow his troops to depart safely. Upon the firing of the morning cannon the British, their allies, their Loyalists, and 5,000 slaves moved out of the forward works, while the Continentals of Major General Anthony Wayne moved in - keeping a respectful distance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Over 5,000 slaves and former slaves sailed away with the British fleet. The slaves that came in on their own free will were promised their freedom. Britain honored their commitment to them and most settled in the Carribean and a small number in Canada. It is estimated that 25,000 slaves had been taken from South Carolinians during the British occupation. Since these were considered confiscated property of the Patriots, they were sold back into slavery.</span></span><br />
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Major General William Moultrie wrote in his memoirs (1802): "This fourteenth day of December, 1782, ought never to be forgotten by the Carolinians; it ought to be the day of festivity with them, as it is the real day of their deliverance and independence."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The day after the British evacuated Charlestown the Maryland Line decided that their enlistments were at an end and they prepared to go home. Major General Nathanael Greene rode to their camp and told them that though Charlestown was no longer a British stronghold the war was not over. It was true, the war was not over. But, there would be no more fighting in the Carolinas after Charleston was evacuated. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 10 August 1784 Reuben Golightly sold 150 acres to George Kearse, land that adjoined John Williams' lands in “Winton County” <span style="margin: 0px;"> The same day George Kearse </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">conveyed the 150 acres to William Kearse that he had bought from Reuben Golightly. George Kearse was the father of William Kearse who married Flora Brabham. William Kearse was the father in law of two of Wilson Williams' sons. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 7 September 1784 George Kearse bought land from John Williams and a month later o</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n 16 October 1784 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kearse </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">sold to Cyntha Murdock 270 acres in Orangeburg District South Carolina near the mouth of King Creek of the Savannah River adjoining vacant land, and lands of John Green and Britton Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is the same George Kearse who had lands at Wells Branch near John Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This area of Kings Creek where Britton Williams’ estate was located also lived Asa Williams. It would appear that the Widow of Britton Williams and Asa Williams were near neighbors on the “Little Swamp” at the Savannah River. Kings Creek was approximately 14 miles southwest of the community of Allendale.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">James Lee on 11 November 1784 filed a plat for 200 acres on Little Bryar [Brier] Creek waters of the Savannah in Orangeburgh<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>District surveyed by William Green. His neighbors were John Green, Thomas Green, Thomas Owens. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 28 November 1784 Richard Riggans filed a plat for 300 acres on the Savannah River Swamp in Orangeburgh District surveyed by William Green. His neighbors were Blanchard Colding, James Lee, and Mr. Mucklefoss. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The next day on 29 November 1784 James Lee filed a plat for 300 acres near Savannah River Swamp in Orangeburgh District surveyed by William Green. His neighbors wereMr. Bryan, Blanchard Colding, Aaron Gillett, John Green, and Richard Riggins. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the year 1785 George Kirkland's lands were on north side of Great Saltketcher near "Widow Williams’ Ford" bounded by Verdemon Clemmons, James Brown, Zachariah Knight. This Widow Williams was certainly Abigail Williams as that Elizabeth Williams had lands on King's Creek and Brier Creek. The Kirkland lands were in the Alligator Branch area which waters were later called Kirkland Creek. In the Alligator Branch area on <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">20 September 1785 George Kirkland filed a plat for 211 acres on waters of Saltlehatchie River surveyed by Robert Stafford. His near neighbors James Brown, Yardmon Clemons, Zachariah Knight, Mr. Pickins. On 5 November 1785 <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kirkland filed another plat for 146 acres on Alligator Branch of the Salkehatchie River surveyed by William Green. His neighbors were Mr. [Thomas or Zachariah] Knight and Mr. Walker. George Kirkland's daughter married Wilson Williams as his 2nd wife. Wilson of course was the son of Britton and Elizabeth Williams of Kings Creek. George Kirkland on 16 January 1786 filed a plat for <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">634 acres on Alligator Branch of the Salkehatchie River. His property was surveyed by Wilson Cook Jr and his neighbors were Mr. Carr, Thomas Knight, Mr. Millhouse and Wright Rice.</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 18 May 1786 Elijah Gillet filed for two adjoining tracts on Savannah River in Orangeburg District. One was for 300 acres that had been granted to Aaron Gillett on 1 August 1786 and the other one was for 440 acres also granted to Aaron Gillett on 4 July 1785. His neighbors were John Brown, William Brown, Blanshard Colding, John Green, James Lee, Assee [Asa] Williams and the lands of Britton Williams. These lands would have been between Kings Creek and Little Briar Creek. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">At the same time in April 1787 the court ordered John Wyld, Elijah Gillett, Absalom Best, and John Weekley or any three of them "appoint to lay out and mark off the said road the nearest and best and most convenient way and see that the same is cleared immediately for the relief of the public. These men were landowners in the King Creek area near the widow Elizabeth Williams and of course these roads were built by enslaved African Americans. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Abigail Williams the next month on 5 May 1787 sold to <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Henry McMillan 150 acres on Great Salkehatche for 60 pounds. On 25 January 1790 Henry <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">McMillan of "Winton County, Planter" sold to John Buford of "Burke County, Georgia, planter" the 150 acres he had bought from Abigail Williams for 35 pounds. This document is the only proof so far discovered that states "Abigail Williams widow of John Williams, deceased." This stated that Abigail had bought this property from Jacob Hoyers [Meyers?] which had the land surveyed 26 September 1763.</span></span></span></span><br />
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1790 and 1800 census </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">born circa 1745/1755 in Antrim, Ireland.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had brothers Major James William McMillan
who </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">also lived in the Barnwell District. These two brothers left many
descendants in what is present day Bamberg County. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The other brother was Private Daniel McMillan a Revolutionary
Soldier who was drafted into service in the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Old Camden District.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Daniel McMillan was grant a pension on 7th
June 1832.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This pension is on file at
the State Archives in </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Columbia, South Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Daniel and his family moved after 7th June 1832 to Morgan </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">County, Illinois.
Henry McMillian was married to </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sarah Chitty daughter of John Chitty
Sr. and had the following children William McMillan husband of Holly [Olivia] Williams, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rebecca Priscilla McMillan wife of William Cave, and James M.
McMillan husband of Martha Ann Sanderford, Mary “Polly”
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Sr., Penelope McMillan wife of Ambrose Pelham Sr., Thomas
McMillan husband of Sarah Myrick and Joel Daniel McMillan husband of Celia </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 6 June 1787 Martin Kimberhyde [Kimberhide] made out his will leaving his estate to Reuben, Margaret, and Jacob Brunton. He made Arthur Jenkins his executive. William Creech, William Roberts, and William Kearse witnessed the will. </span>On 10 October 1787 the Inventory of the estate of Martin Kimberhyde was taken by John Williams, John Craddock, and William Weekley , <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"as shown to them by Arthur Jenkins". </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 22 July 1788 Richard Creech filed a plat for 264 acres on waters of Jackson’s Branch of the Salkehatchie River, Orangeburgh District surveyed by Wilson Cook. His neighbors were<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Ayers, David Hodge, Martin Kimberhyde, Thomas Pulley, and Cornelius Tinsley. This Martin Kimberhyde had died the previous years so these were his lands. This was also Richard Creech Jr as that his father also had died the previous year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth Williams was living in Winton County when she filed a lawsuit against William Brown. Britton Williams had bought his Kings Creek planation from the William Brown who had died in 1780 so this suit must have been with a relative or even heir. On <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">8 May 1788 the Winton Court dismissed the suit</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> between Elizabeth Williams and William Brown. On the same date a suit against Elizabeth Williams by Charles Boyle was discontinued with the plaintiff, Boyle, paying the court costs. Also at the time Elizabeth Williams' suit against Eliza Myrick was found in favor of Myrick and Elizabeth Williams was ordered to pay Myrick 10 pounds and court costs. This was a substantial sum of money. It seems to have involve dispute over livestock. The court also ordered that Lorena French be compensated for her 4 days in attendant in the suit of "Eliza A Williams" versus James Myrick.
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in Bertie County, North Carolina and died 26 Mar 1814 in Barnwell District South Carolina. He married Mary Brooker the daughter of John Brooker and was a Revolutionary War soldier. He was a tavern keeper as well as a farmer. His children were Henry Myrick, James Myrick, Eli Myrick husband of Mary Creech, John Myrick, Eliza Myrick wife of John Gill, William Myrick and Mary Myrick wife of Daniel Jackson. In 1772 he sold his inheritance from his father in Craven County, South Carolina to Robert Goodwyn. By 2 October 1781 Myrick was granted 300 acres on </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">the forks of Moody and Wells branches on the Salkehatchie River in Winton County. On 8 November 1784 he received an additional 100 acres on We</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">lls branch and 2 October 1786 he was granted an additional 200 acres</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> "along forks of Moody and Wells
Branches." On </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">18 October 1787 he obtained a license to keep an Ordinary (Tavern),
with Thomas Morris his Security. On </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">6 May 1789 appraised the estate of Edward Southwell along
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">When Owen Williams died in 1786 he left extensive property but evidently no will. He was married to a woman named Mary but whether he left children or not is unknown. What is known is that several men sued each other over the adminstratorship of Owen's estate. All these men probably had a kinship relation to Owens to justify their interest in his estate. In <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1786
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 2 February 1789, James Kirkland, Michael Swicord, Moses Plummer and <span style="margin: 0px;">John Williams </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">were charged with "not appearing to serve on the Petit Jury and were on hearing their excuses their Fines remitted</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">." T</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here is a John Williams who on 6 February 1789 filed a plat for 200 acres on waters of the Coosawhatchie River in Beaufort District surveyed by Grimball Robert. His neighbors were Edward Garven, and Rollins Lowndes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Daniel Green was the enumerator for all those living on the southside of the Edisto River to the Savannah River to the road leading to the Bridge to the town of Orangeburgh in the southern part of the Orangeburgh District comprising what became Winton County and later the Barnwell District. He counted 5,681 white folks and 1,551 black folks living within the area in 1790. However it is evident that he counted several heads of families twice, including Abigail Williams and Joshua Williams. He said there were 1,421 free whites 16 and over the age of 16 years and an almost equal amount, 1,478, of males under 16 years. An almost equal amount of females undistinguished by age were in the area. Green counted 2,782 females, wives, mothers, and daughters in the county. Surprisingly there were 149 free persons of color in the region as well as 1,402 people in bondage. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Clusters of neighbors may determine what section of the region in which the Williams and their allied familes lived. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On Page 3 the families of George Kirkland, John McFail, Angus McFail, Joseph Brabham, James Brabham, Benjamin Corbett were clustered together but on the same page some 20 households away was Abigail Williams who is listed with only having two females in her household. Near her were the families of Aaron Boyenton and Ann Creech who was the widow of Richard Creech Sr. Ann had a son16 years or older, a son under 16 and 4 females in her household. Of all these families only George Kirkland is listed as owning six slaves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On Page 4 the families of Shadrack Jenkins, John Craddock, Henry Creech, Joshua Williams, Jacob Harter, Richard Creech, Joseph Brooker another Joshua Williams, John Boyles, William Buford, another Henry Creech, and David Edenfield were all clustered together. Richard Creech certainly is Richard Jr. and he had 8 slaves, his neighbor Joseph Brooker had 5 slaves, and William Buford had 6 slaves. One of the Joshua Williams living between Henry Creech and Jacob Harter had 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16 [1774-1790] , and 1 female. The other Joshua Williams listed between Joseph Brooker and John Boyles had 1 male over 16, 1 male under and 2 females. He is likely the son of the former Joshua Williams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In another cluster on page 4 were the families of Benjamin Kirkland, William Green the Surveyor who was the brother of Daniel Green, Richard Kirkland, Abraham Mixon and Reuben Mixon. William Green the surveyor had 4 slaves while Richard Kirkland had 14 slaves. Benjamin Kirkland married Alice Odam. Richard Kirkland was </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">born circa 1750 died in 1813 His wife was Mary Brown daughter of Bartlett Brown.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On page 12 George Kierce [Kearse] was listed between John Plat and Ann Johnson and about 10 households from Amy Williams. Amy is listed with 3 slaves but no whites are listed in the household which indicates that this was a listing of the estate of someone who had.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves were counted for representation in Congress. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Next to her was John Bassett.</span></span><br />
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plantation during the Revolutionary War. In <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1748 Bladen County North Carolina the Baptists petitioned for a minister and received Dugold McPhoile and John McPhoile [McFail]. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1800 United States census for Barnwell District, South Carolina shows that the population was now of a little more than 7500 white forks and a little less than 1700 enslaved African Americans. There were 111 free blacks down from 145 in 1790. Ann Creech and Evan Williams are both enumerated in the census but not Abigail Williams although she was still alive at this time. <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Even WIlliams </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> is listed as </span>born between 1774-1784 with a wife, four sons and a daughter. A plat filed </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">28 June 1800 by John Ayers for 121 acres on fork between Big and Little Satcatcher Orangeburg District showed that his near neighbor was lands of Abigal Williams. Six months later on 15 December 1800 Evan Williams filed a plat </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">for 260 acres on Colson’s Branch, Horsepen Creek, and Little
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George Parish. Although John Williams died relatively young about 50 years old, Abigail lived some thirty years longer as a widow. She was illiterate and therefore it is doubtful any Bible Record existed in which the birth of children were recorded. They were primarily a frontier people and beside land records, they left few traces of their lives behind. Because of the close proximity of the people below to each other and John and Abigail Williams along with the fact there were so few inhabitants in the area they are assumed to
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Asa Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> in 1773 had lands at Alligator Pond<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and Coosawhatchie River by Joshua Williams. On </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">2 August
1774 recieved a royal grant of 150 acres adjoining James Roberts lands on the north<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>own lands on the east on Rocky Creek<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in St. George Parish, Georgia.He was a representative to the South Carolina Assembly during the Revolultionary War From </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1778-1779
he was on the Petit Jurors list "to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Savannah River"</st1:city>,
in <st1:state w:st="on">South Carolina and he was a Revolutionary War soldier according to an account audited file no. 8534 of claims growing out of the American Revolution. In 1786 he received a land grant of 150 acres in Burke County, Georgia. In </st1:state></st1:place></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1788
he had a lawsuit against William Davis. He is not listed in the 1790 U.S. Census of South Carolina and had either died or moved to Georgia. There are no known issue. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b>Joshua Williams</b> died circa 1800-1806. His wife Elizabeth's maiden name is thought to be Freeman. He was a large land owner and probably speculator. He was a Revolutionary War veteran and in 1785 he was granted 200 acres in Washington County, Georgia for his service. In 1789 he was granted 360 acres in Lamar Creek, and 230 acres, and 200 acres on the Ohoopee River in Washington County, Georgia. In the 1790 U.S. Census he is listed in the Southern Part of Orangeburgh District as living next to Henry Creech. However ten households away is another Joshua Williams enumerated next to Richard Creech. The Joshua Williams next to Henry Creech might have been his son as he only had a wife and 2 sons under 16. The other Joshua Williams lived between John Boyle and Joseph Brooker, Richard Creech and John Craddock. This Joshua Williams had a wife, daughter, and a son over 16 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> On 8 November 1791 Joshua Williams and his wife Elizabeth of Winton County sold to John Boils [Boyle] 680 acres of a 1000 acre grant that was surveyed for him 4 January 1790. This property was at Duck Branch and Log Branch and John Boyles only paid 5 shillings for it which indicates there might have been a familial relationship between the two men. The witnesses were David and Mary Creech, and Matthew Long. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Later on 10 December 1794 Joshua and Elizabeth Williams of "Beaufort" District sold to Richard Roberts also for 5 shillings 100 acres of the tract that had been surveyed for "Lucrecy" Gaskins on 8 January 1788. The witnesses were John Boyle and John Ervin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are no Joshua Williams in the 1800 Census of Barnwell District South Carolina and he is most likely in Washington County, Georgia at the time. On 19 June1802 Joshua and Elizabeth Williams "of state of Georgia, planter" sold to George Mallard, of "Barnwell, Planter" 200 acres part of original 1000 acre grant land bounded by Charles Boyle, Susannah and Dr. Demsy Phillips. The witnesses were Ezekiel Stokes and George Stokes who were George Mallard's 1st cousins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">13 June1806 Surities for Estate of Joshua Williams Bundle were Demoy [Dempsy] Phillips, Joshua Phillips and John Henderson. The Administrator of estate was Dempsey Phillips. His children are thought to be Susannah Williams wife of Dr. Demsey Phillips. John Williams 1770-1825 of Beaufort Dist husband of Celia Huffman, Evan Williams born 1772,Freeman Williams 1775-1812, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Ephraim Williams born 1778-1811, and Dennis Williams 1780-1839 husband of Jemima Getsinger, daughter of Jacob. In the 1800 Census of Barnwell District Freeman Williams, Deny [Dennis] and Ephraim Williams lived next to each. Freeman Williams was between 26 and 44 years [1756-1774] years old with a wife 16-25 years [1775-1786] with two young males 10 to 15 and 16 to 25. They may have been sons or perhaps younger brothers. He had four daughters under the age of 10. Dennis Williams was between the ages 16 and 25 [1775-1784]. He had had a son and daughter under 10 years old. There is no female listed in the household who would have been the age of a wife. However a woman born before 1756 was included in the household. Ephraim and his wife were born between 1774 and 1786. They had a son and daughter under 10 years of age and a son and daughter between the ages of 10 and 15. Evin [Evan] Williams is listed in the 1800 census of Barnwell District as being between 16 and 25 as was his wife. They had four sons and 1 daughter under the age of 10 years. He lived next to George T. Grimes and up from George Kirkland who is listed with seven African Americans in bondage. </span></span><br />
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Tassey Grimes husband of Mary Brabham and Mary Kirkland, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Elizabeth
Grimes wife of Mr. Zorn, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">DNA testing taken by myself showed that I
match with John Williams the 17<sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> Century Welsh emigrant to south
side Virginia. There are no legal documents or land deeds in Virginia or North
Carolina that definitively link Britton Williams my last known ancestor for
whom there is a paper trail to the family of Theophilus Williams. However
circumstantial evidence and geographical proximity has led me to believe that
Theophilus Williams is the grandfather of Britton Williams mostly likely
through John Williams whom I believe to be his father. Until more evidence is
found I will promote my assertion that Theophilus Williams who was the grandson
of John Williams the Welsh Emigrant was one of my progenitors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger, the eldest son of John
Williams Senior and Anne Vasser* seems the most likely person to be the great
grandfather of Britton Williams through his son Theophilus Williams. Theophilus
Williams migrated to Onslow County in the mid 18th Century and his eldest son
John Williams was in St. George Parish Georgia by 1762. Near this John Williams
is the land grant of Britton Williams. Of all of Theophilus Williams children
his eldest son John Williams is the least documented and there for the most likely
candidate due to circumstantial evidence. While all this is speculation, it
fits the most likely scenario for the paternity of Britton Williams.</span><br />
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pattern of those middle farmers of colonial North Carolina times whose families owned
property in land and slaves, and usually had a rudimental education.
He would have lived the life of a country squire as that Theophilus was a large land owner in Bertie County and Oslow County, North
Carolina for most of his life. <br />
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When Bertie Precinct was established in 1722, the Southwest parish was designated
for it, but the name was changed to Society Parish in honor of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel. William Dukenfield of "Salmon Creek" was one of the early
supporters and gave 52 acres for a permanent building in 1721 "lying on the northwest side of Ducking Run". It was very difficult to find Anglican ministers willing to serve due to the low
salaries and early pioneer life style. The Rev. John Boyd, was the first Anglican
missionary to come to the Society Parish. Perhaps he came as the result of Gov.
Johnston's plea to the bishop of London:
"we are a most heathenish part of American and have no sect amongst us but
Quakers who daily increase." Rev. Boyd had a reputation for drunkenness and died by early 1740's when Rev. John
Holmes served for a brief time. It was during this time that Theophilus Williams decided to leave Bertie County.</span><br />
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North Carolina called Bertie. The county originated in 1722 when the state legislature decided to
divide the county from Chowan Precinct. Bertie had a distinct advantage over other
counties in the region because of its rich soil sustained by the rivers that
flowing along and within its borders. The Chowan and Roanoke Rivers,
along with the Cashie River, bolstered the agricultural economy of Bertie ever since
the first Native Americans inhabited the land. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Native Americans who dwelt in the present-day
Bertie boundary were the Tuscarora, a tribal branch of the northern
Iroquois. In the middle of the seventeenth century, English explorers and
hunters had traversed the land in search of fur goods, trade opportunities with the
Indians, and open land for future settlers. The influx of the white
traders and trappers provoked the Tuscarora which eventually led to the
Tuscarora War (1711-1713). It was after this war ended that Theophilus Williams followed his father to lands near the Cashie River. Here he would marry and raise a family and lived for nearly 25 years. Theophilus was never involved in the Indian conflicts of western North Carolina how ever he lived among the Tuscaroras as his lands bordered the large Tuscarora reservation. He probably personally knew Tom Blount, King of the Tuscaroras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">An important record appeared in the Bertie
County Court Minutes of 1742, when, for some unknown reason, Theophilus Williams had to
prove his rights in North Carolina on behalf of himself, his wife Christian,
and his children Joseph, James, Esther, Lewis, and Ferebee. In this court
record the names of eleven African Americans who Theophilus held in bondage were
revealed as Toney, Boston, Pompey, Jupiter, and Rose, Phillis, Patt, Jenny,
Silva, Chloe, and Pegg. The records do not reveal which of these people were
adults, who might have been couples, or who were children. Left off this list was his eldest son John Williams who may have already been married and perhaps living in New Hanover County to the south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams was an educated individual as he
was asked to be executor of many wills in Bertie County, as well as act as a witness
to other legal documents. His father John Williams was literate and signed his name on all his documents rather than making simply his mark. Theophilus was probably home taught or tutored but his brother in law James Castellow had attended college in Scotland before emigrating. Theophilus was probably also active in the affairs of
the local county government but there is no evidence that he took part in
Colonial affairs. However his younger brother Arthur Williams and brother-in-law
James Castellow were magistrates in Bertie County and also representatives in the
North Carolina Assembly. </span><br />
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little clues about Theophilus Williams' life after he moved from Bertie County to
Onslow County about 1742 as that a hurricane in 1752 destroyed that county’s records. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Onslow
Precinct was formed in 1734 from the New Hanover Precinct of Craven County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The colonial capital at the time was located in the town of New Bern and as his relatives were members of the colonial assembly which met there it is understandable that he may have visited the region. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">He must have found <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Onslow County’s flat, gently rolling terrain located in the southeastern coastal plain of North Carolina favorable as he would live there for nearly 20 years from 1742 until 1762. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After that time he's found in Duplin and Johnston County records. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theophilus Williams's</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">descendants lived in the various counties that were formed out of Craven and New Hanover Counties. When Theophilus first received property outside of Bertie County in Onslow County in 1739, only the following counties of Craven, New Hanover, and Onslow had been formed. Within these new counties the properties of Theophilus Williams and his children were established and due to the changing jurisdiction over the years it has been difficult to locate documents regarding him and his children. None of them stayed behind in Bertie County nor returned there. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1746 Johnston County had been formed out of the western portion of Craven County and four years later Duplin County was formed from the northern portion of New Hanover County and was bordered by Onslow County on the east and Johnston on the north. The extinct Dobbs County was formed in 1758 from the eastern half of Johnston County above Duplin County. In 1779 after the death of Theophilus Williams while many of his descendants were still in the region, the western part of Dobbs County became Wayne County bordering Johnston County and in 1791 Dobbs County was divided into two new counties, Glasgow County, later renamed Greene County and Lenoir County and Dobbs ceased to exist. Dobbs County records are scattered among these counties. Sampson County was formed from the western half of Duplin in 1784 and many of Duplin’s records were transferred to Sampson. </span></span></span></div>
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probably in Lower Southwark Parish in Surrey County of the Colony of Virginia
where his father had a large farm that he inherited from Theophilus’
grandfather John Williams the Welsh emigrant. His parents were John Williams the Younger and Anne Moore. Theophilus was probably their
second son John and named for an uncle who died in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams’ father John Williams the Younger moved the family from
Upper Parish in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia to Horse Spring Meadow in the
Cashie River area about 1714 after the Tuscarora Indian War in North Carolina
was settled. Most of the Tuscarora Indians of North Carolina, north of the
Roanoke River, had remained neutral and they received an 8000 acre reservation
that was just west of lands on which Theophilus’ father John Williams settled. Some
of Theophilus Williams cousins and even a brother had Tuscarora wives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams' childhood was spent in Southside Virginia, in the counties of Surrey and Isle of Wight. He was a young man in his teens, when he came with his father’s family
to the Cashie River area of what was then part of Chowan Precinct in Albemarle
County, North Carolina. He was probably about 18 years of age and would have
worked with his father and brothers, John and James to clear the land at Horse Pond Swamp on the northeast side of the Cashie River.. </span><br />
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Third and Theophilus were young men both, over 18 years old in 1712. His sons
James and Isaac were adolescents soon to become young men. No doubt John the
Younger was worried about the future for his children if he stayed in Virginia
where the soil was depleted from decades of growing tobacco. After two
generations and forty years or more the lands in Surry and Isle of Wight
Counties were worn out and began to yield less and less profit. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams and Theophilus Williams, on 18 July 1715,
witnessed a record where William Jones gave his Power of Attorney to Phillip
Walston to acknowledge a transaction between Jones and Martin Gardner. The
significance of this record is that it shows that Theophilus Williams was of
legal age at least 21 years old [born prior July 1694] to have been a witness
to this document. The John Williams mentioned as the other witness may have
been the father or the son. It is impossible to tell. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 29 August 1716 “Proprietary Rent Fees” were assessed
for the tracts of land that “lyes between Mr. John Duckenfield and John Williams’
line” in Chowan Precinct. This was an area between Salmon Creek and the Cashie
River. This must have been just up to John Williams the younger’s estates as he
is not included in this record. However it included Theophilus Williams, Samuel
Herring, Edward Moore and John Plowman. Although Theophilus Williams was
included in this record he showed him owning no property. He may have paid what
was essentially a poll tax so he could vote in the colony. Accordingly Samuel
Herring owned 150 acres, Edward Moore owned 250 acres and John Plowman held 600
acres.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger who lived by the Cashie River
at a branch called Horse Spring and was enumerated with his son Theophilus as
Tax number 272. He is shown as owning 1050 acres. Theophilus was also listed
but not as owning any property. He paid a poll Tax however so he would be
eligible to vote. He was at least 21 years old or older (before 1696).
Theophilus is the only son of John Williams listed in this 1717 Tax census.
John Williams III* was not enumerated and evidently did not own property and chose
not to pay a poll tax. Another explanation may be that perhaps he remained in
Virginia to care for property there. The other sons Isaac, James, and Arthur
were under 21 years and ineligible to pay a poll tax in order to vote. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s so John added to his lands on
17 May 1718 when he bought 440 acres on the west side of the “kesiah” River from
his neighbors Martin and Ann Gardner. Oddly the Gardners were not listed in the
1717 Tax Record. Martin Gardner of Chowan Precinct to John Williams for 8 £
sold 440 acres on west side of Kasiah River joining William Wallston a branch
of Roquest and John Edwards. Witnesses were William Jones Matthew Edwards and
Theophilus Williams. Later that summer John Jones and his wife Mary sold a
tract of land on the “main swamp of Kesiah on 2 July 1718. Edward Moore and his
wife were the witnesses</span></span></div>
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River. The census was dated 9 January 1719 by the old Calendar but was actually taken in 1720. Before 1754 the English calendar's legal new year was March 25. Any date between that and January 1st was listed as in the previous year which easily confuses researchers unaware of the change. Theophilus was listed as a "freeholders living between Salmon
Creek" and “Cashy River”. He is listed in
the same tax household as John Williams, his father, or possibly his brother. Theophilus
was shown not owning any land but he paid a poll tax so that he could vote and
take part in community affairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A tax census dated 9 January 1719 on the old style
calendar but was actually taken in 1720, enumerated fifty-eight freeholders
[landowners] or family heads living west of the Chowan River between Salmon
Creek and the Cashie River in the Chowan Precinct. These men were generally
well educated men with strong economical, political, and social ties with the
county seat of government at Queen Anne [Edenton] on the northeast portion of
Albemarle Sound. Many of these families were related to one another by marriage
or other forms of kinship. Among these 58 freeholders were John Williams,
Theophilus Williams, Samuel Herring, his brother John Herring and Thomas
Williamson [Williams]. Not enumerated were John Williams III and future son on
law James Castellaw. John Williams III may have still been included in his
father’s household which also might indicate that Theophilus Williams was a
married man in 1720. James Castellaw was most likely living east of the Chowan
River. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This list of freeholders was taken by county constable
Phillip Walston who was a near neighbor of John Williams the younger. While
Walston’s list contained the names of 58 men, there were many more men and
their families living in the area than that. The census only enumerated
property owners and those who paid a poll tax so as to be eligible to vote.
John Williams the Younger’s properties were located around Horse Spring Branch
and Bear Swamp and according to this census his nearest neighbors were Charles
Barber, Samuel Hearin [Herring], John Hearin [Herring], John Plowman, Jonathan
Standley, Thomas Williamson [Williams?], Theophilus Williams, and John
Williams. Whether the John Williams mentioned here in the list is John the
Younger or his son John Williams III* is uncertain but as that John Williams
III* owned land west of the Cashie, the man mentioned is most likely the
father. The Thomas Williamson is probably a Williams as that the names were
often interchangeable among those of Welsh decent.</span></span></div>
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but it was certainly no later than the year 1721.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">These lands were on the eastside of the Cashie River at
“eastside Horse Spring Branch joining Samuel Herring, a pond, Turkey Swamp and
Thomas Jones.” The deed was witnessed by Benjamin Foreman and John Williams
which certainly the brother. John Williams the Younger’s son Theophilus
Williams was married around 1721when he made a deed of gift of two parcels of
lands. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams was born circa 1693 and would have
been about 28 years old when he married Christian Busby [Busbee] the daughter
of Thomas Busby and Catherine Bryan. Thomas Busby relocated from Isle of Wight
County were he was a farmer and Indian trader. His property in Bertie County
was located next to the Tuscarora Nation Reservation and no doubt traded with
them. Theophilus and Christian Williams’ first born son was named John Williams
after his grandfather John Williams the Younger. He migrated to the Neuse River
area with his father’s family where he married possible Abigail Creech. They
were most certainly the parents of Britton Williams. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams of Albemarle County, planter to Theophilus
Williams of same this day April 1721 for the love and affection I bear my son
90 acres where on he now lives being part of the land I live on and 120 acres
of another tract which joins the tract I live on the said lands being on
eastside of Horse Spring Branch joining Samuel Herring, a pond, Turkey Swamp
and Thomas Jones. Witness Benjamin Foreman and John Williams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the same time John Williams the Younger gave power of
attorney to his neighbor John Edwards acknowledge the Deed of Gift to “my son”
Theophilus Williams. The distance from Cashy to Edenton to record the deed may
have been too much for John Williams as he was now nearly 50 years old. Many of
his deeds after this time are recorded by Powers of Attorney assigned to
others. The 1721 Tax record shows that Theophilus Williams held 915 acres of
land. The two deeds shown above account for 410 of them. There are no others
records that show he acquired anymore land in 1721 so Theophilus must have
acquired the remaining 505 prior to that time.</span></span></div>
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daughter of Thomas and Catherine Bryan Busby. The Busby family came from
Virginia possibly at the same time as the Williamses and acquired lands near
the Roquist River in an area called Falling Runs. In this same area was the
family of Needham Bryan who was most likely Catherine’s brother or perhaps cousin. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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1705 in Virginia and was about 15 or 16 years old when she married 25 year old
Theophilus Williams. She was the mother of at least seven known children. There were certainly more children who probably died in infancy as the mortality rate for children was high.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The known children of Theophilus were John Williams who
was born circa 1722, Joseph Williams who was born circa 1725, James Williams
who was born circa 1730, Esther Williams who was born circa 1735, Lewis
Williams who was born circa 1738, and Feribee Williams who was born circa 1740. All of the children of Theophilus and Christian Busby Williams were born
on farms near the Cashie River in the Roquist Creek area of Bertie County, North Carolina. Christian Williams' death date is unknown but it was after 1754 when she is mentioned in a deed recorded in Onslow County. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams father in law Thomas Busby was from Stafford County Virginia
and had moved to Bertie County area in the early years of the 1700's. Here he had
property on tributaries of the Roquist Creek called Jumping Run and Flaggy Run,
which was also referred to as Flag Run; on the northside of the Morratuck River. He was in
the region before 10 February 1720 when his land was was mentioned in a deed
between Francis Parker “carpenter of Bertie” and John Parker “mill wright of
Nansemond Virginia” being 640 acres adjoining "James Blount and
Busby’s corner". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the summer of 1722 on July 13, Theophilus Williams’s
father-in-law Thomas Busby of “Albemarle County and Catherine my wife” sold to
John Page of Albemarle County 320 acres on the northside of Morratuck on
Jumping Run joining James Blount and John Williams part of a 640 acre patent
granted “to me” for 16 £. The witnesses were George Williams and Thomas Browne.
George Williams likely a second cousin from Theophilus great uncle Thomas
Williams who died in 1693. Thomas Browne may be been his uncle who married Jane
Williams his aunt or the son of John Browne. Jumping Run In the Woodville area
and sometimes referred to as Flag Run Gut. On the north end of Jumping Run
Creek is Dempsey Bridge(not actually a bridge, but a flat path that the water
from Jumping Run ran across that had a hard bottom and would hold a horse and
cart from sinking) It empties into Griffin's Mill Pond and into Flag Run
Gut/Wharf. </span></span></div>
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swampland for which poles were cut to lay across to provide a road bed. Only a
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neighbor Charles Barber signed Power of Attorney to John’s son in law Samuel
Herring on July 11 to acknowledge a sale of 72 acres land between Barber and
John Lewerton. The POA was witnessed by John’s son Theophilus Williams and Owen
Daniel [O’Daniel who was the father in law of Richard Fryer. On the same day
Charles Barber’s wife Elizabeth gave her Power of Attorney to Owen O’Daniel.
This POA was then witnessed by Theophilus Williams and Samuel Herring. The land
sold to Lewerton was on the west side of Beaver Swamp but east of the Cashie
River. The three witnesses to the transaction were also Theophilus Williams,
Samuel Herring, and Owen O’Daniel. </span></span></div>
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Theophilus Williams and John Williams both witnessed property deeds between
John Bryan and Henry Bradley Jr. and Ralph Mason and John Tuberville.
Witnessing the deed of Ralph Mason along with John Williams was Benjamin
Foreman Senior who had various connections with the Williams Families of Surry
County, Virginia before relocating to North Carolina..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Benjamin Foreman Sr. was born circa 1681 the son of
William Foreman and probably Hester Brown of Southwark Parish Surry County
Virginia. He married Verity [or Verrily] thought to be a Williams and perhaps a
daughter of Roger Williams. He was a witness to the will of Roger Williams of
Surry County in 1706. He had at least three children William Foreman, Mary
Foreman and Benjamin Foreman Jr all born in Virginia and he in the Chowan
Precinct of Albemarle County by 1716 where he was shown in a Tax record as
owning 370 acres. By 1722 a George Williams became Benjamin Foreman Senior’s
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later that fall,</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams witnessed the will of a neighbor named Samuel Edmonds on 3 November 1720. Other witnesses were John Williams, Edward Moore and George Eubank. John Williams could have been Theophilus' father or his brother who died in 1722. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Samuel Edmonds’ will was probated in April Court 1721 in Chowan Precinct. Edmonds had married daughters and he probably was a near neighbor of Theophilus but of no relationship. Close neighbors were often called to witness wills and land transactions. The neighbor of Theophilus, George Eubank, made out his own will 2 March 1733, of which Eubank made Theophilus’ brother in law James Castellow one of his executors. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following spring on 30 March 1721, Theophilus Williams received 200 acres in the “woods betwixt Cassia and Morrattuck” Rivers. This land was close to his father in law’s lands. </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Busby on 25 October 1725 witnessed a deed for Owen
O’Daniel who lived in the Jumping Run area also. O’Daniel had received a patent of
480 acres on the southside of “Cassey Swamp’ [Cashie River] as early as 10
August 1720. Thomas Busby had bought 170 acres on the east side of Cashie River from Henry Rhoades in November 1725 which was witnessed by Owen “Daniel” [O’Daniel]. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1721 Tax List of Chowan Precinct shows that the
family of John Williams the Younger was one of the most prominent landowners in
the Cashy community. Records show that from John Williams earliest patent of
320 acres in 1713 until 1721, his family had accumulated 4,010 acres or nearly
6 ¼ square miles. The family is located on Tax List number 337. There are two
John Williams listed one as John Williams Jr. As that most of the records
pertaining to John Williams the Younger also refer to him as John Wiliams Jr.
it appears that the John Williams paying a tax of 1£: 7s: 4p on 1620 acres is
John Williams III*. John Williams Jr. is listed as paying a tax of 1£:
17shillings and 9pence on 1065 acres. My guess is that the John Williams is the
oldest son of John and Ann Moor Williams and because his holdings were not as
developed as his father, his taxes were less even though he owned more
property. John Williams III* would have been about 28 years old and probably
unmarried. If he did marry his wife had to had died before 1722 without issue.
Son Theophilus Williams paid a taxed of 1£: 15shillings and 3 pence on 915
acres. James Williams paid a tax of 1£: 6s: 10p on 410 acres. As that James
Williams had patented this land on March 30th this tax record which had no date
had to be taken after that time. Isaac Williams isn't shown as having any land
as was Arthur Williams. Possible Isaac who would have been about 20 years old
and Arthur was still a youth of about 15 years were still living with their
parents. Others relations mentioned in the 1721 census were sons-in-law Samuel
Herring and James Castellow who owned 1700 acres. Near neighbor Jonathan
Standley had 300 acres.</span></span></div>
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1720 [1721] when a deed description of property being sold from Joseph Trowell
of “Kesiah” [Cashie] in Chowan Precinct to John Harrison showed that the
property was located at a “branch of reeds” and James Castellaw.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In March 1721 brothers John Williams, Theophilus
Williams, and James Williams traveled to Queen Anne Town [Edenton] and on March
30th 1721 they registered several deeds for lands on the west side of the
Cashie River. John Williams III* patented 640 acres “between Cassia [Cashie]
and Morattuck {Roanoke], joining James Blount, a reedy pocoson, and a great
swamp.” He also claimed 250 acres in “ye woods betwixt Cassia and Morattock
river, joining ye Village pond, James Blount, John Williams and a Great swamp.”
James Blount was a Tuscarora Indian who later became king of that nation and
was a close friend to the Williams family. A deed dated 7 November 1721 shows
that James Blount the Tuscarora lived near Theophilus Williams’ father-in-law
Thomas Busby. “James Blount to John Yelverton 20 shillings for 211 acres at
Thomas Busby headline.” Another deed dated 10 February 1723 [1724] between
Francis Parker and John Parker stated the property in the transaction was by
lands of James Blount and Thomas Busby.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theop[hilus] Williams patented 200 acres also in the
woods between “Cassia and Morattock” [Cashie and Roanoke Rivers]. This land
would also have been on the west side of the Cashie River also and possibly
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Cassia River, joining Samuel Heron, ye Flag Branch, and ye west side of little
Rocquis Swamp [Roquist Creek]” Samuel Herring was of course his brother-in-law
and a near neighbor to this property was Owen O’Daniels who appears as a
witness in many Williams’ property deeds. The Cashie River flows from a a
easternly towards a bend north of the town of Windsor where then flows
southeasternly to the Atlantic. and flows there in an wester easternly
direction. His near neighbor was Owen O’Daniels. James Williams received a patent
in 1721 of 410 acres on the southside of the “Cassiah River adjoining Sam Heron
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210 acres most likely as a wedding gift. “John Williams of Albemarle County,
planter, to Theophilus Williams of same for “love and affection I bear my son,
90 acres where on he now lives being part of land I live on and 120 acres of
another which joins the tract I live on.” </span></div>
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to Theophilus Williams of same gift to my son 90 ac where he lives; also 120 ac
all on Horse Spring Branch adj Samuel Hearing, Turkey Swamp & Thomas Jones.
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[A-36 Bertie, 9 Feb 1722, Feb 1722] <strong>Thomas Rhodes and wife Mary to Jeffery Butler</strong>, being 100 acres beginning at the fork of a branch on Jumping Run Creek, then out the branch and back to Running Creek and down the said creek to begin. Note that Jumping Run is also called Flag Run and it was so named because the hard bottom was firm enough to allow horses and carts to pass over the swamp. Test: William and Thomas Jones <em><strong>(see green C).</strong></em><br />
[B-36 Bertie, 6 Aug 1725, Nov 1725] <strong>Henry Rhodes and wife Elizabeth to James Blount</strong>, being on the North West side of the Casey Swamp beginning at Thomas Busby’s corner on the swamp then down the swap to James Parker’s corner then up his line to Busby’s then down his line to begin. Test: John Duffiel, Thos Benten<em><strong> (see green E).</strong></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 8 November 1725 Thomas Busby witnessed a deed of John Page and his wife Hannah “Hanner” who lived on Horse Pasture Creek near Theophilus Williams father John Williams the Younger. John and Hannah Page were the parents of John Page Jr who was Thomas Busby's son in law. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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acres on Rocquis Creek and the Flagg [Flaggy] branch lands adjoin Henry
Overstreet. The witness to this deed was his brother Theophilus Williams and
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80 £ 7 shillings a tract of land containing 640 acres at Falling Run from
William Gray’s corner to south west to John Williams Corner. Witnesses were
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Theophilus Williams and Samuel Williams. John and Ann Moor Williams gave power
of Attorney to Stephen Wlliams to acknowledge the sale of the 150 acres to John
Moore. Both Theophilus and his brother James Williams were witnesses and called
“jurats” which just meant they swore to the validity of the deed. John Moore
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 8 Aug 1727 Theophilus Williams bought 640 acres, a square mile, on the north side of Falling Run on Rocquist Swamp <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">[<span style="margin: 0px;">Roquist Creek] in west Bertie County which flowed southeast into Cashie </span><em><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">River</span></em><span style="margin: 0px;">. He paid <span style="color: #1d2129;">80 £ 7 shillings for t</span>his land that was </span></span>in Bertie County NC adjoining William Gray and his father John Williams. William Gray was an heir of George Eubank and John Williams would have been Theophilus’ father as that his brother John Williams had died in 1722.<span style="margin: 0px;"> At the same time Theophilus bought from John Gray 640 acres on the eastside of Falling Run adjoining the properties of William Grat and John Williams. The witnesses were James Castellow and Samuel Williams. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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O<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n 6 August 1728 Thomas Busby deeded the 170 acres on east side of Cashie Swamp that he had bought from Henry Rhodes to his “son-n-law” John Page Jr., “for love and affection”. John Page Junior had married Elizabeth Busby in 1728 and thus was a brother in law of Theophilus Williams.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Last <span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Will and Testament of</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Theophilus Williams brother James of "Bertie Precinct" was written 21 August 1736. In it he named his wife Elizabeth and son Ezekiel Williams and daughters "Feribe" and Jerusha Williams. He also stated that his property was to be divided between his children "except my Wife should be with child." Elizabeth was pregnant and had a child named Barbara after James' death. He named his wife "executrix" and his brothers Theophilus Williams and Isaac Williams executors. The will was probated in the February Court in1737. </span></span><br />
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200 acres on the east side of Horse Swamp and Turkey Swamp to the Horse Spring
Branch lands adjoining Samuel Herring. Horse Swamp was just on the left of the
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Ann Moore Williams. He sold this property for 100 pounds with the deed being
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deed witnesses were Theophilus Williams and John Williams. Isaac Williams’
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Theophilus Williams appeared numerous times in the deed books of Bertie County until the early 1740’s when he moved to Onslow County, North Carolina where his estate records there were destroyed during a hurricane. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">In a deed between Pedegrove Salsberry of "Society Parish" and Adam Rabey in Bertie County dated 19 April 1740 Theophilus Williams was mentioned as having adjoining lands on the northside of the Roanoke River. Other neighbors were Needham Bryan, Matthew Turner, Isaac Harrell, and Caleph Spivey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the Bertie County, North Carolina Court Minutes of 11 May 1742 show that Theophilus Williams, “on oath declared his right” and listed the members of his household. Those still living in his household were “Theophilus, Christian, Joseph, James, Esther, Lewis and Feribee Williams”. His slaves included in his household were listed as Toney, Boston, Pompey, Rose, Phillis, Patt, Jenny, Jupiter, Silva, Chloe, Pegg were. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not mentioned as being in his household was his eldest son John Williams who may have already been married or at least relocated to the Neuse River area of New Hanover County a section that later became Duplin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Recorded in Onslow County, North Carolina deeds is a record dated 10 July 1742 wherein James Green sold lands to “Theophilus Williams of Bertie County”. Theophilus bought 300 acres from Green for £90. The property was on the south west side of the south west branch of “New River between said Green and Henry Rhodes being part of a tract granted to Stephen Williams who transferred to John Williams and from him to James Green.” The witnesses to the deed were Job Brook and Stephen Williams. Henry Rhodes had been a neighbor of Theophilus Williams from deeds recorded in the 1720's in Bertie. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Stephen Williams was the grandson of Lewis Williams of Catherine Creek, Chowan County. He died 1751 when his will was probated 3 July 1751 in New Hanover County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A record in the newly formed Onslow County showed that on 18 December 1742 “Stephen Williams, planter” sold to John Williams for five shillings 640 acres southside of the Southwest branch. The small sum paid for the 640 acres indicates that there may have been a relationship of some type between the two men and there might now be the son of Theophilus.. </span></div>
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O<span style="font-family: "arial";">n 12 March 1745/6, Theophilus Williams sold part of his land from his 1739 grant to his son John Williams. This property was south of the Neuse River above Mill Creek west of Burnt Marsh. Mill Creek is a major tributary to the Neuse River, and converges with the river in the Lowgrounds in southeastern Johnston County. The area is home to muskrats, turtles, wood ducks, and several unique river birds as well as deer, bobcat, black bear and other large mammals. The forests provide nesting habitats for dozens of songbirds, including the Swainson’s warbler and the significantly rare Mississippi Kite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">John Williams later sold this property to Robert Lee on 31 March 1752 who in turn sold it to his uncle Isaac Williams in 1766. Witnesses to the 1766 transaction was Jethro Butler, John Ingram, and John Ingram. In 1766 this Robert Lee was selling off his properties in preparation for a move to South Carolina. He sold to Isaac Williams these lands on southside of Neuse River adjoining<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Theophilus Williams line, southside of Briery Marsh, John Lee’s second corner pine, from a grant to John Blackman made 4 April 1750. By 1768 Robert Lee was established in Granville County, South Carolina in an area that became Barnwell District.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">To all people to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that I Theophilus Williams of Onslow County in the Province of North Carolina for and in consideration of thirty pounds good and lawful money of the Province aforesaid to me in hand paid before the ensealing will and truly by Needham Bryan of the County of Craven and province aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge myself therewith satisfied contented and paid and of every part and parcel thereof do exonerate and acquit and discharge the said Needham Bryan his heirs, Exe, Adm forever by these presents do freely and clearly and have bargained and sold aliened conveyed and consigned and by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain and alien Convey consign unto him the said Needham Bryan his heirs and assigns forever one Plantation or tract of land lying and being in the County and province aforesaid on the north side of Neuse river beginning at a red oak at the mouth of the cursell branch running up the branch to a pine in the back line thence up the line to a hickory standing on the river bank thence down the various courses of the river to the first station containing according to estimation one hundred and eighty seven and a half acres it being the upper part of a tract of land taken up by the aforesaid Theophilus Williams as appears by a Patent bearing date the first day of March seventeen hundred and thirty eight. To Have and to Hold the said granted premises with all the appurtenances privileges commodities to the same belonging or any wise appertaining to him the said Needham Bryan his Heirs and assigns forever to his and their own purpose use and benefit and behoof forever and I the said Theophilus Williams for me my heirs Exe Adm do covenant promise and grant to and with the said Needham Bryan his heirs and assigns that before the ensealing hereof I am the true sole and lawful owner of the above bargained premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right by Patent bearing date as above mentioned as a good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple and have in myself full power and lawful authority to grant bargain and sell convey and confirm the said bargained premises in manner as above said and that the said Needham Bryan his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times from hereafter by force and virtue of these presents lawfully peaceably and quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the said devised and bargained premises and appurtenances freely and clearly acquitted exonerated and discharged of and from all manner of form and other gifts grants bargains sales leases mortgages wills entails jointures dowers judgements executions encumbrances and extents and furthermore I the said Theophilus Williams for myself my heirs Exe Adm do covenant the above devised premises to him the said Needham Bryan his heirs and assigns against the lawful claim of any person or persons whatsoever to warrant secure and defend As witness my hand and seal this 18th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty four/five</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 13 March 1746/7 Theophilus Williams's father in Bertie made his Last Will and Testament in which he bequeath Theophilis an African American man named Jack. He called Theophilus "my well beloved son" and Jack was called "Negro fellow Jack". Theophilus was only to have the use of Jack after the death of his mother. "Negro fellow Jack only reserving his labor to my well beloved wife during his 'widerhood' then to him and his heirs forever." Others named were his "wife Ann", "Daughter Anne Herring"; "son Isaac Williams"; "Daughter Sara Castelaw"; "Daughter Mary Herring"; "Son Arthur Williams"; "grandson John Williams"; and "Theophilus Williams"; "Grandchildren Farabe Williams, Ezekell Williams, Jerusha Williams, Barbara Williams". As that his father lived another decade when the will was finally proved in October Court 1757 it is not known whether the provision of the will was still valid and that he was able to inherit Jack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In a Bertie County deed dated 27 September 1749, <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jonathan Melton "of Onslow County" sold to John Harrill for 6 </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">£ </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">640 acres on the north side Roanoke River but was formerly called Chowan precinct. The land was part of a patent given to Richard Melton 6 Apr 1722 adjoining Geo Williams, Benjamin Foreman. The witnesses were John Cooper and William Barber. This deed showed that many of Theophilus Williams former Bertie County neighbors had also migrated to better lands in Onslow County.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In Onslow County, Samuel Moor [Moore] “of New River” made his will on 11 October 1750 which was probated 2 April 1751. His executors were his brother “Obadiah Moor” and Theophilus Williams. Samuel Moore was most likely a cousin of Theophilus. Samuel Moore lived in New Hanover County, North Carolina in a part that eventually became Duplin County. </span></span></div>
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N<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">eedham Bryan of “Bertie County” on 7 October
1751 bought land from a Moses Tiler of Saint Gabriels Parish in Duplin County a
“Tract of land situated lying and being in Duplin County containing Two hundred
acres be the same more or less” on the “Southside of Coherey”. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This was part of a patent Moses Tiler received
7 October 1749. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Witnesses were
Theophilus Williams’ nephew John Herring, John Green, and William Bryan who was
a son of Needham Bryan. Needham Bryan of "Bertie" sold this land later to
William Butler on 1 March 1768 land "on the south side of Great Coheary.
This land was part of a tract of 400 acres granted to Moses Tylar by patent
dated 7 October 1749 and conveyed from Moses Tylar to the said Needham Bryan by
deed dated 7 October 1751. Witnesses were William Bryan and Robert Butler. The
deed was registered 10 Nov. 1769. Theophilus Williams' son John Williams lived on land near the "Great Coheary" at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1752 the British Empire adopted the modern calendar with the new year beginning on January 1st. To make up for discrepancies the calendar dropped the dates 3–13 September to transition to the Gregorian calendar. So the dates went from September 2nd to September 14th. During this transition, i<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">n September
1752, a terrible hurricane struck the </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Onslow County</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> barrier islands, further dredged the </span><span style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">New River</span><span style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
Inlet, and blew Johnston, the county seat right off the map. The hurricane wreaked havoc
on the lives of the colonists in Onslow County including Theophilus Williams
and his relatives and friends. Records that might have tied Theophilus Williams
to John Williams may have been swept away with Onslow’s county seat. The destroyed courthouse contained
records like deeds, tax documents, and wills. Therefore, no one could prove
land ownership, collect taxes, or probate deceased persons’ wills. The loss of
these records were devastating. The storm caused a lot of destruction to primary
sources like government documents used by genealogists and historians.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> As in many hurricanes, the crops, timber, and livestock of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the area’s residents was strewn about Onslow County and washed into the Onslow Bay. </span>While
there are no personal accounts of this hurricane of 1752, legal records tell
about an interruption in normal activities. The county’s business had virtually stopped.
The first order of business for the Onslow County </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Court
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> of spring 1753 was to address the “loss of
records from the destroy’d courthouse from the violent storm of September
last.” Residents eventually petitioned the Colonial Assembly meeting in New
Bern to replace the records. New Bern was the provincial capital of the colony
at the time. This petition was eventually codified into law as </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">“An Act to relieve such persons that have, or may suffer,
by the loss of the Records in Onslow County.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">On 9 October 1755, three years after the
hurricane, the Colonial Assembly passed another bill to help the residents </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">“Appoint a place for Erecting the new Court House &
Prison in the County of Onslow and other Purposes therein mentioned”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">
Since 1903 such Colonial Assembly records have been kept in the State
Archives. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Construction began on the new Onslow County
courthouse in 1757. This time, it was located farther inland, near Wantland’s
Ferry, later known as Snead’s Ferry. The original courthouse at Johnston had
been completed only a year before the hurricane of September 1752. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When records resumed in Onslow County, on 26
February 1754 Theophilus was shown adding land to his properties from the heirs of Thomas Parker, Elizabeth Parker sold to Theophilus
Williams a parcel of 28 acres on the south side of southwest branch of New
River at Theophilus Williams’ corner and Thomas Parker “deceased” line. The
purchase price was <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>£6 and 12 shillings.
A month later on 24 March 1754 also in Onslow County, Theophilus Williams and “wife
Christian of New River” sold to Joseph Moore lands in Bertie County lands on
Rocquiss Swamp adjoining Anthony Herring. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Joseph Moore was most likely Theophilus’
cousin or the son of his cousin and Anthony Herring was the nephew of
Theophilus Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Within the year Anthony
Herring had moved from Bertie County. In a deed dated 6 November 1754 Anthony
Herring of “Johnston County” sold <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>to
Joseph Moore Jr. of Edgecomb County 270 acres on Rocquiss Swamp adjoining
Theophilus Williams’ lands. Evidently Theophilus Williams still owned lands in parts
of Bertie County that became part of Edgecomb County in 1741. The witnesses to
the transaction were <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bridget Herring and
Sarah Herring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Also by 1754 when records resumed, John
Royall was shown as residing on the northwest branch of New River in Onslow
County. He was the brother of Samuel Royal who married Esther Williams,
Theophilus Williams’ daughter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John
and Samuel Royal were the sons of Charles Royal and Sarah Powell.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles Royal is first noted in Onslow County in
1737 where he purchased 640 acres and also received several land grants. He
went before the Assembly at New Bern and asked for grants in New Hanover and
Duplin Counties, receiving 480 acres in the former and 420 acres in the latter.
Charles died in 1756, leaving a Will which is in the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh.
Primogeniture was still practiced at that time and so his eldest son Arthur fell heir to the
bulk of his father's estate. On 13 June 1756 Arthur Royal, the eldest son and heir
of Charles Royal, sold to Samuel Royal for 100 pounds, 200 acres on Southwest of the Northwest Branch of the New River at John Williams corner. Other neighbors were William Williams, Jr.,
James Dawson, Stephen Williams, and Joseph Brock's lines, "which is part of 640
acres purchased by Charles Royal of Samuel Williams, dec'd., and whereon
Charles Royal lately dwelt."</span></div>
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were eight people entitled to take land on arrival the Royals arrival in Onslow
County. They were Charles, and his wife Sarah, and the following children; </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sarah
Royal born circa 1723 wife of Robert Nixon, Arthur Royal born circa 1725 and died
1 Jul 1798. He married Anna Baill, William Royal born circa 1727 and died 1794,
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Samuel Royal born circa 1729 and died
before 1791. He married 1st 8 March 1759 Esther Williams, and 2nd 27 Mar 1774
in Effingham Co., GA., Verlinda Godbee, widow of Henry Godbee, John Royal born
circa 1731 and d before 1774. He married 1758 in Georgia Mary Ann, and Thomas
Royal born circa 1733 and died in Dooly County, Georgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 1 June 1756 in Onslow County Mary Evans,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>a married daughter of Thomas Parker sold to
Theophilus’ son <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lewis Williams a parcel
of 28 acres “on south side of southwest branch of New River and on the creek
which divides Theophilus Williams and Thomas Parker deceased who acquired the
140 acres 6 Jan 1744. The property was sold for for £6 and Theophilus Williams
was a witness to the deed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">w</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">o weeks later on 13 June 1756 and recorded in
Onslow County, Arthur Ryall [Royall] the eldest son of Charles Ryall sold to
"Samuel Ryall" 200 acres on southwest side of the Northwest branch at John
Williams corner, purchased from Samuel Williams deceased for for £100 lbs. This
John Williams is most likely the son of Theophilus. By 1759 Samuel Royal had
moved to Ebenezer in St. George Parish, Georgia where he married Esther
Williams the daughter of Theophilus Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Esther Williams was married to Samuel Royall
on 8 May 1759 in the town of Ebenezer, now in Effingham County, Georgia. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams on 26 June 1756, nearly
two weeks afterwards ,is shown to be located in Onslow County near John Williams
who lived on southwest branch of New River at Mashburns Great Branch. This John
Williams was probably his eldest son who would move to the Pee Dee River area
of South Carolina before removing to St. George Parish in Georgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the fall on 4 October 1756 in Onslow
County, Theophilus Williams sold to his son Lewis Williams 300 acres on
southwest side of southwest branch of New River for £90 lbs. The property was
located on land first granted to Stephen Williams who sold it to James Green who
in turn sold it to Theophilus. The following year on 19 November 1757 Lewis
Williams purchased from John Bassett and his wife Zilpha, an heir of Thomas
Parker, a parcel of 28 acres of Thomas Parker’s land on the southside of
southwest of New River at Parker Branch. The property was sold for £6 13 shillings
and 4 pence. The witnesses were Theophilus and Solomon Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This Solomon Williams was more than likely the
son of Samuel Williams whose will was probated in the February Court in 1754 in
Edgecombe County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The last record shown for Theophilus Williams,
that showed him in Onslow County, was dated 24 September 1760, when he was
probably near 65 years old. He and his son Lewis Williams witnessed a deed for
Joshua Johnston. Later on 1 October 1760 in Onslow County Lewis Williams and his
wife Ann Mary sold to William Wilkins of Halifax County, North Carolina 140
acres bought from the heirs of Thomas Parker; Sarah Messer, Elizabeth Parker,
Mary Parker, Zelpha Bassett, and Amy Parker for for £50.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This was probably in preparation for a move from
Onslow County to Duplin County where Theophilus Williams’ lands are mentioned
as being south of the Neuse River near Robert Lee’s grant which was on the
south side of the Neuse adjoining Richard Ingram and the “Great Marsh.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In July 1762, William Campbell of “Duplin
County” sold to Robert Lee of “Johnston County” lands on the southside of the Neuse
River adjoining Rountree's line and Theophilus Williams’ line. The Witnesses “By
oath” were Isaac Williams who was the brother of Theophilus Williams, Jethro Butler,
and Francis Harrell old neighbors from Bertie County. Robert Lee later sold
this land back to William Campbell with Isaac Williams and James Watson as witnesses.
The Chain Bearers for surveying the land were Francis Harrell and William
Campbell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 2 March 1763 Theophilus Williams' nephew Ezekiel Williams had received a patent of 100 acres on the Savannah River Swamp about the mouth of Steel Creek in Granville County [Barnwell District], South Carolina. His cousin, Theophilus Williams' son John Williams would eventually also settle in Granville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A 1763 land discription in Dupblin County
stated that Robert Lee’s lands were on the southside of the Neuse River on a branch
of Mill Creek. In a deed record dated 15 October 1764 his lands were recorded
as on the Neuse River adjacent William Campbell and Richard Ingram’s properties.
On this same date 15 October 1764 William Campbell sold to Richard Ingram of
Johnston County land, except a 10 foot grave parcel of his child on south side
of Neuse River adjoining Theophilus Williams property which adjoined John Lee. </span></div>
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Campbell</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born circa 1735 in Scotland and died 1 July 1823 in Barnwell District South
Carolina. He may have been married to a Lee. William Campbell had lands by 1760
on Briar Creek in St. George Parish, Halifax District, Georgia. Theophilus
Williams’ son in law Samuel Royal was also in the same parish in Georgia in 1759. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1763 Campbell was back in Duplin County
where he bought 150 acres from Robert Lee of Johnston County and in July 1764 he
sold lands to John Ingram in Johnston County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At this time he probably moved back to the
Halifax District in Georgia where </span></div>
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O<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n 13 October 1773 a deed showed William Campbell had
lands on Rocky Creek and Briar Creek at “Lee’s Old Place” located on waters of
Savannah in St. George Parish. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A census
showed at the time he had a wife, a 5 year old son [1768], 3 year old son
[1770] and was granted 250 acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Campbell’s children married into
Barnwell District, South Carolina families. His son <span style="margin: 0px;">Alexander Campbell</span> born circa 1768 and died circa 1807 had one
daughter Catherine Blanche Campbell. She was born 1796 in South Carolina and married
Richard Creech Roberts the son of her step father Stephen Roberts. She also
became a sister in law to Wilson Williams the son of Britton Williams most
likely the grandson of Theophilus Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another son, <span style="margin: 0px;">Joshua Campbell,</span>
was born circa 1770 and died before 1827. He was married to Zilpha Best daughter of
Absalom Best.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Absalom Best had 200 acres
on the Catfish Branch of the Pee Dee River 16 December 1766.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Another son named <span style="margin: 0px;">Israel Campbell,</span> in April 1795, witnessed a deed of gift from
Britton Williams’ widow Elizabeth to her children Wilson Williams, Sarah
Vasser, and Martha Bowen. She may have been the mother of Catherine Blanche
Campbell. In 1799 William Campbell bought from Britton William’s son Wilson
Williams lands of his father on King’s Creek Barnwell District first granted to
William Brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1766 this Robert Lee sold off his
properties in preparation for a move to South Carolina. In that year he sold his
lands <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>to Theophilus Williams’ brother
Isaac lands on southside of Neuse River adjoining<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Theophilus Williams line, southside of Briery
Marsh, to John Lee’s second corner pine, from a grant to John Blackman made 4
April 1750. The witnesses were Richard Ingram, John Ingram and Jethro
Butler.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On 15 February <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">1769 Robert Lee received a Crown of
fifty acres near Stony Point, in Granville County, South Carolina, another
grant of 300 acres <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>on upper 3 Runs, also
in Granville County. His near neighbor was Ezekiel Williams, Theophilus
Williams’ nephew. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This 1766 deed between Robert Lee and Isaac
Williams is the last known record that mentioned Theophilus Williams as owning
land in Duplin County. It is not known whether he was still living at this time
but the record doesn’t indicate that he was deceased. There are no more land
transactions for Theophilus Williams and no probate record has ever been
located for him or his wife Christian. He probably died circa 1766 perhaps near
70 years old. He would have been living in Duplin County probably on his near
Mill Creek. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Children of Theophilus
Williams and Christian Busby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>John Williams</b> was born circa 1721 near the Roquist Creek, Bertie, North Carolina Colony and died 1789 on property along Coosahatchie
River, Orangeburgh Distrist [Allendale County], South Carolina. He married Abigail
who died in 1802 when her estate was probated 2 Nov 1802 in Barnwell District
[Allendale County] South Carolina. Her maiden name is thought to be Creech and
was a relative of Richard Creech of Barnwell District. He is believed to be the father of
Britton Williams and Joshua Williams of Winton County [Allendale County]. In 1763
John Williams moved to St. George Parish, Georgia from Fort Winyaw in Craven
County, South Carolina with 3 children and 3 slaves. He was granted 300 acres
in St. George Parish near John Nesmith and John Maner. The next year in 1764 he
sold lands he owned on west side of Great Coheary in Duplin County to Abraham Odam
and Jeremiah Simmons. Records also showed that he owned 300 acres of lands
north side of Briar Creek by the Savannah River, four miles below Stoney Bluff
by neighbor James Nesmith in St. George Parish. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Britton Williams acquired in 1768 Johann Jasper
Hirtschman's relinquished land grant which was on lands in St. George Parish,
Georgia along the Savannah River. Hirtschman had patented this property by 3 Dec 1760. To
the north of Hirtschman’s grant was a farmer named Andrew Greiner who had lands adjoining a John Williams. John Williams had settled in Georgia in 1764. The
close proximity of John Williams to Britton makes me suspect that this John
Williams is the father of Britton Williams and son of Theophilus Williams of
Duplin County North Carolina. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Additionally a near
neighbor of Britton Williams was John Royal whose lands were adjacent to John
Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Royal’s sister-in-law was
John Williams’ sister Esther Williams. John Royall<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was a resident of both Georgia and North
Carolina. A land record dated 10 July 1765 shows that John Williams held lands at
Beaverdam in Duplin County. Two years later he is shown on 7 July 1767 as
owning property adjoining James Pierce in St. George Parish,
Ga. Three years after that he is back in Duplin County, North Carolina buying
land from John Bush on the west side of the Great Coharie River. This land is
now in what is Sampson County, North Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>John Bush was the brother-in-law of Ezekiel Williams a nephew of
Theophilus Williams and Christian Bryan. John Williams and Ezekiel Williams
were first cousins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Joseph Williams</b> was born circa 1722 near the Rocquis
River, Bertie, North Carolina Colony and died circa 1790. He married Mary Hicks
on 8 August 1746 in Onslow County and later moved to Duplin County where he was
elected sheriff. 14 March 1745/6 Craven County, Joseph Williams bought land on
southside of Neuse River on Mill Creek from father Theophilus Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He executed a deed of gift in Duplin County on
10 May 1763 to his children: Daniel Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Theophilus Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Frances Williams and Easther [sic: Hester]. On
1 October 1764 he bought land from Richard Bass west side of Great Coheary in Johnston
County and in 1769 he is listed in a Poll Tax List of Dobbs County.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. Hester [Esther] Williams was born in
Onslow County on 8 August 1746 and probably named for her aunt. She married William
Whitfield III (1743-1817) as the first of his four wives. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. Mary Williams was born 22 Feb 1748 in Onslow
County and married William Dixon (Dickson)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. Daniel Williams was born 4 Jan 1751 in
Duplin County and married Sarah Nixon. He moved to Tennessee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. Benjamin Williams was born 30 Dec 1752 in
Duplin County</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. Theophilus Williams was born 19 Jan 1755 in
Duplin County and married wife Charity Barfield the daughter of Jesse Francis
Barefield and Sarah Castellow. Theophilus Williams and Charity Barfield were married
26 June 1779 in Duplin County. In 1785 they lived in District 12 in Duplin
County. He was an overseer and owned 2 slaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. Susannah Williams was born circa 1757 in
Duplin County and married 16 May 1779 in Duplin County Frederick Barfield. He
was born 14 December 1757 in Duplin County died after 1820 in Lauderdale, Tennesee.
He was the son of Jesse Francis Barefield and Sarah Castellow. They had the
following Children- James Barfield, George Barfield, Blake Barfield, and Susan
Barfield. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. Frances Williams was born circa 1759 in
Duplin County</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. Joseph Williams was born 1761 in Duplin
County </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. James Williams died circa 1790 <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in Jones County. He married Sarah Brice and
had children, Brice Williams, Benjamin Williams. Christian Williams wife of
Thomas Nixon, James Spicer and Robert Nixon, Sarah Williams wife of Benjamin Smith
and Basil (Bazzel) Smith, Cassandra Williams wife of Mr. Campbell, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mary Williams wife of Benjamin Lavender, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Clarissa Williams wife of John Shine, James
Williams </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>James Williams</b> was born circa 1724 near the Rocquis
River, Bertie, North Carolina Colony and lived in the Goshen Settlement, Duplin
County. On 9 November 1766 he acquired 501 acres on Grove Swamp, on the Marsh
Branch of Miller Swamp in Duplin County. He married circa 1744 Alice McRae the daughter
of William McRae and Margaret Creighton. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was born in 1725. James Williams and Alice
McRae had three children William Williams, Dorthea Williams, and Martha Williams.
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His father in law William McRae “of
Goshen Settlement Duplin County” <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">was
born in 1675, in County Down, Northern Ireland, and </span>had his will
probated 30 March 1751 in which he mentioned his sons John McRae, James McRae, Robert
McRae and daughters Susannah McRae, Sarah McRae Smith wife of John Smith, Alice
McRae Williams wife of James Williams and Grandson William Williams and Grandaughter
Dorthea Williams. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Goshen Swamp is a
blackwater creek swamp located in Duplin County, North Carolina, near the towns
of Faison and Calypso. It is a tributary of the Northeast Cape Fear River. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When Duplin county was established <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>April 7, 1750 the county seat was located in the
home of William McRae from 1750 to 1753. <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Esther Williams</b> was born 1726 in Bertie
County and died circa 1773 in St. George Parish, Halifax County, Georgia. She
was wife of Samuel Royal of St. George Parish, Georgia. Samuel Royal was the
son of Charles and Sarah Powell Royal. On March 8, 1759 he married Esther
Williams in Old Ebenezer Church, at Springfield, Georgia. His brother John
Royal was one of the early arrivals in St. George's Parish, Georgia. In
December 1759 John Royal, stated that he had been one year in Georgia. He had a
wife and three children. And was Granted 400 acres in November 1764.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Samuel Royal was born circa 1729 and died
after 1783 but before 1791. He is believed to be the second Royal to come to Georgia.
In February 1761 he petitioned for and was granted 200 acres, stating that he
had been two years in Georgia and had wife and one child. Samuel returned to
Onslow County briefly in September 1764 to sell the 200 acres he had bought
from his brother Arthur. After the death of Esther Williams, on 27 March 1774 Samuel
married Mrs. Verlinda Godbee, the widow of Henry Godbee. Samuel Royal, et al,
all planters of St. George' Parish were fined 4 pounds sterling each for not
answering jury call to the Court at Savannah. He fought with the local Militia
in the Revolution and was living in 1783. After much study and supposition (due
to lack of Burke Co. records before 1856) it is believed that the Royals
appearing in the 1820 and 1830 U, S. Census of Burke Co. were his children and
grandchildren. It is an impossible task to separate them, but the following
miscellaneous Royal data is almost certainly pertaining to Samuel's
descendants. In 1792 on a land Plat " Widow Royal" , who is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Verlinda is back in Burke Countyon the old creek road with
two of her children, Cary & Stephen Godbee. Samuel Royal had to have died
before that date. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Samuel
Royal and Esther Williams were the parents of Mary Royal, Isaac Royal, Esther
Royal, Nice Royal and John Royal.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John
Royal was born 22 December 1762 in St. George Parish and died 3 February 1838
in Houston, County, Georgia. He married 17 April 1795 Rebecca Godbee the
daughter of William Godbee and Mary Bergaton. She was born 10 April 1777 in St.
George Parish and died 21 April 1862 in Houston County. John Royal was a
Lieutenent in the Revolution. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Lewis Williams</b> was born 1728 in Bertie County and
died 1783 in Onslow County. He married Mary “Ann” Wilkins</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> probably daughter of John and Prudence Wilkins</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">. Some accounst say
her maiden name was Norman. In his will he mentions daughter Serene Williams
and son Bryan. Ann's will from 1792 mentions Boneta Williams and Benjamin
Williams. They had the following children, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. Serene Williams was born circa 1756 and
died 1789. Her husband Daniel Hicks was the son of Captain Thomas Hicks and
Elizabeth Williams of Brunswick County, Virginia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. Benjamin Williams was b</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">11 Dec</span></strong></span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">ember</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> 1775</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Onslow, North Carolina. </span></strong><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He married Sarah "Sally" Battle the
daughter of Ephraim Battle in Onslow, North Carolina; bond date December 24,
1796, Bondsman B. Lester, witness Patrick Mahoney. 1840 Census: Residence in
Davis. Saline, Arkansas Children of Benjamin and Sally <i>may</i> include:
Miles Williams, Sarah </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16452970" title="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16452970"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Mariah</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Williams, Eliza Williams, Susan Williams, Boneta
Williams, Peter Williams, Ann Mary Williams, Lorenzo Williams, Nathan Williams,
John Williams, Lydia Williams, </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16444392" title="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16444392"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Harriet</span></a> Williams,</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Edward Williams, Amy Williams, Harrison Williams</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=145879027" title="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=145879027"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Clarissa</span></a> Williams, and <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16452409" title="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16452409"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Lott</span></a> Williams.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> (not all are proven). Information from family Bible
states that his death date was in the month of May, between the years of 1851
to 1860; the year and date are not known because the page was torn. </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>This Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-41701021182355187842017-10-13T11:49:00.000-07:002018-01-11T07:50:10.063-08:00Edgar Hugh Williams Sr Part 1 son Louis Milton Williams<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar Hugh Williams Sr. and Wilma June Johnson</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandma and Grandpa Williams moved to Roosevelt County, New Mexico where
Grandmas Uncle Fred Danforth was a successful farmer near Lingo in 1924.
Grandpa managed to rent a farm 13 miles south of Portales from James David
Autry of Dora where he raised cotton and maize. While living on this farm
Grandma found herself pregnant with her third child. Another son was born in
the rural town of Portales on the 19th of January 1925. She named this baby,
Edgar after her brother Edgar Danforth and Hugh after the doctor who delivered
him. Grandpa Williams father was also named Edgar but Grandma only knew him as
Edd and even thought her father in laws full name was Edwin.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dads uncle Edgar Danforth had just the month before married, 14-year-old
Beulah Kelly. She was a great help to Grandma taking care of little 18 month
old Raymond Williams and helping Grandma get back on her feet. Beulah Danforth
just doted over Dad and treated the baby as if he was her own. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In February of 1925, Beulah Danforth, being a young teenager, became
homesick for her own Kelly family and she had her young husband, Edgar
Danforth, move back to Erick, Oklahoma to live with her folks. While in Erick,
Oklahoma Edgar Danforth borrowed money from his father in law J.W. Kelly and
bought a small café. He asked Grandpa Williams to come to Oklahoma to help
cook. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Danforths and the Williamses lived in Erick Oklahoma for about a year
until returning to Earth, Texas in March of 1926 after the café failed. The
Kellys also moved from Oklahoma to Earth. Before leaving Oklahoma, on 19
January 1926, Beulah Danforth now age 15 years, baked dad a birthday cake to
celebrate his first birthday. Beulah said dad was so excited about the cake and
the candle that he dove into the cake and started squeezing it to bits while
giggling in delight. Grandma Williams was all apologetic for her son’s bad
behavior, but Beulah thought it was the funniest thing she had ever seen.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the spring of 1926 the Danforths and Williamses returned the community
of Earth but they failed to make a crop when a June storm hailed out their
cotton and maize While at Earth, Grandpa Williams lived near his brother-in-law
Edgar Danforth and his family who lived about a half mile east of Earth on a
farm owned by Beulah's father, J.W. Kelly. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Williams and Danforths moved back to the Portales area in the fall of
1926 where Dads cousin Marjory Fern Danforth was born 20 October 1926. Grandpa
and Grandma Williams were living on a farm rented again from a Mr. Autry.
Grandma Williams herself was six months pregnant at that time and she delivered
a fourth son on 17 January 1927, two days shy of Dads 2nd birthday. Grandma
Williams named this son Willard Wallace Williams, again after the doctor who
delivered him. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar and Beulah Danforth however returned to Earth, Texas where Buelah
Danforth gave birth to a son whom she named Norman Edwin Danforth. He was born
19 March 1928 in Earth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1928 Grandpa Williams rented another farm from a Mr. Bryant at Rogers,
New Mexico to be closer to his father-in-law Mabry Danforth and to the town of
Portales. There, Grandpa Williams and Mabry Danforth both worked as masons and
carpenters during this time helping lay the bricks for the new Portales High
School. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1929 Mabry and Minnie Danforth left Portales and moved back to Earth,
Texas to be near their son and daughter-in-law. Mabry Danforth 54 years old,
found work for himself and his wife Minnie at the Springlake Ranch that was
also known as the Mashed O Ranch because of the shape of its brand. Mr. Halsell
was the wealthy rancher who owned the ranch and who had sold off much of it to
farmers in the 1920s. Mabry and Minnie Danforth were chuck wagon cooks for the
ranch hands. </span></div>
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daughter-in-law Beulah didn't think so. Grandma Williams said that her mother
was the best cook she ever knew and that she made the best pies she ever ate.
Minnie Danforth learned to cook for a large bunch being the eldest daughter of
twelve children and she had cooked when Mabry Danforth had the livery business
ten years earlier.</span></div>
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sausages and coffee for breakfast for the cowhands since Minnie Danforth told
her daughter that they loved that more than about anything else they could fix.
Minnie's own specialty was a wild plum cobbler that was thick, crusty and
fruity which she said she could never make enough of to suit the cowboys. Mabry
cooked Texas style chili with pinto beans and corn bread but his job mainly was
to help with the food preparation and take it out to the camps in a chuck wagon
when the cowboys couldn't make it back to the ranch. Mabry Danforth and Minnie
only worked at this for about a year because the work was getting too hard for
Minnie who had a hard time dealing with the heat of the South Texas Plains and
cooking all day.</span></div>
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Earth, where he worked in another café as a cook. In October 1929, the New York
Stock Market crashed ending a decade of prosperity. The Great Depression of the
1930s was in the making. </span></div>
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Muleshoe and gave birth to a premature baby girl. She was so tiny she could
have fitted in a shoebox. Grandma Williams named the baby Minnie Lee Williams
after her mother and her Uncle Lee Peacock. Later that night the Muleshoe Hotel
where Grandma Williams and her baby were staying caught fire and they were
carried out of the burning building in a folded mattress. On Christmas Day 1929
they were homeless and returned to live with relatives at Earth. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandpa and Grandma Williams brought their four children back to Earth,
Texas in 1930 where Grandpa opened a café simply called "Louis”. Edgar and
Beulah Danforth helped with this enterprise with Beulah making pies for the
café. Beulah Danforth had a still-born baby boy on 2 April 1930 at Earth. Edgar
and Beulah Danforth never named the baby but just called him Baby Boy Danforth.
He never took a breath of air. This bonded Grandma and Beulah as that Grandma
had lost her first child when he was 11 days old in 1922.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Times were hard and the place did not make a go of it so Grandpa Williams
returned to Portales to work in construction when his second daughter, Bonnie
Ruth Williams was born there on Halloween 1931. They remained in Portales for
two years and it was here Dad first attended 1st grade. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Money was extremely scarce but Grandpa’s father in law Mabry Danforth had
received a $600 inheritance from his Uncle Charles Danforth who had died in
January 1934 in the Memphis, Tennessee area. That money was a windfall during
these harsh times. Mabry Danforth helped out Grandma and Edgar by giving them
each $200 from his inheritance. With this and having saved a little bit of
money Grandpa and Grandma Williams returned to Earth, Texas and opened another
restaurant that was more successful. Their youngest child, Milton Bradford
Williams was born on 5 November 1934 although his birth certificate mistakenly
made an error on the date. Grandma also said, I should know when he was born as
I was there.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1935 the Depression was making life very difficult even in the small
rural communities such as Earth. Farms were being foreclosed upon and people
lived on just the food they could raise themselves. In 1935 times were tight
and Mabry Danforth and his son Edgar Danforth went to Hobbs, New Mexico to work
as cooks for the road workers who was building the Hobbs New Mexico Highways as
part of a government project to put people back to work. Mabry Danforth was 60
years old when he went to work for the highway construction outfit at Hobbs and
Minnie Danforth did most of the cooking while Mabry Danforth ran water trucks
out to the laborers as a water boy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mabry Danforth and Edgar Danforth came back to Earth in 1936 after the
highway was finished where Mabry worked a small farm and Edgar Danforth went to
work for his father-in-law, J W Kelly, at his grocery store. Grandpa and
Grandma Williams were still able to make a living keeping their little cafe
going throughout the rest of the depression. Mabry Danforth still worked in
carpentry and masonry and did handy man jobs building outhouses as well during
these years. </span></div>
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few miles south of Earth. For the Danforth and Williams cousins this was a
happy time even during the Great Depression as they were doted on by their
loving grandfather Mabry Danforth who was renting a farm outside of Earth.
Their grandma Minnie Danforth however was a scold who didn’t care much for her
grandchildren as she did not care for children in general.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Williams and Danforth cousins from these two families used to walk back
and forth between their uncles houses to play with each other. Aunt Bonnie
learned to ride a bicycle for the first time at her cousins house. </span></div>
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at beauty shop, fixing up her cousins, Bonnie and Minnies hair in the latest fashion.
This one time she talked her cousin Dad into fixing his hair and she put
Chamberlains Hand Lotion in it which made his hair stick like glue. His mother
felt so sorry for her embarrassed son as she tried to wash the lotion out of
his hair, but she thought he was so pathetic looking that she couldn't help but
laugh.</span></div>
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if they could keep him. Their mother said to them, "You kids can keep the
dog if you build a house for him." Both Edgar and Wallace thought they
were fine carpenters from helping their Granddad Danforth, and they said to
their mother that this was not a problem. Their little sister Bonnie was
watching her older brothers and said she wanted to help when she discovered that
they were building a dog house. So Wallace told her to hold on to a post he
wanted to drive a nail into. He then took a mighty swing and came down flat
square on Bonnies finger and split it wide open. Grandma was able to clean the
wound and bandaged it and it healed without any infection. Dad’s dog died
chocking on a chicken bone and he always impressed us kids never ever feed a
dog a chicken bone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1937, when Dad was 12 years old his father rented out his Cafe and moved
to Hereford, Texas where his grandparents had moved to work a harvest. While at
Hereford, the family picked potatoes and pulled cotton while his youngest
brother Milton started kindergarten. About this time his oldest brother, Ray,
who was fourteen, went to live with his Danforth Grandparents which caused some
jealousy among the other grandkids. Ray Williams was the Danforths oldest
grandchild and perhaps the only grandchild whom Minnie Danforth cared anything
about. </span></div>
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this time Grandmas children played a dirty trick on her that she never forgot.
Grandma was deathly afraid of mice and her children knew it so this one day Dad
discovered a nest of field mice while picking potatoes and he and the other
kids decided to put them in the bottom of a basket filled with potatoes to give
to their Mother. Grandma unsuspectingly pulled the potatoes out of the basket
but when she saw the mice come running out from under the potatoes, she just
about fainted.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From Hereford, Grandpa moved his family to Olton, Texas in 1938 where
Bonnie was to injure her foot. Here Grandpa ran another Café with the help of
13 year old Dad and 11 year old Wallace who were now expected to help with the
cooking as well as the cleaning of tables. The family lived in rooms behind the
café but after six months Grandpa said he wasn't making any money at that
location so in the spring of 1938 he moved his family back to Portales, New
Mexico. They only stayed in Portales for a couple of months before returning to
Earth where Grandpa opened his Café again. Here Grandpa and Grandma lived for
the next three years.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dads sister Minnie said Christmas 1938 was spent at Earth Texas and she
recalled that it was "the best Christmas I can remember when I was a
little girl. Granddad Danforth built us a little red table and chairs to match
and mother got us some dishes and dolls. Dad and Mom gave Milton a little red
wagon and that Christmas meant a lot to us. We didn't have a lot but we
appreciated everything because Mom and Dad worked hard in the Cafe." Dad
and Wallace probably got new clothes as they were getting too old for toys.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Easter of 1939 was spent in the sand hills near Earth where Grandpa took
his kids for an Easter egg hunt. Grandma had the family get all dressed up and
there while Milton was trying to light a lamp his little tie caught on fire.
This man, who was a fry cook for Grandpa and had come out with the family,
acted quickly and ran his hand over the tie burning his own hand. In the
process but he did manage to pull Milton’s tie off which kept Milton from
getting seriously burned.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1940 Dads younger brother, Wallace, dropped out of school, left home at
the age of 13, and went to work for himself at the Spring Lake Ranch. Grandpa
Williams had a quirk in his personality that believed that the most important
thing a body could be doing was working and making a living for him self. He
thought that work was more important than education and he discouraged his sons
from getting an education at the expense of working and making a living. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So by the time Grandpa Williams left Earth in 1941 to move to a farm in the
community of Spade, both Ray and Wallace had already moved away from the
family, leaving Dad alone with his younger sisters and brother. 17 year old Ray
Williams had stayed with his Granddad Danforth in Portales and 14 year old
Wallace Williams boarded at the Spring Lake Ranch. Grandpa Williams then began
harassing his son Dad to quit school and go to work. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandma Williams had noticed that Dad had a very inquisitive mind and was
always trying to figure out how mechanical and electrical objects worked. Once
she came home to find that he had taken apart her toaster just to see how it
worked. She was not at all happy when he couldn’t put it back together. Dad also
took band in high school and learned to play the saxophone but he had little
encouragement to keep it up. The Church of Christ worship service only believed
in a Capella music. Grandma however wanted Dad to stay in school and get an
education which led to many quarrels with Grandpa.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During Dads Junior year at Littlefield High School, the United States
entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942 Grandpa told 17
Year old Dad that he had to quit high school and go to work at the Spring Lake
Ranch where Wallace was already working. Wallace was bringing money in and
giving part of it to Grandpa and he wanted Dad to do the same. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad did not want to quit school and went to his Aunt Beulah Danforth to try
and get her to talk to his dad about staying in school and she said to him,
"Well hun, I can’t make your daddy let you go to school. Now you are going
to have to work that out with your daddy somehow." Beulah Danforth, stated
when asked about this incident, she said "Louis, he was a bull headed one
and poor Annie couldn't get him to change his mind don’t you know. Louis, he
didn't think kids needed an education. All they needed was to be making money
and a living."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Grandpa found out that his son had talked to Beulah he just got angry
with his son and after a quarrel and a whipping, Dad decided to run away. He
ran away and stayed with his cousin Jessie Roden “Jake” Peacock who was just
two months older than him. Jake was the son of Victor Peacock who was Dads
grandma Minnie Danforth’s younger brother. Jake was actually Grandma Williams
first cousin but with an age difference of more than 20 years. Vic was living
at Earth and Jake convinced Dad to run away together and join the navy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jake Peacock said that Dad had lifted five dollars from Grandpa when he ran
away and off they went to Portales, New Mexico to the recruiting station. When
Annie discovered Dad had run off she went over to her sister-in-laws house all
upset and crying. Beulah Danforth remembered, "You'll never know how she
cried over Dad and she said to me 'Beulah if there is anyway in the world you
can keep Dad from joining the navy please don't let him join the navy. He’s too
young.' So I said, "Well Louis wouldn’t let him come to live with me
before he ran off - No way- but will Louis let him live with us now?" and
both Grandpa and Grandma said "Yes" so Ed and Beulah talked it over
and Ed Danforth said, "Edgar Hugh is a good kid and I don't mind to having
him. I just love him to pieces."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyway Beulah learned from Vic Peacock that Dad and Jake were at Portales
just fixing to sign up when Grandpa and Grandma found them. Dad saw his parents
and his aunt and uncle coming for him and started to run when Beulah Danforth
hollered, "Edgar Hugh, you come back here!" But his cousin Jake Peacock
said, "C’mon! Don't go! C'mon!" </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Then Beulah Danforth hollered, "Edgar Hugh do you hear me! I said come
here!" and Dad gave in, came back, grabbed his aunt and hugged her neck.
Then he started to cry. "Edgar Hugh, Hun, you don't want to join the navy,"
she said, "You'll have to go soon enough. Now your Mama and daddy have
promised me that you could come live with me and Uncle Ed and finish this year
of school so don't cry. I'll see some way that you have clothes for school if
you'll come live with us."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"All right" said Dad but I'm not going back home!" and he
didn’t. His cousin Jake Peacock went ahead and enlisted in the navy and served
in the South Pacific on battleships as a gunner. He was in some of the fiercest
battles in the South Seas. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So Dad left home and went to live with his Aunt and Uncle so he could
finish his schooling, with his cousins Marjorie Fern and Norman. Ed and Beulah
treated Dad as one of their own, buying him clothes, and feeding him. He was
able to finish his Junior year but as he felt he was too much of a burden on
his Aunt and Uncle, he went to his parents and convinced them to let him enlist
in the navy as his older brother Ray had already enlisted in the army. Grandpa
and Grandma agreed and allowed him to join the Navy and Dad was sent to San
Diego for boot camp. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before joining the navy, while his folks lived at Spade, Dad at the age of
17 began dating Mom whose full name was Wilma June Johnson but was known as
June. Her older brother JW always called her “ Junebug”. She was 13 year old
and the daughter of Wilburn and Tressie Johnson when she met dad. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandpa Johnson was a farmer living in the community of Hart Camp about 4
miles from Spade, long with the Jarnagin and Sullivan families. Mom was friends
with both Mattie Lee Jarnagin and Otice Sullivan who both were dating Wallace
Williams off and on. Mom said she “palled up” with Dad while he lived out in
Spade and before he went into service. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One day after Dad had joined the navy, Mom and her girlfriend Otice
Sullivan decided to go over to Spade to visit with the Williams’es and see how
Dad was doing in the Navy. They were 13 year old girls and Grandma said she
liked them well enough but really didn't know much about them at the time.
Otice had been dating Wallace so she was familiar with the family at the time
and when they stopped by the house seven year old Milton started teasing the
girls. They told him they would both throw him into the sticker patch if he did
not stop being a brat. Well he kept on teasing them, so the girls made good on
their threats with Otice grabbing his hands, and Mom carrying his feet, and
they carried him outside and threw him into the sticker patch.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the end of 1943, Grandpa and Grandma Williams sold their farm at Spade
and moved to Littlefield, the county seat, where Grandpa ran a little hamburger
joint at the end of town. Grandpa and Grandma had rented a house near the
Littlefield High School. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">They had two sons in the war at the time and just the three kids, Minnie,
Bonnie, and Milton, at home. Wallace was still too young to join the service so
he continued to work on the Spring Lake Ranch, twenty-two miles north of
Littlefield, and was out on his own. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">About this time Dads Uncle and Aunt Danforth decided to move to California
where the war effort made jobs plentiful in the Southern California shipyards.
Uncle Ed and Aunt Beulah moved to a small community called Hines in Los Angeles
now located in Paramount and Downey. Dad said that while he was in boot camp in
San Diego, whenever he could get off base, he would hitchhike up the Pacific
Coast Highway to stay with his aunt and uncle and Danforth cousins. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1943 Moms brother J.W. Johnson Jr. had joined the navy and was stationed
in the Naval Air Station at Oakland as an electrician. The base had been
transformed into an airlift base for military flights to the Pacific islands.
In August 1943 J.W. married his Hart Camp sweetheart, Pauline “Polly” Allen who
was a half sister to Otice Sullivan, Moms girlfriend. Polly took a train to
California to marry him in Oakland, California. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shortly afterwards, J.W. became very ill with tonsillitis and received an
operation to have them removed while in the Oakland Naval hospital there. Earlier,
in the spring of 1942, just a few months after Pearl Harbor, 25 barrack-type
redwood buildings were built which became the nucleus of the sprawling
"temporary" hospital the Navy built to receive the thousands of World
War II casualties that were to be brought back from Pacific Battle zones.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Grandma Johnson heard from Polly that 19 year old J.W. was in the
hospital waiting an operation, she went to California to be with him and took
Mom with her. Mom said her brother had just had his tonsils out and Grandma
insisted she go to him because he was “her Baby.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom said it was one of the great adventures of her life, what with her
mother and her being “Old Country Bumpkins.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It being in the middle of World War II, mom
said “The blame old train was filled with soldiers and marines and the train
they were on was like those old trains from the 1890s.” Her mother warned her
not to be talking to soldiers but she did to this one sitting across from them
who was not much older than she was. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The train ride was thrilling but also monotonous. Mom recalled that the
conductor was drunker then a skunk. There wasn’t a club car or porters from
whom to buy anything to eat or drink. Grandma had packed a small food basket
but they ran out of food at Kingman, Arizona. When they stopped at the station
everybody got off the train and went to closest restaurant which was the Harvey
House. Mom and Grandma Johnson left their coats, luggage, and magazines on the
train to save their seats but by the time they were done being waited on and
eating they found that the train was leaving the station.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandma Johnson went in to the ticket office in the station and demanded
they hold the train but they said they couldn’t as it was also a troop train.
They wanted Grandma to buy another ticket but she was a fighter and refused.
She showed them her tickets and tore off the back of one of the ticket before <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>they issued her a new ticket. “That is what we
came on home on was the darn ticket.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom and Grandma caught up with the original train in Barstow, California.
As luck would have it, they met the young soldier whom mom had befriended who
had taken their luggage and coats off the train and waited for them. He said he
hope we didn’t mind. “And of course we were so grateful”. Mom said she and the
young soldier corresponded for a time but when his letters stopped she assumed
that he had been killed. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The rest of the trip up to Oakland was uneventful and “I guess Pauline met
us at the depot. She had found us a room in a hotel where the three of us slept
in a regular size bed. The room “must have need been on second or third floor
and didn’t have a radio. The bathroom was down a long hall which was shared but
it was real clean though.” The place was noisy and her mother would bang on the
wall telling the guys in the other room to shut up and go to sleep.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As Mom wasn’t allowed to go to the naval hospital with her mother and
sister in law she spent much of the time entertaining herself by looking out
the window into the streets below. Even Grandma had a time getting in and out
of the base hospital and often mom said “Mother would sit over there until they
let her in because she will fight for what’s hers.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The hotel they stayed in was across from a “honky tonk” and mom would lean
out of the window and watch the foot traffic below. She said she would never
forget seeing some drunken soldier hugging the lamppost in front of the “honky
tonk” which blared the hit song of 1943 “Pistol Packing Mama” day and night.
She recalled seeing soldiers wearing their brown kaki uniforms and some, after
seeing her sitting on the windows cross beam, would call for her to come down
to the street. She would just laugh at them and throw them bread crumbs from
sandwiches she was eating. Once some soldiers called up to her asking where was
she from and when she said Texas and they said “Do they grow them that big in
Texas?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another time before heading back to Texas on the train, Mom and Grandma
were walking to the hotel when two sailors came up beside them and interlocked
their elbows and swung them around, saying to each other, “I’ll take the young
one and you take the older one.” Grandma swatted their arms away and said,
“Y’all won’t be taking neither.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom told me that she really didn’t know the Williamses very well when they
farmed southwest of Spade and it was from Spade that Dad went into the service.
Shortly afterwards, Grandma and Grandpa Williams moved into Littlefield. The
Jarnagins had also moved into Littlefield where “Old Man Jarnagin” was driving
propane trucks to the farms and was also the school bus driver. While in
Littlefield, Mattie Lee was hired by Grandpa Williams to work as a waitress at
his Café there in town. Grandpa liked having pretty blond girls work for him as
they brought in more customers. Whenever Mom was in town with Grandma Johnson
shopping, she would hang out at the café which was a type of hamburger joint.
Often after high school her pals would also hang out at the café. This way she
could get news on how Dad was faring in the navy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom said she and her friends often borrowed Grandpa Johnsons car and had as
much gas they wanted even though gasoline was rationed “because daddy was a
farmer.” They would go into Littlefield to go roller skating and to the shows.
She said once while “fixing to go to a hamburger place, on the way, some old
drunk ran into us.” An old boy friend of hers, Pete Hammock, “went and told
daddy that there was a wreck” and he came to rescue them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom suspected that more was going on in Grandpa Williams’ café , but being
naïve at the time (she referred to herself as a country bumpkin), she didn’t
think much about the gambling and card playing that she heard was going on in
the back room. Mom however once told me that she thought “hanky pank” was going
on in Grandpa Williams’ place because she recalled a time when Grandpa Williams
came up to her once and said, “See that man over there? If you are real nice to
him he will give you some money.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom at the time said she had no idea what he was talking about but it made
her uneasy and just told him that she didn’t need any money and was waiting on
Grandma Johnson to come get her. It was not long after this that Grandpa sold
the café and moved to California after Grandma Williams threatened to leave him
if he didn’t.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In October 1944, when Dad was home on leave from the Navy before being
shipped overseas, Mattie Lee and Wallace, who had been talking about marriage,
decided to elope as they were underage. They both were 17 years old and Mattie
Lee knew her father would not give his consent. Wallace wasn’t too popular with
Mr. Jernigan according to mom. Wallace Williams talked Dad into driving them as
neither one owned a car. Dad took with him mom, unbeknownst to her parents, his
15 year old girlfriend.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">They drove over to Muleshoe, 30 miles northwest of Littlefield, where they
had to wake up the preacher as it was early in the morning. Mom said that since
it was war time they thought they could do just about anything. Dad and the
preachers wife were the witnesses, as Mom was legally too young. After Wallace
and Mattie Lee were married, Dad took the newlyweds to Clovis, New Mexico to
hide from anyone that might be looking for them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Clovis was another 30 miles northwest of Muleshoe. Mom said they made her
get out of the car and walk across the state line because she was only 15 and
Dad could have gotten in trouble transporting a minor across state lines. The
Mann Act was a federal law that made it a felony to transport a minor across
state lines for immoral purposes. Whether any “immoral” purposes went on Mom,
didn’t say and I didn’t ask.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom said that once in New Mexico, they took Wallace and Mattie Lee into
Clovis where they got them a motel to spend their honeymoon. As Wallace had no
money, Dad gave him some to come home on and then he and Mom left. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the way back home Dads car broke down in Muleshoe and he called Grandpa
Williams, who refused to shut down the Cafe to come get them. Mom said they had
no way “to get a hold of daddy” on the farm but she knew Grandma Johnson was in
the hospital in Littlefield with gangrene of the appendix. So they called the
hospital hoping Grandpa would be there although she said “Boy was I dreading
telling Daddy what happened.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Grandpa
was at the hospital and came and got mom but Dad stayed with the car. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Some time much later Dad saw Wallace and Mattie Lee coming home on the Grey
hound bus when it had stopped in Muleshoe. They got off and Dad and Wallace
worked on the car and managed to get it started. They were so relieved because
the bus took off without them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wallace and Mattie Lee stayed in Muleshoe for a time before returning to
Littlefield to face their parents. Grandpa Williams was indifferent, just glad
to put Mattie Lee back to work but Grandma Williams insisted that they live
with them. Mom said she really don’t know how Mattie Lees mother took it but
Mr. Jarnagin came out to her folks house at Hart Camp demanding to know what
had gone on and what Mom knew about it. Mom told me “I don’t know exactly what
was said because mother sent me outside. I don’t know what Mr. Jarnagin said.
Daddy never said, but he was as mad as a wet hen. Old man Jernigan started
drinking after that and never drew a sober breath. I only knew Walter Vernon
and Mattie Lee well.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At this time in the fall of 1944, Grandma and Grandpa Williams were having
a rocky time in their marriage. Grandma wanted to move to California to be near
her Danforth folks and probably to get Grandpa out from the cafe where I
suspect Grandma knew what was going on. However Grandpa stubbornly refused to
even consider leaving Texas. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad who was still home on furlough begged his dad to move to California.
Dad said to him, "Dad you could get a job there as a cook and really make
some money instead of the fifty dollars a week your making cooking in
Texas!" But Grandpa flatly refused to budge. He was afraid to leave the
security of a familiar place for the uncertainties of making a new beginning in
California. It was only when Grandma Williams threatened to leave Grandpa that
he caved in and agreed to move to California.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After Boot camp and while stationed in San Diego, Dad was assigned to a
minesweeper named the U.S.S. Gamble and served in the South Pacific theatre of
the war. The Gamble was a 314 foot long, 1,090 tons Destroyer Minelayer. It had
been commissioned on 29 Nov 1918 and in 1930 was reclassified as a light
minelayer. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Gamble had just returned from offshore patrol when Japanese carrier
planes pounded American ships in Pearl Harbor. The Gamble would spend the rest
of her career fighting the Japanese Imperial Navy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before Dad was a shipmate on board the Gamble, in mid-February 1942 she
helped safeguard convoys to Midway Island during that crucial Pacific battle.
Later in August,off Guadalcanal, she became the first destroyer type ship to
sink a full-sized Japanese submarine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The next year in May 1943, the Gamble laid mines at the entrance to Kula
Gulf, the favorite route of the "Tokyo Express." Four Japanese
destroyers entered the mined waters, one went down, two others were damaged and
sunk by aircraft. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Dad was posted on board the Gamble in late 1943, the ship continued
with its mine laying operations. Dad’s Commanding officer while he served on
the Gamble were CDR Donald Noble Clay who served from July 25 1944 to Feb 25
1945 and LT Richard James Peterson who served  Feb 25 1945 until Jun 1 1945. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad held the rank of Coxswain in the Navy which was the first rank above a
seaman 1st class. On the Gamble he was in charge of the mess hall and other
clean up duties aboard the ship. Dad said that the ship normally carried thirty
men but in January 1945 it was carrying 100 men in preparation for the invasion
of Iwo Jima.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After an overhaul and refresher training, the Gamble departed San Diego on
7 January 1945, en route via Hawaii, then to the Marshalls Islands and from
there to Iwo Jima where she arrived 17 February. Dad’s ship was to lend fire
support to the various sweeping units there, and to explode floating mines
before the impending invasion. One of its duties was also screening the
battleship USS Nevada. During her shelling of the Iwo Jima, a direct hit on an
ammunition dump from the Gamble exploded an enemy's ammunition magazine “like a
giant firecracker” at the foot of Mt. Surabachi.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As Gamble’s crew was retiring for the night, on 18 February 1945 about 9:30
p.m, a small kamikaze enemy air raid attacked Dad’s ship. The Gamble was hit
just above the waterline by two 250-pound bombs. Dad was off duty and was below
deck in his bunk when the bombs hit. If he had been up deck he would have been
killed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad said he was asleep when the bombs hit and was tossed out of his bunk by
the explosion. If the bombs would have hit a few feet differently they would
have hit the ships magazine and the ship would have been blown sky high. Five
men in the fire room were killed instantly, one sailor was missing in action, and
eight wounded. The one missing was later found dead. Those killed aboard Dad’s
ship were Donald M. Clay, Kenneth W. Fourtner, Richard Hansen, Hugh Holman,
Ralph G. Kelly, and Lyle C. McGann. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As it was both fire rooms immediately flooded and the Gamble became dead in
the water with two holes in her bottom as all hands fought raging fires,
jettisoned topside weight and shored damaged bulkheads.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The USS Hamilton stood by to assist the Gamble and to remove casualties as
U.S. Marines stormed the shores of Iwo Jima the next day. The Gamble was taken
in tow by the USS Dorsey who turned her over to another ship for passage to
Saipan. She arrived at Saipan 24 February for repairs. Dad was stationed on
Saipan while some hope that the Gamble could be repaired. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When it was determined by the navy that the Gamble could not be repaired,
on 1 June 1945 the ship was decommissioned and was scuttled and sunk at Apra
Harbor off Guam on 16 July 1945. The USS Gamble had received seven battle stars
for service in World War II. As of to date no other ships in the United States
Navy have borne this name.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom said she wrote dad everyday even if just a paragraph. She said she had
a feeling something was wrong in February 1945 when she didn’t hear from him
for over a month. It was Grandma Williams who wrote to mom telling her that his
ship had been hit with a bomb. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the USS Gamble was decommissioned, dad was transferred to another
ship. On that ship in August, 1945 he said he had a buddy who was secretary to
the admiral of the fleet and he told dad that he and his company had orders to
go home even before the captain received the official orders. Nobody believed
dad that they were going home until a couple of days later they received their
orders and that the war was over. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Outside of Hawaii, Dads ships engine broke down and they were towed back to
Hawaii. Another try to get on the way was aborted too and eventually Dads ship
was just towed all the way back to San Diego. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad was once asked if he ever was claustrophobic from being on board the
ship. Dad simply said no because he hadn’t heard of claustrophobia and he said
you can’t be afraid of something you never heard of.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As that Dads main job was in maintenance and working in the mess hall, he
was low on the totem pole in the chain of command. Dad did not enjoy life in
the service, once writing to Grandma Williams that they treat “you worse than a
dog”. He said that all they served in the Navy was creamed “chipped beef” on
toast, a classic American Military dish known as “shit on a shingle” or fish
which he came to detest and as long as I can remember we never had any type of
fish for dinner.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad was mustered out of the Navy in San Diego in February 1946 and
hitchhiked to Downey to see Grandma and Grandpa Williams before he bought a car
and went back to Texas to marry mom. He said he went out into the fields to ask
Grandpa Johnson if he could marry mom and Grandpa said “I don’t suppose I could
stop you. He didn’t stop them but also he didn’t go to the wedding either in
Olton. He thought mom was too young as she was only 16 years old. Grandma
Johnson however was concerned that Mom might get pregnant and agreed to her
getting married at a young age and attended the wedding. Mom said the only
thing new she had was a pair of undies that Grandma bought for her for her
wedding night.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom and Dad were married by a Church of Christ preacher with just Grandma
Johnson attending. They came back to Hart Camp and lived with Grandma and
Grandpa for a time. The next day after the wedding, Grandpa saw dad and dad
must have looked upset about something because he said to dad, “It wasn’t that
bad, was it?” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shortly after their marriage, Dad and Mom moved to California and stayed
with Aunt Beulah and Uncle Ed until they rented a small house on Dinwiddie
Street near Grandma and Grandpa Williams place. They were living here when mom
became pregnant with Charline who was born 9 June 1947 in a hospital in Los
Angeles. Mom said that Charline was named after one of Dads “old girlfriends”
but I doubt it. Mom was always under the impression that Dad had lots of
girlfriends before they married and even use to tease that we had half brothers
and sisters all over the South Pacific Islands. I think Dad was too much of a
prude for that to be true. Charline wasn’t given a middle name and the spelling
was from the lack of Mom’s education. When asked to spell Charlene for the
birth certificate she spelled the name with an “i” instead of an “e”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After Charline was born Mom said that Dad and Mom bought a new house in
Norwalk on Fairhaven for $5000 and was living there until Dad was laid off. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1947 Uncle Ed and Aunt Buelah Danforth had moved to Verdera Street in
Downey while Grandma and Grandpa Williams were still living on Dinwiddee,
raising chickens and a garden to supplement their income. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During that year both of Dads Danforth cousins were married. Norman
Danforth met a Minnesota girl named Betty Morrisette living in California and
Marjorie Fern Danforth married Bill Damron who was her childhood sweet heart.
Both Norman and Marjory Fern Danforth had set out to have a double wedding on
the 10th of December 1947 but Bill Damron and Marjorie Fern Danforth jumped the
gun and were married on 22 November 1947. Norman and Betty waited until 10
December 1947 but they went to Yuma, Arizona to marry since Betty Morisette was
underage. Both cousins had their wedding receptions at Grandma and Grandpa
Williams’ place on Dinwiddee.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad at the age of 22 became unemployed when the post World War II factories
and ship yards closed. It was hard to find work in Southern California. Even
Grandpa Williams was laid off and was out of work for almost a year. Grandpa
Johnson wanted Mom and Dad to return to Texas to help him farm so in 1948, they
sold their house in Norwalk at a loss before it could go into foreclosure. Mom
and Dad then settled in back in Hart Camp where he helped Grandpa farm his
place until renting a small farm of his own in nearby Fieldton. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While living in Texas, Dad and Mom had Donna and myself. Donna Fay Williams
was born 25 June 1949 at the farmers cooperative hospital in Amherst, Lamb,
Texas. I was born 10 April 1951 at the same hospital. Mom always said we were
born in Amherst rather than Littlefield because she did not trust the “quacks”
in Littlefield but truth be known it was probably less expensive. After I was
born, Dad had a vasectomy performed so mom and dad would not have any more
children. There was no form of birth control in those days besides condoms. Dad
wanted a son and once I was born, that was it. Mom wanted to name me Edgar Paul
but dad insisted that I be named after him thus I became a “Junior” to my
family for much of my life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When the 1950’s began, Dad was still in the Navy Reserves even after he
left active duty and Mom was distressed when the Korean War broke out on Donnas
1st birthday but even more so when she became pregnant with me in July. She was
anxious that Dad would be called back into active duty as America sent troops
to South Korea the entire time she was carrying me. Fortunately Dad, as a farmer
with dependents, was exempted from going back into the service.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad and Mom were farming on a place near Fieldton in June of 1952 when a
hail storm destroyed their cotton crop and it was too late to replant. At that
point Dad gave up farming and took an offer from Claude Kelton, the husband of
his cousin Mildred, to join the Lubbock Police Force. Claude Kelton was a
Lieutenant on the force. Mom was 23 and Dad was 27 when they moved us kids from
the farm to Lubbock about 40 miles southwest of Hart Camp. Dad made only $125 a
month on the Lubbock Police Force. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While in Lubbock, Dad became close to his great uncle Lee Peacock, Grandma
Williams’ uncle. In his youth Uncle Lee was kind of an out law hooligan. He had
an old Colt Single Action Army pistol known as a “peacemaker” and Uncle Lee
wanted to give it to dad. Dad however refused because he thought that Uncle Lee
should have given it to his sons. Dad said he always regretted it though.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad was only on the police force for six months which he didn’t care for at
all for the same reasons he didn’t like military service, and Mom was worried
about him the whole time. When Dads partner was shot and killed in an unrelated
event, Mom insisted that he quit the force. She was not about to become a 23
year old widow with three children under the age of five. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It was about this time that Grandma Williams, Minnie,
Bonnie and RL came back to Texas to visit relatives. Grandma told Dad that
Conveyor where Grandpa worked was hiring so it was decided to move back to
California to make some money.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I don’t remember any of this time in Texas except what
was told to me after I was grown. Grandma Johnson however said that I had a
little palomino toy horse like Roy Rogers Trigger that I was inseparable with,
how ever as we were packing up and saying our goodbyes, Grandma said I gave her
my little horsey to remember me by. She kept that memento all her life on a
knickknack shelf in her bedroom. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom said we first stayed with Grandma and Grandpa
Williams for a month at their place on Cole Street before moving to a chicken
coop that was converted to a house during World War II on the Dinwiddee lot
This place is where my earliest memories are. On my 3rd birthday in April 1954,
Mom planned a birthday party for me, however, I had come down with the measles
or something and could not attend even though the party went on outside without
me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandma and Grandpa Williams had moved back to the front
house on Dinwiddee by then and their house was where we played mostly, had our
Christmases, and family get togethers The Dinwiddee house was fun because you
could go around from room to room like in a circle, from the front room to the
kitchen to Grandmas bedroom to a pass through hallway where the bathroom was on
one side and a huge walk in closet on the other side which passageway led back
to the Front room. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The kitchen had a door to go outside that led to Bonnie
and Bills house, and through the kitchen another hallway had bedrooms at the
back of the house where another doorway was that led to where the garage was.
Aunt Minnie had a room in one of these bedrooms and perhaps even Milton after
he got out of the service and before he married. I know he was at the house
because he use to carry me around piggyback style. Our chicken house was behind
the garage. Way behind us was the space where Grandpa kept his chickens and
rabbits and behind that was a fence that kept us away from the railroad tracks.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dad went to work as a steel welder at the Conveyor
Company in Maywood a few miles away and saved enough money to buy a home of his
own for his family. Orange County was virtual rural when Mom and Dad began
looking to buy there. It was full of Orange groves, strawberry fields, and
truck farms, without any sizeable towns outside of Anaheim and Santa Ana. The
development that Mom and Dad chose was called Highland Estates off of Highway
39 and Katella in Western Orange County. I remember as a very small boy driving
out to see the property. I vaguely remember seeing our house being framed but I
do remember a huge billboard with a picture of Scotsman with a bagpipe. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The move was making Dads drive time much longer from when
we lived in Downey when Conveyor only about 3 miles away. Now we were going to
be nearly 20 miles away adding an hour drive time both ways. They only freeway
at the time was the Golden State Freeway which could only be reached going up
Highway 39 which later became Beach Boulevard, to Buena Park. Dad however was
making $125 a week instead of a month.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom and Dad moved into their new house in November 1954
which address was given as 11562 Dale Street between Highway 39 on the west and
Magnolia Street to the east. Just north of us was Bryant Street which became
Orangewood, and south of us was Chapman.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the corner of Orangewood and Dale was a large
farmhouse and a barn and beyond that were dairy cows. Mom and Dad were the
second family to move in to the new subdivision which was located then in unincorporated
Orange County. Not for two years would we be included in the newly incorporated
city of Garden Grove in 1956. We were on the western edge of the boundaries, as
across the street, on the other side of Dale, it was still unincorporated
although their city address was listed as Anaheim. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom and dad bought this 1,158 square foot four bedrooms,
two bath house, which sat on a 7,752 square foot lot, for $8,000. They made
$125 a month payments and although it was only a fourth of dads monthly wages,
they struggled.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The house was bare boned. It had a wall heater in the
front room and at the end of the hall but had no air conditioning. No
carpeting, all black linoleum tiles except in the kitchen which had a yellow
tile speckled with red, and an asphalt driveway which led to a one car garage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The house had two bathrooms which was a luxury back then.
The front bathroom off the living room was called the “Green” bathroom because
the tub, toilet, and sink were green. It only had a bathtub and it was used primarily
by us kids. Down the hall leading to Mom and Dad’s bedroom was the “Blue”
bathroom because the fixtures were blue. It only had a small shower. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom and Dad’s bedroom was at the end of the hall, next to
theirs was a small bedroom which was mine, and next to my bedroom Charline and
Donna shared a room. There was a room across from the green bathroom that was
used as a television den . </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The kitchen had white metal cabinets which was popular in
the 1950. With that many kids we also had a washing machine but dad installed a
clothes line in the back yard. The kitchen had a door that led to the backyard.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Towards the front of the house off the kitchen was a
small dining room containing a Formica dining table and five yellow padded
chrome chairs. Donna always sat to the left of me because she was left handed.
Dad sat at the end near me and Charline sat opposite him. Mom of course sat
nearest the kitchen to get up and fetch dad whatever he thought was missing
from the table. For most of the 1950’s we ate supper in the dining room and Dad
would say the blessing over the food always ending with the phase “guide guard
and direct us.” We always ate what dad liked to eat which was usually fried
steak and mashed potatoes and a vegetable. We also had white bread on the table
and as dad liked his deserts we usually had cake or a pie. We never ate out nor
had food delivered. It was always home cooked even if it had been frozen,
canned, or from a mix.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Our first phone was a “party line” which meant that other
families shared the same phone and you could pick up the phone and hear other
peoples conversation. I don’t remember the full number but the phone’s prefix
was a word. Ours was “Lehigh 9”. We only had the one phone and it was a black
rotary. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mom and Dad had to landscape the lot. Almost immediately
dad built a cinderblock six foot wall clear around the backyard except it was
lowered to 4 feet on the south side because our neighbor Madelyn Battreall
wanted it lowered. Mom said she was a short busy body and wanted to look over
the fence. Dad planted a Chinese Elm in the center of the back yard and Mom a
rose garden against the back wall. Oleander bushes were planted along the north
wall of the fence which had white and pink blooms. At one point dad planted a
banana tree up against the house in the back yard. However time and mom and
dads busy work schedule the back yard was never kept up very well. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the front yard Mom planted a poinsettia bush that
bloomed for years near the garage and the porch. On either side of the porch
entrance they planted a small evergreen shrub but only one survived. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I cannot remember a time we did not have a black and
white television set but we also had an old upright radio console as many
programs were still on the radio. Mom always liked to listen to music but I
don’t think dad did. He enjoyed watching Warner Brothers westerns which were
popular in the 1950’’s. We watched Maverick, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, and many
others. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Because of dad’s work and long drive he was often
impatient with us kids when he came home. Sadly he would sometimes whip us with
his belt without any real reason except we were noisy or acting up. Mom had
little control over these outbursts and never let him go too far. Mom never
spanked us only dad. Dad I am sure learned this behavior from his father and he
never showed remorse for this which made me actually fear my dad as a little
boy. </span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>This Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-42814094181536997032017-09-16T09:25:00.001-07:002018-01-14T06:30:33.820-08:00Louis M Williams son of Edd Williams (1902-1977)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">LOUIS
MILTON WILLIAMS and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ANNE
RUTH DANFORTH</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis Milton Williams was born near Carterville
in Cass County Texas the 22 October 1902. He was the fourth son of Edgar Lewis
and Rosa Lee Williams. Although he was named after his father, he was nicknamed
“Boots”, a name by which he was known until his family moved to West Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis Williams grew up in a big Missionary Baptist
family and he remembered how each Sunday he and his brothers and cousins would
ride to church in the back of a wagon, usually sitting on the tail-gate
swinging their legs in the dust kicked up by the wagon wheels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis Williams’ paternal grandfather, George
Kearse Williams, was a popular Baptist Pastor of the Avinger Missionary Baptist
Church as well as several other local Baptist Churches. Louis said that they
would usually go wherever his Grandpa Williams was preaching that Sunday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After Sunday Services they would all eat
Sunday dinner at his folks or with one of his many Aunts. He had nearly 20 of
them between both sides of the family. These Sunday dinners were large affairs
with heaps of fried chicken, sweet potatoes, black-eye peas, corn, gravy and
biscuits, finished off with peach cobbler or in the summer, watermelon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sundays were spent playing with his cousins,
with the kids generally swapped between all the aunts and uncles. At night
cousins slept over, packed into one big bed with kids stacked head to toe in
big iron rod bedsteads. Louis’ sister Jerrie Smith said he was popular with his
cousins and had many boyhood friends in East Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As soon as Louis was old enough to hold a
hoe, he was sent out to weed the vegetable garden and feed chickens. Later when
his father operated a small cotton gin Louis worked for his father by climbing
up on top of the cotton and stomping down the cotton into the gin where it
would come out as bales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis said that he was an active boy and had
a healthy appetite. His Mama kept him and his brothers and sisters supplied
with corn bread, biscuits, milk gravy, snapping beans, black eyes peas, corn,
okra, and summer squash of every kind. Louis said he always had a sweet tooth
and his mother was good at always having some type of cobbler in the house
usually served with thickened cream or on special occasions home made ice
cream. About the only type of fruit that was plentiful back then was anything
that could be grown locally. Peaches, apricots, plums, watermelons, and
muskmelons were always plentiful in the late summer but it was real hard to
come by grapes, oranges, apples or bananas. It was a real treat at Christmas
time to have an orange or an apple in the stockings, which the kids hung for
Santa Claus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis Williams was very partial to his Mama
and was closer to her than any of his other brothers and sisters and in turn his
Mama favored him over the other kids. This caused some jealousy among the other
children and when Louis learned from his mother how to cook, and became a
better cook then any of the other children, they in turn teased him about being
a sissy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis liked cooking and helping his Mama
which was considered women's chores in those days and Louis got into a lot of
fights having to prove that he was not a sissy. Eventually this caused him to
withdraw and not be as close to his family as some thought he should have been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One time when Louis was ten years old he was
walking through some woods, near his Dad's farm and he heard a panther scream.
It scared him so he started to run home taking a short cut through the cane
brakes where he was bitten by a water moccasin snake.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He started hollering at that point and some
of his brothers heard him and came a running.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They saw that his leg was swollen up so they carried him back to the
house where Clarence sucked the poison out of his foot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis' Grandma “Toad” Williams was there and
she told Clarence to go kill a chicken and apply the flesh to the wound which
Clarence immediately did. When the doctor came he saw that the chicken flesh
had drawn the rest of the poison out and reduced the swelling.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The doctor remarked that he could not have
done anymore himself, and after making sure it was not infected, said that
Louis would recover and have little trouble with that foot. The doctor was
right and Louis never had any trouble with his foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1914 Louis' parents debated over whether
they should uproot the family and move to West Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd Williams had suffered some serious set
backs and he heard that land could be had fairly cheap out West.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However Rosa Lee Williams was immovable about
not wanting to leave her kinfolk in Cass County. She rejected the idea of
moving West.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis however liked the idea about moving out
west. He said that he always wanted to see a Jack-rabbit and said moving to
West Texas seemed like a perfect opportunity to get a chance to see one.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had heard stories all his life about their
odd shape and size and wanted see for himself if they really had long
mule-shaped ears.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So Louis kept after his Mama to make the move
and credited himself with helping his Mama make the decision to agree to the
move.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However Louis never told his Mama
that the reason he wanted the family to move west was to see a Jack-rabbit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rosa Lee Williams never really came to terms
to leave Cass County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her people had
been in Cass County since 1854 and she was leaving all the people she knew and
loved, except for her immediate family. She was resentful and held it against
her husband for years and years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis got his wish to move and the family
made the necessary arrangements for the move.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>At the age of 13 Louis left Cass County, Texas where he had just
finished 8th grade and moved to west Texas where many of his children and
grandchildren were to be born.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In
January 1915 Edd and Rosa Lee Perser Williams said their goodbyes and gather up
other girls and younger children to ride on the train. Louis, and his brothers,
Austin, and Joe however, rode in a boxcar with the family furniture across the
great spans of North Texas leaving behind the green piney woods of east Texas
for the rolling prairies of west Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As the train rolled west, Louis noticed that
the climate became progressively drier and the land began to be more sparsely
dotted with trees. West of Fort Worth the land seemed almost barren to Louis
after being raised in the piney woods of East Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The land was over grown with shrubbery known
as Mesquite Trees, which were about that would grow in the dry arid climate of
West Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis finally saw his first Jack-rabbit
hopping along the railroad tracks as he and his brothers sat at the open car
door watching Texas roll by. He also saw his first mountain when the train
pulled through the communities of Aspermont and Peacock based at the foot of
the two large mounds known as Double Mountain. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After a trip of three days, Louis and his
family arrived in the cow town of Spur in Dickens County where Edd Williams
settled his family on a farm near the communities of Midway and Afton. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dickens County was in stark contrast to the
piney wooded lush river bottom county of Cass. Dickens County was dry, dusty,
and waterless except for the North Fork of the Washita River. Scrub Mesquite
trees were the main form of vegetation along with a few cottonwood shade trees
planted around isolated farm and ranch houses, which were watered from
windmills. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The economics of Dickens County centered around
the cattle industry, principally the Pitchfork, Matador, and Spur Ranches.
However since the turn of the century, farming started to make an inroad into
the economy of Dickens County as farmers from central Texas brought cotton
seeds which were able to mature in the sandy soil of Dickens.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While Louis’ family were farmers, most of his
Dickens County chums were cowboys who worked the dugout line camps below the
escarpment of the Cap Rock that would eventually grow into the communities. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The town of Spur had developed around the
needs of the Spur Cattle Ranch and in the early 1900's it was the largest
community near Williams’ farm. It was to Spur that Louis rode in a wagon from
his father's farm to get supplies. He also attended dances held in Spur on
Friday and Saturday nights. Louis said also, once a month, a moving picture
show would come to town and his Dad would let him and his brothers and sisters
go to see the picture.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1917 Louis' sister Onie Belle married John
Colberg and moved to Spur, Texas to live. Shortly after this, Louis got into an
argument with his Dad and left home. Accompanied by a boyhood friend, Louis ran
away riding off on a pair of burros to make it on their own. The two teenagers
however could not decide where to go so they separated and Louis rode his burro
to Spur and landed on his big sister’s doorstep. Onie agreed to take the
runaway youth in and Louis made his home with the Colbergs. Louis was 15 years
old when he left home and he never went back.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Colberg was able to get Louis a job at
the town's Buick Garage where he was able to earn money for himself and soon
Louis became friends with Raymond Poole. The two became best friends, dating
local girls and getting into mischief. When he was a teenager, Louis was
considered a dapper young man and he thought he was a real lady killer. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Annie Ruth Danforth was the oldest child of
Mabry and Minnie Danforth. She was born on her father's farm near the community
of Swenson in Stonewall County, Texas the 31st of March 1902. She was raised,
however near Portales, New Mexico until 1920 when her father moved the family
to Spur, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1920 Louis’ pal Ray Poole started dating a
girl named Prudence Wilson. Prude wanted Ray to get Louis to double date with
her girlfriend, who was new in town. Ray asked, "Well is she pretty? Louis
only will go out with a girl if she's pretty." <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Prude replied, "Well sure she's pretty,
but what's even better she's got pretty ways."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Well what's her name then?"</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Annie- Annie Danforth!" said
Prude.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Ray agreed to try and match Louis and Annie
up. He told Prude to get Annie to come downtown and he'd get Louis there also
so that they could kind of “accidentally meet.” Prude went and got Annie and as
they were walking down the wooden sidewalks of Spur, they walked by Ray and
Louis who were sitting on wooden chairs in front of the grocery store. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis had a large Stetson over his face,
shading his eyes from the sun, his boots propped up on the hitching rail post.
Annie said to Prude, "Is that Louis?" <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Prude Wilson replied, "That's right."
However Annie thought to herself, "He sure looks conceited- just like he
owns the town." The girls just walked on by the boys and Louis
nonchalantly followed Annie her out of the corner of his eye. He turned and he
said to Ray, "Whose that with Prude? "</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Oh she's new in town."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Well what's her name?" questioned
Louis.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Prude said it was Annie Danforth. She
sure is pretty."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Well Ray, I'll tell you what. She don't
know it, but I'm going to take her to the dance this Saturday!"</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis was disappointed to learn Annie already
had a date for the Saturday dance and would not break it, so Louis went with
some other girl. At the dance Annie kept looking for Louis, but when she
learned that he had already ducked out with his date to go out and “spark” with
her, it made Annie mad. She decided then that she was just wasting her time
with Louis Williams. However at the end of the dance, Louis came back without
his date, and went up to Annie and said, "Hello, my name is Louis Williams."
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Annie said, “I know that,” and Louis asked if
he could walk her home. "Well I came with this other boy," said
Annie, but after seeing that Louis was disappointed told him, "But he's my
brother Edgar, so I guess he won' t mind if you take me home." </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis walked Annie home and he met her folks.
After that time, the couple went to all the dances together, until Annie moved
away from Spur with her family. In the fall of 1920 the Danforths moved to
Wildorado, Texas to work harvestings but returned to Spur in 1921 where Annie's
father worked as a carpenter and her mother worked as a housekeeper at the Spur
Inn.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The woman who was in charge of housekeeping,
“Miz Martin”, was also in charge of all the waitresses in the dining hall and
she asked Minnie Danforth if she knew of any girls who needed some work. Minnie
Danforth said she had a daughter who was a hard worker so Miz Martin told her
to send her down. Annie went to call on Miz Martin and while waiting to see
her, she watched the waitresses going in and out of the kitchen carrying these
huge trays loaded down with plates of food. When Miz Martin called Annie into
her office and told her that she wanted Annie to come and work at the Spur Inn
as a waitress, Annie exclaimed, "Oh Miz Martin I don't think I can learn
to balance them trays." </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But Miz Martin said, "Now Annie your
mother said you were a good girl and a hard worker I believe you can do it if
you give it a try." "Well if you think I can do it I am willing to
give it a try." </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Soon Annie was waitressing and carrying the
huge food trays just like the rest of the waitresses, with no problem what so
ever. Another reason why Annie was willing to give waitressing a try was
because Louis had gotten himself a job as a short order cook and bus boy at the
Spur Inn also. Ray Poole also worked as a bus boy at the Spur Inn and Anne said
they all had such a good time working there, even though it was hard work and
they worked very long hours. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After work, Louis would walk Annie home, and
they would sit on the front porch in the evening talking and watching people
walk by the house. In the summer of 1921 Louis began to court Annie seriously.
When asked why he decided to marry Anne, all Louis would say was, "Well we
got along good so we decided to get married."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Annie's mother did not like Louis Williams at
all and advised her daughter against getting involved with him. Minnie did not
like that his family were Baptist and had heard tales that Louis was a wild boy
who did not live with his folks. However Mabry Danforth took a liking to Louis
and said that if he was her choice then all he wanted from Louis was to take
good care of Annie. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In September 1921 Louis and Anne decided to
go ahead and get married without telling their families. Because Louis was a
Baptist and Anne was Church of Christ, the pair decided against a church
wedding and went instead to the county courthouse to get married by a Justice
of the Peace. On the 27th of September 1921 Louis and Anne along with their
friends, Prude Wilson and Ray Poole drove up to Dickens Court House in a
convertible Model A touring car and were married there. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis did not want to go inside the
courthouse building so Ray had the Judge come outside. Louis and Anne sat up on
the back seat of that convertible and were married by the Justice of the Peace
standing alongside the car. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the couple were married, Ray, Prude,
Annie and Louis all drove over to Stonewall County where they had a picnic at
Double Mountain. Ray Poole took some wedding snapshots of Anne and Louis
sitting on a large rock. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When it began to get dark they drove back to
Spur, and Louis and Annie went to her folks to tell them they had gotten
married. Minnie Danforth was so upset she wouldn't speak to Louis for over a
week but kindhearted Mabry Danforth told Louis that he was welcome to stay with
them until he could get on his feet financially. Louis and Anne moved into a
room of their own in the small two-bedroom house. Her brother Edgar Danforth
got shoved out on to a cot in the front room.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and Anne continued working at The Spur
Inn where in time Louis became a regular cook and Annie made good money in
tips. She said that she would some times bring home two dollars a day just from
tips alone. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shortly after they were married Annie
discovered that she was pregnant and she had to quit work when she became quite
ill carrying her first baby. Annie delivered her first baby on 2 June 1922 at
her mother's home. It was a hard delivery and the baby was ailing himself.
Annie was proud of her little son and named him “Oscar Louis Williams” after
her father and husband. Anne had barely recovered from the delivery when little
Oscar Louis died 12 days after he was born in 13 June. A notice in the Texas
Spur dated 16 June 1922, “The two week old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Williams
died Tuesday night at their home in Spur, the remains being interred Wednesday
in the Spur cemetery, the infant had been ill since birth.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Annie was heart broken and she blamed herself
for not having a doctor deliver the baby at a hospital. Today the baby's death
probably would have been attributed to crib death or Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS). Oscar Louis had died in his sleep.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis and Anne buried their baby son next to
the grave of Anne's aunt, Alice Danforth Mayo, with a little marker in the Spur
Cemetery.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before long Louis and Anne decided to move
from Spur to Plainview up on the Cap Rock where her grandfather, Bill Peacock,
offered Louis a job as a cook at his cafe. Anne’s Grandpa Peacock was also in
the grocery business in Plainview and asked his son-in-law Mabry to come run it
for him.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It did not take long for Mabry and Louis
Williams to get mad at the ornery Bill Peacock, and they quit him to go out on
their own. Mabry and Louis took their families to Lamb County and settled in a
new community known as Spring Lake, named after the Spring Lake Cattle Ranch.
Here they bought a half section of land and built a two room dwelling Louis and
Anne's half of the house measured sixteen feet by sixteen feet and here they
lived until January 1924. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While living on this place Louis and Mabry
put in maize and cotton but they were unable to make a crop after the
grasshoppers and worms ate it all up. In spring 1923 they put in another crop
at Spring Lake and finally were able to make some money off it that time.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne Williams had a second son born while
living at Spring Lake. She insisted that a doctor be called to help with the
delivery. The baby boy was born 28 June 1923 and was named Raymond Leonard. He
was named for Ray Pool and Dr. Leonard who was the doctor who assisted with the
birth. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Ray Poole had continued to remain friends
with Louis and Anne even though he did not marry Prude Wilson. Prude Wilson
eventually married Otis Green Peacock, who was Anne's uncle. Ray Poole also married
and moved to the Hart Camp community in Lamb County where he raised a family. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In January 1924, Louis and Anne with baby Ray
moved to Roosevelt County, New Mexico where Anne's “Uncle Fred” Danforth was a
successful farmer near Lingo. Louis managed to rent a farm 13 miles south of
Portales from James David Autry of Dora where he raised cotton and maize.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While living on this farm Anne found herself
pregnant with her third child, another son who was born at Portales on the 19th
of January 1925. Anne Williams named this baby Edgar after her brother Edgar
Danforth and Hugh for the doctor who delivered him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This became a pattern for naming her sons.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and Anne lived on this farm at Dora
until December 1925 when Louis got a job offer to move to Brick, Oklahoma where
Anne's brother Edgar and sister-in-law Beulah operated a small cafe.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis was a much better cook then a farmer,
and Anne hated living out in the country, isolated from other people, so
consequently they jumped at the opportunity to move.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However this small Cafe was not enough to
support both Louis and his brother-in-law’s family so they both gave it up. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In March 1926 the Danforths and Williamses
returned to Lamb County, Texas and settled in the community of Earth where Edgar
Danforth went to work for his father-in-law, Jerry Washington Kelly. Louis
worked as a day laborer for six months.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following October Louis and Anne returned
to New Mexico and rented another farm from Mr. Autry, this time near the
community of Rogers which was much closer to Portales.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis and Anne worked picking cotton and in
January of 1927 Anne had her fourth child, a son born on the 17th.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She named the baby completely after the
doctor, Willard Wallace. Louis small but growing family consisted of three sons
R.L. age 4, Edgar Hugh age 2, and Wallace an infant.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis planted a crop in spring 1927 but Louis
Williams was unhappy at farming and in January 1928 he and Anne left New Mexico
and moved back to Earth, Texas where his in-laws had settled.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They stayed with the Danforths for only a
month before moving to Shamrock in Wheeler, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shamrock was a wild oil boomtown in the late
1920's and Anne’s Uncle Braxton Peacock operated a cafe there for the oil field
roughnecks. Louis hired on as a cook and cooked for Anne's Uncle from February
1928 until September 1929 when he quit to move to Muleshoe where he received
higher wages as a cook.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and Anne set up housekeeping at the
Muleshoe Hotel and was living here when Anne’s fifth child and first daughter
was born.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne was near her time and did
not want to travel for Christmas so her folks came to Muleshoe for the
holiday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On Christmas Eve, Anne suddenly
went into labor and delivered a tiny baby girl.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The little baby girl weighed less than four pounds, and was so small
that her head could fit into a coffee cup! If placed on a table plate, from head
to toes she did not have reached the edges. If not by the mid-wifery experience
of “Grandma Poole”, Raymond Poole’s grandmother, the baby would have died.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The premature baby was placed in a large
shoebox and Anne named her little daughter after her mother Minnie and her
favorite Peacock uncle, Lee Peacock.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As if having a baby on Christmas Eve was not
excitement enough for the family, on Christmas Day the hotel caught fire and
family had to flee into the street as the hotel burned to the ground.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Men carried out Anne and her baby Minnie in a
folded up mattress. All of Louis and Anne's clothes and the children's toys
were burned up but Anne said, "We were all grateful that nobody was hurt
and we was still happy about Minnie being born.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While Louis remained in Muleshoe to work,
Anne and her children went back to Earth to stay with her parents until she
could build her strength back up and make sure baby Minnie was out of any
danger.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In October 1929 Wall Street collapsed, which
threw the country into economic chaos.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The effects of the failure of the financial institutions in the East
were slow to spread to the West but by 1930 the effects of bank closure after
bank closure even reached the West Plains of Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis lost his job in Muleshoe, subsequently
in the spring of 1930, he moved his family back to Portales, New Mexico where
land was still cheap.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">He rented a small farm from Herbert Bryant
just seven miles from Portales. Here Louis and Anne lived for the next four
years, not out of choice, but because they did not have the money to move nor
were there jobs anywhere else.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Between 1930 and 1934 Louis just barely
managed to feed and clothe his children. He was able to make a crop each year
but no one had any money to buy it and so Louis made most of his money peddling
produce that he grew on his farm in Portales.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During these years he was also able to find
work as a mortar mixer for a construction company in Portales that paid him $1
a day. He worked on several buildings in Roosevelt County including the
Military Academy at Roswell.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis had
learned to mix mortar and lay bricks from his father-in-law when he and Mabry built
the brick Schoolhouse at Spring Lake back in 1923.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While living on this farm south of Portales,
Anne had her sixth child and second daughter.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The little girl was born the 31 October 1931 and was named Bonnie
Ruth.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne said she was named Ruth for her
Aunt Ruth Danforth Bilberry but “Bonnie” was for a beautiful mare that was
Anne's favorite horse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This horse use to
follow Anne wherever she would walk around the farm but Louis had to sell her,
so Anne named her daughter Bonnie because she thought it was a pretty name.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Great Depression had reached West Texas
and hard times became a way of life for most people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis and Anne were more fortunate than
others because in 1934 the family received $200 from the estate of her wealthy
great-Uncle, Charles B. Danforth, who died near Memphis, Tennessee. This money
helped Louis get started in a Cafe of his own. Mabry Danforth received $800
from his Uncles' estate and he gave $200 of it to Louis and Anne.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis used this money to rent a small Cafe in
Earth and to get it operating.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis
cooked and Anne waitressed to begin with and soon Louis got a reputation as a
good cook. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and Anne ran several different Cafes in
Earth and at different locals during the 1930's.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some were simply known as Louis' Cafe but one
in particular was known as the Blue Front Cafe for which Louis had business
cards printed. The Chandler family of Earth were the town's musicians and they
would usually play at Louis' place because that's where people would come to
socialize while in town. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the 1930's Louis and Anne's older boys
helped in the Cafe by busing tables and washing dishes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As they grew older they even were taught to
cook on the grill and how to prepare other food that was on the menu.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis became well known because of the good
hamburgers he could make and which he sold for a nickel a piece. On the
weekends his Cafe was always filled with hired farm hands and other single men
who wanted some good cooking. Louis also had his own Chili recipe that was very
popular as well as his hamburgers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne
worked in the Cafe with Louis and she made pies that she sold a nickel a slice
or 25 cents for the whole pie.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her
specialty was making a chocolate pie that could last without
refrigeration.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She said her secret was
that she didn't use milk in her cream pies but just water, which made them keep
longer, and a lot of people thought even tastier.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In
November of 1934 Anne had her last child, a son born on the 5th of that
month.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She named the baby Milton
Bradford Williams after Louis and the doctor who delivered him.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and his mother-in-law Minnie Danforth never
did see eye to eye but they eventually reached a point where they tolerated
each other.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Minnie Danforth was ornery
and would on occasion get a dig in at Louis' expense.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One day Louis decided to get even with her by
playing a practical joke on his another-in-law. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie Danforth had the habit of dropping in
to visit with her daughter at the Cafe nearly every day and since she used
tobacco in the form of snuff she kept a snuff can on a certain shelf in the
kitchen.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Louis thought it would be
real funny if he took some of his red chili powder and mixed it in with the
snuff then put it back on the shelf where Minnie wouldn't notice.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Well it was not very long until Minnie
strolled into the Cafe and went to the kitchen and pulled her snuff can off the
shelf then went out to a table and sat down for a visit with Anne.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis watched from the kitchen as Minnie
pinched out a bit of tobacco and placed it in her lip.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Almost immediately Minnie hollered,
"Annie get me some water! I'm on fire!"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie must have drunk a pitcher of water
before she could speak and the first thing she said was "Louis you get
your cotton picking self out here!" Louis couldn't help but laugh and this
put him in the dog house for nearly a month.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Earth in the 1930’s was a rural community
serving the needs of local farmers and ranchers and really did not amount to
much.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis had a Cafe on the north side
of Main Street next to the Kelly Grocery which was run by Anne's brother Edgar
Danforth.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>To the north of Louis was the
telephone office and a gas stationed ran by this crippled man. Further down the
road was a blacksmith shop operated by the Runyon family.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Across the street from Louis' Cafe were a
drug store and a grocery store owned by the Davenport family.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Other early businesses in Earth were a
barbershop ran by Corbette Roberts and a man known as Barber Johns.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Post Office in town was operated by Edgar
Danforth's brother-in-law, Marshall Kelly and O.B. Whitford owned a hardware
store.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and Anne lived about a mile from town
on land owned by Mabry Danforth. Mabry and Minnie Danforth lived near them
across from a big vacant lot where Louis' children played.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some of Louis Williams' other neighbors were
the families of Dewy Green and Walt Williams who was the town's bully.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis' brother-in-law Edgar Danforth and his
family also lived about a half mile east of Earth on a farm owned by Beulah’s
father, J.W. Kelly and the Williams and Danforth cousins from these two
families used to walk back and forth between Louis' and Edgar's houses to play
with each other.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis' daughter Bonnie learned to ride a
bicycle for the first time at her cousin's house.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis and Anne's niece Marjorie Fern as a little
girl, was always playing at beauty shop; fixing up her cousins, Bonnie and
Minnie's hair in the latest fashion.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So
this one time she talked her cousin Edgar Hugh into fixing his hair and she put
Chamberlain's Hand Lotion in it that made his hair stick like glue.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Annie felt sorry for her embarrassed son as
she tried to wash the lotion out of his hair but she thought he was so pathetic
looking that she couldn't help but laugh.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Anne Williams recalled that her children were always getting into
scrapes but they managed to come out of it okay.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She said they had to because people could not
afford to go to the doctors in those days unless it was an extreme emergency
like the time Milton caught the measles and came down with pneumonia.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was the only one of all her children who
spent any time in the hospital and that was at Littlefield.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Next to Milton, she said Bonnie came most to
killing herself as a child than the rest of her kids.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One time Edgar Hugh and Wallace came home
with a stray dog and asked if they could keep him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne said to them, "You kids can keep
the dog if you build a house for him." Both Edgar and Wallace thought they
were fine carpenters from helping their Granddad Danforth and they said to
their mother that this was not a problem.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Bonnie was watching her older brothers and
said she wanted to help when she discovered that they were building a dog house
so Wallace told her hold on to a post he wanted to drive a nail into. He then
took a mighty swing and came down Flat Square on Bonnie's finger and split it
wide open.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne was able to clean the
wound and bandaged it. It healed without any infection.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On another occasion when the family had moved
from Earth to Olton, which at the time was the county seat of Lamb County,
Bonnie and Minnie were playing tag when she stepped on Milton's teddy
bear.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Milton had earlier pulled an arm
off his teddy bear exposing a fishhook wire, which Bonnie stepped on while
running barefoot.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The wire went down
into her foot and Bonnie started screaming bloody murder.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie ran back to Anne as fast as she could
who came out to where they playing and carried Bonnie back to the house.
Neighbors who saw what happened came over to help and soon the doctor arrived
at the house. Anne had tried pulling the wire out but couldn't and each of her
neighbors tried to get the wire out but couldn't.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mr. McAdams tried and he couldn't, a boy from
the drug store tried and couldn't and neither could the doctor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Finally this little kid across the street said
let me try and Anne said to go a head because he couldn't have done any worse than
the others.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Everyone was nervous and
excited and saying how it should be down but this little kid just patiently
wiggle the wire and pulled the wire loose.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and Anne's children while at Earth
attended the Spring Lake School where the school was divided into two
classrooms for the lower and higher grades.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The real higher grades went to a brick schoolhouse, which Louis and Mabry
had built back in 1923.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Minnie Lee Williams
recalled that two of the grade school teachers were Miss Johnnie Kelly and Mrs.
Wilson.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">She said, "When I was a little girl of
seven I started school at Earth and I remember by first teacher was Mrs.
Wilson.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was really mean and from the
first day she had every one of us who were in her class afraid of her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She used to hit us around but we were too
afraid to tell our mothers and fathers about her until one day, our Librarian,
who was the daughter of Ma and Pa Poole, saw her hitting me around. Miss Poole
told our parents what this teacher was doing and they were so mad they took all
us kids out of school until after Christmas holiday. I didn't go back to school
very much that year anyways because I came down with the measles, mumps, and
whooping cough that year."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne said there were really only two things
she really hated about living on the West Texas Plains and that was the
lightning storms and the snakes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
said that this one time at Earth she had made some cookies and decided to take some
over to her mother's.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She took her
daughter Minnie with her and found that her mother was not home so Anne walked
in and put the cookies on the table. As she started to come out of the house
this big snake slithered out of the field and coiled up at the threshold of the
house.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne told her daughter to stay
back while she took a broom and knocked it out of the house.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While it was stunned Anne grabbed a hoe
sitting by the porch and chopped the snake to bits. She really hated snakes.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1937 Louis rented out his Cafe and moved
to Hereford, Texas where his in-laws had moved to work a harvest.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>About this time their oldest son Ray, who was
fourteen, went to live with his Danforth Grandparents, which caused some jealousy
among the other grandkids.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ray Williams
was the Danforth's oldest grandchild and perhaps the only grandchild whom
Minnie Danforth cared anything about.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While at Hereford Louis and his sons picked
potatoes and pulled cotton while his youngest son Milton started
kindergarten.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis and Anne only stayed
six months at Hereford but during this time Anne's children played a dirty
trick on her that she never forgot.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne
was deathly afraid of mice and her children knew it so this one day Edgar Hugh
discovered a nest of field mice while picking potatoes and he and the other
kids decided to put them in the bottom of a basket filled with potatoes to give
to their Mother. Anne unsuspectingly pulled the potatoes out of the basket
until she saw the mice come running out from under the potatoes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne just about fainted.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While living at Hereford, Ray Williams became
acquainted with the Shipley family and he and Elvis Shipley along with Penny
Gray became best friends.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They all ran
around together until the beginning of World War II when they all joined the
service together.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Penny Gray was later killed in action while
overseas. Elvis Shipley was the uncle of the Country Western Singer Waylon
Jennings and lived at Littlefield Texas.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From Hereford, Louis moved his family to
Olton where Bonnie was to injure her foot.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Here Louis ran another Cafe with the help of Edgar Hugh and Wallace who
were now expected to help with the cooking as well as the cleaning of tables. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The family lived in rooms behind the cafe but
after six months Louis said he wasn't making any money at that location so in
the spring of 1938 he moved his family back to Portales, New Mexico.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They only stayed in Portales for a couple of
months before returning to Earth where Louis opened his Cafe again.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Here Louis and Anne lived for the next three
years.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Christmas 1938 was spent at Earth Texas and
Minnie Williams recalled that it was "the best Christmas I can remember
when I was a little girl.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Granddad
Danforth built us a little red table and chairs to match and mother got us some
dishes and dolls.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad and Mom gave
Milton a little red wagon and that Christmas meant a lot to us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We didn't have a lot but we appreciated
everything because Mom and Dad worked hard in the Cafe."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Easter of 1939 was spent near Earth in the
sand hills where Louis took his kids for an Easter egg hunt.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne had the family get all dressed up and
there while Milton was trying to light a lamp his little tie caught on fire.
This man who was a fry cook for Louis had come out with the family and he acted
quickly and. ran his hand over the tie burning his own hand in the process but
he did manage to pull Milton's tie off which kept Milton from getting seriously
burned.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1940 Wallace left home at the age of 13
and went to work for himself at the Spring Lake Ranch.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis Williams had a quirk in his personality
that believed that the most important thing a body could be doing was working
and making a living for himself.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He
thought that work was more important than education and he discouraged his sons
from getting an education at the expense of working and making a living.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So by the time Louis left Earth in 1941 both
Ray and Wallace had already moved away from the family.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ray Williams stayed with his Granddad
Danforth in Portales and Wallace boarded at the Spring Lake Ranch.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1941 Louis and Anne left Earth for the
last time and sold their Cafe. Louis went to farming a section of land in the
community of Spade between the towns of Littlefield and Olton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis' farm was about two miles west of Spade
but he attended church at Spade.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis planted his whole place in cotton,
which was irrigated, from a big earthen water tank on which he had pumps to
water his fields. Minnie, Bonnie, and Milton would play cowboys and Indians
around this tank when they were not doing their chores.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis had on this place chickens, hogs, a
Black Angus bull, and eight cows; four of which were milked.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne said the kids never had to milk the cows
but they did have to carry water to house from a windmill about ten yards from
the house.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis also kept bees on this
place and had a large garden planted in beans, peas, okra, tomatoes, corn, and
melons.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While living at Spade Minnie
Williams said her neighbors and girlfriends were from the Prator, Shipley, and
Jarnigan families. Mr. Jarnigin was the Hart Camp school bus driver.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Milton was a little boy at Earth some
bigger kids dropped him down a shaft on an old ice plant where he hurt himself
when he hit the concrete floor. He could not move his right side of his body
without a great deal of pain so Louis and Anne took him to a Chiropractor in
Portales.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The doctor made him use his
right side of the body until Milton eventually got over it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the summertime’s Minnie and Milton stayed
with their Danforth Grandparents while Milton was under going treatment and
this one time Anne's Uncle Fred Danforth gave Milton a goat to raise; saying
how taking care of it would be good therapy for Milton by giving him an
interest and keeping him active.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Milton
named his goat “Queenie” and Queenie and Louis Williams were soon to have a
serious run in.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis had an old wool army surplus overcoat
which he wore everywhere out of sentimental reasons.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis said that this coat had saved his life
when one winter while driving through a thick fog, he hit a parked double
trailer cotton truck on the way to open his cafe.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said that the heavy padding in the
overcoat kept him from being seriously hurt when he struck the steering
wheel.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However Anne and his kids tried to get Louis
to get rid of that coat because it was getting pretty ragged and it
smelled.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne said she would get him a
better one but Louis said he was not going to part with it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So in desperation Anne decided to try and
wash it to at least keep it from smelling.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>After she washed it Anne took it and hung it out in the barn to dry and
she did not notice Milton's goat was not tied up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Before anyone could notice that Queenie was
loose that goat discovered that army coat hanging in the barn and he ate everything
but the buttons and the collar.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When
Louis discovered what had happened he was really upset because he was fond of
that old coat.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1941 Louis told Edgar Hugh that he had to
quit school and go to work at the Spring Lake Ranch where Wallace was already
working.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Wallace was bringing his money
in and giving it to Louis and he wanted Edgar Hugh to do the same. Edgar Hugh
went to his Aunt Beulah Danforth and said he wanted to stay in school and she
said to him, "Well hun, I can’t make your daddy let you go to school.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now you are going to have to work that out
with your daddy somehow."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However Louis just got angry with his son and
Edgar Hugh decided to run away.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Beulah
Danforth stated when asked about this Incident, "Louis he was a bull
headed one and poor Annie couldn't get him to change his mind don’t you
know.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis, he didn't think kids needed
an education.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All they needed was to be
making money and a living."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So Edgar Hugh and his second cousin Jake
Peacock decided to run away together and join the navy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jake Peacock said that Edgar Hugh lifted five
dollars from Louis and off they went to Lubbock to the recruiting station. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Annie discovered Edgar Hugh gone she
went over to her sister-in-law's house all upset and crying.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Beulah Danforth said, "You'll never know
how she cried over Edgar Hugh and she said to me 'Beulah if there is anyway in
the world you can keep Edgar Hugh from joining the navy -please don't let him
join the navy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He's too young.' So I
said, "Well Louis wouldn’t let him come to live with me before he ran off
- No way- but will Louis let him live with us now?" and both Louis and
Anne said "Yes" so Ed and Beulah talked it over and Ed Danforth said,
"Edgar Hugh is a good kid and I don't mind to having him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I just love him to pieces."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyway Edgar Hugh and his cousin were at
Lubbock just fixing to sign up when Louis and Anne found him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edgar Hugh saw his parents with his Aunt and
Uncle and started to run when Beulah Danforth hollered, "Edgar Hugh, you
come back here!" </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But his cousin Jake Peacock said,
"C’mon! Don't go! C'mon!" Then Beulah Danforth said, "Edgar Hugh
do you hear me!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I said some here!"
and Edgar Hugh came back, grabbed his aunt and hugged her neck.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then he started to cry.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>"Edgar Hugh, Hun, you don't want to join
the navy," she said, "You'll have to go soon enough. Now your Mama
and daddy have promised me that you could come live with me and Uncle Ed and
finish this year of school so don't cry.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I'll see some way that you have clothes for school if you'll come live
with us."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"All right" said Edgar Hugh but I'm
not going back home!"</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So Edgar Hugh left home and went to live with
his Aunt and Uncle so he could finish his schooling, and now Louis and Anne
only had the three youngest children still at home. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wallace was still working on the Spring Lake
Ranch feeding the cows and Ray was living with his Danforth Grandparents and
was working at an air base near Clovis, New Mexico where he completed the 11th
grade before joining the Army in 1943. Ray was stationed in Louisiana for boot
camp before being transferred to Seattle go, overseas to Hawaii. There he
served out the remainder of the war as a gunner protecting Diamond Head at
Honolulu and in the Military Police. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Edgar Hugh turned seventeen, Louis and
Anne allowed him to join the Navy and he was sent to San Diego for boot camp.
After Boot camp he was assigned to a minesweeper named the U.S.S. Gamble and
served in the South Pacific theatre of the war fighting the Japanese Imperial
Navy.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before joining the navy, Edgar Hugh began
dating a daughter of a farmer from the community of Hart Camp. Her name was
Wilma June Johnson and known as June. She and her girlfriend Otis Sullivan one
day decided to go over to Spade to visit with the Williams’ and see how Edgar
Hugh was doing in the Navy. They were 13 year old girls and Anne said she liked
them well enough but really didn't much about them at the time. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Otis had been dating Wallace so she was
familiar with the family too at the time and when they stopped by the house
seven year old Milton started teasing the girls. They told him they both throw
him into the sticker patch if he did not stop being a brat. Well he kept on
teasing them so the girls made good on their threats with Otis grabbing his
hands, and June carrying his feet and they carried him outside and threw him
into the sticker patch.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the end of 1942, Louis and Anne sold their
farm at Spade and moved to Littlefield where Louis ran a little hamburger joint
at the end of town. He had two sons in the war at the time and just the three
kids, Minnie, Bonnie, and Milton at home. Wallace was still two young to join
the service so he continued to work on the Spring Lake Ranch. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In Littlefield Louis and Anne bought a house
near the Littlefield High School. Louis' cafe was not very successful just enough
to make a living and pay wages to some young girls he had working as
waitresses. One of these waitresses was Mattie Lee Jarnigin who was to become
Louis and Anna's first daughter-in-law in 1944.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the years between 1942 and 1944 while
living in Littlefield, Anne and Louis' marriage came into serious trouble.
Rumors had it that there was some small time gambling going on behind Louis'
Cafe and that Louis was drinking beer pretty regularly at the time. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyway in April 1944 Anne decided to get away
for a while and go to California where her parents and her brother had just
recently moved.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne took her three
children and stayed with her brother Edgar Danforth for three months at Hines
(Paramount) in Los Angeles County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In
June of 1944 Louis wrote Anne and told her he wanted her to come back and help
him run the hamburger stand in Littlefield so Anne returned to Texas but
determined to get her husband to agree to move to California.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However Louis stubbornly refused to even
consider leaving Texas even when his son Edgar Hugh came home on furlough and
begged his dad to move to California.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Edgar Hugh said, "Dad you could get a job there as a cook and
really make some money instead of the fifty dollars a week your making cooking
in Texas!" But Louis flatly refused to budge.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was afraid to leave the security of a
familiar place for the uncertainties of making a new beginning in
California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was 42 years old and was
worried about making a living for his family at that age.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As determined, as Louis was to stay in Texas,
Anne was even more determined to move to California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She wanted to get Louis away from the bad
element she considered was hanging around the Cafe in Littlefield and too she
wanted to be near her parents and brother in California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So she gave Louis and ultimatum and was
crying as she said, "Louis I am packing up and taking the kids out to
California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I know you don't want to
leave Texas but I am moving to California with you or without you!"</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis knew that Anne was serious and meant
business and decided that if that's they only way he could hold his marriage
together then he had to move to California.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In October 1944, Wallace Williams and his
girlfriend Mattie Lee Jarnigin ran off to get married on the 21 October. Wallace
who was 17 years old and Mattie Lee who was five days shy of being 17 eloped to
Muleshoe where they were married.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His 19
year old brother Edgar Hugh, who was home on furlough, went along with his 15
year old girlfriend June Johnson to be witnesses. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When it was decided to move to California, Louis
reasoned that if he had to leave everything he built up behind in Texas to move
to California so could Anne and he went and sold all of Anne's things to a
second hand man except for a few cooking utensils. He sold his wife's 1912
Singer sewing machine that had once belonged to his mother-in-law and an
upright phonograph player and all their furniture for $100.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Settling their differences Louis and Anne
left Texas the last week in November 1944 in the company of Wallace and his new
bride of one month, Mattie Lee, their two daughters, Minnie and Bonnie and
their ten year old son Milton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wallace had fixed up an old 1936 Ford and
Louis drove it out to Los Angeles. They arrived on the 1st of December 1944
which was a Saturday and by the following Wednesday Louis had a job working at
the Consolidated Ship Yards in San Pedro where he worked until the end of the
war. Upon arriving in Los Angeles Louis moved his family in with his
father-in-law in Downey where they lived for the next six months until their
kids were out of school in June.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis and. Anne purchased, their first home
in California in 1945 at 7102 Dinwiddie Street, Downey near the Rio Hondo
River. This home was situated on a huge lot bordering on a railroad easement. In
the back by the railroad tracks, Louis kept chickens. Also situated on the lot
were two smaller homes, which were eventually occupied by various relatives on
different occasions. The main house, which faced the street Anne said, was
completely furnished when Louis purchased it, down to the sheets and cooking
utensils.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shortly after Wallace with his new bride arrived
in California he went into the service and joined the Army. Wallace had his
boot camp training at Fort Hood, Texas before he was sent over to Italy at the
end of the European theatre of World War II in May of 1945. He served in Italy
transferring prisoners of war from one prison camp to another and was overseas
until he was mustered out in 1947. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the whole period of Wallace's military
service, Mattie Lee lived with Louis and Anne except for short periods of time
when she went back to Spade, Texas to live with her folks. Mattie Lee was
living in Texas when Louis and Anne's first grandchild was born the 12th of
September 1945 at Amherst, Lamb County. Mattie Lee had a baby girl whom she
named Frances Anne Williams after Anne Williams.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When World War II was completely over in
August 1945 Ray Williams was able to return home to California and in March of
1946 Edgar Hugh Williams was also mustered out of the service, when then he
promptly went to Hart Camp, Texas where he married June Johnson with the mixed
blessings of her parents. She was sixteen years old and Edgar Hugh was
twenty-one. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shortly after their marriage they returned to
California and made their home with Louis and Anne on Dinwiddie Street. June
Williams grew to love her mother-in-law like a real daughter and it was Anne
who taught June how to cook. However it did make June nervous hearing all the
quarreling that went on at Louis and Anne's residence, which was inevitable
considering the amount of people living on the lot. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Besides Louis and Anne' three younger
children, Minnie, Bonnie, and Milton, Ray had returned home before moving to
Hemit to live with his grandparents. Mattie Lee was also living at the
Dinwiddee home with her baby Frances Anne along with Edgar Hugh and his new
bride. Additionally Louis' sister Winnie and her John Walker husband and their two
sons had moved in with them.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the end of August 1945 Louis was laid off
from the shipyards and was out of work nearly fourteen months before he was
able to find a job as a cook at the Rancho Los Amigos Rest Home. He was able to
collect some unemployment during this time but Anne found that she had to go to
work to keep the family a float. She went to work at the Faber and Metal Shop
in Downey where she, for a couple of years, was employed.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1946 Louis left working as a cook and
found work at the Conveyor Company of Vernon Huntington Park, California. Louis
Williams remained with Conveyors for the rest of his working life until he
retired after 21 years with the company.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1947 Louis and Anne's second grandchild
was born the 9th of June, another little girl named Charline Williams by her
mother June Williams. She was born in Los Angeles. Another granddaughter
followed in 1948 after Wallace came home from Europe. Marilyn Kay Williams was
born on the 8th of May also in Los Angeles.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie and Bonnie graduated from Downey High
School together in June 1948, the only children of Louis and Anne to graduate
directly from High School.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ray Williams
did go back to night school to finish his High School education and eventually
went to work as a warehouse supervisor over shipping at the El Toro Marine Base
in Orange County.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While Milton attended Downey High School he
dropped out and began running around with his cousins Gene and Ken Walker whom
Anne thought were juvenile delinquents.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Milton Williams, in the late forties and
early fifties, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was considered a wild
teenager. He ran around with his Walker cousins, who Anne considered bad
influences on Milton. Milton became a rebellious teenager and was known as the
terror of Downey as he and his friends would tear up the streets at night drag
racing their hot rods. They also rode motorcycles, wore tee shirts with sleeves
rolled to hide their cigarette packages, and began drinking beer and smoking
marijuana unbeknown to his mother. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His older sister Bonnie was a very pretty teenager and
Louis and Anne were too overly protective with her. She was not allowed to go
on date like her brothers were allowed too. Minnie Williams stated that while
teenagers on Dinwiddie Street Bonnie had as her girlfriends, , Isobel and
Eleanor Wheeler, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>who were sisters, and
Glenda who later married Lloyd Fagen.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1949, Edgar Hugh and June Williams
returned to Texas to live near his Johnson in laws. He rented a farm and at the
end of the 1940's Louis and Anne's fourth granddaughter, Donna Fay Williams was
born the 25 June 1949 at Amherst while her parents were residing in Lamb
County, Texas. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the start of the 1950’s Louis and Anne
were still living in Downey, California still on Dinwiddee Street. Their eldest
son Ray Williams was also unmarried but dating several women while moving back
and forth between Southern California and Northern California where many of his
Grandma Danforth’s Peacock relatives lived near Auburn.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar Hugh had relocated to Lamb County,
Texas where he farmed. While there Louis and Anne's first grandson Edgar Hugh
Williams Junior who was born the 10 of April 1951 at the farmer’s co-op
hospital in Amherst which was about 3 miles from Earth. Louis bought his first
grandson a little white baby sweater trimmed in blue ribbon. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A 1952 city directory for Downey, California
listed Louis M Williams, Anne R Williams, , Minnie L. Williams and Bonnie R.
Williams all living at 7102 Dinwiddee. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Willard
W.” Williams and Mattie L Williams were living at 7069 Dinwiddee. Both Louis
and Wallace were steel workers for the Conveyor Company in Maywood. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wallace Williams must have left the Conveyor
Company shortly afterwards, as another grandson of Louis and Anne, Gary Wallace
Williams, was born the 17 August 1952 in Yucaipa, San Bernardino, California
where his parents Wallace and Mattie Lee had moved.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Wallace preferred a more rural way of life
than living in Los Angeles County. He had a place where he could keep goats and
chickens. However he was back in Los Angeles County for the birth of Wallace and Mattie Lee's youngest daughter.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1952 Louis and Anne rented out their homes
on the Dinwiddie Street parcel and bought another house on Cole Street, still
in Downey. Eventually Louis and Anne bought several houses in and around Downey
in which they lived or rented out. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1952 Wallace and his young family was still living
in a small home on the Dinwiddee lot but were getting ready to move to Yucaipa
which was then a rural chicken farming community. By the 1950s post-World War
II development pressures in Los Angeles County also brought an increased urbanization
to the Yucaipa area. Agricultural production decreased from the farming
and ranching activities of the prior decades but was still prominent when
Wallace moved there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They moved after
their youngest daughter Terrie Lynn Williams was born the 22 May 1953 in
Lynwood, California</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Bonnie fell in love with a man by the name of
Lee who was in the Navy in 1953, but her mother Anne disapproved of him and the
relationship was broken off.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bonnie
however found herself pregnant in April with Lee’s baby. Her girlfriend Glenda
Fagan, had a brother in law <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>named Billy
Wayne Fagan who had two sons from a previous marriage. He agreed to marry
Bonnie. He was still in the Navy at the time. They were married the 17 July
1953 in Yuma, Arizona and Larry Paul Fagan was born 21 January 1954 in Lynwood.
Bill Fagan raised Larry with whom he had a stormy relationship. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1953 their son Edgar Hugh returned from
Texas after a joining the Lubbock Police Force with the help of his cousin
Mildred’s husband Claude Keaton. However after his partner was shot and killed,
June insisted that he quit and go back to farming. When a freak hail storm
wiped out his cotton crop, they picked up and moved back to Downey . Edgar Hugh
went to work for the Conveyor Company with his father.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edgar, June and their three children the lived
on the Dinwiddie place until buying a home in November of 1954 in west Orange
County, which is now the city of Garden Grove.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1954 Louis and Anne bought a small chicken
ranch in Yucaipa where their son Wallace had located his family and was working
as a wood worker in a furniture shop. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
O<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n 23 October 1953 Milton enlisted in the Army for a
hitch and was stationed in Colorado. He was mustered out in 1955 and when he
returned to Downey riding a motorcycle home. When Milton first got out of the service he ran around with
some boys his own age named Ronnie and Joe Clark.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their divorced mother Justine “Jerrie”
Bernhardt Clark was raising her children alone. She was a member of a square
dancing club, which Milton’s oldest brother Ray Williams had joined.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jerrie and Ray became acquainted because of
Milton running around with her sons and soon they were dating and getting
serious. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the meantime Milton started dating a
pretty blond girl named Marie Buehlman and they were married on the 1st of
December 1956 in Norwalk.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Milton went
to work as a truck driver for the Safeway Supermarkets and had two children,
Stephanie Irene Williams born the 29 November 1957 and Louis and Anne’s
youngest grandchild, Gregory Lynn Williams, born the 2February 1962, both at
the hospital in Lynwood in Los Angeles County.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Ray Williams was the last of Louis and Anne's
children to marry when he married Jerrie Clark on the 15 March 1957 in South
Gate, California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jerrie was of
Russian-German ancestry and she was a refined lady with blond hair and striking
good looks. Anne had misgivings at first over her son marrying a divorced woman
who was 13 years older than Ray, and a Catholic to boot! <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Jerrie through her charming ways won
Anne's heart and they were close up to Jerrie’s death in June 1978 when she
died of Leukemia. She was buried next to Louis Williams in the Rose Hill
Cemetery in Whittier.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1958 Louis and Anne moved from Dinwiddie
back to Cole Street where they lived until 1962 when they bought a home on
13234 Carfax Avenue in Downey. Here they lived for the next seven years making
this home the longest place they ever resided in their entire married
life.<span style="margin: 0px;"> I have a memory however that they also lived at a home on Woodruff Street in Downey but I may be mistaken. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the 1960’s, Louis and Anne Williams
had most of their children living in close proximity to them. Milton and Marie
Williams lived in Norwalk and later Walnut, California. Bonnie and Bill lived in
a house behind Louis and Anne on Dinwiddie until about 1959 and later moved to
Norwalk and then later to Buena Park in Orange County. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie Lee lived much of the time in their
household. Minnie Williams never married and lived with her parents off and on
for the remainder of their lives.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
worked for several years as a live-in companion for invalid geriatric women including
her aunt Beulah Danforth’s mother in Earth Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Minnie was developmentally slow probably due
to her premature birth and she was the most petite of all of Louis and Anne’s
children. She was loved by all of her nephews and nieces. She developed type 2
diabetes in later life and had to live in a care facility until her death in
1999. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wallace and Mattie Lee lived in Yucaipa and
later Redondo Beach before moving back to Lubbock Texas in about 1968 where
they lived the remainder of their lives with Wallace working for his brother in
law Walt Jarnigin. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar and June Williams lived in Garden Grove
at 11562 Dale Street from 1954 until 1989 where they raised all their children.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Ray and Jerrie Williams lived in Grass Valley
and Citrus Heights area of Northern California for much of their lives and
raised Colleen a granddaughter of Jerrie’s until moving to Yucaipa about 1973. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Family visits were commonplace on a near
weekly basis, and holidays were held in various homes during these times.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A domino game was nearly always set up for
Louis and his sons during these frequent visits.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Easters and Christmas Eves were almost always
spent by their children’s families at Louis and Anne’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I know it was not easy living with Grandpa
Louis, who could be passive aggressive towards Grandma. They were always
bickering with one another and I remember one Easter, Grandma had made this
Easter Bunny cake made with coconut flakes. She had spent a lot of time making
it and I remember Grandpa placing it in the trunk.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At the park when it was taken out it had been
ruined by something falling on it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s
the only time I remember Grandma nearly crying and somehow even as young as I
was I felt like Grandpa did it on purpose.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While grandma loved all her grandchildren
equally I feel she was more partial to Larry Fagan as he lived near her the
most and perhaps Grandma felt guilty for not letting Bonnie marry his father.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However I don’t think Grandpa was very fond
of children at all or at least that was the impression I got as a little boy.
He was always yelling at us to behave and settle down.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">My earliest impression on them living on
Dinwiddee street I must have been not much more than 3 or 4 years old.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Way in the back of the long lot Grandpa kept
Chickens and a rabbit hutch for food. One time I went with him to see the
chickens and saw him chop the head off of one of them. Then he handed the bird
to me to take to grandma but the headless bird all of a sudden started flapping
and I dropped it and it ran around the yard before keeling over. It nearly
scared me to death and it has since made me wonder why he would do that to a little boy. May
be he thought it was funny. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On Christmas Eve the family tradition was for
Louis to make his Texas Chili and a kettle of pinto beans while Anne made all
sorts of pies, cherry, chocolate, pecan, and coconut cream. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I remember one memorable Christmas Eve when my
mom’s folks came with us over to Grandma and Grandpa Williams. As everyone was
unwrapping their presents, my grandma Johnson was sitting enjoying the scene
when I noticed that Grandma Williams had disappeared. When she returned, she had a
placed a wrapped gift under the tree for Grandma Johnson who was surprised as
all get out to have a present. I am sure it was some knickknack that Grandma
Williams had but her kindness and thoughtfulness remained in my memory for my
entire life. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis retired while living on Carfax in 1967
but soon the cost of living began to eat slowly away at their social security
checks and they began to sell off their various properties. I also heard that as an Elder in the Paramount Church of Christ he was a cosigner for a loan that the church could not repay and he was obliged to help retire the debt. He began selling off his property about this time. He sold the Dinwiddee property for $70,000 just prior to the time when land values boomed in Southern California. The property which has been subdivided since then is worth more than a million dollars in today's markets.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1969 Louis and Anne moved up to Yucaipa
California where they bought a home on Nebraska Street. Because of
ever-increasing property taxes they finally sold all of their properties in
Downey and Louis worked for a short while in an eggplant there in Yucaipa on a
part-time bases. They became members of the Yucaipa Church of Christ.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Eventually Louis' health began to decline and
he sold their home on Nebraska Street because he was no longer able to keep
up with the yard work. Louis and Anne then purchased a doublewide mobile home
and moved it to 4th Street still in Yucaipa.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On Saturday the 25th of September 1971 their
children, to celebrate 50 years of marriage, gave Louis and Anne a Golden
Wedding Anniversary reception. An account of that occasion recorded in my journal
which went as follows:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>September 25 Saturday 1971</b>-I woke up at 9:30
to get ready to go to Yucaipa for Grandparents Williams' 50th Anniversary
Reception. I went up with Mom and Dad. The reception was held at the Church of
Christ building at 1:00. All of the clan was there, R.L.'s. Dad's, Wallace's,
Minnie, Bonnie's, and Milton's families. Aunt Beulah and Uncle Ed were there with
most of their descendants and many of Grandpa's relatives including his sister
Neil and his Aunt Nora. Our friends, Tom and Jean Horan came too, and Jean made
Grandma a money tree. The tree was painted gold and the leaves were made out of
crisp dollar bills. All in all there were about 75 persons there including many
of Grandma and Grandpa's Church of Christ friends. We had a family portrait
taken and afterwards we all went to a park, I think was called the Mill Creek
Park there in Yucaipa. We had a huge family Reunion there. It was fun and
probably the last time the family, as a whole will, all be at one place again.
There was plenty of food, ham, fried chicken, roast beef, potato salad, and all
kinds of pies, chocolate, coconut cream, banana, and cakes too. There was so
much I took some food back to the dorm at Cal State Fullerton for my roommate
and me later. It was 7 o'clock when I left to go home with Charline and Dennis.
Charlene is expecting her baby anytime. It sure was a pretty day and Grandma looked
really happy. In the late afternoon a wind came up and it turned pretty chilly.
65 degrees. It was a very nice occasion.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1973 Louis really started to fade when he
became afflicted with Parkinson’s disease and began to get the palsy like shakes.
He went into a type of depressed withdrawal, seldom wanting to leave the house
or have company over. Anne and her daughter Minnie had the responsibility to
make sure that Louis took his medicine but by the end of 1976 Louis was almost
totally bedridden and Anne with heart trouble herself was no longer able to
take care of Louis at home. On the 29th of August 1976 he entered the hospital
at Redlands for an operation on his prostate and excerpts from his grandson's
diary read:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>August 29 Sunday 1976</b>: I spent the day up in
Yucaipa with Grandma Williams and I was so shocked to see Grandpa Williams. He
was all curled up on the bed and he looked physically deteriorated. He weighed
according to Grandma less then 112 pounds and he looked so thin with hollow
eyes and sunken cheeks. Bonnie and Bill were over and Milton and Marie came up
to help get Grandpa into the hospital. He's going to go to the hospital today
for an operation on his prostate and it seems to me he has given up his will to
live. It is so sad. Grandma is just an edgy nervous wreck over it and its so
hot today to boot. 100 degrees. Milton carried Grandpa to the car and I went
with him to help Grandma who also came with us down to the hospital in
Redlands. R.L. and Jerrie met us at the hospital and I was glad to see them.
They came down from Auburn in Northern California. In the hospital we got
Grandpa all situated and this Catholic Priest came in to visit with the family.
I thought to myself Holy Smoke! do you got the wrong room. Grandma was cordial
to him and thanked him for coming but let him know we weren't Catholic. I
thought it was funny myself. Then Grandpa said he wanted to tell me something
and I went over and sat on the side of the bed and began to tell, "Junior
I've done some things I'm a shame of..." That just freaked me out because
I was sure Grandpa was about to tell me his sins thinking he would die there in
the hospital. I said before he could speak another word, "Oh Grandpa you
don't have to tell me anything. That's between you and the Lord. You don't have
to tell me anything. I love you as you are." Then Grandpa but his hand on
mine and gave me a blessing. I was so freaked. Grandma was so upset because she
knows that Grandpa wants to die. I left Yucaipa for Garden Grove about 7:00 p.m.
though Grandma wants me to come back up before I leave for Washington D.C.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis recovered from his operation but he
continued to resist the efforts of Anne and Minnie to care for him. He would
not eat properly nor take his medicine as he was suppose to and so in 1977 over
the objections of his daughter Bonnie, Louis was placed in a rest home in
Cherry Hills near Beaumont. Anne's failing health no longer permitted her to
care properly for her husband.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Of Louis death I wrote while I was living in Fort Worth, Texas: “On the 20th of
January I got a phone call from Mom saying that Grandpa Williams had died. He
died in a rest home of complications from pneumonia and old age. He was 75
years old but he gave up interest in life almost two years ago. He had been
steadily decline, in health primarily from his refusing to eat. He died at 5:59
a.m. with Dad and Aunt Minnie at his side. Mom had been with him and had just
stepped out to go to the bathroom and she came back she learned that Grandpa
had died. Everyone out there in California is really taking it hard since
Grandpa's was the first death in the immediate family. Grandpa was buried in a
nice suit at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier. Mom said most of the relatives
from Texas showed up and I wish I could go but we are broke. Mom bore the brunt
of Grandpa's death because she was the one who had to tell Grandma who had just
gotten out of the hospital herself from a mild heart attack. Marie said she
couldn't do it because the memory of her own mother's death was still too
painful so Mom was elected. Fran and I just could not go home for the funeral
because we had no money here in Fort Worth.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mom once told me that at Grandpa's viewing, Dad broke down and began sobbing seeing his father in his casket. Mom never saw my dad so grief stricken but he told her that he had never told his father that he loved him. I doubt if Louis ever told his sons that he loved them either. It was not the Williams' way to be demonstrative to their children. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne's own poor health after the death of her
husband was a major concern to her children. In June her daughter-in-law Jerrie
Williams died of Leukemia and was buried next to Louis at Rose Hill. She had
died on the 7 June 1978. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne's son Edgar Hugh Williams decided that
his mother needed to get away from California for a little while and during the
last half of June, he and his wife took Anne and her daughter Minnie to Salt
Lake City to see me. I wrote:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“In the last half of June, Fran and I were
delighted when Mom and Dad came up to see us on their way to Texas. They
brought with them Grandma Williams and Aunt Minnie. We had plenty of room in
Murray's big old house. Grandma slept down stairs because she couldn't climb
the stairs but other than that we all fitted in that big house just fine.
Although Mom did have a visit from the ghost in Murray's house the first night
they were here. It must have wanted to see who was in the house. Mom said she
woke up and noticed that Grandma was up with her light on downstairs when she
had gotten up to go to the bathroom. Well she said she came on down the stairs
to see if grandma was all right since Grandma was on Medication and taking oxygen.
It was 4 a.m. and while Mom was keeping Grandma company she heard someone
walking down the hall upstairs and she said to Grandma, "Edgar must have
gotten up." Soon Mom heard the steps descending down the stair case and
she had a funny feeling come over her and she said, "Edgar is that
you?" No answer. She called out again, "Edgar! Is that You!"
Still no response. She was frightened by now but didn't want to alarm Grandma
and said she was just going back to bed. She saw no one on the stairs or in the
hallway and she became so frightened by the experience that she wouldn't even
get up to go to the bathroom without making Dad get out of bed and go with her.
Dad just shrugged it off of course but the next morning we had to tell Mom
about the ghost but not to worry because it didn't do anything but walk the
hall, turn lights on, and play with the water in the bathroom by turning on
faucets and flushing the toilet. Besides this one experience we all had a good
time. The Cherry Tree in the back yard was loaded with fruit and Grandma loved
to pick the cherries off the tree. One day we even went to Temple Square to
visit the LDS Visitor Center and when this Mormon Guide asked whether Grandma
was a member of the Church, Grandma, I could hear muttering under her breath,
"Yes I am a member of the Church; the true Church, the Church of
Christ." When viewing paintings depicting Biblical scenes from the old and
New Testaments I also heard her remark, "Well they are nice but they're
all man's interpretations!'" The last night they spent with us we sat on
the back porch and had barbequed steaks and home made ice cream. The weather
could not have been any better the whole time they were here and Fran and I
were able to talk Grandma into letting Minnie stay with us instead of going to
Texas. So when Mom, Dad and Grandma let Minnie stay with us until the second of
July when we flew her home. We all had a good visit and Minnie needed the time
away from Grandma and the trauma of the deaths of Grandpa Williams and Aunt
Jerrie this year.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne went on back to Texas with her son and
daughter-in-law and visited with many of her relations and friends. She took
several old pictures back to California from her cousin Boog Peacock of
Petersburg, Texas and she had a good time on her vacation. However it was to be
her last trip to her native state.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne spent the Thanksgiving Holiday 1978 at the home of her son Edgar Hugh. I wrote: “R.L. brought Grandma and Minnie
down from Yucaipa for Thanksgiving and Mom went all out and cooked up a big
Turkey Dinner which we hadn't expected because we didn't tell Mom we were
coming home for Thanksgiving until the Tuesday before we left. Saturday morning
we left to go home but we did stop in Yucaipa to see Grandma and Aunt Minnie.
R.L. came over too. We got off at around 11:00”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne also spent Christmas at the home of her
son Edgar Hugh in Garden Grove however she was not feeling well because she had
caught a virus.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>24th December 1978</b>- Fran and I both got up
early so we could be on the road before dawn. I drove from St. George, Utah to
Barstow before getting gas then on in to Garden Grove from there. We arrived
about 11:00 and Grandma, Minnie, and R.L. were down from Yucaipa and they were
all eating dinner when we arrived. Mom fixed a nice ham dinner. Since today was
Christmas Eve I wanted to do something special for the kids so Dad and I went
to the store and I bought stuff to make a candy cake house. In the evening
Milton, Marie, Stephanie and Greg dropped by and it was good to see them. Also
Willadene Webb a friend of R.L.'s came by. Donna, Ken, and Kenny came over, as
did Charlene Dennis and their brood. We exchanged gifts and Mom gave Fran and I
a queen size electric blanket. Really nice. We had cakes, pies, and homemade
candy coming out of our ear. Grandma made some of her good fudge too. Tom and
Jean Horan dropped over and it was good to see them again. All and all it was a
really nice Christmas Eve.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">While visiting with Grandma I decided to tell her how I found some information on her Peacock family. Grandma was the only one to liked my research into our family history especially when it concerned the Danforths. I told her how I had a dream that Grandma Minnie Danforth came to me to tell me where to find a book that had information about her grandma Martha Anderson Peacock. Instead of being skeptical Grandma then told me that she's had several dreams in a row where she heard her mother calling to her, "Annie, Annie," which woke her from her sleep because she felt so cold. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Christmas Day 1978</b>- Fran was sick all day and
didn't get out of bed almost all day. Betty, Norman and Beulah Danforth came
over for Christmas dinner and Aunt Beulah was on a real toot. She made some
caustic remark about Fran being in bed and when Grandma said she wasn't feeling
well, Buelah said she was just acting up for the attention. I can't believe
Aunt Beulah sometimes! She is so sweet but she can be so mean too. About 5:00
Grandma became so sick that Mom and Dad drove her home to Yucaipa so she could
go to her doctor. He said that Grandma had a virus that was going around and
needed to be home and rest. Before Grandma went home we had a nice turkey
dinner with all the trimmings. After Mom and Dad took Grandma home we took the
Christmas tree down for Mom and cleaned the house. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>29th December 1978</b>-Friday. We left for Utah
about 9:30 but drove over to Yucaipa to see Grandma and Aunt Minnie. I know
Grandma was still not feeling well because she was in her bathrobe with her
hairnet still on. Grandma apologized for her appearance because she usually was
fastidiously dressed. We had lunch with Grandma and stayed for about two hours.
Bonnie dropped by and it was good to see her before taking off. We left at 1:00
p.m." I didn't know it at the time but this was the last time I would see my
Grandma alive in this world.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the first of the year Anne Williams
still not feeling well, and was backing her car out of her driveway when her
brakes failed and the car crashed into a brick retaining wall. Although she was
unhurt she became so agitated by the accident that her heart began to give her
trouble. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the 4th of January 1979 she was admitted
into the hospital at Redlands to have surgery to place a pacemaker on her
heart. Her nephew Norman Danforth said he had a premonition that his Aunt would
not survive the operation and he and his wife Betty went up to Yucaipa to be
with Anne. They were the last people to see her alive on this earth when early
Wednesday morning on the 10th of January 1979 she had heart failure and she
died at the Hospital in Redlands, California. She died ten days short of the
first anniversary of her husband’s death. Anne Williams was now at rest,
reunited with a husband, an infant son, a brother, and parents who had preceded
her through the veil.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">An account of the funeral of Anne Williams is
taken from excerpts from my journal.</span></div>
<b></b><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>10 January 1978-Wednesday:</b> Mom called this
morning and said Grandma Williams has died! She died in Redlands at a hospital
where she was having a new pacemaker placed on her heart. Died of heart
failure. So glad we stopped and visited with Grandma at Christmas time. Haven't
had much time to think about it yet. Was called in to work this morning before
Mom called and decided to go in to work any ways and leave out tonight. Called
J.R. and Mary Peacock but they weren't home so talked to their son Dennis.
Grandma was 76 years old born 31 March 1902 at Swenson in Stonewall County,
Texas. She died 10 January 1979. I wanted to start crying every time I thought
of Grandma so I had to keep busy. When we got home in the afternoon Donna
called and said that the funeral wasn't till Monday so there was no need to
hurry home. However around 7 Mom called to say the funeral was moved up to
Friday. It was too late to think about traveling today because of the weather
conditions so we went to bed around 8 o'clock so we could leave out early in
the morning. Didn't get much sleep however. Just tossed and turned.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>11 January 1979 Thursday-</b>Got up about 4:30
a.m. Fran had been up since 1 cleaning the house and packing the car. We didn't
get off before 6 O’clock and after a lot of fighting, mainly from tension,
frustration, and lack of sleep. We drove straight through to California and
were in Yucaipa by 7:30 p.m. California time. A lot of the way I drove 75~80
miles an hour. The weather in Utah was bad almost all through the state but the
snow was gone from St. George on in. It really felt weird being at Grandma's
trailer home without Grandma there to greet us. Bonnie, Bill, Betty and Norman
were all ready there when we arrived. They were waiting for the folks from
Texas to come in. We sat around for about two hours eating and visiting, oh
yes, Pam Fagen and her little boy Aaron were up too. Pam was looking out for
Bonnie. About 8:00 Norman told Fran and I that they were going to the funeral
home to see Grandma and to be there when the others started arriving. So we
went with them and were the first to the funeral home and first to see Grandma
at the viewing. She was reposing in a light blue casket lined in blue silk. She
was wearing a dark blue dress, which she had worn years ago for her Golden
Wedding Anniversary. She also wore it to Grandpa's funeral last year then had
it dried cleaned and put away for her own funeral. She had on a string of
pearls and pearl earrings and she looked like she had just laid down for a nap.
There were lots of pretty flowers from friends and family and her casket piece
was made up of pink and white carnations with dark green feathery fern filler.
It was very pretty. But it was still a shock to see Grandma lying there knowing
that she won't wake up. Betty and Norman wanted to see Grandma first so they
could be prepared to help the family when they came to view the body. A little
after we were through, Bonnie, Bill, Pam, and Minnie came. I went with Minnie
into the viewing room and both Minnie and Bonnie broke down and cried and
lamented. Bill tried to comfort Bonnie while I let Minnie cry on my shoulder. I
told Minnie that Grandma was a faithful Christian and that God promised her
rest and now she's gone to her reward. That is the test of the Christian Faith.
This seemed to comfort her a little because she stopped her hard sobbing from
the heart. However Bonnie was inconsolable and they left as Milton and Marie,
Dad and Mom came together. R.L. also came about the same time in his truck. Dad
did not look well at all. He was thin, pale, and gray. When R.L. saw Grandma he
broke down and cried. Poor R.L. He lost his father, mother, and wife all in one
year and the burden of Grandma's funeral fell on his shoulders because Wallace
was back in Texas, Dad was just recovering from his own heart problem, and
Milton was at the time making a delivery to Las Vegas. However it couldn't have
been nicer and everything was done wonderfully. Mom held both R.L. and Dad
while they cried and expressed their grief. Afterwards we all went back to the
trailer for a little bit and shortly thereafter the folks from Texas came in
about 9:30. They didn’t get to view the body because the funeral home closed at
9:00. Beulah, Wallace and Mattie Lee came with Marjorie Fern and Bill Damron
while Danny and Marilyn brought their own car with their kids, Dena, Danny, and
Candace. Minnie went home with Bonnie and Bill and Fran and I went home with
R.L. and spent the night over there. We didn't get to bed before 12:00. What a
weary, weary day. Good to see Marilyn again. All of her children are growing so
big. Its sad that we only get together for funerals.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>12 January 1979-Friday</b>-Fran and I spent the
night at R.L.'s and we tried to get some rest. We got up at 8:00 had had
breakfast of pancakes with R.L. But before we could eat, Wallace and Mattie
called and said that they wanted R.L. to take them over to the funeral home to
see Grandma before the Church service. He went over to the coach to pick them
up and I locked up his place and went over to Grandma's trailer by our selves.
Marjorie Fern, Bill, and Beulah were there already with Bonnie, Bill, and
Minnie. Milton, Marie, Stephanie, and Greg all came up together and Marie went
into the kitchen to get the coffee going. Milton went over to Bonnie and hugged
her neck and they both cried, and soon Wallace and Mattie Lee came back with
R.L. Mattie Lee was just jabbering away, couldn't stop talking. Nervous I
guess. Betty, Norman, Mom and Dad soon came up too with Donna and her Baby.
R.L.'s step children, Jackie and Theo and their daughters Terri and Marsha who
came with their families. It<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was really
a full house. The little kids really helped lighten up the morning with their
carefree playing. It was hard to be too sad when watching Grandma's
great-grandchildren on the floor playing. The funeral was at 11:00 over at the
Yucaipa Church of Christ. The children of Grandma rode over in a limousine that
the funeral home provided. Fran and I drove over with Donna and little Kenny in
Mom's car. The Church was almost completely filled which to me is a testimony
on how loved Grandma was. Her casket was on view as you filed into the church
and I'll try to list all the people I knew who was there. However I'd say most
of the people were friends and Church members who knew grandma. R.L. Williams
was there with his step-children, Theo Clark, and his wife Jackie, their two
daughters and their husbands and children, Theo's brother Joe and his bunch,
and R.L.'s friend Willadene Webb who sat with Fran and I. Our bunch included
Dad, Mom, Charline, Dennis, James, Denise, Michael, Dennis' mother Janet Peavy,
Donna, Kenny and of course Fran and I. Wallace's bunch included Wallace, Mattie
Lee, Frances Ann, Aleesa, Steven, Marilyn, Danny Stevens, Dena, Danny Jr,
Candace, and Terrie. Minnie and Bonnie were together with Bill and Bonnie's
former daughter-in-law Pam and Bonnie's grandson Aaron. Milton and Marie were
there with Stephanie and Gregory and Marie's father Alfred Buelhman and her
brother Al Buelhman. Dad's cousins Gene Walker and his wife Carolyn, and Norman
and Betty Danforth were in attendance. Aunt Beulah Danforth was with Marjorie
Fern and Bill Damron. Norman's daughters Beverley Watrous and Barbara Danforth
and their son Alan Danforth all came. Grandpa's sister Nell and her husband Toy
Dial were there too. That's about all the people there that I knew but almost
twice that many people were there for the funeral. Three Church of Christ
Ministers gave short talks about death and the scriptures and a little about
Grandma. She was eulogized as a 'Christian Woman’ and a "perfect example
on an elder's wife. R.L. 's step-granddaughter sang a beautiful song and a
small choir sang some hymns between the talks. The only hymn I knew was
"When We Meet On that Beautiful Shore." <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Wallace was visibly sobbing thru out the whole
service but the rest were as stoic as ever. I wish they all had cried their
guts out because it would have been a healthy way for them to express their
emotions. After the Service the Church of Christ ladies prepared a dinner for
everyone in the recreational hall but I didn't eat because Donna wanted to
leave for home and I had to go get our car, which we left at Grandma's. After
the dinner we all left to go to Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier for the burial.
Denise and James went with Fran and me.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I got a little lost but managed to find my way over there from Yucaipa.
This morning was dreary, overcast, and drizzling a little rain and on the way
over to Whittier the smog was so bad it made my eyes sting. However once we
reached Rose Hill the sun had come out and a breeze blew all the smoke away. It
was a beautiful, beautiful, clear, and sunny day. On the side of the hill when
Grandma's graveside service was held you could see clear across the San Gabriel
Valley. Gary Williams and Eddy Griess were able to make it to the burial and so
Larry Fagen was the only Grandchild that was not able to come. He's back in
Norfolk, Virginia in the navy and couldn't get time off., It was a surprised to
see Gary. He's a regular goat-roping cowboy with a long blond handlebar
mustached wearing boots, blue jeans, and a buckle. He really looked sharp but I
guess I'm really a city boy myself. The funeral was completely over at 4
o'clock and we took Denise and James home. Poor little Denise was sobbing so
much and said, "I'll never forget Grandma. She'd always let me have all
the vanilla ice cream I wanted when I was staying with her." James had
been silent and introspective all through the funeral so it was right out of
the blue when he said, "And I'll never forget her peanut brittle." He
said it with total conviction and seriousness that Fran and I had to laugh. One
of the last things Grandma made was an afghan for Denise at Christmas time.
After the funeral we went to a McDonald's for some drinks then took the kids
home to Charline’s. There Charline said that Mom wanted us to come right over
to Mom's so we did. There at Mom's was Milton and Marie, Minnie, Aunt Beulah,
Betty and Norman. Norman suggested that we all go over to his house for some
chili so about 6 we went over there and stayed till about 10:00. I don't know
why but Beulah sure doesn't care a thing about Fran. I guess being a Yankee
from Minnesota she reminds her too much of Betty. Anyways they get along just
like cats and dogs. Fran was trying to be nice and said to Beulah, "Thanks
for the canned squash it was real good." Mom had given us a couple of jars
that Beulah had put up and given to Mom, and Beulah said, "I made them for
June!"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You had to put a sweater on because
she was so cold to Fran. But Beulah was in rare form when she kept calling
Beverley's boyfriend by Bev's ex-husband's name. Beulah kept calling him Paul,
and finally Bev got mad and said, "Gram his name is Mike! " and
Beulah said in a snoot "Well I'm sorry it won't happen again!" And it
didn't because Beulah ignored him for the rest of the evening. When they made
Aunt Beulah they broke the mold. She sure is one of a kind. But I love her. All
in all we had a good time at the Danforths but I almost cried when Dad said to
Norman, "Go sit with your mother. I'd give anything to be able to sit with
mine." I really love my Danforth relations. I really enjoy their company.
After we left about 10:30 we came home with Mom and Bad and Minnie. I think
Minnie is holding up extremely well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>14 January 1979</b> Mom and Dad got up early to
go out for breakfast then to Church with Minnie, James, and Denise. R.L. called
a little later and said Grandpa's Sister Jerri Smith and her niece Doris Rose
Butler had finally gotten in and were over at Gene and Carolyn Walker's house
in Fountain Valley. About 11:30 we drove over there to see Aunt Jerrie Smith
and Doris Rose. Minnie came with us and over there were also Aunt Nell and
Milton and Marie. While there it poured down cats and dogs all the streets were
flooded. Aunt Jerry had to come to California to see a specialist for her
nerves and Aunt Nell was down in Southern Cal to see a doctor about her foot.
Coincidently today was the 6th anniversary of Granny Rose's death in Plainview
and her 75th Wedding Anniversary, and here we are- many of her children,
grandchildren, and great grandchildren and several great-great grandchildren. I
like to think that we are in a great relay race passing the torch of life from
one runner to another. Granny Rose and Grandma Williams' race is run but they
passed the torch on to the next generation and then we to the next. Fran and I
really had a nice time at Gene and Carol's and just as we were getting ready to
leave Mom called and said she and Dad were coming over so we stayed a little
longer and had dinner. Gene's kids Luxie, Randy, and Andy came over too and I
hadn't seen them since we were in Junior High. I talked mostly with Aunt Jerry.
It was a down pour of rain most of the day, rain, rain, rain.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne had made a will out before she died and
it was read to the family on the 15th of January 1979.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne left the remainder of her meager estate
to Minnie who all agreed needed it the most. Her sons Edgar Hugh and Milton
Williams were made executors over the estate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne Williams was a good cook and she was
quite skilled in crocheting and knitting. She crocheted doilies and table
clothes as well as made several afghan blankets for her grandchildren. Louis
Williams also was a good cook and his hobbies were gardening and playing dominoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Whenever Louis and Anne would visit their
children usually a card table was soon produced and the dominoes brought out.
Both Anne and Louis enjoyed playing dominoes and some card games. Anne Williams
loved her family and she is sorely missed and her death has left a great
vacancy in the lives of all who loved her. One time a daughter-in-law asked
Anne which grandchild was her favorite and Anne's reply was, "The one I am
with at the time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Two of Grandma and Grandpa Williams' favorite
recipes-</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandpa Williams West Texas Chili Recipe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1 lb of course ground beef with suet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1 chopped onion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1/8 bottle of Eagle Brand Chili Powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1 tsp Ground New Mexico Chili</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1/4 of a garlic pod</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1/8 tsp of ground cumin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1/2 tablespoon of Paprika</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Salt to taste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1 quart of water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Boil the ground beef with chili spices and then
simmer to consistency desired</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandma Williams Apple Butter Recipe </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Pare three cups of apples</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Cook in saucepan until real dry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Add 1-cup sugar and 1/2 tsp of the following;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Cinnamon, Ginger, Allspice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and add 1/4 tsp of ground cloves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Watch that it doesn't bum after adding sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Pour into jars and seal by hot water bath
method.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandma Williams Chocolate Pie</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">¾ cup sugar </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">½ cup flour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">¼ cup powder coco</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A pinch of salt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1 ½ cup water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">3 egg yolks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">3 egg whites</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">¼ cup sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mix all the dry ingredients and then add
water and bring to a boil stirring constantly until thickens. Cool to the touch
then add the egg yolks 1 at a time while mixture is still warm and beat in well
until the mixture is shinny. Return to the stove and cook a few minutes until
bubbly. Pour into a baked pie crust.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Beat egg whites and sugar to a meringue, spread over pie and bake until
the meringue starts to brown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">FAMILY of LOUIS and ANNE DANFORTH WILLIAMS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis Milton Williams, son of Edgar Lewis
Williams and Rosa Lee Perser, was born 22 October 1902 near Carterville, Cass,
Texas and died <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>20 January 1978 age 75
years at Cherry Hills, Riverside, California. He was married 27 September 1921 in
the town of Dickens, Dickens County, Texas. His wife was Anne Ruth Williams,
daughter of Mabry Oscar Danforth and Minnie Gertrude Peacock. She was born 31
March 1902 in the community of Swenson, Stonewall County, Texas. She died 10
January 1979 age 76 years in Redlands, San Bernardino County, California. They
are buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Children and descendants </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Oscar Louis Williams was born 2 June 1922 in Spur,
Dickens, Texas and died 13 June 1922 Spur, Dickens, Texas. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is buried in the Spur Cemetery. “The two
week old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Williams died Tuesday night at their home
in Spur, the remains being interred Wednesday in the Spur cemetery, the infant
had been ill since birth. The Texas Spur, June 16, 1922</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Raymond
Leonard Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born 28 June 1923 Plainview, Hale, Texas and died 2 July 2015 in Fontana, San
Bernardino at the age of 91. He was the last surviving child of Louis and Anne
Williams. He married Justine "Jerrie" Bernhardt<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Clark on 15 March 1957 in South Gate, Los
Angeles, California. She was born 25 Sep 1910 in Catherine, Ellis, Kansas
daughter of Michael Bernhardt and Anna Marie Husch natives of Mariental,
Russia. She died <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>7 Jun 1978 in Yucaipa,
San Bernardino, California. Ray was the stepfather of Jerrie’s grown children. Ray
married 2<sup>nd</sup> Eleanor Fritze on 5 April 1980 in Yucaipa, San
Bernardino, California. She was born 20 Sep 1924 in Manhattan New York City, New
York, and died 18 October 2011 in Redlands, San Bernardino County, California. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was buried in Redondo Beach while Ray was
buried next to his first wife Jerrie in Rose Hills. His niece Frances Anne
Griess was executor of his estate with his nephew Edgar Jr. (Ben) to serve as
executor if Frances was unable. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar
Hugh Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born 19 January 1925 Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico and died at the age of
77 on 26 December 2003 Palmdale, Los Angeles, California of a massive stroke.
He married Wilma June Johnson on 20 March 1946 in Olton, Lamb, Texas. She was
born 3 June 1929 in Shamrock, Texas and died 13 April 2011 in Mesa, Arizona at
the age of 81 years. She was cremated and her remains were buried with her
husband’s body in Rose Hill Cemetery, Whittier, California. Edgar Hugh joined
the navy at the age of 17 and was the only one of Louis and Anne’s sons to
serve in combat in the South Pacific during World War II when the ship he was
on was bombed. After he was mustered out of the service he returned to Texas to
marry his sweetheart. They moved to California to live with Louis and Anne for
a couple of years before returning to Texas where he farmed and had joined the
Lubbock Police Force. In 1953 they returned to California and Edgar went to
work for the Conveyor Company in Maywood as a steel worker. In 1954 they moved
to Orange County and bought a house on Dale Street which eventually became a
part of Garden Grove. They lived in this home for 36 years and where they
raised their three children. Edgar Hugh changed jobs in the early 1960’s
eventually working for H & L Distributors for Coors Beer and later as a
foreman for Downey Fabricators supervising steel workers. He retired in 1989
and sold their house in Garden Grove and then moved to Victorville, California
where they only lived a few years before moving to Arizona to be near Milton
and Marie. They first bought a home in Prescott and later in Cottonwood. After
Milton died in 1995 Edgar and June moved to Texas to help take care of her
widowed father. However he died shortly afterwards. They had a house built in
Lubbock, Texas but was dissatisfied with living in Texas with their
grandchildren growing up in California. In 1998 they moved backed to California
and bought a house in Palmdale, Los Angeles, California where Edgar Hugh
Williams died the day after Christmas. June Williams continued to live in
Palmdale when she decided to move to Las Vegas where she bought a mobile home.
Her daughter Charline Wachs moved into the same mobile home court until they
decided to move to Arizona to be closer to grandchildren there. June Williams
bought a home in San Tan Valley cared for by her daughter until her health declined
and she died in a convalescent home in Mesa, Arizona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charline
Williams</b> was born 9 June 1947 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California and married
Dennis Lee Wachs on 31 July<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1970 in Westminster,
Orange, California. Dennis Wachs was born 11 September 1947 in Wabash County,
Indiana. He served in Viet Nam. While Charline was engaged to Gary Clark who
was in the navy during the Viet Nam, became pregnant in 1968. Gary then broke
off the engagement with Charline and she gave birth to James Edgar Clark who
wasborn 1 December 1968 Artesia, Los Angeles, California. In 1970 she met
Dennis Wachs after they were married they had Denise Elizabeth Wachs born 22
October 1971 Bellflower, Los Angeles, California who married Aaron S Ferguson on
31 March 1989 in Baltimore, Maryland and later divorced and Michael Louis Wachs
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>born 14 January 1975 in Pomona,
Los Angeles, California lives in Newton, Kansas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Donna
Fay Williams </b>was born 25 June 1949 in Amherst, Lamb, Texas. She was married
twice. Her first husband was Terry John Pierce whom she married 4 February 1968
in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were later divorced. She then married Kenneth Louis
Jones on 13 February 1975 in Santa Ana, Orange, California. They were the
parents of two sons, Kenneth Thomas Paine Jones born 27 August 1976 in Anaheim,
Orange, California and Kevin Louis Oakes Jones born 1 November 1979 also in Anaheim,
Orange, California</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Edgar
Hugh "Ben" Williams Jr</b>. was born 10 April 1951 Amherst, Lamb,
Texas and married Wilma Frances Fuchs on 7 January 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah
and later divorced in September 1988. They had no issue. Ben Williams was an
elementary school teacher for 27 years before retiring in 2015. He is a Gay
activist in Salt Lake City and community historian. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Willard
Wallace Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born 17 January 1927 in Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico and died 16
December 2012 at the age of 85 years in Lubbock, Texas. At the age of 17 he married
Mattie Lee Jarnigan 21 October 1944 in Muleshoe, Bailey, Texas. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">She was born 26 October 1927 Caney, Atoka
County, Oklahoma the daughter of Walter Jarnigan and Blanche Self. I never knew
Uncle Wallace or as he was known to others “Wad” very much as he lived always
some distance from the rest of the family and did not always attend family get
togethers. I remember the house they had in Yucaipa and a huge picture window
in the front room where you could see the mountains. They had goats on the
property and I know they drank goat milk which seemed strange to me. They had a
little cocker spaniel dog as I remember for a very long time.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the mid 1960’s they moved back to Texas
however their daughters were married and stayed in the Redondo Beach area of
Los Angeles County. I believe Wallace and Mattie Lee lived there a short time
before moving back to Texas. I know they were back in Texas by 1968 because I
went with my mom who drove Grandma and Grandpa and Gary Williams back to Texas.
I remember Grandpa grousing at mom for how fast she was driving. He also
irritated me because he gave some money to Gary to spend but nothing to me.
Again <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I remember in the summer of 1969 I
helped Francis Anne drive back to Texas with her kids and stopping in Prescott
Arizona to pick up Marilyn and her kids.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Wallace remained in Texas for a time on a farm while working for his
brother in law Walter Jarnigin. The last time I remember seeing Wallace and
Mattie Lee was when Mom and Dad had moved back to Lubbock where they had a
house built in about 1996. His daughter Terrie Williams commenting on her father's funeral said "O<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>n the day we buried my dad, right after the grave side service the wind kicked up , dust blew and giant tumbleweeds blew across the road while on the way to church for fellowship and comfort food the congregation cooked for us. What a memory.....like I never seen."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Frances
Anne Williams</b> was born 12 September 1945 in Amherst, Lamb, Texas. She
graduated from Yucaipa High School in 1963. She married Claude Edward
"Ed" Griess on 23 July 1965 in Las Vegas,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nevada. Eddie Griess as I knew him was born
24 July 1942 in Mt. Carmel, Illinois and died 13 February 2002 at the age of
59. He was divorced with a son named Richard Edward “Ricky” Griess who Frances
Anne raised along with her own children. He was born 6 August 1963 in Los
Angeles County, California to Eddie’s 1<sup>st</sup> wife Carol Orcutt. Frances
Anne Griess had two children <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Aleesa Anne
Griess born 18 February 1966 Orange, Orange, California the wife of Arthur
Ogden and Steven Edward Griess born <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>21
December 1967 Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California. Alessa Ogden lives in
Grants Pass, Oregon and Steven lives now in Odessa, Texas. Frances worked for
years as Former Bookkeeper Administrative Assistant at Ace- Main Building
Supply before Eddie and Frances Ann moved to Grants Pass, Oregon where she
operated a café called the Chuck Wagon for years until she retired. She now
lives in Rogue River, Oregon with her 2<sup>nd</sup> husband Mr. Marlett.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marilyn
Kay Williams</b> was born 8 May 1948 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California and
married Danny Lee Stevens on 13 July 1965 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California.
Danny was born 17 Dec 1944 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, and died 3
July 2009 in Kingman, Arizona, at the age of 64 years. Marilyn Stevens had
three children and raised a granddaughter. Her children are Dina Lee Stevens born
19 August 1970 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, Danny Lee Stevens Jr.
born 3 May 1972 Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas and Candice Lynn Stevens born 16 August
1977 Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas. Marilyn Williams Stevens resides in Lubbock,
Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gary
Wallace Williams </b>was born 17 August 1952 Yucaipa, San Bernardino,
California and died 25 May 2013 in Huntington Beach, Orange, California at the
age of 60 of liver failure. He was a liver transplant recipient and lived
several years after his operation. He operated a motorcycle repair shop in
Huntington Beach. He married Lynn Crane 20 July 1972 Lubbock, Texas. They divorced
circa 1975. They had one son <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Gary Lynn
Williams who was born 31 July 1973 in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas and resides now
in Farmington, New Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Terrie
Lynn Williams</b> was born 22 May 1953 in Lynwood. Los Angeles, California. She
married at the age of 16 years Virgil Steven Lamb 10 March 1971 in Las Vegas,
Nevada. They were divorced in October 1975 in Los Angeles County. Steve Lamb
was later killed in a motorcycle accident 22 October 1981. Terrie never
remarried and made a living working as a fleet manager for the South Bay Ford
Lincoln dealer in Hawthorne, California. She has lived most of her life in
Redondo Beach. Terrie is a beautiful artist making jewelry and ceramics. She is
funny sometimes, likes the outdoors, doesn’t drink or smoke, loves the
water...swimming, boating, bathing. She is creative, inquisitive, likes movies,
plays, music, dancing....picnicking and watching stars & spinning stories.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie
Lee Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born 24 December 1929 in Muleshoe, Bailey, Texas and died age 69 years on 7
June 1999 in Riverside, Riverside, California. Minnie Williams never married
and lived with her parents off and on for the remainder of their lives.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She worked for several years as a live-in
companion for invalid geriatrics including her aunt Beulah Danforth’s mother in
Earth Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Minnie was developmentally
slow probably due to her premature birth and she was the most petite of all of
Louis and Anne’s children. She was loved by all of her nephews and nieces. She
developed type 2 diabetes in later life and had to live in a care facility
until her death in 1999. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Aunt Minnie’s
birthday was Christmas Eve and her birthday was often overlooked which I felt
bad as a child but now I realize how lucky she was to have most of her kinfolk
gathered for Christmas Eve on her special day.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Minnie would often take us to the movies and I remember he taking me to
see the Ten Commandments when it first came out and much later while visiting
in Downey she took me to see Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. They were special
occasions for me. Minnie loved her sweets which probably contributed to her
diabetes as an adult. Minnie never lived out on her own until after her parents
died and then she many lived in retirement homes ran by the Church of Christ in
Yucaipa. My dad and Milton were executors of Minnie’s inheritance and made sure
she had money to live on until she died. She had medicare and medi-cal to help
with her medical issues but she had very little in the way of Social Security
as she was never fully employed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was
a kind sweet aunt. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Bonnie
Ruth Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born 31 October 1931 in Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico and died at the age
of 64 years<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>on 31 August 1996 a Loma
Linda hospital, Riverside, California. She married Billy “Bill” Wayne Fagen on 17
July 1953 in Yuma, Arizona. Bill was born 10 May 1927 in Kerns County, California
to Wilbur Thomas Fagan and Nellie Newberry. He died on 19 Nov 1993 in Yucaipa,
San Bernardino, California. Bill</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">joined the Navy on</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">25 Aug 1944 during
World War II. After he was mustered out he joined his folks who had moved to
Downey. He was a truck driver by occupation for much of his life. Bonnie was
pregnant with another man’s child when they married and Bill raised Bonnie’s
son who took Bill’s last name. For much of the 1950’s Bonnie and Bill lived in
a house behind Louis and Anne’s main house on Dinwiddie Street. After Louis and
Anne left Dinwiddee so did Bonnie and Bill and moved to a house on Golden
Avenue about 4 miles south still in Downey. In 1968 Bonnie and Bill moved to
Buena Park, California in Orange County. They lived here until Bill Fagen was
injured in an industrial accident and later had to go on partial disability and
semi-retirement. They moved to Yucaipa in the late 1970’s and lived there where
they both were living at the time of their deaths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I don’t think Bonnie worked but was a stay at
home mom. I remember she always brought rice krispie marshmallow treats to most
of the family gatherings. She was a good cook and always seemed to be
happy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A special memory I have of Aunt
Bonnie was when I was staying overnight with them when they lived in Downey.
When she put Larry and I to bed I remember her washing my feet with a warm wash
cloth. That gesture was simple but it showed to me that she loved me, or that I
had really dirty feet. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was very sociable
and it seems that Grandma and Grandpa favored Bonnie and Bill more than the
rest of their kids; maybe because they lived close to them. I heard that grandpa
Williams was always helping them out financially.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sometime in the early 70’s there was a
falling out between Milton and Marie and Bonnie and Bill. Evidently Bill Fagan
was attracted to young blond girls and had acted inappropriately to their
daughter Stephanie. From that time forward, Milton and Marie would not attend
family functions where Bill Fagan would attend.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I never liked my Uncle Bill Fagan who always seemed to be cross. He was
very thin almost skinny and his eyes would bulge whenever he was mad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don’t know if he was ever abusive to Aunt
Bonnie but I think she stayed with him out of a sense of duty and perhaps she
had no choice. I always felt sorry for Aunt Bonnie even though she behaved very
badly after Grandma Williams died. She was upset that Grandma had left
everything to Aunt Minnie so she took Grandma’s silver set of flat ware and a
secretary writing hutch. After Bonnie passed away I have no idea what ever
happened to these items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Larry
Paul Fagen</b> was born 21 January 1953 Lynwood, Los Angeles, California and died
at the age of 46 years 5 July 1999 in Guam. He died of a heart attack. He
married </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Pamela Bullington 8 September 1973 in Las
Vegas, Nevada and later divorced in 1976. He enlisted in the navy and married
as his second wife Betty Bonan 17 January 1979 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">He served in</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm when
Iraq invaded Kuwait. He was stationed in Guam where he is buried. Larry I think
was the best looking of all the male grandsons of Louis and Anne. He was quite
skilled in carpentry work and in high school shop built his mother a
grandfather clock. I got to know Larry quite well when I was able to get him
hired while he was in high school at a Taco Bell I worked at on Lincoln and
Western in Anaheim while I was attending Cypress College. He was a good worker
but he had dubious friends with whom he hung around. He told me once how he and
his friends would break into cars and steal 8 track players. I was really
shocked and told him he needed to get his act together. I think he was mainly
influenced by his friends. One of his pals had a sister named Pam Bullington
whom Larry began dating in high school. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
lost track of Larry after I went off to Cal State Fullerton and later moved to
Utah. I was surprised to learn that he married Pam but she was six months
pregnant.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A son, Aaron Paul Fagan was
born 2 January 1974 in the Pioneer Hospital in Artesia, Los Angeles, California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Larry and Pam divorced not long after that however
Bonnie and Pam remained close. Larry decided to make a career for himself in
the navy and had little to do with the family much after that. At one point
Bonnie and Bill thought about moving to Virginia where Larry was stationed
because he refused to return to California to live. I heard Larry always denied
that Aaron was his son but Bonnie and Pam always said he was and there’s no
reason to not to believe them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bonnie
and Betty Fagan did not get along primarily because she preferred Pam as a
daughter in law and the fact that Betty was a Pilipino by ancestry. Pam
remarried a Mr. Page and resided in Chino, San Bernardino, California.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Milton
Bradford Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born 5 November 1934 at Earth, Lamb, Texas and died 28 October 1995 age 60
years in Sedona, Coconino, Arizona. He died of colon cancer. He married Marie
Joanne Buehlman 1 December 1956 in Norwalk, Los Angeles, California. Marie was
the daughter of Alfred George Buehlman and Myhrties Evelyn Schmidt. Marie was
born 13 January 1937 in Los Angeles County, California and died 23 January 2010
age 73 years old in Sedona, Arizona. They are buried in the Sedona Community, Cemetery.
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Milton was a truck driver for most of
his career and Marie worked as a book keeper. She once told me that she loved
working with numbers. Milton was my favorite uncle as that he was only 17 years
older than me and I remember as a little boy he would give me piggy back rides
and bounce me around.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As a teenager when
ever I had a fight with my own father, Milton would calm him down and stand up
for me. However with his own children he was a strict disciplinarian almost to
be abusive. Milton and Marie lived in Norwalk until the mid sixties when they
moved to the community of Walnut. I remember spending my Easter Break my Junior
year of high school over at their place in Walnut. An economic downturn had
Milton and Marie sell the house in Walnut and move to Anaheim where they bought
a smaller house on Radcliffe which was a cul de sac. They lived there for much
of the 1970’s until they bought a more spacious house in Anaheim Hills on East
Paseo Laredo which had a pool. There they also had two Doberman Pinchers. In
1985, while visiting relatives in Texas, their only son Greg Williams was
murdered in a drug deal that went wrong. Greg had become very rebellious being
part of the “punk” scene, doing drugs, and fighting with his parents.
Eventually they told him to leave and for a while he moved in with his Uncle
Edgar Hugh but as he was a bad influence on their grandson James Edgar Clark
who was living with them at the time Greg was asked to find another place to
live. He told me once that he slept on roof tops of schools and office
buildings because they were safer places to be at night.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I always was fond of my little cousin even if
he once called me an “over educated dork.” I thought it was funny.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anyway, his uncle and aunt Edgar Hugh and
June were called to identify the body and notified Milton and Marie of their
son’s death. The killer was never identified and his murder remains unsolved. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After this time Milton and Marie life was
difficult and they became increasingly abusive of alcohol until they eventually
completely stopped. When Marie’s father passed away he left her a considerable
estate from properties he had owned in Los Angeles County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They decided to retire and move away from
California to Arizona and had a large home built in Sedona located at 225 Deer
Trail. Milton bought a jeep and enjoyed the back country.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He especially enjoyed the coyotes and one he
feed regularly in the ravine behind their house. Not long after Milton and
Marie settled into their new house, Milton was diagnosed with aggressive colon
cancer. He was nearly bed ridden for the remainder of his life. He passed away
on 28 October 1995 in Sedona, ten years to the day that his son died.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Marie remained a widow for the next 15 years
but took several cruises to Alaska with her grandson Steven Hagg. However she
became estranged from her daughter Stephanie after Marie converted to the
Church of Christ in Sedona. She left her house and estate to the Sedona Church
of Christ leaving Stephanie without an inheritance. She is buried next to
Milton in the Sedona Community Cemetery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stephanie
“Steph” Irene Williams</b> was born 29 November 1957 in the Lynnwood hospital
while her folks lived in Norwalk, Los Angeles, California. Stephanie was in the
first graduating class of Esperanza High School, Anaheim, California in 1975.
After high school she married Charles “Chuck” Allen Ashburn on 13 September
1975 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 17. The marriage did not work out and
they were divorced in 1977. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
graduated in the Class of 1980 in Electronics engineering technology in
Anaheim, California. She married a second to Jon P. Haag in 1982 but they later
divorced in 1985. They had a son born 12 April 1983 in Anaheim, California they
named Steven Jon Haag. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Stephanie went
back to using her maiden name and before Milton died she had another son she
named David Gregory Williams Havens who was born 19 May 1995 in Fullerton,
Orange, California. Stephanie retired from the Boeing Company where she was a Space
Simulation Lab Supervisor from October 1983. She was in Senior Engineering R
& D Tech, IR Tech for 23.5 years. Steph Williams came out as a Lesbian
after her cousin “Ben” Edgar Williams did. She is currently [2017] living in
Corona, California in a relationship with Julie Sundeen. Steph struggled with
substance addiction for many years as an adult but overcame it. One of her
favorite quotes because of it is <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“I know
that faith in my Higher Power will not calm the storms of life, but it will
calm my heart. I will let my faith shelter me in times of trouble.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gregory
Lynn Williams</b> was born 2 February 1962 Lynwood, Los Angeles, California and
died at the age of age 24 years on 25 October 1986 in Santa Ana, Orange,
California. He is buried in Rose Hill Memorial Cemetery in Whittier near his
grandparents<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>This Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-89898191430768372532017-09-13T13:45:00.001-07:002017-12-08T05:51:20.495-08:00Edd Williams son of Rev. G.K. Williams (1873-1935)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar "Edd" Lewis Williams was the first-born son of Rev.
George Kearse Williams and his wife Shelomith Rushton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was born the 12th of July 1873 near
Jenkins in Titus (Morris) County, Texas on his father's farm.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd Williams was the first of several
generations of Williamses born in Texas. As a boy he was called "Eddie" but as an adult he always went by "Edd" and many of his children thought his name was Edward and even Edwin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Edd Williams was seven years old his
father was ordained a Baptist Minister and he was raised a preacher’s son. His
grandfather Green Williams was also a Baptist preacher. His grandfather Green
Williams died on or near his 6th birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams attended school at Hughes
Springs where his father was a patron for the school's support in 1876 and
according to his daughter Edd Williams was a typical “preacher’s kid, always in
some kind of mischief. He often told his children stories from his childhood
that made a daughter remark, “”I guess he was everything but a Saint.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd would laugh while telling these stories
but his wife would just get mad and say "Edd you shouldn't be telling these
kids them stories!" But he would anyways and his children would just about
die from laughing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">He was the oldest boy in a family of 12
children and had three older sisters, Maggie, Bettie, and Fannie who were all
born in Alabama. Edd Williams liked to read and was said to have read “every
book he could pick up”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was
intelligent but because of his father’s financial situation could not afford to
go to college. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams was raised a Missionary Baptist
but he had a very open mind about his religion and would listen to other
ministers preach, which was what many wouldn't do. He did not follow his father
and grandfather into the ministry however because according to his daughter,
Edd became the principle wage earner for his father’s large family and this
kept him from having the time to scholarly study the Bible.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the late 19th century girls didn't work
outside the home and with his father being a minister Edd Williams had to help
make a living for the family.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd
Williams worked as a laborer in various sawmills in the county and on
neighboring farms including that of William Perser of Carterville in Cass
County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One time when he was a teenager he said that
there was a special dance to which he and some of his friends had not been
invited. Edd decided to go to this party anyways with Tom a bunch of his
friends, Tom Williams, Tom Glover, and Pierce Cates who all ran around
together. The boys rode up to the party on their horses and “this old man came
out and ran them off saying that they weren't invited” and they should
leave.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They weren’t about to leave
without having their fun so Edd and his friends decided, “how funny it would be
to shoot out the lights at this party and see those girls run.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd would just about die laughing whenever he
would tell this story.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said,
"You could hear them silk petticoats just a rustling going Swoosh!
Swoosh!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the boys shot out the party lights they
went over to this affluent place and stole some chickens.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They had to eat them chickens in a hurry so
they weren’t quite cooked all the way and Edd said they all got deathly
sick.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said, "We just fairly died
we got the belly ache so bad."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It seemed that Edd was closer to his sisters
than he was to his brothers. He may have resented the fact that George Myles wasn’t
required to help out the family as much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Edd was 20 years old he became
acquainted with William Perser's tall, blond, slender, and blue eyed daughter,
Rosa Lee and soon was courting her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On
the 14th of January 1894 twenty-year-old Edd Williams married his
seventeen-year-old bride at her father's home in Carterville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rosa Lee Perser was born the 14th of November
1876 at her father's farm in Carterville near the Corinth Baptist Church.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her grandfather Andrew Jackson Perser came to
Texas in 1855 with his three sons and wife and settled in Red River
County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Her grandfather and uncle Levi Weldon Perser <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>both died in the Civil War and her father
William John Perser and Uncle George Washington Perser also were Confederate
War soldiers. The uncle who died in the Civil War was a private in Captain
Hillary Ryan's Company of Alien's Regiment, Texas Infantry. This company also
became the D Company of the l7th Regiment.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>L.W. Perser at the age of 19 appeared on company Muster Rolls on the
20thof April 1862 when he enlisted at Gatesville, Texas. According to the
Company roll for September and October 1862 it stated that L.W. Perser was
absent without leave and that his furlough had expired. By November and
December the roll shows that he was absent and sick at Little Rock,
Arkansas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The last record on L.W. Perser
states that he died January 14th 1863 at Little Rock and that he was last paid on
31 August 1862.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In a Confederate Pension Application by Rosa
Lee Perser’s uncle, G.W. Perser, he stated that he was born 1845 at Red River
County, Texas and lived all his life in Texas except for two years in the
1850’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He has been a resident of Cass
County since 1856 and enlisted December 1863 to serve in Company E Sixth Texas
and Louisiana Regiment Harrison Battalion.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He was in the cavalry but was dismounted the last two or three months of
the war.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George W. Perser was discharged
the 16th of May 1865 at Nacogdoches, Louisiana at the close of the war.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After returning to their widowed mother in
Cass County the brothers soon married.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They married sisters, daughters of Elijah and Martha Ann Warren Carter
of whom Carterville was named.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Both
Elijah Carter and his wife are buried at the Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery in
Cass County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William John Perser was also a Confederate soldier
and after the war he returned to Cass County where he married Martha Ann Carter
on the 18th of November 1868 at Carterville in Cass County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Martha Ann Carter was the 18-year-old at the
time of their marriage and became the parents of five boys and seven girls
before William Perser died on the 16th of May 1897.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was gathering eggs in the hen house and as
he reached up to gather an egg on the loft he broke a blood vessel and had a
stroke and died. He was buried in the Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Martha Ann Perser survived her husband by
another seven years and died 6th of November 1904 of Malaria.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was buried next to her husband in the Corinth
Cemetery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George W. Perser farmed and married late in
life Patia “Pasha” Carter on the 19th of February 1881 at Linden, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Both Patia Carter and her sister Martha Ann
Carter were born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams and his bride spent their
wedding night in an old deserted schoolhouse, which they transformed into a
home.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As the newlyweds prepared for bed
they were startled by the scream of a panther outside their door.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd Williams carried no weapon so the two
honeymooners huddled in bed wide awake all through the night as the panther
scratched and cried to get inside the schoolhouse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Evidently the panther had been using the old
building as its lair and was trying to reclaim it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However after that first night it never
returned and Edd and Rosie had no more trouble from that panther. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The first few years of their marriage Edd
Williams and Rosie went to live with Edd's folks and Rosie and her
mother-in-law Shelomith Williams did not get along well at all at first.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shelomith Williams was an old fashion woman
who believed that it was a woman's duty to wait on her husband and take care of
all of his needs. But Rosa Lee was a very independent person and had very modem
notions for the time in which she lived.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Rosa Lee told her mother-in-law that she was not going to wait on Edd
Williams hand and foot and this made Shelomith think that Rosa Lee was a poor
wife for her son.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shelomith was also
used to running her home with a tight grip and Rosa Lee resented being bossed
around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However when Rosie went into labor with her
first child she appreciated Shelomith's no nonsense approach to life when she
needed a doctor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd Williams was a
nervous father to be and did not want to leave Rosa Lee's side even to get a
doctor but it was Shelomith who said, "Your Pa got the doctor for me and
you married this woman so you go get the doctor for Rosie!" No one in that
family crossed Shelomith so Edd went and got the doctor for Rosa Lee but it was
a mid wife, which ended up delivering Edd first child, a son the named Clarence
George Williams after Edd's father. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Clarence was born the 22 of May 1895 and was
followed by eight more children while Rosa and Edd resided in Cass County
Texas. All of Edd and Rosie’s children who were born in Cass County, Texas
stated that they were born in the community of Avinger about 7 miles east of
Hughes Springs. However census records for Cass County in 1900 and 1910 show
that Edd Williams’ family was living in Justice Precinct 1 which included
Linden, Almira, and Carterville. The small community of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Carterville is on Farm Road 130 seven miles northwest of Linden in western
Cass County. It was probably named for the Carter family, early settlers in the
area, and was apparently settled in the 1860s.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Rosa Lee Perser’s mother was of this Carter family. </span></div>
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rosa Lee Perser Williams’ death certificate stated she was born in</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Almira a rural
community located at the junction of Farm roads 995 and 1399, eight miles
northwest of Linden in northwestern Cass County about a mile from Carterville.
The area was settled before the Civil War. A post office was established there
in 1886 with Elijah J. Hanes as postmaster and was discontinued in 1905. During
the 1890s the settlement comprised a store and blacksmith shop and a population
of twenty-five. In 1904 the community had 102 residents. Corinth Baptist
Cemetery is a few miles southeast of Almira and is the burial grounds for many
of Rosie Lee’s people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While Avinger is
listed as the birthplace of Edd and Rosie’s children it is more likely they
were born nearer to Carterville some 13 miles northeast of Avinger.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Clarence as he was called attended a small
country school near Linden in Cass County until he reached high school.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then he rode horse back into Linden until he
graduated and then attended East Texas University, which was a small private
college for one semester.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1931 Clarence received some money from his
wife's parent's estate and they moved back to Dickens to open a grocery
store.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However by this time it was the
worst of the Great Depression and his business failed when he was to liberal
with his credit and then could not collect on his bad debts. So Clarence took
his family back to Hughes Springs where his wife had some land on which they
could live until he could get back on his feet.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Though the influence of Congressman Wright Patman who was Clarence’s
Uncle Joe Perser's brother-in-law, he was made a foreman in the Civilian Conservation
Corp and worked for the C.C.G until it was abolished. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1958 Clarence was forced to retire after a
heart attack and he retired at Yoakum where he and his wife opened a Bait house
for local fisherman, which he operated until his death. Clarence also served on
the local daft board and was an avid fisherman.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He died during the night on the 30th of April 1972 after a good day of fishing.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Their oldest daughter, Ona Belle, was born
the 5th of February 1897, followed by Austin Edgar who was born the 30th of
January 1899. Onie Belle Williams was considered one of the “Belles” of Cass
County because of her beauty and vivaciousness. Her sister in law, Pearl
Callaway, the wife of Clarence, and Onie Belle never seemed to like each other
because Pearl resented that when she was engaged to Wright Patman, Onie came
along,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“batted an eyeball at him and he
dropped Pearl for Onie B.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was so
beautiful and back then all she had to do was bat an eyeball and all the boys
would just drop for her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>According to
her sister Jerry Williams Smith “She was the Belle of the county and Dad seen
to it that sister had nice clothe so sister was the boy Dad would have liked to
have had, not that he was not fond of Clarence because he was but Dad was much
closer to sister.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">She was a very independent woman who lived
life on her own terms. Her sister Jerrie remembered her as “quite a scrapper”
like her father and “nobody messed with sister either.” She was remembered as
“the talented one” in the family and quite intelligent.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She evidently resented that her brother
Clarence was allowed to go to college but she wasn’t. “Because of this there
was always a clash between the two of them for years and years and years.” </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1900 Census showed that Edd Williams was
living near his wife’s relatives. The census was taken 23 June 1900 and listed
the family as in Precinct 1 West of Petty’s Ferry and Jefferson Road as
household 266. Near neighbors were Leroy Carter at Household 265, Rosa Lee’s
maternal uncle James M Carter at household 263 and her paternal uncle George W.
“Percer” at household 261. Here Edd said he was a 26 year old farmer renting
his place. He said he was born July 1873 in Texas and married six years. Rosa L
Williams was listed as his 23 year old wife born November 1876 in Texas and the
mother of 3 children all living. At the time the census was taken Rosie was
pregnant with her 4<sup>th</sup> child. Children listed in the household were
Clarence born May 1895, Ona B born February 1897 and Austin born January 1898.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In November Thurston Lee Williams was born.
He was known all his life as “Joe” born 8th of November 1900.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>During the next decade, Edd and Rosie bought
the farm he was renting west of Carterville. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Here Edd Williams continued to farm
was well as operated a small saw mill.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Edd and Rosie </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">had
four more children before the 1910 census. They were Louis Milton Williams who was
born the 22 October 1902 and nicknamed “Boots”. William Russell Williams known
the rest of his life as “Tab” was born the 9 December 1904. Hattie Lillian Williams
was born the 22nd of August 1906 and Horace Vernon Williams known the rest of
his life as “Bunch’ was born 9 March 1910. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1910
census showed that Edd Williams was still living in Precinct 1. The census
enumerated his family on 18 May as household 314. At household 316 lived
Rosie’s brother Henry F Perser which also included her unmarried sister
Pearl.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd is listed as “Edward L
Williams” age 36 years and a general farmer. “Rosa L Williams was his 33 year
old wife and the mother of 8 children all living.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The children in this household was listed as
Clarence age 15, Onie age 13, Austin age 11, “Joseph” age 9, Louis age 7,
Russell age 5, Hattie age 2, and Horace 2 months old.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A daughter named “Hazel Clyde” Williams was
born 22 July 1912 and would be the last child born in Cass County, Texas. She was
named after her Uncle Clyde Collins. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>During
this period of twenty years between 1894 and 1914, Edd Williams lived mainly
near the community of Carterville where most of his children were born. He
maintained a home for his family on a small farm while he operated several saw
mills and a cotton gin. He also worked as a foreman for the Clark and Bois
Lumber Mill for a time after his own saw mills were burned down. He also worked
in road construction and was able to provide a good living until the economy
toured sour and the price of cotton dropped drastically at the beginning of
World War I. </span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Church records for the Missionary Baptist
Church at Corinth located near Almira, in Cass County, Texas show that Edd
Williams and Rosa were members of the church from April 27, 1902 to December
20, 1913.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Other members of the church who
had family ties with Edd Williams wife were Eldon Ball, the Carters, Emma
Cates, G.W. Percer, G W Percer Jr., Hubbard Percer, W L Percer, W P Percer, Ann
Percer, Dollie Percer, M L Percer, Patien Percer, S E Percer, Millie Percer,
Mary Percer, Melcinia Percer. </span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">About this time Edd Williams was hearing from
friends who had moved west that land was going real cheap in West Texas. He had
some financial reverses in Cass County so in January 1915 Edd Williams removed
his family from Cass County. Additionally it was said that Boll Weevils had infested the cotton crop in East Texas.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rosa Lee did not want to leave East Texas and
resented for many years that Edd took her away from her kinfolk and neighbors. Edd
Williams loaded his livestock and furniture on freight cars and took the train
across Texas to the prairie cattle town of Dickens in Dickens County, where
land was being traded to farmers. Edd Williams and Rosa Lee remained in Dickens
County Texas for the next twenty years, which was the remainder of Edd
Williams’s life. The Edd Williams family soon established themselves in the
communities of Afton and Midway and became active members of those communities.
Edd Williams farmed the remainder of his life and supplemented his families’
income by working in the oil fields in the wintertime. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Clarence Williams, their eldest son, elected
to stay behind in Cass County as he was 19 years old he and he worked for his
Uncle George Myles Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After his
father moved to West Texas Clarence married Pearl Callaway who was a school
teacher at Midway near Atlanta in Cass County. They were on 14 November 1915
and the parents of four children, Theresa La Juan Williams, George Callaway
Williams, Edgar Lyon Williams, and Billy Gene Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd and Rosie Williams first grandchild,
Theresa LaJuan Williams was born 4 May 1917 in Hughes Springs, Texas.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Clarence supported his family by working for
his Uncle George Myles Williams in road construction until he enlisted in the
Navy on the 6th of September 1917.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He
served until the war was over and was discharged in July of 1919.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Their eldest daughter Ona Belle Williams met ranch
hand John Colberg in Dickens County. He courted Onie and they were married 5
February 1917 in the community of Spur. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their first child Doris Roze Colberg was born <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #36322d; margin: 0px;">26 April 1918 in Spur, Texas.
Another grandchild of Edd and Rosie was born 5 August 1918 in Hughes Springs to
Clarence and Pearl Williams. George Callaway Williams was Edd Williams first
grandson. </span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd and Rosa Williams completed their family
with the births of three more children between 1915 and 1920. Elizabeth Lorrene
Williams also known as Jerrie was born 13 April 1915, Winnie Morlene was born
14 February 1917, and Nellie Juanita was born 12th December 1920. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1920 Census taken on 11 March showed the
family of Edd Williams in Justice Precinct 2 in Dickens County as household 58.
He is listed as Edward L Williams instead of Edgar and was a 47 year old
farmer.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The census isn’t clear whether
he owned his farm but certainly he did. Within his household were his wife Rosa
Williams age 41, Joe Williams age 18, Louis Williams age 16, Russell Williams
age 15, Hattie Williams age 12, Horace age 10, Hazel Williams age 7, Elizabeth
Williams age 5 and Winnie Williams age 2 months. All the children except Joe
and Winnie were listed as in school yet Joe who was 18 was listed as no
occupation even as a farm laborer. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams’s sons Clarence Williams and
Austin are not located on the 1920 census. Clarence was married with two
children and may have been moving to Dickens although his first two children
were born in Hughes Springs, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After
his discharge Clarence removed his family to West Texas to be near his folks
and he filled a vacancy as a Rural Mail Carrier at Afton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1924 Clarence received an appointment as a
Border Patrol officer and was stationed at Douglas, Arizona however his wife's
health prevented her from joining him, and eventually they returned to Hughes
Springs in Cass County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Austin Williams who would have been 20 when
the census was taken must have left home and may have returned to Cass County. His
sister Jerry Williams Smith said that Austin Edgar Williams left home at a
young age and became a professional singer with a Gospel Quartet called “The
Stamps.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He inherited his father's
excellent voice and was a popular Gospel music teacher in the South and is said
to have giving lessons to Tennessee Ernie Ford.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Austin Williams returned to east Texas and
married Mattie Ione Roberson<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>15 July
1925 in Morris County. However Austin's music career ended his first marriage
with a divorce when his wife lone Robertson refused to accept that kind of
life.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They had two children Glynton
Williams who was hit by a car and died at the age of 10, and Billie Ware
Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin and lone were separated
for many years before they finally divorced.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Onie Colberg was living in Spur, Texas
when<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>she was enumerated on 25 March 1920
in the Northern part of District 3. She was in the 179 household as the 25 year
old wife of J.O. Colberg.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was listed
as 34 year old man born in Kansas who owned his own home and worked as a Garage
Mechanic. They had a 1 year and 8 month old daughter listed as Doris Rose
Colberg. However Onie was seven months pregnant at the time of the census as
she gave birth to a son on 10 May 1920 in Spur.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He was named Virgil Oren Colberg. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd and Rosie Williams other children began
to leave home, marry, and have families of their own in the 1920’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis Williams married Anne Ruth Danforth the
daughter of Maby Danforth and Minnie Peacock. They were married 26 September
1921 in Dickens. Louis Milton Williams married Anne Danforth at the age of 19
and operated several Cafes in West Texas before moving to Downey, California in
1942.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He lived the remainder of his life
in California where he worked in construction for the Conveyor Company of Los
Angeles until he retired in 1967.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He
removed to Yucaipa in San Bernardino County in 1971 and lived there until his
death on 20 January 1978 at the age of 76.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The effects of Parkinson’s Diseases hastened his death.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis Williams had seven children, Oscar
Louis Williams who died in Infancy, Raymond Leonard Williams, Edgar Hugh
Williams. Willard Wallace Williams, Minnie Lee Williams, Bonnie Ruth Williams,
and Milton Bradford Williams.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thurston Lee Williams was known as Joe all of
his life and he married Ruth Mims the 21st of December 1922 at the age of
22.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Joe Williams was a popular fellow
among his family and friends however he had a problem with gambling which kept
his father in debt trying to cover Joe's excesses.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>No one blamed Joe because they knew he could
not help it and his brothers and sisters loved him dearly. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ruth Mimms Williams died from complication of
childbirth in 1928. Joe was later remarried to Jane Wyllie and had five
children before he died of a heart attack at Empire, California on the l4th of
March 1967. Joe Williams' children were Joe Billy Williams, Truman Lee
Williams, Bobbie Ruth Williams, Freddy Wayne Williams, and Don Williams. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie Williams also married Thomas Alton
Chesney in 1923 and she died in childbirth 11 December 1923 in Upland, San
Bernardino, California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd Williams16-year-old
daughter Hattie, who died The 11th of December 1923 at Upland, California, is
the only child who preceded him in death.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Hattie was pregnant with her son Raymond and had run off with Tom
Chesney to California. When Hattie went into labor, because of her age, the
doctor decided that it was impossible for her to deliver her baby naturally and
talked Tom into having a Caesarian performed.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The doctor was totally incompetent according to the family and when he
performed surgery on her, he cut through the pelvic artery and Hattie bled to
death on the operating table.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However
the baby was saved although his sixteen-year-old mother was dead at the hands
of a “quack doctor”. Raymond Chesney was born 11 December 1923 at Upland and was
adopted by his Aunt Onie Belle who had married John Oberlin Colberg and had two
children of her own Doris Roze Colberg and Virgil Orin Colberg. His name was
changed to Raymond Thomas Colberg. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Russell Williams known as “Tab”
Williams married Irene Putnam and had two daughters, Mildred Williams and
Francell Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tab Williams remained
in Dickens County where he farmed until his death on the 22nd of September 1958
at the age 53.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died of a heart attack.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tab Williams married outside the Baptist
faith and this caused a strain between his folks and his wife's Church of
Christ folks.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd and Rosie Williams had 14 grandchildren
born during the 1920’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Virgil Colberg
was born 10 May 1920 in Spur, Texas the son of Onie Colberg. Oscar Mabry
Williams was born 10 June 1922 also in Spur the son of Louis Williams. This
baby only lived 12 days. Raymond Leonard Williams was born 28 June 1923 in
Plainview, Texas another son of Louis Williams. Edgar Lyon “Skee” Williams was
born 8 August 1923 in Afton, Texas the son of Clarence Williams. Raymond Thomas
Chesney Colberg was born 11 December 1923 in Upland California. Billy Joe
Williams was 24 January 1924 in Afton, Texas the son of Joe Williams and a year
later another grandson named Edgar was born. Edgar Hugh Williams was born 19
January 1925 in Portales, New Mexico. He was the son of Louis Williams but
named after his uncle Edgar Danforth not his grandfather.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Another son of Joe Williams named Truman Lee
Williams was born 3 August 1925 in Dickens County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Glynton Williams was born 9 March 1926 in
Hughes Springs, the son of Austin Williams. After his folks divorced, Glynton
Williams lived with his mother and stepfather in Cass County where he died from
being hit by a car when he was 10 years old.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Louis Williams 4<sup>th</sup> son, Willard
Wallace Williams, also known as “Wad” was born 17 January 1927 in Portales, New
Mexico. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tab Williams first child was a
daughter named Mildred Juanita Williams born 17 December 1927 in Dickens
County, Texas. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Two more grandchildren were born in 1928. Billy
Ware Williams was born 15 May 1928 in HughesSprings,Texas<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the son of Austin Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A girl named Bobby Ruth Williams was born in August
1928 in Dickens County, the daughter of Joe Williams. Her mother died of
complications from Bobby Ruth’s birth and she died before 1930 census.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Minnie Lee Williams the daughter of Louis
Williams was the last grandchild born in the 1920’s. She was born premature on
24 December 1929 in Muleshoe, Texas. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1930 Census of Dickens County, Texas is
the last census in which Edd Williams is enumerated. However his wife Rosie
Williams as his widow would be found in the 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1970 censuses
however only the 1940 Census has been released.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1930 census was taken on 25 April for Edd
Williams family. They were household 251 in Precinct 1 near the Roaring Springs
to Dickens Highway on State Highway 18. Edd Williams was renting a farm<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and his occupation was given as a general
farmer. The government asked if the household had a radio and the answer was no
probably because the farm was not hooked up to electricity. His name was
correctly listed as Edgar L Williams age 56. Others within his household were
his wife Rosa L Williams age 51, his son Thurston L Williams age 28, his son
Horace V Williams age 20, his daughter Hazel Williams age 17, his daughter
Elizabeth Williams age 14, his daughter Winnie Williams age 12, his daughter
Nellie J Williams age 10, his grandson Billie J Williams age 6, and his
grandson Truman L Williams age 4 and 6 months.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams’ son Thurston L Williams was
listed as a widower and a teacher in a singing school. Horace V Williams was
listed as a farm laborer.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1930 census was taken after the Stock
Market Crash in 1929 and the United States was beginning to feel the effects of
what became known as the Great Depression. The census showed that Clarence had
left his family behind in Hughes Springs to find work in Maricopa County,
Arizona.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Onie Colberg was listed as
living in Hobart, Oklahoma where her husband was a automobile mechanic. Raymond
T Colberg is listed as John’s adopted son. Hazel Williams must have been
visiting as she was listed as John’s sister in law.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Austin Williams by this time was a member of
a singing Quartet that was traveling around the country performing gospel and
country music. He cannot be located in the 1930 census but he is separated from
his wife who is living in Linden, Texas with Edd Williams 2 grandsons Glynton
Williams and Billy Ware Williams.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1930 Louis Williams is located in Earth,
Lamb County, Texas with his family working as a cook in a café he operated
there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tab Williams was farming in
Precinct 1 of Dickens County as household 212.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the Great Depression nine more
grandchildren were born to Edd and Rosie Williams although three were born
after his death. Billy Gene Williams was born 8 March 1931 in Hughes Springs,
Texas the son of Clarence Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bonnie
Ruth Williams was 31 October 1931 in Portales, New Mexico the daughter of Louis
Williams.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">All who knew him called Horace Vernon
Williams by a nickname Bunch.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He married
Edna Anne Gentry and was the last surviving brother of six sons of Edd and Rosa
Lee Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Here was a retired farmer
and lived near Afton on Dickens County, Texas. He is the father of two
daughters, Jerrie Anne Williams and Tommie Ruth Williams. Uncle Bunch’s wife,
Anne Gentry was the daughter of Albert Claud Gentry who was born August 31,
1876 Knox County, Texas. He died November 1955. Her mother was Mattie Ernestine
Law from Hamburg, Ark. She was died Dec 17, 1955. They ran a grocery store at
Midway and had the post office at Alton in Dickens County.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Freddy Wayne Williams was born 21 Oct 1933 in
Spur, Texas, the son of Joe Williams by his second wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Daughter Winnie Williams became pregnant in February
1933 when she was barely 18. The father a 21 year old cowboy named Lawrence
Cooper of Roaring Springs. He refused to marry her so Winnie went to live with
her married sister Onie Colberg in Hobart, Oklahoma. At the age of 16 Winnie gave
birth to a son born 16 November 1933 in Hobart, that she named Jerry “Gene”
Cooper. While staying with her brother Louis Williams in Earth. Lamb County Winnie
while working as a waitress met 26 year old John Walker. He was a farmer who
lived in town near the family of Louis Williams according to the 1930
Census.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Winnie and John were married in
1935 in Lamb County and John Walker raised Gene Cooper as his own son. Gene
adopted the last name of Walker. John and Winnie had their own son Kenneth
Carroll Walker born 21 December 1935 at Earth.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He was born after the death of his grandfather six months earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1934 two more grandchildren were born. Francell
Williams was born 4 April 1934, in Spur, Texas, the daughter of Tab Williams. Milton
Bradford Williams was born 7 months later on 5 Nov 1934 in Earth, Lamb, Texas
the son of Louis Williams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandchildren born in the 1930’s after the
death of Edd Williams were Kenneth Carroll Walker born 21 Dec 1935 in Earth,
Lamb, Texas, the son of Winnie Walker. Jerry Anne Williams born 22 October 1939
in Dickens County, Texas the daughter of Bunch Williams, and Darlene [Darlyn]
Howell born 9 Dec 1939 in Dickens County, the daughter of Nell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams died at the height of the Great
Depression on 16th July 1935 at his farm near Midway and Afton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edd Williams had walked all over his land the
day with a government man to decide how much of his land he was going to lay aside
in a soil bank. That strenuous exercise in a blistering Summer heat was said to
have contributed to his death probably of heat stroke.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His death certificate stated that he was
found dead in the fields and that since he was dead no doctor was called but
simply the Justice of the Peace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The death certificate informant was his son
William Russell “Tab” Williams who gave the birthdate of his father, whom he
listed as “Mr.E.L. Williams” as 10 January 1873, born in Texas. He knew the
name of his grandfather whom he listed as “G.K.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Williams” but for Edd’s mother he wrote unknown. Evidently he did not
consult his mother Rosa Lee Williams when filling out the form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another story told by family members was that
Rosa Lee discovered that her husband of forty-one years had died in his sleep
when she went to wake him for breakfast.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>His grandson Raymond Chesney Colberg was visiting the family in preparation
of going to a fair the next day. He had slept with Edd that night but didn’t
realize his grand-father had passed away until Rosa Lee went to wake him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams was buried at Dickens Cemetery
near Dickens, which is the county seat of Dickens County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At the time of his death, all of his children
were grown except for the baby of the family, Nell who was 14 years old at the
time of Edd's death. He had served as school superintendent for several years
in the 1920’s and 1930's. He was a also Baptist Deacon in the county's
Missionary Baptist Church and was asked to lead Sunday services whenever a
Preacher was absent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His sons were said to have inherited his fine
singing voice as he was the President of the Dickens’s County Singing
Association and was a favorite among the local ministers for conducting the
singing portion of the various churches revivals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rosa Lee Williams as a widow continued to
live in Dickens County for sometime to eventually she gave up her own household
and lived with her various children and their families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1940 Census of Ector County, Texas showed
that Rosie Williams had moved there to be with her daughters who had found work
in Odessa which was an oil boom town. On the 3<sup>rd</sup> of April she was
listed as “Rosa L Williams, 63 years old, a widow head of her household which
was the 17 family visited by the census taker.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>She was renting a house at 1006 Jackson Rue Street for 25 dollars a
month. The census stated that in 1935 she was living in Dickens County,
Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In this census Rosie Williams
stated the highest level of education was the 2<sup>nd</sup> year of high
school. She also had not worked at all outside of the home in all of 1939 and
had zero income. Others listed in her household were Jerrie Williams age 24,
Hazel Beard age 26, Nell Howell age 19 and Darlene Howell age 3 months. Another
woman listed as a lodger was Iva Wallace age 27.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All of the daughters and Iva Wallace were
working as waitresses with Jerrie saying she worked at a “cold lunch stand.” The
girls worked long hours without much pay.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Jerry Williams had worked 24 weeks in 1939 and made only $168 for
working a 63 hour week. Hazel must have just started work in 1940 as she had no
income in 1939. Nell Williams who was the youngest was making the most having
worked 24 weeks and made $360 for a 48 hour week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Both Hazel and Nell were listed as married women
but without any husbands in the household so they probably were separated.
Hazel was living in Hobart, Oklahoma in 1935 but the other daughters were
living in Dickens County at the time.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Nell’s husband was a man named Wayne Howell who was the father of her
daughter. It is unclear who Hazel’s first husband was except for the name Mr.
Beard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1940 Clarence Williams was living in
Corsicana, Texas where he was a foreman for a Soil Conservation Crew working
for the Civilian Conservation Corp or CCC, a FDR New Deal Program. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Onie Colberg has not been located on the 1940
Census and the family may have been on the move.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin Williams is living in Cheyenne, Roger
Mills County, Oklahoma as a divorced man working as a vocal singing
instructor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Joe Williams remained in
Dickens County where he was listed as a farmer.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Louis Williams was living in Lamb County, Texas and listed as a waiter
in a café. Tab Williams also remained in Dickens County and was a farmer in
1940 as was his younger brother Bunch Williams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During World War II, Austin Williams joined
the United States Army on 8 September 1942 and served until he was released on
18 January 1943. At least five of Edd Williams grandsons, Edgar L Williams,
Virgil Colberg, Raymond Williams, Edgar H Williams and Wallace Williams served
in the armed forces. Both Edgars and Virgil served in the navy in the South
Pacific. Raymond Williams was stationed in Hawaii guarding Diamond Head and
Wallace served in Italy transporting prisoners of war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">World War II had many of the children of Edd
and Rosie Williams move from Texas to better opportunities in California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1942 Louis Williams sold his café in
Littlefield and moved to Downey in Los Angeles County where his in laws had
recently moved. Soon others moved to California also, including Joe Williams
who moved his family from Dickens, Texas to Empire in </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Stanislaus County. Winnie Walker moved with her husband and two children to
Norwalk in Los Angeles.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nell Howell
moved to Downey also where she met and married Arthur Czarapata.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Onie Belle Colberg,being the oldest girl and
taking after her mother Rosie, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>thought
anything a man could do she could do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
Colbergs moved to the Bay Area of Northern California where she went to work in
1942 during WWII. She worked up until she retired at 67.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In her old age Onie was always falling
because evidently she had weak ankles but it seemed to have never slowed her
down any.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Both Tab and Bunch Williams continued to farm
in Dickens County while the rest of their siblings moved to either California
or Nebraska. Clarence continued working for the CCC in Texas while Austin had
joined the service and later moved to Ohio. Tommie Ruth Williams was born 9 Dec
1944 in Dickens County the daughter of Bunch Williams.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hazel Clyde Williams Beard and her sister
Jerrie Williams found themselves in the town of Ashland, Saunders County,
Nebraska during the war where they found work and eventually married. Elizabeth
Lorrene Williams, known as “Jerrie”, married Gail Smith in June 1946 at
Ashland, Nebraska where they lived for several years before moving back to
Texas where they settled in Plainview, Hale,Texas. Here they made their home
and had their mother Rosie live with them. They were the proprietors of the Arrowhead
Drive-In which was a popular eating establishment and hamburger joint. They
also operated a chicken ranch in Dickens County, Texas. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hazel had a son very late in life, named Michael
Clyde Maynor born 8 April 1952 who was born in Ashland, Nebraska. Hazel was 39
years old when she had her son. She died at the age of 44 on 10 September 1956
at Ashland, Nebraska. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Hazel <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was said to have been talking to someone at her
work when in the middle of a sentence she had a stroke and she was dead before
she hit the floor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her son’s father Jack
Maynor allowed Hazel's sister Jerrie Smith to raise Hazel’s son Mike who goes by
the name Smith now. He operated Gail and Jerrie’s chicken farm in Dickens after
they retired.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jerrie Smith’s big hearted
generosity endeared her to all of her nephews and nieces.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jerrie and Gail were the primary support of
Rosa Lee Williams in her last years.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Austin Williams had moved to Dayton Ohio
where he found work as a vocal teacher. While there he met Lorene Junkin
originally from Pickens County, Alabama. Lorene was nearly 26 years younger
than Austin and had been married to a Mr. McKenistry in 1942. Austin and Lorene
were married about 1950 most likely in Dayton, Ohio. As that Austin lived so
far from most of his relatives the family knew little about him and his second
family he had by Lorene. Austin had a son and a daughter with Lorene when he
was 52 and 53 years old. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A son named Edgar
Clyde “Eddy” Williams was born possibly 4 March 1951 in Dayton, Ohio and a
daughter named Rebecca Louise “Becky” Williams was born 17 August 1952 in
Matador, Motley County,Texas. Motley County is located between Dickens and Hale
Counties. The 1959 city Directory of Dayton Ohio listed Austin and “Loreen” Williams
as living at 2308 South Dixie Ave in Apartment 3. His occupation was given as
Music Director for the Church of God. The following year Austin died of a heart
attack on 18th March 1960 at the age of 61 in Dayton,Ohio. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His widow had Austin buried in a family
cemetery in <strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is buried in the Mount Zion Baptist Church
Cemetery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lorene Williams remained in
Dayton, Ohio and married a widower named Donald William Haller of Dayton. They
may have been members of the same church. He became the step father of Austin’s
children.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When Lorene died in 1981 she
was buried next to Austin in the Mount Zion Baptist Cemetery while Donald
Haller was buried in Dayton next to his first wife. Nothing more is known of
Austin’s children, Eddie and Becky.</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I remember visiting my great grandmother Rosa Lee
Perser Williams on two occasions as a child. She lived most of the time in
Plainview, Texas with her daughter Jerrie Smith and occasionally with her
daughters Winnie Walker and Nell Czarapata when they both lived in Downey or
Norwalk. Once while she was visiting her son Louis Williams in Downey, my folks
came to see her. I remember she was always complaining how cold her hands were
so family members bought her a hand warmer. However, she broke it soon there after
because she would rather sit with her hands in her family’s hands. As a small
boy I would sit with her and hold her frail thin hands. On another occasion I
went to church with her at my grandparents’ Church of Christ in Paramount and
she remarked on what a good singing voice I had. I don’t think she quite knew
which great grandchild I was but she always commented on her great grandson’s
singing in church with her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When I was
much older about 16 years old in 1967, I heard that “Granny Rose” as we all
called her was out visiting Winnie Walker. I wanted to see her so I rode my
bicycle from Garden Grove California to Norwalk so I could visit with her. I
had her tell me stories of her youth and her folks and she told me the story of
the panther on her wedding night and other stories. I hung on to her words and
when I came back home I wrote it all down lest I forgot. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I never knew much about my Great Grandfather Edd Williams’ family as we never were around them much and I think my Grandmother
Anne Williams kind of disapproved of them as she was raised in the Church of
Christ and the Williamses were for the most part Baptists. I also think she was
scandalized by the amount of divorces and children born out of wedlock to my
Grandfather’s siblings. In either case I only gleaned information after much of
that family had passed away.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>My uncle
Milton Williams grew up with his Walker cousins when they all lived in Norwalk
and Downey. They were all similar in age even though my grandmother disapproved
because she thought they were too “wild” as teenagers. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I remember my great Aunt Nell as being a fun
happy person who was really tall for a woman. She towered over the rest of them
but she probably was only about 5’ 10 inches or 11 inches. I never met her
daughter Darlene Howell and only knew her 3<sup>rd</sup> husband who I thought
had a funny name, Toy Dial.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of all my
grandfather’s brothers and sisters I got to know Aunt Jerrie the most. Like
almost all the Williamses she had the gift of gab and she would talk your ear
off if you’d sit and listen.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I had her
write a memoir before she died where she talked about growing up in my great
grandparent’s home in Dickens County, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>She and I had a genetic link as we both had baby teeth that had no
permanent teeth behind them. I lost my last baby tooth at the age of 64. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I was a way in college when I heard that
Granny Rose had died in the Heritage Nursing Home in Plainview Texas. Until
January 8<sup>th</sup>, she had been living with her daughter Jerrie Smith at
104 Thomas Street in Plainview.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She died
on 14 November 1973 at 5:45 pm from a stroke brought on by hardening of the
arteries. She died on her 79<sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> wedding anniversary. Her son Bunch
Williams was the informant on the death certificate and he was mistaken on her
birth year. He put down she was born in 1875 when she was born in 1876.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was buried on 16 January 1973 in the
Dickens Cemetery. I don’t’ recall that any of the California relatives made it
to her funeral.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Granny Rose outlived a husband and seven of
her children who were all grown. My Grandmother Anne Williams’ sister in law
Beulah Danforth lived in Earth, Texas and was fond of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anne’s mother in law, so much so that she
used the handle “Granny Rose” as her CB name.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Edgar Lewis Williams</b> was born July 12, 1873, South
Union, Titus, Texas and died July 16, 1935 near Afton, Dickens, Texas. He married
Rosa Lee Perser (Percer) on 14 January 1894 in Carterville, Cass Texas. She was
November 14, 1876 at Carterville, Cass, Texas and died January 14, 1973
Plainview, Hale, Texas<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Clarence George Williams</b> was born May 22,
1895 near Carterville, Cass, Texas and died on 30 Apr 1972, age 76, at Linden,
Cass, Texas. He married on November 13, 1915 Lillie “Pearl” Callaway the daughter
of William A. Callaway and Margaret Frances “Fannie” Hall. Her father was a
charter member of Hughes Springs First Baptist Church. It was first a two-story
log building. She was born April 9, 1893 and she died 4 April 1990 at Lufton
Texas</span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Theresa LaJuan Williams</b> was born 4 May 1917 at Hughes
Springs, Texas and died at the age of 91 years on<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>22 January 2009 at Midwest City,
Oklahoma.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She married George Edward
“Eddie” Kouri of Syrian ancestry and had two sons, George Edward Kouri Jr and Donald
Jack Kouri. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B. <b>George Callaway Williams</b> was born 5 August 1917 and
died at the age of 75 years 20 Sep 1993 Linden, Cass, Texas. He joined the Army Air force during WWII and
married a woman who turned out to be marrying lots of service men for their
insurance. He divorced his wife on grounds of bigamy. He later lived in Florida
for many years before retiring in Lawton Oklahoma. He had a son named George Thomas Williams by
a wife named Mary Jeff Bridges. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C.<b> Edgar Lyon Williams</b> born circa 1924<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>called “Skee” was born 8 August 1923 at
Afton, Dickens County, Texas abd died 27 January 2012 at Seguin, Guadalupe
County, Texas at the age of 88. He married Margaret Roose. They had one
daughter Janet Elaine Williams born 10 October 1949 in Corsicana, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Skee served in the navy during World War II
in the South Pacific Battle for the Solomon Islands. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #36322d; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b>Billy Gene Williams</b> born March 9 1931 Linden, Cass
County, Texas. No further information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Onie Belle Williams Colberg</b> was born February
5, 1897 near Carterville, Cass, Texas and died Feb 7, 1988 in Benecia, Solano
County, California at the age of 91. She<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>married John Oberlin Colberg on 5 February 1917 in Dickens County and
had two children as well as adopting Hattie Williams’ baby Raymon Chesney. John
Colberg and Onie divorced and Onie remarried Edward Clarence Hiskett 24
December 1959 in Vallejo, California at the age of 62.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mr. Hiskett died 22 February 1963 in Vallejo,
California at the age of 66 and John O. Colberg died 3 October 1964 in Lincoln
County, Nebraska at the age of 79. Onie was using the name Colberg when she
died. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Doris Roze Colberg</b> was born 26 April 1918
in Spur, Dickens County, Texas and died 16 May 2004 in Hobart, Kiowa, Oklahoma
at the age of 62. She married Harley Butler in August 1938 who died 16 March
1998 in Hobart. They had one daughter Sharon Annette Butler born 8 August 1941
who married Tilford J. Barton Jr on 16 March 1967in Willbarger, Texas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Virgil Orin Colberg</b> was born 10 May 1920 in
Spur, Dickens, Texas and died 19 Aug 1980 in Vallejo, Calfornia at the age of
60 years. He married Dorothy Lee “Sissy” Thurman and had one son John “Johnny”
Thurman Colberg. Johnny Colberg was born 15 June 1947 in Clifton, Bosque, Texas
and died 3 June 2012 in Weatherford, Custer, Oklahoma. He married Mary
Elizabeth Kight the 5 June 1969 in Tarrent County, Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Edgar “Austin” Williams</b> was born January 30,
1899 Carterville, Cass, Texas and died March 18, 1960 in Dayton, Montgomery,
Ohio at the age of 61. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was buried in
Columbus, Mississippi. Austin was married first to Mattie “Ione” Robertson whom
he later divorced. They were married 15 July 1925 in Morris County, Texas and
had two sons. They were separated by 1930 and divorced by 1940 when Ione
Williams remarried Raymond Attlee Morse. Austin Williams remarried in circa
1950 most likely in Dayton, Ohio. His second wife was Nota “Lorene” Junkin the
daughter of Kurtis Claudie Junkin and Eula L Hannah of Columbus, Mississippi.
She was born 10 November 1925 and died 1 June 1981. She had been previously
married but whether she was divorced or widowed is not known.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was an organist who accompanied Austin in
teaching singing. Austin and Lorene has two children a boy and a girl. After
the death of Austin Williams Lorene remarried a widower named Donald Haller. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Glynton Williams</b> son of Ione Roberson was born
March 9 1926 in Linden, Texas and died <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>22 June 1936 in Linden, when he was hit by an
automobile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Billye Ware Williams</b> son of Ione Roberson
was born 15 May 1928 in Linden Texas and was raised by his stepfather. He died
15 August 1999 at the age of 71 in Jefferson, Texas. Nothing more is known of
him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b>Edgar “Eddie” Clyde Williams</b> was born 4
March 1951 in Dayton, Ohio</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b>Rebecca Louise “Becky” Williams</b> was born
17 August 1952 in Motley County, Texas</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Thurston Lee</b> <b>“Joe” Williams</b> was born November
8, 1900 in Carterville, Cass, Texas and died March 17, 1967 at the age of 66 in
Empire, Stanislaus, California. He was married twice and had children by both
wives. He married first December 21, 1922 Ruth Mimms, the daughter of Moses B
Mimms and Nancy Ella Jones. In the 1900 census Ruth’s mother said she was the
mother of 21 children by the time she was 41 years old although only 14 were
living at the time. Ruth died in 1928, and Joe remarried Jane Viola Wylie
daughter of Benjamin Delano Wiley and Annie Rosa Dobbs of Parker County Texas.
Joe moved to California in the 1940’s </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Joe Billy Williams</b> son of Ruth Mimms was
born 24 January 1924 in Afton, Dickens, Texas and died 28 August 2008 in
Wenatchee, Washington. He married Mildred Doris Howard in Stanislaus County and
had four children, Randy Williams of Brewerton, Washington, Gordon Williams of
Sponkane, Washington, Mrs. Kathy Ling of East Wenatchee, Washington and Mrs.
Linda Perkins of East Wenatchee, Washington. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Truman Lee Williams</b> was born 3 August 1925
in Afton, Dickens, Texas and died 2 July 2014 at the age of 88 at Oakdale,
Stanislaus County, California. He married Jaunema Fern Ring and had three
children, Dale Ray Williams born 31 January 1950, Debra Ruth Williams born 24
June 1951, and Karen Sue Williams born 6 September 1952. All his children were
born in Stanislaus County, California. His son Dale died 13 May 1971 at the age
of 21 in an auto accident in Tuolumne County, California. “D<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">ale married young and died
young. Had a beautiful baby girl at the age of 20. He died at 21 of
a auto accident. His baby girl grew up with his loving Mother, Father and
two sisters influence. Her sense of humor mimics that of her father
(Dale). She is an only grandchild. She brings sunshine to all that
know or meet her. She is my Daughter and I LOVE her dearly. I am so
blessed to have her in my life. Thank you Dale for this most treasured
gift. I love and miss you. Your wife........Linda”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Debra Ruth Williams married Mr. Christensen
and Karen Sue Williams never married. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b>Bobbie Ruth Williams</b> daughter of Ruth
Mimms was born in <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>6 September 1928 in
Afton, Dickens County, Texas. As an infant she was adopted by her Aunt Clara
Maude Mimms and her husband Oliver Eugene Minix. She married Marvin Earl Blair in
1947 who was born 17 June 1926 in Spur, Texas and died 30 June 2009 at the age
of 88 in Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Washington. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They had three sons Larry Charles Blair born
18 June 1948 in Crosby County, Texas, Daniel Eugene Blair born 27 October 1951
in Crosby County, Texas, and Timothy Earl Blair born 6 November 1958 in Dickens
County, Texas. Bobbie Blair moved to Stockton, California in 1963 with her
husband Marvin where she raised her sons. Marvin was an elder in the Church of
Christ and his son Timothy Blair is an associate minister in the Church of
Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b>Freddy Wayne Williams</b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>son<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of
Jane Wylie was born October 21, 1933 in Dickens County, Texas and died 1955
about 22 years old in Stanislaus County, California. No further information is
known.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b>Donald W “Don” Williams</b> son of Jane Wylie
was born 29 November 1939 in Dickens County, Texas and lived in Modesto,
Stanislaus County, California. No further information is known.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Louis Milton “Boots” Williams</b> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was born October 22, 1902 near Carterville, Cass,
Texas and died January 20, 1978 at the age of 75 at Cherry Hills, Riverside, California.
He married on 27 September 1921 in Dickens, Texas Anne Ruth Danforth the
daughter of Oscar “Mabry” Danforth and Minnie Gertrude Peacock. She was born 31
March 1902 at Swenson, Stonewall, Texas and died 10 January 1979 at the age of
76 in Redlands, San Bernardino, California. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Oscar Louis Williams</b> was born 10 June 1922
in Spur, Texas and died 3 days later on June 13. He is buried in the Spur
Cemetery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Raymond Leonard “Ray” Williams</b> was born 28
June 1923 in Plainview, Hale, Texas and died 2 July 2014 at the age of 91in
Yucaipa, San Bernardino, California. He was married twice but had no children.
His first wife was Justine “Jerrie” Rose Bernhardt Clark whom he married 15
March 1957 in South Gate, Los Angeles, California. She was a divorcee with
grown children. Jerrie Williams died in 1978 and Ray Williams married again on
5 April 1980 a woman named Eleanor “Ellie” Fritze.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She died in 2011.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He lived much of his amrried life in Grass
Valley, California and later in Calimesa, California.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C.<b> Edgar Hugh Williams</b> was born 19 January
1925 in Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico and died 26 December 2003 in Palmdale,
Los Angeles, California. He married Wilma June Johnson the daughter of James
Wilburn Johnson and Tressie Margret McLeod on 20 March 1946 in Olton, Lamb,
Texas. She was born 3 June 1929 at Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas and died 13 April
2011 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was the father of three children whom he
raised mainly in Garden Grove, Orange, California. His children are Charline
Wachs born 9 June 1947 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California wife of Dennis
Wachs, Donna Fay Williams born 25 June 1949 Amherst, Lamb, Texas wife of
Kenneth Jones, and Edgar Hugh “Ben” Williams Jr. born 10 April 1951 Amherst,
Lamb, Texas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b>Wallace Willard “Wad” Williams</b> was born 17
January 1927 in Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico and died 16 December 2012 age
85 years in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas. Wad Williams married Mattie Lee Jarnigin
21 October 1944 at Muleshoe, Bailey, Texas. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">They are the parents of 4 children whom they
raised mainly in Yuciapa California before returning to Texas. Their children
are Frances Anne Williams born 12 September 1945 in Amherst, Lamb, Texas wife
of Claud Edward Griess, Marilyn Kay Williams born 8 May 1948 in Los Angeles,
California wife of Danny Lee Stevens, Gary Wallace Williams born 17 August 1952
and died 25 May 2013 age 60 years and Terrie Lynn Williams born 19 May 1954 in
Lynnwood, Los Angeles, California.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b>Minnie Lee Williams</b> was born 24 December
1929 in Muleshoe, Bailey, Texas and died 7 June 1999 in Riverside, Riverside,
California. She never married.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">F. <b>Bonnie Ruth Williams</b> was born 31 October 1931
in Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico and died 31 August 1996 at Loma Linda, San
Bernardino, California. She married Billie Wayne Fagan 17 July 1953 in Yuma,
Arizona. She had one son Larry Paul Fagan bor 23 January 1954 in Lynwood, Los
Angeles, California and died 6 July 1999 in Guam age 45. He was married twice.
First wife was Pamela Bullington and 2</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><sup>nd</sup> wife was Betty Bonen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b>Milton Bradford Williams</b> was born 5
November 1934 in Earth, Lamb, Texas and died 28 October 1995 at the age of 60
in Sedona, Arizona. Milton died 10 years to the day after his son Gregory was
murdered. He was married to Marie Buehlman on 1 December 1956 in Norwalk, Los
Angeles, California. He had two children Stephanie Irene Williams born 29
November 1957 in Lynwood, Los Angeles, California and Gregory Lynn Williams
born 2 February 1962 in Lynwood, Los Angeles, California and died 28 October
1985 in Santa Ana, Orange, California.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>William Russell “Tab” Williams</b> was born December
9, 1904 near Carterville, Cass, Texas and died September 22, 1958 age 53 years
old in Matador, Motley County, Texas. He was farming in Shallowater, Texas when
he suffered a heart attack. He was taken to the Stanley Hospital where he died
after 2 weeks.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was married to Pearl
“Irene” Putnam. She was born <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #36322d; margin: 0px;">17
January 1906 in Linden, Cass, Texas and died 21 July </span></span>1968 in Lubbock,
Texas. Irene was the daughter of Lewis Simuel Putnam and Betha Jarrett</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Mildred Williams</b> was born 17 December 1927
in Dickens, Texas and died 8 April 2015 in Lockney, Floyd County, Texas. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She married on 20 April 1946 in Spur, Texas to
Claude Charles Keaton. He was born June 6, 1926 son of Ruth Gentry<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and C. C. Keaton. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Claude Keaton died <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>3 march 2007 in Slaton, Texas. He was a nephew
of Edna Anne Gentry and Mildred was the niece of Bunch Williams who was married
to Anne Gentry. Claude’s mother Ruth divorced his father and married T.C. Cooley.
Claude Keeton served in the Lubbock Police Force for many years and helped my father
Edgar Hugh Williams, Mildred’s cousin in joining the force in 1952. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mildred and Claude Keaton had a son named Charles
Russell Keaton born 18 October 1955 in Lubbock, the husband of Donna Chesshir. </span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Francell Williams</b> was born Apr 5, 1934 in Afton,
Dickens, Texas and died </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">January 27, 1998 in Plainview, Texas. She
was married 9 January 1954 in Lubbock to Willie Herbert Young. He was born 11 July
1928 in Spur, Texas and died 13 March 1983 in Plainview, Hale, Texas. He was the
son of Garner Young and Tressie Henze. They were the parents of twin sons, Marlin
Glenn Young and Marvin Scott Young both born 24 May 1957. Marlin married<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Betsy K Mickey on 7 Jul 1978 in Plainview Hale
County, TX and he died 16 September 2005. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<b></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Hattie Lillian Williams</b> was born August 22,
1906near Carterville, Cass, Texas and died December 11, 1923 in Upland, San
Bernardino California.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Raymond Thomas Chesney</b> (Colberg) son of
Tom Chesney born December 11, 1923 Upland, San Bernardino California married
Marjorie Pearsol. He was raised by Onie Colberg and adopted Colberg as his surname.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Horace Vernon “Bunch” Williams</b> was born March
9, 1910 near Carterville, Cass, Texas </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">And died November 6, 1987, Afton, Dickens, Texas.
He married 30 November 1933 in Spur, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Texas Edna “Anne” Gentry the daughter of Albert
Claude Gentry and Maline Ernestine Law. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
was born 24 November 1913 in Dickens County and died 29 August 1972 in Spur, Texas
of a stroke. Bunch was a farmer for most of his life. After the death of Anne he
married a 61 year old woman named Willie B Owens on 4 April 1973. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Jerrie Ann Williams</b> was born Oct 22, 1939 in
Dickens County and died 4 January 2004 in Matador, Texas. She married Jimmy
Watson July 21, 1961 in Afton, Texas. She was the mother of two sons Christopher
J <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Watson born 28 June 1962 now of
Casper, Wyoming and Darren P. Watson born 4 May 1965 now of Casper, Wyoming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Tommye Ruth Williams</b> was born Dec 9 1944 in
Dickens County, Texas and married David Bledsoe Keith. They<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>lived on the old Gentry Place in Dickens
County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She is the mother of three sons David
Bryan Keith born 10 May 1965 in Crosby County, Texas, Michael Dee Keith born 19
September 1967 in Potter County, Texas, and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tye
Chisum Keith born 6 August 1979 in Lubbock, Texas.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b></b>Hazel
Clyde Williams was born July 22, 1912 near Carterville, Cass, Texas and died
September 10, 1956 in Ashland, Nebraska. She was married to a Mr. Beard in Texas
whom she divorced. It is not known whether she married <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">John "Jack" F Maynor Jr, 1903–1968, but s</span>he
had a son by him named Michael Clyde Maynor who was raised by his Aunt Jerrie Smith.
He took the name Smith as his last. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Michael Clyde Smith</b> was born 8 April 1952 in Ashland
Nebraska and owned a chicken ranch in Dickens County, Texas. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was married three times but only had two children
by his wife Clydia Snow White.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Elizabeth Lorrene “Jerrie” Williams</b> was born
April 13, 1915 in Midway, Dickens, Texas </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">And died May 26, 2003 in Dickens, Texas. She married
inJune 1956 Gail A. Smith of Ashland, Nebraska. He was born 21 Oct 1913 in Nebraska
and died 22 Jul 2002 in Plainview, Hale, Texas. She had no children but raised her
nephew Michael Smith.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Winnie Marlene Williams</b> was born February 14,
1917 Midway, Dickens, Texas and died April 17, 2004 in San Dimas, California. She
is buried in Earth, Lamb, Texas. She married in1933 John Walker who raised her son
by Lawrence Cooper.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Jerry “Gene” Cooper-Walker</b>, son of
Lawrence Cooper, was born 16 Nov 1933 In Hobart, Oklahoma and died 2 Apr
2003<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in Lubbock, Texas. He married 1
March 1952 Carolyn Jeanette London in Downey, California. She was born 7 Oct 1935
in St. Clair County, Michigan and died 30 June 2015 in Lubbock, Texas. They and
had three children Randy Gene Walker born 9 February 1953 in Los Angeles County,
California, Andy Dean Walker born 27 Jul 1955 in Artesia, California and died
27 May 2002 Lubbock, Texas, and Luxie Louise Walker born 12 August 1960 in Artesia,
California</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Kenneth Carroll Walker</b> was born 21 December
1935 in Earth, Lamb, Texas but was raised in the Downey-Norwalk area of Los Angeles
County, California. He married Betty and lived in Apple Valley, California and Ojai,
California. Nothing else is known.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Nellie “Nell” Juanita Williams</b> was born
December 12, 1920 in Afton, Dickens, Texas and died 11 April 2006 at the age 85
in Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon. She was married three times. Her first huband
was Wayne Howell who was an oil field worker in Saudia Arabia. He was born 3 January
1914 in Eastland, Texas and died 11 February 1995 in Hobbs, New Mexico. It is not
certain that Nell was married to to Wayne Howell as there’s no marriage record nor
divorce records and he had married another woman in 1940. Her second husband was
Arthur Czarapota. Art Czarapota was born 15 October 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and died 2 September 1964 while he and Nell were living in Downey California. He
was divorced from his 1<sup>st</sup> wife by whom he had a son. Nell and he had
no offspring. Nell’s third husband was James Toy Dial. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was born 30 May 1919 in Delta County, Texas
and died 25 June 1995 in Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. Records show that
Nell and “Toy” filed for divorce twice in the 1970’s but evidently reconciled as
they had both relocated to Oregon together. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nell had just one child by Wayne Howell, a daughter
named Darlene Howell or Darlyn Howell. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b>Darlyn Howell</b> birth date was given as 9 December
1941 but the 1940 census of Odessa, Texas showed that she was 3 months old in March
of 1940 so she was certainly born in December 1939 most likely in Odessa. Nothing
further is known of her. </span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MEMOIRS of AUNT </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">JERRIE SMITH As told to Edgar H. (Ben) Williams Jr. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16 July 1984 Anaheim Hills, California.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad was raised a Missionary Baptist
In East Texas where his daddy was a Baptist preacher, but he had a very open
mind about his religion.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad would go
and hear other ministers preach which was what a whole lot of people wouldn't
do. He would go to the Church of Christ If they were having a revival because Dad said, "Well we're basically the same except for what we call
ourselves."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad would even go to
the Methodist Church. When ever the minister would give a wonderful service
Dad was the first to say so.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Dad did
believe that with all that water, the Lord did intend us to be baptized.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not that he believed water saved you but he did
believe that Jesus was baptized and we should follow suit.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He also said, "I never read in that
Bible where God gave us any particular name and I think we just added
that."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad didn’t become a minister
because of Granddad Williams' big family kept him from having the time to study
the Bible like Granddad did.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Granddad
had those nine girls and three boys and Dad was the oldest.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Back in that day girls didn't work and with
Granddad being a minister somebody had to help him make a living.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So it fell to dad to more or less fund that
outfit.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Dickens County Dad was a Baptist
Deacon in our Church and when ever the minister didn't make it out to our
church, Dad would lead the congregation in reading the Bible and discussing all
that.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I got more out of him talking then
I ever did a Minister.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Matter of fact
when Dad taught anything he could teach so you could understand it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was far above them ministers in knowledge
because Dad would read every book he could pick up.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And could he sing!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad sang at all the revivals and a matter of
fact all the ministers in the county wanted Dad to sing at their revivals
because of his beautiful voice.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad also
was the music leader of the congregation and if they didn't know the song he
wanted them to sing he would keep it up until they got it. The one song I can almost see him singing la
"In the Sweet Bye and Bye" and also that song "I come to the
Garden" or some thing like that.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad was less strict with the boys than us girls about dating
and dancing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Baptist Church which I
had joined when I was small, sure didn't like dancing but Dad knew we all liked
to dance and evidently so did he because if there was a dance that wasn't too
far away Dad wouldn't say nothing against us going to it. But this one time the
Baptist Church there were all up to turn us out because our family danced.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Baptist Church were going to
have what they called a Conference and everybody in Church was going to be
there to hear us confess our dancing and say how we wasn't going to do it
again. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But I said to Dad, "I'm not
going to do it because I like to dance!<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I would much rather be on a dance floor then to be at a party where you
had to fight the old boy off or shove him over a rose bush!"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>Dad tried to keep a straight face after that
because he knew that although I had an open mouth I always said it the way it
was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Dad said, "You Just go down
there to Church and you tell them your not going to stop dancing because there
is a lot of things a lot worse than dancing!" Now Mama, she thought we
ought to give up this dancing and do what the Church wanted us to do but she
did say, By the way, how come this old gal to tell this about you kids dancing
anyways?"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I said, "Oh she's always a ranting but come to think of
it she's always laying around on a blanket with some old boy and I sure
wouldn't get around and lay on a blanket!"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Well you can just keep your mouth shut about
that." said Mama.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Dad thought
it was all right so I told the Conference what I had told Mama and that was the
last turning out I ever heard from anybody in that Church and especially from
that family that was always creating trouble.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once I heard Truman say when I was
down there, "I didn't know Granddad was so religious."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His brother Bill then said, "He sure
was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If there was anybody around that
needed helping Granddad was there to rectify it."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Truman said, " Was he that religious?"
and Bill said, "Granddad had more religion in his little finger then most
people in the ministry!" And that's the truth.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad never knew what a lie was. He never lied
about nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Dad had dark, dark brown eyes,
almost black they were so dark.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You
could just see yourself in them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had
a long straight nose, high cheek bones, and almost raven black hair.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I think Dad said he was six feet tall but he
had two sons who were even taller.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bunch
was six feet two inches and tab was six feet three inches.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now Joe wasn't but about five feet seven
inches and was the shortest of all dad's boys*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like I already mentioned Dad read
every book he could pick up and if we brought anything home from the library.
Dad would read it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He really was a smart
man and if he would have gotten an education he would have been very
brilliant.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When I was in the fourth
grade we were suppose to learn these Roman Numerals and they gave us a group to
learn.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Well this one Sunday afternoon I
said, "Dad I don't think I want to go to school tomorrow." Now
this really surprised him because he knew I never liked to miss school.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Dad asked, "What's this all
about?" "Its these Roman Numerals.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I just can't see them."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
said. He said, "Oh there's nothing to them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Come here and I'll show you," and by the
time we was through I didn't just learn the little group of numbers they gave
us </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but all the Roman Numerals!<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Dad. told me how easy it was and after he taught me it sure enough
was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had a way of explaining things
so you could just pick it right up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad
would have been a good teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As far as I'm concern we couldn't
have had a better dad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You could talk to Dad and he would be interested in what you had to say.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also Dad would get money someway, oh maybe he
would have to take a whole wagon load of watermelons to the fair, so us kids
could have money to spend at the fair or to have money for the circus. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad would always make sure we all got to go
see all that sort of thing. I think Dad really enjoyed us kids because he would
be at every basketball game we played, hollering, cheering us on.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don't remember some of my brothers even
going to see their kids play ball but our Dad sure did.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also we would be in plays and Dad was always
there for the whole bit of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In East Texas Dad ran a couple of saw mills at one time
before we came to Dickens.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The way it
was told to me there was this lady who I guess was a little bit off because she
really didn't know what she was doing when she set them saw mills on fire and
burned them down.<span style="margin: 0px;"> D</span>ad didn't have
insurance so he had to start from scratch and he heard that land was going real
cheap out here so<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>he moved to West
Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> D</span>ad managed to buy a farm in 1919
for $30,000 but he lost it a few years later when the crops were bad and Joe's
debts began to pile up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All us kids worked in Dad's fields
and I hated that.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I could only work two
or three days and that was it because I would work bare footed and that hot
sand would nearly blister my feet.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
couldn't stand them shoes and I can still hear Mama hollering, "Get a
bonnet on!" and I couldn't stand a bonnet anymore than I could stand to
wear shoes.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all had our chores on Dad's farms.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama did the milking and the cooking and Dad
always fed the horses and livestock.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad
farmed with mules and when they first came to West Texas Dad had quite a few
head of cattle.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But one year all our
cattle died of black plague and Dad never built the herd back up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama always had a bunch of chickens in the
yard and we had chicken for dinner just about any time.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama would gather a fat little dude out of
the yard and cook it for dinner. And for desert Mama would make a cobbler
mostly out of plums that we would go pick around Roaring Springs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We always had enough food and that
kind of stuff and the other kids all had good appetites and ate real well.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Mama had to chase me around the table
just to get me to drink a glass of milk.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I didn't want this ham and eggs and all that kind of country food.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I wanted to live in the city and eat Post
Toasties.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I had a sweet tooth and was
always craving plums and biscuits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My other brothers and sisters all
grew up liking meat but Mama made sure I didn't by telling me when ever we had
a roast that it was horse meat.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But she
only had to tell me that one time and since then I won't touch one bite of
it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I always could see that cow looking
at me eyeball to eyeball.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I like chicken
fair enough and I do like pork ribs but that’s about the only meat besides fish
I will eat. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mama's family she said didn't eat a
lot of meat either except for fish and goat meat.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don't know why but that was real strange to
me that the Persers were goat eaters.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now Dad did his own curing, making his own ham and Mama
making up that good country sausage which we would can for the winter.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama would cook the meat until it was just
nearly done then she would pour the grease over it and seal it to keep through
the winter.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From that Mama made sausage
for breakfast and it would keep through the winter with no problems.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now that is a lost art. She didn’t go by
recipes just by years of experience and I could never fix anything like Mama
did,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis come more to cooking like
Mama then any of us kids because he was always in the kitchen with her helping
Mama cook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We always had a few fruit trees too
at most of the places we lived so we had fresh fruit and canned fruit most the
year round.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of course we kids didn't
care to can anything because it would heat up the kitchen until we would just
about die in the summer time it being so hot and nothing air conditioned in
them days. But to keep from going to the fields I would usually make the syrup
and while I never learned to cook I sure did learn to can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mama had a green thumb and she had all kinds of gardens to
keep us in vegetables. She could grow any kind of vegetable-tomatoes, onions,
potatoes, black-eye peas, butter beans, and just all kinds.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>To keep us in stuff for the winter we would
dry them peas and dad always raised sweet potatoes which would keep through the
winter by keeping them dry under the shucks.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We would have I don't know how many bushels of sweet potatoes but I never
cared for them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I liked those white ones
better.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad also kept us supplied with
groceries in the winter tine by working in the oil fields.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He would be away from home for two or three
weeks at a time but when Dad came home he brought lots and lots of groceries,
especially this cheese which Mama kept with the milk in a cool place in the
kitchen.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We didn't have an ice box but
we always had eggs, milk, cheese and stuff like that.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad and Mama were good providers because a
lot of people didn't eat as well as we did.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I always thought Dad could have
done better with his milk cows however.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>There I don't think Dad did so well because he would get only Jersey
Cows because he liked the cream and butter they could give.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jerseys don't give as much milk as
Holsteins.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We always had plenty of milk
but I thought we could have had more milk if Dad would have gotten us a
Holsteln.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Dad wasn't interested in that
milk.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He wanted that cream for his
coffee. He got that from his Dad's family because Grandad's family was like
that.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They didn't drink milk but just
had a cow for cream.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad's Mama would
run out and milk that cow just enough to get that cream for the coffee.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad said when he was living at home with his
folks they lived mostly on coffee and biscuits.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Mama said when she lived with Dad's folks she was so sick of that family
because they ate just biscuits and coffee while Mama was use to eating all
kinds of vegetable when growing up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now
Dad he would drink that coffee so black It would boil.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said that if he didn't have it that strong
he would get a terrific headache. Dad dranked it that strong all of his life
from the time he was little.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His whole
family did back in East Texas.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only time I remember Mama and
Dad arguing was at election time and about Mama not making Dad's coffee strong
enough.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>None of us kids dranked coffee
and we wondered why mama wouldn't let Dad have his coffee like he liked
it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I think she wanted to punish him for
moving to West Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She never wanted
to leave East Texas and when later Dad wanted to move back she would not let
him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I think that was her way of
punishing him for leaving East Texas.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyways all we had to drink in
those days was water, milk, coffee and tea. We had to carry that water from the
windmill to the house everyday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All our
water was pumped by a well ran by a windmill outside the house.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I never liked sweet milk but I liked the
clabber milk and oh that tea was delicious.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>None of us kids dranked coffee til we left home and Mama never did.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mama and Dad were never really
affectionate in front of us kids but what they were before I was big enough to
remember I really don't know.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They did
have us twelve kids but to me it seemed that they just took each other for
granted. They didn't fuss a lot at each other just at election time and over
the Carters. Dad sure did not like the Carters and Mama's Mama was a Carter.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Mama and Dad first moved to
West Texas I believed they lived in some pretty big houses at each of the
places daddy would buy because I remember them talking about the fire places
the houses had.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But when I was big
enough to remember we lived in a half-dug out more Indian like you know.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was a huge long thing with a kitchen down
in the dugout and upstairs was the bedrooms, but Mama also had beds down there
in the half-dug out where the grandkids slept.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the winter it was so cold that we would all gather around that stove
to keep warm.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>Mama and Dad had their own
room for privacy but us kids didn't have any.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Oh some times someone would be up stairs playing cards but usually we
huddled together.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We went to bed in them
days as soon as the sun went down and it got dark.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We got up early in the morning so mostly us
kids were too tired to feel like we had to have entertainment.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Oh we would play ball or something after we got our chores done but usually by the time we finished our chores it was time
to go to bed. We didn't have electricity, no electric lights, no radio, no
t.v.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>We never had a radio for most of
the time I was a kid.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I never will
forget the first radio I ever heard. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was the strangest thing you ever
saw.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This guy got London on his set and
you could listen by putting it up to your ear. That really was a strange
thing. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The morning that dad died Mama went to wake him up because he always got
up early to fed the horses.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama had
cooked him breakfast and she was worried when Dad didn't get up because she
never saw him sleep so late.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>My nephew
Raymond was sleeping with Dad and he said to Mama, "Granny why don't you
let him sleep a little longer?"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No he'd want to get up."
Mama said and when she couldn't get him up she touched him and he was ice
cold.<span style="margin: 0px;"> D</span>ad had died in his sleep.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At the time they said he probably died of a
heart attack but I don't think so.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It
was the middle of July and Dad had been out all day long in that horrible
horrible heat.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was hot and I think he
just had a heat stroke because he didn't complain about feeling bad that night, just that he was hot.<span style="margin: 0px;"> D</span>ad asked for
a glass of ice tea and said that he was hot after being out there in that heat all
day long about ten hours.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There was a
government man there with him that day and they were stepping all over the land
to see what they were going to put in this soil bank.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So I think he just over exhausted himself and
died during the night.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were so many stories Dad told
us about his youth and I guess he was everything but a Saint.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I'm sure Grandad must have had a time with
that boy from the stories Dad would tell about him being a P.K. [Preacher kid] kid.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of course Dad would laugh and think it was funny,
some of those stories he would tell, but Mama would just get mad and say
"Edd you shouldn't be telling these kids them stories!" But he would
anyways and we would just about die from laughing.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One time he said there was a
special dance there in Cass County but he didn't get invited and this made him
mad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I think Mama went with a whole
bunch of her brothers and sisters to the party so Dad decided to go to this
party anyways with a bunch of boys who all ran around together.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Eventually these boys became some of my
uncles but at the time they were all just a bunch of boys who ran around
together. Dad said Tom Williams who married my Aunt Margaret, Tom Glover who
married my Aunt Betty, and Uncle Pierce Gates who married Mama's sister. and some other boys all rode up to this party on their horses and this
old man came out and ran them off saying that they weren't invited and they
could leave.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was just this picked
little group that had been invited so Dad and these boys decided how funny it
would be to shoot out the lights at this party and see those girls run.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I guess they thought they were real good
shots so Dad said they did and it was so funny to him that he would just about
die laughing when ever he would tell this story.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said , "You could hear them silk
petticoats just a rustling going Swoosh! Swoosh!" </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now Mama would always get
mad at this story and would say, "Edd Williams you shouldn't be telling
them kids that!"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then Dad said that
the same night they shot out the party lights they went over to this richy-rich
place down there and got a whole bunch of their chickens.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They had to eat then chickens on the run so
they didn't get them quite done and they all got deathly sick. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad said, "We just fairly died we got
the belly ache so bad."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mama said, "It should have
just about killed them all!"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama
didn't think stealing them chickens was funny at all but Dad thought it was
real funny but then he had such a good sense of humor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>Mama said, "Your Dad should have known
what you done and you wouldn't have thought it so funny when he got done with
you." But this was just some of the things that the P.K. kids done down
there and now I nearly die laughing when I hear someone tell me, "I was a
P.K. Kid." because I think back to what a rascal Dad said he was. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Them people in East Texas loved to
tell panther stories and I guess they could be pretty wild stories.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I've heard that my Grandad Williams was a
fiddle player and he would play at what they called musicals back in them days. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Well one time he was out in the woods walking
along this little road until he reached this little log he had to cross to get
over to where he was wanting to go.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So
here he was carrying his fiddle and in the middle of crossing this log he saw
this big black panther ready to charge.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Grandad wouldn't carry a gun or a knife or any kind of a weapon so he
was in a tight spot.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All he had was this
fiddle so thinking quick-like he took that fiddle and took a couple of strikes
at the bow and that cat screamed, jumped twenty feet into the air and took off
running. I guess that cat thought that awful sound was another critter.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So anyways Grandad then got a cross that
little foot log and went on to the party.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Grandad Perser had his panther
story too.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said that he one time
dreamed that this panther was going to attack this widow lady who was a
neighbor of his. The dream woke him up but he went back to sleep.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then he dreamed it a second time and it woke
him up again.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Grandad Perser just shook
it off again and went back to sleep until he dreamed the same thing a third
time.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This time he got dressed and went
over to this neighbor's and sure enough there was a panther crouched by this
widow lady's bed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Grandad Perser shot
the panther as it was ready to charge and it nearly scared this poor lady to
death.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The story that Dad would tell me
about back there in East Texas that really got me the most was about old
Stonewall Carter.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Stonewall Carter who
is no kin to us that I know of, lived down in Cass County and at the time we
didn't live too far from him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama said
he would get out on the porch and sing, "Good Old Ham and Sausage."
to anybody who'd pass him by.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had a
wife named Minnie and they say that the old lady was actually meaner then old
Stonewall was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Everyone was scared to
death of Minnie Carter because she was suppose to have been meaner than even
Stonewall!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now Stonewall was one of the
out-laws of the county and when he wasn't out robbing people openly he was
killing drifters secretly on his place. What he would do was hire drifters who
would never make it off his farm at the end of the season.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When it became time to pay them off he would
kill them and bury them on his farm.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad said one time he was taking the
payroll from his lumber mill through the woods when Stonewall Carter held him
up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now Dad said he was the only one
that wasn't afraid of him in that part of the country .and he was going through
them woods with the payroll at night.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad said it was just as black as midnight when this old Stonewall stuck
a gun in Dad's ribs and said, "Hold 'em up!"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Stonewall if you don't want
to eat that gun, you better never put it in my ribs again!" said Dad.
"Because you'll eat that gun if you do!"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Oh Uncle Edd," said
Stonewall. (Everybody in the county called Dad Uncle Edd.) "Oh Uncle Edd, I
was just trying to scare you."'</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Well you don't scare me
Stonewall. I don't run from you like the other people. Now I'm just going to
tell you this just once so you better listen Stonewall. Don't take any of my
cattle, don't take any of my geese, or anything else of mine because I'll come
and get you! And when I do, you'll wish you'd never have seen me!"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Oh Uncle Edd, I wouldn't take
nothing from you." said Stonewall and he never tried anything funny with
Dad again after that.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now one time old Minnie Carter did
come down to our place and pinched one of Mama's geese and Onie B. saw her and
went after her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sister was quite a
scrapper like Dad so that old lady turned the goose loose and she never tried
to take Mama's geese again.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nobody
messed with sister either. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On another occasion Dad said the Sheriff was called
out to Stonewall's place to arrest him for something and Stonewall ended up
taking the Sheriff's boots and his mule.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The Sheriff came running back down to our house in his stockings and he
told Dad he was going to deputize Dad to go back with him to arrest
Stonewall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Dad said, "I'll go
up and get him but I don't need to be deputized".<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Dad went on his own up there and old
Stonewall came on in with Dad and turned himself in. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stonewall Carter finally
left his place when at the end of the season this one fellow that was working
for him asked Stonewall for his money.<span style="margin: 0px;"> W</span>ell when this fellow went to sleep Stonewall came in and knocked him in
the head and knocked him out of bed.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>However this time I guess the guy didn't quite die right there so
Stonewall came over to our house and told Dad that this man was evidently
having an epileptic fit because he was laying on the floor kicking.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>Stonewall said to Dad, "Uncle Edd I want
you to come over with me to the house." But Dad was suspicious and said,
"No I'll just call the sheriff to send the doctor out but I'm not going
over there with you.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There's nothing I
can do anyhow but I might be able to help the doctor when he gets there." But Stonewall
didn't want no doctor to find this man up at his place so Stonewall went back
to his house and of course the guy was dead by the time the doctor got
there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>People were pretty suspicious
about what was going on at Stonewall's place so after that Stonewall moved into <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Texarkana</span></span>
where he harbored gang<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">s</span>ter<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">s</span> and <span style="color: black;">o<span style="margin: 0px;">u</span>t~<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>aws</span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When
they found them bod<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>es <span style="color: black;">b<span style="margin: 0px;">u</span>ried</span> on h<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>s
place they could never prove who those people were.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Those people buried <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">out</span></span> there on th<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">a</span>t farm I guess were dr<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>fters w<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>th no
f<span style="color: black;">a<span style="margin: 0px;">mi</span>ly</span> so no one pursued It.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They say
they found seven or e<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ght bod<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>es out there. <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
think Stonewall did get sent up to the pen for a few years but later he got out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He wasn<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">'</span>t <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>n the pen
very long for sure.<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"></span>I don<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">'</span>t know<span style="color: black;"> <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>uch</span>
about them people that stayed <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>n East Texas
after <span style="color: black;">D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d</span> and <span style="color: black;">Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a</span>
left but I know <span style="color: black;">Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a</span> j<span style="color: black;">us</span>t loved <span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Grandad</span> </span>W<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>lliams [G.K. Williams].<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>However she <span style="color: black;">d<span style="margin: 0px;">idn't</span></span> care too much for
<span style="color: black;"></span>Grand<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">m</span></span>a <span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Wi</span>ll<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>a<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>s [Shelomith Rushton].</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
didn't care anyth<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ng about her at all.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She said
she was a <span style="color: black;">Ru<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>h<span style="margin: 0px;">t</span>o</span>n
and <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">"</span>She Bossed! Bossed! Bossed!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was real bossy!<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">"</span>
and Ma<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">m</span></span>a d<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>d
not like to be bossed by anybody.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I also
th<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>nk that Grand<span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a</span>
Will<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ams did not th<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>nk
<span style="color: black;">th<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>t </span>Mama was good enough for D<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">a</span>d.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a said the only ti<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e
she ever got a long with Grand<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a was when Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a had her f<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>rst
kid.<span style="margin: 0px;"> D</span><span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d
was with <span style="margin: 0px;">M</span>a<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a
and Grand<span style="margin: 0px;">ma </span>told Dad, "Edd go get the doctor<span style="margin: 0px;">!</span> and Dad said, "Oh make Pa go!" and Grandma said, <span style="margin: 0px;">"</span>Pa went for <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e
and you married this wo<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>an so you get going!<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama
said Dad did not dare cross Grand<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a so he
took off and got the <span style="margin: 0px;">quacky</span> doctor<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span> </span>Mama said
he wasn<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">'</span>t no good and that the mid-w<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ves were much better.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span><span style="color: black;">I think most of us k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ds
were <span style="margin: 0px;">delivered</span> by <span style="margin: 0px;">midwives.
</span>I know Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a really liked the old
Grand<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a Williams, D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d's
Grandma,<span style="margin: 0px;"> [Harriett Kearse] </span>She lived with D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d and Mama for awhile when they first got <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried and Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a
said she <span style="margin: 0px;">was </span>as n<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ce as you could be.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just a little <span style="margin: 0px;">itty</span>
b<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>tty thing with black eyes like Dad<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was a
<span style="margin: 0px;">Kearse. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>It seems to me that Dad was closer
to his sisters than he was his brothers<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>He
didn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t see<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>
to be close to Uncle George but whether he
resented the fact that Uncle George d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>dn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t help out with supplying riches for Grandad<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s family I don't know.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad never did say<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Dad sure d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d
have all that to do and I never heard hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> co<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>plain about it<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I never heard h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m
say that it was somebody <span style="margin: 0px;">else's</span> responsi<span style="margin: 0px;">b</span>ility.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad
always took it on h<span style="margin: 0px;">im</span>self to support them
kids l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ke they was h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s
own. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Dad always made good money all through his life and was making a co<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e back that year he d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ed.
</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Now Aunt Margaret was the oldest of them kids and she died when she was in her
thirties real young.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was married to Tom Williams but they
didn't have no k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ds.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mama liked Aunt Margaret very well and I re<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ember them talking about her. She had so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e type of a m<span style="margin: 0px;">igraine</span>
and just like that she died of a brain <span style="margin: 0px;">hemorrhage.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next came Aunt Betty and all I ever
knew about her was through her kids because I never got to see her
either<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I heard Dad speak real well of Aunt Betty and it seems that he was real
fond of her<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>She married To<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> Glover and I met some
of her kids.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now if you want to see the
darkie<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span> the Glovers are the darkies.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They are the darkest of all us <span style="margin: 0px;">Williamses</span> and they put our side to shame even<b>
</b>as dark a<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span> we are.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">Theirs</span> is a
yello<span style="margin: 0px;">w</span> dark not a dark dark co<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>plexion l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ke
our group. Every Glover I ever seen <span style="margin: 0px;">w</span>as that
way. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aunt Sarah<b> </b>was the third<span style="margin: 0px;">,</span> gir<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span> and she died youn<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>
too with that typhoid fever. That whole family did<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">M</span>a<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>u<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>t have liked Mr<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span>
<span style="margin: 0px;">Collins</span> pretty good because that is who <span style="margin: 0px;">Hazel</span> was named after<span style="margin: 0px;">.
</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span>Dad was next and t<span style="margin: 0px;">h</span>e fir<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>t boy and after hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">c</span>a<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e Uncle Geo<span style="margin: 0px;">r</span>ge<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I believe
that one of the reasons Uncle George and D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d
weren't close was <span style="margin: 0px;">that</span> D<span style="margin: 0px;">ad.</span> did not like Aunt No<span style="margin: 0px;">r</span>a,
the woman he <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t
know anything about the lady but they didn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t
care anything at all about her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>None of D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s fa<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ily did either or at least the ones I met when I went down to East Texas<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There was
some pretty hard feelings when Uncle George did not <span style="margin: 0px;">come</span>
to Dad's funeral and I asked <span style="margin: 0px;">C</span>larence's wife
Pearl about that because I wanted<span style="margin: 0px;">,</span> to know
what the deal was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I had only heard one
side of the deal<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Now Pearl said that Uncle George couldn't
have come because he was very sick when D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d<span style="margin: 0px;">,</span> died<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I guess that is right because not too long
after Dad died Uncle George died<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died just a few <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>onths
after Dad did<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>Uncle George had a son na<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ed George Miles <span style="margin: 0px;">Junior</span>
but everybody called him Boots<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>Louis was
also called Boots when we lived in East Texas<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Uncle George also had a daughter named
Georgia Edna and her husband runs the bank there at <span style="margin: 0px;">Hughes</span>
Spri<span style="margin: 0px;">n</span>gs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next ca<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e the twins Aunt
Anna and Aunt Hattie<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aunt Anna died when she was little
and Mama liked Aunt Hattie real well and said she had quite a story<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span> Until
I heard this story I did not know that people <span style="margin: 0px;">hanky-panked</span>
around <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n them olden days and I guess this
one ti<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e Aunt Hattie came ho<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e and caught Uncle Riley with this old dru<span style="margin: 0px;">mm</span>er lady<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I guess she was some circus lady of some type
and Aunt <span style="margin: 0px;">Hattie</span> caught them together <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n Uncle Ri<span style="margin: 0px;">ley's</span>
garage. <span style="margin: 0px;">Now</span> Aunt Hatt<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>e was a little b<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>tty th<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng and that dru<span style="margin: 0px;">mm</span>er
lady would have <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ade two of her <span style="margin: 0px;">but</span> she was so r<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>led
up that she took this buggy wh<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>p and wh<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>pped them both with it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I guess she just nearly beat the fire out of
out of them and tore this old gal's clothes nearly off her before she could get
away from Aunt Hatt<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>e.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then that old drummer lady took off through
the woods nearly with out any clothes on.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It must have been a sight!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
guess she was lucky to get out of there a live because Aunt Hatt<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>e was a l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ttle
<span style="margin: 0px;">Wi</span>ld Cat Tiger!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They all said that even <span style="margin: 0px;">though</span> Aunt Hattie was small she was really a <span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>ittle tiger.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Wel</span>l anyways I can just see <span style="margin: 0px;">Grandad</span> Williams trying to cal<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> Aunt Hattie down.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He always had that little tw<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>nkle in his eye<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>Anyways
Aunt <span style="margin: 0px;">Hattie</span> wanted to leave Uncle R<span style="margin: 0px;">iley</span> but Grandad said<span style="margin: 0px;">,</span>
"Well you got all them kids and you
can't very well d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>vorce him."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Well," she said<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">.</span> He can't come <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>n
the house!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grandad said, "Well then put h<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>s bed out on the screened in back porch but don't
just kick him out."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Well he <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>sn't eat<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ng at
my table!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<span style="margin: 0px;">C</span>ouldn't
he eat after the kids are through?" asked Grandad and so that is how
Grandad ta<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>ked Aunt Hattie out of leaving
Uncle Riley.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">They</span>
didn't get a divorce </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but they lived separate almost the rest of their <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>ve
heard the<span style="margin: 0px;">n</span> talk about Aunt Rush who <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arr<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ed Uncle <span style="margin: 0px;">Fite</span> but I don't know too much <span style="margin: 0px;">about</span> her.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The <span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>ame with Aunt Mary.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried
Mr. Harris but I don't know <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>uch about her
either.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">I met</span> Aunt Katie Belle and she was the
poorest of all then k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ds but she was my
favor<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>te Aunt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I knew Uncle George Nev<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>lle but I never knew Aunt Lula but I heard Dad ta<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>k about her so much<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One time some of the<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>
<span style="margin: 0px;">N</span>eville kids came out West to<b> </b>see
us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Aunt Lula h<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d
a son named <span style="margin: 0px;">G.K.</span> Neville <span style="margin: 0px;">Jr.</span> and a dau<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>hter
<span style="margin: 0px;">Lorraine</span> who was a school teacher down <span style="margin: 0px;">there</span> in <span style="margin: 0px;">Texarkana</span>
where she t<span style="margin: 0px;">aught</span> for years and years<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Uncle Leonard was Dad<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s youngest brother <span style="margin: 0px;">and</span>
he died w<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>th that typho<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d fever, hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>
and his dau<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>hter Gwendolyn<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then Aunt
<span style="margin: 0px;">Vera</span> moved with <span style="margin: 0px;">Merdys,</span>
the other daughter to P<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>ainv<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ew where they lived for years before moving back
to East Texas. They left <span style="margin: 0px;">Plainview</span> before <span style="margin: 0px;">Gail</span> and I settled there so I never knew her when
Aunt Vera lived <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n <span style="margin: 0px;">Plainview.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mama and Dad had six boys and six <span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>irls and Clarence was the oldest<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I tell
you Clarence just about got everything he wanted from D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d
and it caused hard feelin<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>s among the rest
of us kids<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I remember him coming back in 1928 while he was a border Patrol officer
in Ari<span style="margin: 0px;">z</span>ona.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Pearl and his kids were <span style="margin: 0px;">staying</span> with
D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d at the ti<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e
and Clarence had h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s own money to keep but
he came back that time to have Dad help him out so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e
more<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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</span>D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d had just gotten himself a new car
and we was just gett<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng back on our feet
trying to help D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d get h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>mself another farm<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>Us
k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ds were out in the f<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>e<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>d work<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng like slaves p<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>cking
cotton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We got out about six bales of
cotton and here we were pull<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng late in the
even<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng when <span style="margin: 0px;">C</span>larence
came up with a black suit on with a nice shirt and t<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>e.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don't remember where he had been so dressed
up but he said to me, <span style="margin: 0px;">"</span>Why don't you
take two rows?" I guess he was hinting at wanting another bale of cotton
to take back to Arizona. Well I had this
big <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>outh and I said, "If you want two
rows picked, you better get your cotton p<span style="margin: 0px;">ic</span>king
suit off and take it yourself!<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span> Boy d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d that make him furious and he said, "I'll
get <span style="margin: 0px;">you</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Don't you <span style="margin: 0px;">sass</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e like that!<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I'll just give you a whipping!" and I sa<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d,
<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span>No you won't!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now Bunch heard me and, boy, he came u<span style="margin: 0px;">n</span>done
and sa<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d to Clarence, "Don't you lay a
hand on her or you'll never get out of this f<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>eld!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">Y</span>ou better
get to going and get out of here right now!<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Clarence left and Bunch was pretty furious
too.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So Bunch came home that night and
this was the only time I ever heard Bunch say anything to Dad when he was
mad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bunch said, "Dad we have
worked like dogs, everyone of us, and we've ate egg sandwiches the whole year,
farming three farms just tryin<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span> to get you
back on your feet.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Because you've been
out for th<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d
and that kid and<b> </b>we've tried to get you started again.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But if you let Clarence have our car or
another bale of cotton, I am through! I'll never try to help you get st<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>rted again.<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span>
But you know Clarence got the car and<b> </b>s<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>x </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">b</span>ale<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span> of cotton and he went back to Arizona.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I always thou<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>ht
<span style="margin: 0px;">C</span>larence got the <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ain
stuff of everything and there was pretty </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hard feelings over that for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">years until Bunch <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ade up
w<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>th <span style="margin: 0px;">C</span>larence.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But at the time he was pretty disgusted there
for a while. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My brother Aust<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n left ho<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e pretty early so I never really got to know h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m. He was about 18 when he left home and I think
he <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried lone [Roberson] when he was about 19.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">Austin</span> and
lone did not live together for too lon<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was <span style="margin: 0px;">pregnant</span>
with Billy <span style="margin: 0px;">W</span>are when they separated.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Later they d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>vorced
but not until years and years later when Billy <span style="margin: 0px;">W</span>are
was about 20 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Austin was in the Music Business and lone did not go for
that. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She wanted h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m to settle down and be a far<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>er<b> </b>so that is why they broke up<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin
said he was not cut out to be a fanner.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He said he was out there grubbing when he realized that he liked music
too well to stay out in West Texas and grub ground<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He liked to sing too well so he went to
Dallas where he went to school and was taught <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>usic
by <span style="margin: 0px;">J.R.</span> Baxter.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin then went to teaching <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>usic and singing with Frank
Stamp and his two brothers there at Dallas.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Later they formed the Stamps, a Gospel Quartet that sang all over the
South<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Austin left home he never came back except to
visit.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He would just <span style="margin: 0px;">c</span>ome back to<b> </b>see us but I never really knew
him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s
oldest boy <span style="margin: 0px;">Glynton</span> was killed when he got
hit by a car in East Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Glynton and
B<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>lly Ware were out by the road when Glynton
just jumped in front of a car driven by this colored g<span style="margin: 0px;">uy. </span>It was very hot and I guess it was hot on his
feet and he just jumped with out looking and was killed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e of
them in East Texas got awfully mad at Austin over that because he wouldn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t pursue punishing this colored guy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin said it <span style="margin: 0px;">wasn't</span> this fellow's fault <span style="margin: 0px;">and</span> that he knew him and
he would not have deliberately co<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e up and h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t Glynton.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>There just wasn't a thing this colored <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>an
could do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But everybody down there said
because he was <span style="margin: 0px;">C</span>olored he should have been
punished.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There<b> </b>was some pretty
ill feelings towards Austin over that deal for sometime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Aust<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ade <span style="margin: 0px;">a living</span> s<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>nging and teaching singing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In fact he taught Tennessee Ernie Ford and quite a few of them Southern <span style="margin: 0px;">singers went</span> to him for lessons<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When I
was working at the arsenal at <span style="margin: 0px;">Benicia</span> in
California during World War II<span style="margin: 0px;">,</span> there was a
blond headed girl from Birmingham Alaba<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a
with who<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> I worked.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I had a picture of Austin and it fell out of
my purse and she saw it and said, "Where d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d
you get that picture of that man<span style="margin: 0px;">?**</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Do you know him?" I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Why yes! He is one of the biggest Gospel S<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ngers in the South!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He has wrote <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ore
good songs!<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>she said<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>"Well
he's my brother!" I said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Aust<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ed in Columbus, Oh<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>o
<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n the Veteran Hospital there while he was <span style="margin: 0px;">directi</span><span style="margin: 0px;">n<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>o<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e Church cho<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>r.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died
of a heart attack<span style="margin: 0px;">*</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Billy <span style="margin: 0px;">W</span>are was Austin and Ione<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s
second son and he <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried a native
California.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s
a retired school princ<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ple and has retired
near Jefferson at the Lake of the Pines.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I think he retired after having open heart surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Austin <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>arried as his s<span style="margin: 0px;">econd</span> wife <span style="margin: 0px;">Lonaine</span>
<span style="margin: 0px;">Junkins</span> and I believe they<b> </b>were a
German family.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin had two <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ore children <span style="margin: 0px;">b</span>y
<span style="margin: 0px;">Lorraine,</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">E</span>dgar
Clyde and his only daughter Becky.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Eddie must have a lot of the son<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>s that Austin wrote because I haven<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t seen any that hav<span style="margin: 0px;">e</span>
been published<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now my brother Joe was really the one that kept Dad broke
all the time because Dad was always having to bail Joe out of so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ethin<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But that was Joe<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">W</span>hat ever
Joe done was all right by the rest of u<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>
kids<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>All the kids knew all what D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d did
for J<span style="margin: 0px;">oe</span> but there wasn't a grudge because of
it<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
never heard anybody bad <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>outhing Joe<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rather
they would laugh about the things he done.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I know Louis talked about Joe <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ore
then any of his other brothers<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They all did.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Joe had such a fun personality<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He could sing and dance and was such a good
story teller<span style="margin: 0px;">. </span>He could keep you entertained the whole evening by sitt<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng
around and telling stories by the hours.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>People would just co<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e around to hear
Joe tell a story <span style="margin: 0px;">and</span> they would crack up and
sit by the hour listening to Joe's stories about people down in Dickens county
and different things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I don<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t know why Joe
would write the<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> checks<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He never
had a <span style="margin: 0px;">dime</span> on hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>
but daddy had to take care of, the<span style="margin: 0px;">n</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Joe would get in a poker game and write
checks for $100 and someti<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>es as much as
$1000. <span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Dad would go pay them off to keep Joe out of disgrace<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Joe was
such a poor player too<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don't think he would know he had won a hand
unless no body picked up the <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>oney<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don't
know why he played unless he was a compulsive gambler<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You know none <span style="margin: 0px;">of</span> the kids held that against him<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said he couldn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t
help hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>self<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">M</span>ama said Joe had gotten
hurt when he<b> </b>was little and he <span style="margin: 0px;">never</span>
had to do any work until he <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>oved to
California after Dad died<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I guess really that was the only t<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>me he d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d any
heavy work because he had two <span style="margin: 0px;">youngin'</span> and
no one else was there to help h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Louis was D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d's fourth
son and <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>f he resented Dad bailing out his
brothers he kept it to himself.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If he
had been able to talk about it he m<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ght have
gotten over it because he knew how much D<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>d
favored them older boys over him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis
was bound to have seen <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t when they were ho<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e and I know he felt bad because of it. Louis
left home too when he was pretty young.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He ran around w<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>th this boy and they
both decided to leave at the same t<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>me.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They rode off on a couple of burros and it<b>
</b>was the funniest thing to<b> </b>see them r<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>de
out of there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This one kid went to
Dallas and Louis went to Spur where he went to work<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I never knew the details on why Louis left
and Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a would never te<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>l me.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Maybe school was a little hard </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for him I don't know.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He was good at <span style="margin: 0px;">other things</span> however but he d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d not
l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ke school at all.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I really didn't know Lou<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s that well beca<span style="margin: 0px;">u</span>se
he was so strange and quiet.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You
couldn't get near Louis to get close to h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Maybe <span style="margin: 0px;">Anne</span>
under<span style="margin: 0px;"></span>stood hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>,
I don't know, but she would be the only one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Now if Mama had a boy s<span style="margin: 0px;">he</span>
was partial to it was Louis<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Louis not only learned how to cook better
then the rest of us kids from Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a, but when
ever Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a was sewing he would be there
helping her out with that <span style="margin: 0px;">too</span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a and
Louis was real close and Mama said that anything she would go to cook, Louis
would come in and learn how to cook it too<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e of
the other kids thought Louis was a sissy because all he wanted to do was all
women<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s chores but Louis was anything but a
sissy<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>But Louis was different in his own way<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> F</span><span style="margin: 0px;">or</span> some
reason it see<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>s that all he wanted to do was
work, work, work.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All the time<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Louis was called Boots in <span style="margin: 0px;">Cass</span>
County and all the people down there, the older ones that knew him, remembered
him as Boots<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I have heard a couple of folks talk about how
<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>uch they liked hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>
and evidently he had quite a few friends down there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> W</span><span style="margin: 0px;">hen</span><b> </b>we
would go back East people would say to us, "What ever happened to
Boots?"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>People asked <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ore about him then they did all the rest of us*</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't think Louis and Dad were very close at all.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a and
Louis<b> </b>was much closer than Dad and him.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I don't think Dad ever said anything to Louis but I think he<b> </b>was
jealous of Louis and Mama because it seemed like where ever Mama was Louis was<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His
preferring Mama over Dad <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ay have been why
Dad favored so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e of the other boys.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I really don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nearest I ever heard Louis <span style="margin: 0px;">j</span>oking
with anyone was with Mike [Smith] when he was little before <span style="margin: 0px;">Hazel</span>
died<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Louis was down one summer sitting out there on the porch and he said to
Mike, "Mike what did you do down in East Texas?"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then Mike came up with a wild snake story<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was
just way out and he couldn't have been more then three year<span style="margin: 0px;">-s</span>old at the ti<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span> Mike said to Louis, "Oh Uncle Louis down
there you wouldn't believe it!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Gail and
I were dr<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>v<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng
down through them woods and we met a <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>other
snake who <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ust have had 10 or 12 of them
little things and they were just jitter<span style="margin: 0px;">-</span>bugging
all over that road!" Louis got so tickled over them j<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>tter<span style="margin: 0px;">-</span>buggin<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span> baby snakes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Louis then told Mike how one time when he was a kid in <span style="margin: 0px;">E</span>ast Texas<span style="margin: 0px;">,</span> him
<span style="margin: 0px;">Onie</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">B., </span>Austin,
Joe, and Tab were all co<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ning down this road
when they passed this o<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>d colored man<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>s <span style="margin: 0px;">barn</span> which
they knew was f<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>lled w<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>th peanuts<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So they decided to get some of this old man's
peanuts and so Joe climbed up into the loft first because he was kind of the <span style="margin: 0px;">onery</span> one.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>After him each of the boys climbed up and right off Joe jumps out of
that loft followed by his three brothers.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They took off down the road and didn't say a word so <span style="margin: 0px;">OnieB.</span> had to go up and see </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what they were all running from and when she got to the top
she saw this man's retarded colored boy w<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>th
a p<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>tch fork just fixing to poke the next
one up the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ladder.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Louis said
she ju<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ped do<span style="margin: 0px;">w</span>n
and took off running w<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>th the rest of them k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ds and Mike asked, <span style="margin: 0px;">"</span>Uncle
Lou<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d
you run too?" and Louis said, "<span style="margin: 0px;">Y</span>es
I was fly<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng down that road.<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now Mama thought you was one of the best <span style="margin: 0px;">grandkids</span> there was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I would hear how she use to co<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e home and say, I'll tell you, that E<span style="margin: 0px;">dgar</span> Hugh needs to keep that <span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>ittle boy in Church.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is the most polite kid I<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>ve ever seen. He is the gentleman and such a nice
boy.<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I heard so <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>uch about you that I went
to Annie because Mama didn't think but she had one <span style="margin: 0px;">grandkid</span>
and that was you.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was so proud of
you and your fine sing<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng vo<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ce so I sa<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d
to <span style="margin: 0px;">Anne, </span>"Is he that good of a boy <span style="margin: 0px;">Anne?"</span> and Anne would laugh and say,
"Yes he <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s a good boy." But of
cour<span style="margin: 0px;">s</span>e Anne could see good in everybody but
you were Mama's favorite.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know Tab was not Dad's favorite because he marr<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ed into the <span style="margin: 0px;">Putnam</span>
fam<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ly not that he had anyth<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng against Mr. Putnam.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He rather liked hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But Mrs. <span style="margin: 0px;">Putnam</span>
was a <span style="margin: 0px;">Jarrett</span> and they had married in with
the Carters<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I don't know why Dad did not like the Carters or the <span style="margin: 0px;">Jarretts</span> but Mama liked to skin him and jump
through hi<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span> l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ke
a window <span style="margin: 0px;">everytime</span> Dad would say something
bad about the Carters.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a's ma<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>a was a
Carter and Dad sure didn't care nothing about Grandma <span style="margin: 0px;">Perser.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad was real cra<span style="margin: 0px;">z</span>y
about Grandpa <span style="margin: 0px;">Perser</span> but he sure <span style="margin: 0px;">did not</span> care noth<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng
about Grandma.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There <span style="margin: 0px;">proably</span> was a reason why Dad was stuck up about
the Carters but I'm not sure what <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t was<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Maybe
they were not high up enough on the totem pole as Dad thought they should
be.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dad thought the <span style="margin: 0px;">Vllllamses</span> were h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>gh
up on the list and was part<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>cular about who
we could marry.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I never thought that way
myse<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>f.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I never thought anybody was better than me and I never thought I was
better then any body else,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I thought I
was as good as anybody else.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You should
h<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>ve seen so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e
of my friends<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some were <span style="margin: 0px;">derelicts</span>
and some were up and up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>dn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t matter to
me<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>People <span style="margin: 0px;">were</span> people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Tab said he almost <span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>ot k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>lled one t<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>me
because of Joe.<span style="margin: 0px;"> W</span><span style="margin: 0px;">hen</span>
we first moved to West Texas T<span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>b sa<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d how he was in Church <span style="margin: 0px;">and</span>
s<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>tt<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng
with Mama when Joe came in and tapped me on the shoulder, motion<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng me to come outs<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>de.
"I thought someth<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng was wrong,<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span> he sa<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>d,<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span> So I went outside and when I got outs<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>de the door th<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s
one boy punched me in the head and another kicked me <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n
the <span style="margin: 0px;">stomach!"</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Now Tab was sk<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>nny but he was strong just like iron and he
said,"About the <span style="margin: 0px;">second</span> or third l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ck I had enough of that so I calf roped one of
them boys to the ground and when I got h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m
down I roped the other.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then he came a
third boy so I b<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m
and got my finger in one of them eyes and near<span style="margin: 0px;">l</span>y
gouged it out!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I didn't even know these
guys but I wanted to<b> </b>see what th<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s
was all about<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> Well</span> it
seemed that Joe said someth<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng about these
guys and when they f<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>rst ju<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ped him he got out of <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t
by say<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ngs <span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>No
I didn't say anything but my brother Tab did<span style="margin: 0px;">!</span>Here I'm almost getting k<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>lled over that
dude!<span style="margin: 0px;">" </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sa<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>d to Tab,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> "Did
Joe help you out?" and Tab just grinned
and said, <span style="margin: 0px;">"</span>No he ran l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ke a turkey!<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I had to f<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ght all three by <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>yself!<span style="margin: 0px;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bunch and Tab weren't as close as they could have been and I
<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>uess <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t <span style="margin: 0px;">w</span>as because they were always picking on each other
and taking l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ttle d<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>gs
at each other<span style="margin: 0px;">*</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I always thought <span style="margin: 0px;">that</span>
was so useless.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I could never understand why it was that they
would fuss if so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>eone got so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ething the <span style="margin: 0px;">other didn't.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I always thought it was the greatest thing if
one of <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>y brothers got so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>ething or one of <span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>y
sisters got so<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>eth<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ng.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I st<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ll
don't understand why people do these things.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Onie <span style="margin: 0px;">B.</span><b> </b>was the talented one <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n
our fam<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ly.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Had she lived in another generation</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> she would have been a <span style="margin: 0px;">brilliant,</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">brilliant</span>
wo<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>an because she would have had the
opportun<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ty to go to college<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I think
her frustration <span style="margin: 0px;">came</span> from the fact that she
knew the things she could have done had she had the education.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
resented Clarence for having an education <span style="margin: 0px;">a</span>ll
these years because she said she was smarter than he was<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She should have been
allo<span style="margin: 0px;">w</span>ed to go but Clarence being the oldest
boy he got to go and she didn't<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She didn't like that at all.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Because of th<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s
there was always a clash between the two of them for years and years and years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Now Pearl [sister in law] and Onie B. had their troubles too.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Pearl resented and almost hated Onie because
when Pearl was engaged to <span style="margin: 0px;">Wright</span> <span style="margin: 0px;">Patman,</span> Onie B<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span>
came along batted an eyeball at h<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>m and he
dropped Pearl for Onie B.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was so
beautiful and back then all she had to do was bat an eyeball and all the boys
would just drop for her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was the
Belle of the county and Dad seen to it that s<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ster
had n<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ce <span style="margin: 0px;">clothes.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sister was the boy Dad would have liked to
have had not that he was not fond of Clarence because he was but Dad was much
closer to sister<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Onie</span> Belle was the oldest
girl and she thought anything a man could
do she could do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She went to work <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>n 1922 and
worked until she retired at 65<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In her old age O<span style="margin: 0px;">nie</span>
was always falling because evidently she had weak ankles but <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>t never slowed her down any.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She <span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>s
still l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ving in <span style="margin: 0px;">Benicia</span>
which is in Northern Cal<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>fornia near <span style="margin: 0px;">Vallejo.</span><span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>She moved there during the War.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span>I had never heard of <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Benicia</span>
and in <span style="color: black;">19<span style="margin: 0px;">4</span>2 I wanted to go to San D<span style="margin: 0px;">iego</span></span> but she said, <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">"</span>Well
I'm goin<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">g</span> to Benicia.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I have some friends out there and they asked
us to come out because<b> </b>we can get a pretty good job there."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span>"Well," I said. "I'm go<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ng out there to work <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>n
San Diego.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I like <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">C</span>alifornia but I want to go down south.<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">" </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Why don't you stay a week or so with me and then you
can go on down South. <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">" </span>she sa<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>d.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Well
that week lasted until the war was over because Onie had me go to work r<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ght a way.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Onie be<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">l</span>ieved that after two days you
vacat<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>on was over and it was time to go to
work.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">E</span>verybody
should have a job of some kind so I went down to the arsenal and Onie made sure
I put in my applicat<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>on and I was hired
right a way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span>I didn<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">'</span>t know I was <span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>oing to be froze but sure enough I was as <span style="margin: 0px;">soon as</span> I was hired.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When you were froze they wouldn't give you a
release to work <span style="margin: 0px;">any where</span></span><span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"> </span>else and no one
else would hire you.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This wa<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">s</span> war time and I had to stay at this job until the
war was over.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I would never have gone to
Benic<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>a if I would have known that<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had stayed with On<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>e<span style="color: black;"> <span style="margin: 0px;">B.</span></span> all through my h<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>gh
school and I stayed with her <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>n Ben<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>cia. I f<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>nished
8th g<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">r</span>ade at Midway in Dickens County then
went and lived with On<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>e B because she<b>
</b>was ill and Dad thought Hazel and I should go up there and help her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Hazel had stayed with Onie since she was <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>n Junior High </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and she stayed until her Senior year when she came back to D<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ckens to play basketball.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was really a good player and they coaxed
her back to Dickens to play Basketball and that <span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>s
where she graduated from High Schoo<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">l</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Onie wasn't well when we went up there but we d<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>dn't realize how s<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ck<span style="color: black;">
<span style="margin: 0px;">she</span></span> was<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">. </span>She
had a nervous break down from working too hard.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The doctors said she had over worked herself. John [Colberg] had traded for a
house sight unseen and they went up </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there not knowing what to expect.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They took all of the furniture, with O<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">nie</span><span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: black;">drivin<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span></span>
the one car pull<span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;">i</span>ng a load of furniture and
John drove a truck.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Onie</span><span style="color: #007f00; margin: 0px;"><b> </b></span>was carrying the kids and the dogs and
they got in around <span style="color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>idn<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ght</span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Indians
had l<span style="margin: 0px;">i</span>ved in that house and it had just <span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>one to pot.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The house had a bathroom <span style="margin: 0px;">b</span>ut it had
not been used in years and the plaster was off the wall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It had been a big big ho<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>e but the<span style="margin: 0px;">m</span>
Indians had just tore it to pieces.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
weeds was hi<span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>h<span style="margin: 0px;">e</span>r
then <span style="margin: 0px;">your</span> head she said and she sat down and
cried the rest of the night.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then the
next day she went to work on the place and by the time I got there it was the
show place of the town.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If Onie stuck a
flower in the <span style="margin: 0px;">g</span>round it grew.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don't a care what it was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There was never nothing that once she made
her mind up to do that she couldn<span style="margin: 0px;">'</span>t do<span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>This Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-74107879788878654942017-08-30T14:41:00.003-07:002017-12-08T05:52:41.769-08:00George K Williams son of Green Williams (1847-1941)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">GEORGE KEARSE WILLIAMS and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> SHELOMITH REBECCA RUSHTON</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kearse Williams was born near the village
of Cuthbert in Randolph County, Georgia on December 6, 1847 the youngest son of
Reverend William Green Williams and his wife Harriett Kearse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Harriett was 37 years old at the time of the
birth of her son.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rev Green was 43 years
old.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Harriett named her youngest son
after her grandfather who was the first George Kearse (originally spelled
Kersh.)<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Kearse Williams never
went by George. He either was called by the family nickname “Babe” or later in
life as “G.K.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In a statement dictated to a granddaughter a
few years before his death, Babe Williams stated that while born in Cuthbert,
Georgia, and his family took him to Pike County, Alabama where he grew to young
manhood. The family moved to Alabama by 1850 when Babe Williams was age 2. His
father had farms near the villages of Missouri and New Providence where Green
Williams was a preacher in the Missionary Baptist Church.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As a young child Babe worked on his father’s farms
so that his father could attend to his ministry.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the same statement as mentioned above,
Babe Williams said that he attended his first school at the age of eight (1855)
where he attended for about ten months.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>After that time he could only attend at a few months at a time because
of his working on his father's farm. Although Babe Williams spent the major
portion of his boyhood working as a farm laborer, he did manage to read and
write and as he stated “became a Bible Scholar.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the eve of the Civil War, however, Alabama
was only one generation removed from the frontier and most of the state's
farmers owned few, if any, slaves including the family of Babe Williams. Babe
Williams was thirteen years old at the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All of his brothers and brothers-in-law
enlisted in the Confederate Army in the early years of the war while Babe
Williams stayed behind to work his father's farm. However in October of 1864, Rev.
Green Williams and Hattie Williams allowed Babe Williams to enlist in the army
under the supervision of his older brother Lewis Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the fall of 1864, Lewis C. Williams was
home on leave in Alabama and he convinced his folks to allow his youngest
brother, who was a large 16-year-old boy, to join the Confederate Army. Green
and Hattie Williams agreed as long as Lewis promised to look after him. Alabama
needed ever able-bodied male to defend the home front from the imminent invasion
of Federal Troops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Babe Williams enlisted in the army October 1,
1864 at Troy, Alabama enlisting in his brother’s company. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some sixty-five years after the event, in June
1929, George Kearse Williams applied for a pension the state of Texas was
supplying to ex-Confederate soldiers. In the same pension application, G.K. Williams
stated that his full name was George Kearse Williams and that he enlisted at Troy,
Alabama on the 1st of October 1864 in Company H 47th Alabama Regiment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His sister Mrs. Mattie R. Smith gave an
affidavit which stated, "I am 80 years old of age and of personal
knowledge know G.K. Williams enlisted in the Confederate Army the 1st of
October 1864 and served 7 months in the 47th Alabama Regiment of Company
H." Mattie Smith verified her brother's war record for the Texas
Confederate pension also saying that she was present the 1st of October 1864
when Babe Williams left home to go to Troy, Alabama for the purpose of
enlisting in the Confederate Army.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
was also present the next day when Babe Williams left home with his brother
Lewis C. Williams who was a Confederate Soldier at the time and was home on
furlough.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mattie R. Smith also stated
that during the time Babe Williams served in the Army she saw a number of
letters written by her brother to their mother, Harriett Williams, which letter
told of his service and. experiences in the Confederate Army.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kearse Williams' nephew, James H. West
of Tarrent County also testified, "I was well acquainted with G.K.
Williams in 1864 and know of my own knowledge that he enlisted in the
Confederate Army about October 1st 1864 and served 7 months in Company H 47th
Alabama Regiment." He stated that in the company with him were Captain
J.P. Wood of Pike County, Lieutenant Cox and his neighbors Butler Sparks,
Bayford Sparks, Jim Jones, L. Norton and his brother Lewis C. Crawford.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the company of his brother Lewis C.
Williams, the brothers went to Montgomery, Alabama and were joined to the 47th
Alabama Regiment, which was later consolidated with the 57th Alabama Regiment
as death took its toll. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Williams brothers were shipped immediately
to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia where the 47th battled Major General Philip
Sheridan’s army. At dawn, October 19, 1864, the Confederate Army under Lt. Gen.
Jubal A. Early surprised the Federal army at Cedar Creek and routed the 7th and
19th Union Army Corps.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sheridan arrived
from Winchester to rally his troops, and in the afternoon, launched a crushing
counterattack, which recovered the battlefield. Sheridan's victory at Cedar
Creek broke the back of the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley. Sheridan’s
forces in the Shenandoah Valley also destroyed the economic infrastructure of
the Valley. The campaign was called "The Burning" by residents and was
one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. Abraham Lincoln
rode the momentum of Sheridan's victories in the Valley and General William T Sherman's
successes in Georgia to re-election in November 1864. In 1865, Sheridan’s cavalry
pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at
Appomattox in April 1865.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When
the 47th Alabama was consolidated into the 57th Alabama Infantry Regiment, the
Williams brothers now participated in the movement into Tennessee under the
command of the Army of Tennessee. Confederate Gen. John B. Hood began the
Franklin-Nashville Campaign in Tennessee during the fall of 1864. The Battle of
Franklin began about sunrise on November 30 and quickly caused frightening
casualties. When the battle ceased, after dark, six Confederate generals were
dead or had mortal wounds. Despite this terrible loss, Hood's army was depleted
and worn out as they crawled on toward Nashville. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Although Hood suffered terrible losses at
Franklin continued toward Nashville, in a last desperate attempt to force Maj.
Gen. William T. Sherman's army out of Georgia. Hood led the Army of Tennessee
north toward and reached the outskirts of Nashville on December 2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before daylight on the 15th, the first of the
Union troops attacked the rebel army.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
following day Hood's army fled. For ten days, the Union troops’ pursuit
continued until the beaten and battered Army of Tennessee recrossed the
Tennessee River. Hood retreated to Tupelo Mississippi, and resigned his
command. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Alabama 57th was then transferred to
North Carolina, to fight under the command of General Joseph Johnston in an
attempt to block General Sherman’s march north through the Carolinas to reach General
U.S. Grant in Virginia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 19 March 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston
with 21,000 men surprised General Sherman just south of Bentonville, in
Johnston County, North Carolina. On the third day, 21 March the vastly
out-numbered Confederate force withdrew across Mill Creek. The Confederates
suffered 2,606 casualties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The war was all but over when Babe Williams
was granted a furlough on the 1st of April 1865 at Greensboro, in Guilford
County, North Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had served
six months in the Confederate Army. He was given $1.15 in silver as his final
payment for service to the Confederacy and after gathering up what personal
belongings he still had, the former rebel soldier started for home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Three weeks later General Joseph E. Johnston
surrendered the Confederate Army to General William T. Sherman on April 26,
1865. Johnston surrendered by far the largest share of the Confederate troops
still in the field at war's end, more than Lee and the others combined. He surrendered
all Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida and took those
States out of the war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the time Babe Williams reached Augusta,
Georgia on the Savannah River, some 250 miles from his regiment, he learned
that the war was over. About April 20, he turned himself in to the Federal
authority at Augusta, surrendered his weapons, and was paroled to go home as
long as he swore not to take up arms against the United States. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His sister, Mattie R. Smith remembered being
present when Babe Williams, on parole, returned home the late part of April
1865. Babe Williams had walked home all the way from Greensboro, North Carolina
to Goshen, Alabama, some 540 miles, with the journey taking a little less than
a month.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was walking approximately eighteen
miles a day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mattie R. Smith stated that her brother was
wearing a worn out Confederate uniform and carrying a knapsack, a canteen, and
other army equipment issued by the Confederate Army.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When the Confederate Capital Richmond was
burned to the ground during the last campaigns of the war many Confederate Army
records were destroyed and in later years Babe Williams was unable to secure
any verification of his service of six months.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Alabama was desolate after four years of
Civil War and many folks were now starving. The antebellum South of G.K.
Williams' boyhood was now gone when at the age of 17 he returned home to his
father's farm near New Providence, Alabama. Once prosperous families were now
destitute.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The struggle for Southern Independence failed
and the cost of trying to reserve the South’s peculiar institution of slavery
was paid with the blood of Alabama’s white men folk.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Alabama was mourning the loss of a third of
its manhood during the failed rebellion as that as many as 70,000 men were killed
or disabled during the failed rebellion. Widows and orphans abounded in Alabama
and there was a not a single family left untouched by the ravages of war.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In his
father’s family, the price was paid by Babe Williams' older brother Wilson Williams,
and his brother in laws husbands of his sisters Hanson and Winnie. In the
family of his future wife, Shelomith Rushton, she lost a brother, a brother in
law, and five male cousins.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Alabama was destitute immediately following
the war having suffered invading Union troops and foraging armies on both sides
during the conflict. Alabama’s once-rich cotton economy was in shambles as the
black slaves upon which its wealth depended were freed with the war's end.
Small farms which had produced general crops before the war now turned to
cotton as a cash crop. However the market for cotton became overloaded and
prices dropped 50 percent nearly ruining most farmers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Additionally a “Reconstruction” government in
Montgomery tried to break up treasonous sentiments that still existed. Although
Alabamians had surrendered their weapons, they did not surrender their white
supremacist convictions. The Reconstruction conflict led many to identify
themselves as southerners rather than as Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1865 President Andrew Johnson ordered federal
troops to oversee the Emancipation of African Americans under the Freedmen's
Bureau. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At the end of the war, Alabama
was placed under the jurisdiction of General John Pope, commander of the Third
Military District that included Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Federal Troops were
stationed in Alabama counties to enforce the laws of emancipation and civil
rights.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>General Pope placed the jurisdiction
of Alabama under Gen. Wager T. Swayne. General Swayne, often referred to as
Alabama's military governor, never formally held that title but nonetheless, he
wielded substantial executive authority. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Swayne was persuaded that only black suffrage
could force necessary political changes in Alabama, to stop the continuing
violence toward freed people. These attacks by former Confederates provided Swayne
with the "fullest evidence" that Alabama was "not very fit for a
free government at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">President Johnson gave the ex-Confederates
latitude to reestablish race relations on the terms that they supported despite
the wishes of the Republican majority in Congress. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>President Johnson opposed federally guaranteed
civil rights protection or extending voting rights to freedmen. He also favored
rapid pardons for ex-Confederate leaders and quick reintegration into the Union
for the 11 states formerly in rebellion. Johnson's policies mostly prevailed
for nearly the first two years after the war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However in 1867, the Republican-dominated
Congress took control of the Reconstruction process and attempted to expand and
protect the civil rights of the formerly enslaved. During the next eight years,
the federal government worked to rewrite Alabama's constitution. Freedmen
founded political and workers' rights organizations such as the Union League, while
Democrats who favored states' rights and white supremacy responded with legal
action and, sometimes, terrorism in the form of intimidation, violence, and
murder by the Ku Klux Klan. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Klan was
formed in Tennessee by ex Confederate Officers to suppress the civil rights of
the freed slaves and to attack Union men. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The state constitutional convention in
November 1867 framed a new constitution for Alabama which conferred universal
manhood suffrage and imposed the iron-clad oath, so that whites who had supported
the Confederacy were temporarily prohibited from holding office. Most whites
boycotted the polls but the new constitution went into effect and the state was
readmitted to the Union in June 1868, when a new governor and legislature were
elected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G.K. Williams as young man continued to live
with his folks for the next two years 1865-1867, working as a farm laborer. During
this time the state suffered a severe cotton crop failure that plunged Alabama
into an economic chaos. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However the family of his father continued to
attend church in the Missionary Baptist Communities until he had a falling out
with them. For a time the Williamses attended Primitive Baptist Church services
where G.K. Williams met and began to court a young lady in his church, Rebecca
Shelomith Rushton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rebecca Shelomith Rushton was born the 13th
of September 1845 near the village of Ramer in Montgomery County, Alabama. Her
parents were William and Rebecca Fanning Rushton, natives of Orangeburgh
District, South Carolina and members of the Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church of
Ramer, Alabama.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Rushtons were originally from
Bedfordshire, England, from where Shelomith’s grandfather, William Rushton
immigrated to the United States in 1785 after the Revolutionary War. The
original spelling of the family name was Rishton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Rushton married a Miss Kichen and had
a large family in Orangeburgh District South Carolina. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The youngest son of William Rushton was
another William Rushton who was born 1807 in Orangeburgh District South Carolina.
He married about 1833 Rebecca Fannin and had a large family. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Rushton moved to Montgomery County,
Alabama before January 31, 1837, when he bought land from Eli Amason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Land records of Montgomery County show that
he had several farms in Montgomery and there was land transference between
Nehemiah Posey and him in 1860. Nehemiah Posey was the brother in law of William
Rushton’s brother Moses Rushton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Moses Rushton was the founder of Pisgah
Primitive Baptist Church in Section 9 Twp 12 of Montgomery County, Alabama. The
1850 Slave Census showed that he owned a 23 year old African American female
and her 6 year old son. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His untimely death occurred on the way home
from Montgomery with a cortege of wagons from a trip to buy supplies. Before
reaching Catoma Swamp (Creek), a heavy rain had fallen. "Mr. Rushton, an
expert swimmer, volunteered to swim a head, feel the way for the horses, and
pilot the wagons across the creek. But the waters were too swift and he was
carried under. His body was recovered and laid to rest in Pisgah Cemetery 29
Jan 1859. When 30 years later his wife died in her 80’s, an oak tree had to be
dug up by the roots in order to make her grave by the side of her husbands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is certain that Shelomith Rushton’s mother
and family were also members of the Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church because
William Rushton’s son John was married to Julia Hancock by Rev. Robert
Misseldine the pastor of that church. Several children of the Missledine Family
also married into the Rushton family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Rushton was a farmer and according to
a statement to a granddaughter, he witnessed the inauguration of President
Jefferson Davis at Montgomery, Alabama on February 18, 1861, on the portico of
the Alabama capitol. Jefferson Davis and his family lived in Montgomery until
May, when the Confederate capital moved to Richmond, Virginia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The children of William Rushton who married
in Montgomery County prior to the outbreak of the Southern Rebellion were
Martha Abigale Rushton married at the age of 25 on 10 Jul 1859 to William G
Kennedy, Mary Jane Rushton<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>married at
the age of 19 on 6 Nov 1856 to Joseph T Soles, Margaret Elizabeth Rushton
married at the age of 17 on 7 Feb 1857 to Simon Peter Kimbro and John Allen
Rushton Rushton who was married at the age of 17 on 18 Aug 1860 to Julia
Hancock. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He enlisted on 15 March 1862 at
Greenville, Alabama in CSA Company A 39th Alabama Infantry as a private.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The remainder of William Rushton’s daughters
did not marry until after the Civil War ended. Perhaps the scarcity of
available men or the fact that William Rushton was worried his daughters would
be widowed came them from marrying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Zibbiah Maranda Rushton married at the age of
20 on 23 February 1865 Moses Rushton Fannin her 2<sup>nd</sup> cousin.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shelomith married at the age of 21 on 1
August 1867 George Kearse Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Rushton died in December 1869,
destitute after his Confederate money became worthless.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had removed to Crenshaw County, which was
recently created, from Montgomery and Pike County, Alabama, where died of
Palsy. That is a condition that is marked by uncontrollable tremor and
quivering of the body or one or more of its parts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the death of her husband Rebecca
Rushton remained on the farm she lived with family members. In the 1870 census
she had three daughters and a grandson John Greer Kennedy living within her
household. All around her were her sons in laws. It is not known when Rebecca
Rushton died. She is not located in the 1880 census and therefore sometime in
the decade of the 1870’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Daughter Louisa Amanda Rushton age 22 married
on 25 Jan 1872 Rev. Daniel Wilkerson Stephenson.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The youngest child of William and Rebecca
Rushton,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Zaraviah "Zary" Anngalisa Rushton
married at the age of 22 on 26 Nov 1874, William Franklin Marion (Bill) Stephenson.
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Daniel and Bill Stephenson were
brothers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is highly likely that Rebecca Rushton had
died by 1874 as that some of her daughters were moving to Texas with their
husbands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The nineteen-year-old G.K. Williams was
attracted to the petite Shelomith Rushton’s beauty. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He towered over Shelomith, with him being over
six feet tall and she barely five feet. He was also attracted towards her
Christian piety as he was a serious Christian scholar having witnessed the
horrors of war. He knew that he wanted to be a Minister of the Gospel as was
his father was and felt he had the calling. Shelomith Rushton this suited his
need for a Christian helpmate. A granddaughter recalled that Shelomith was a
very old fashioned woman who believed that it was her duty and role in life to
care for every need of her husband. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G.K. Williams and Shelomith Rushton were
married by a Primitive Baptist minister, R.T. Webb at the Elam Primitive
Baptist Church in Goshen Pike County, Alabama on the 1st of August 1867.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The marriage certificate however was recorded
in the newly formed Crenshaw County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>G.K.
Williams and Shelomith both had nicknames by which they were known by family
members for the rest of their lives. G.K. Williams was called “Babe” and Shelomith
was “Toad” as she was so small. Even in her old age she was known as “Grandma
Toad”. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The newly weds lived with G.K’s folks, Green
and Hattie Williams on a section of Green Williams' farm in Crenshaw County on
which G.K. labored during the hard lean years after the war. The pair’s first
child, a daughter, was born ten months after they were married.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was born on the 1st of June 1868 on the
farm and was named Margaret Jane although she and called Maggie all her life. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Another daughter followed two years later on
the 2nd of March 1870.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This daughter was
named Elizabeth Victoria and called Betty by the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">To show how hard were the times after the
Civil War ended, three years into his marriage G.K. Williams was still
struggling to provide a living for his family in Alabama.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The 1870 census of Crenshaw County, Alabama was
taken on June 17<sup>th</sup> and listed Babe and Shelomith Rushton Williams as
the next successive family after his brother Miles Williams. He was probably living
and working on Miles’ farm . According to this census G.K. Williams held
neither real nor personal property. His youngest daughter Maggie was enumerated
by her nickname “Puss”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Agriculture census of 1870 showed also
that G.K. Williams had no lands but was renting a farm or sharing it with his
brother Miles who had 35 acres under cultivation out of 80 acres he owned which
was valued at $250. This property was probably the farm of their father Green
Williams. GK Williams was shown to own a horse, 2 cows, and 3 hogs all worth
$110. Miles Williams did not own a horse but owned a mule, 3 cows, 2 oxen, 3
head of cattle and 20 hogs all worth $360. GK Williams produced 100 bushels of
corn, 1 bale of cotton [400 pounds], 30 bushels of sweet potatoes, 18 gallons
of molasses, and $75 worth of slaughtered animals. All of his products were
worth $358.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Miles on the other hand
produced 357 bushels of corn, 3 bales of cotton, 40 bushels of sweet potatoes,
16 gallons of molasses, $125 worth of slaughtered animals worth a total of $923.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following year, another daughter was born
to Shelomith Rushton Williams on the 24th of July 1871 while the family still
lived in Crenshaw County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This third
daughter was named Sarah Frances and known as <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Fannie”. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This same year G.K. Williams decided to move
from Alabama to Texas where his sister Mary West had written glowing reports. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The economy of Alabama had collapsed during the
postwar period where frenetic, unregulated growth of the nation’s railroad
system laid the groundwork of the Panic of 1873 and the depression that followed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However hard times had already come to
Crenshaw County as the Williams scrambled to make a living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After much family discussion, G.K. Williams
and his brother-in-law John Smith o agreed to pick up and move to Texas for a
new start. It was decided to take G.K. Williams’ <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>aging parents Green and Hattie Williams with
them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In December 1871 G.K. Willlams, with his
family, left Alabama, which had been his home for over twenty years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Accompanied by his father, mother, and his
brother-in-law John A. Smith's family, G.K. Williams booked passage from
Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans where then boarding a paddleboat to continued their
journey up to the Red River to Jefferson, Texas. There they disembarked on the
12th of January 1872. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The years after the Civil War were Jefferson's
heyday with people coming from the devastated southern states seeking a new
life. In 1872, there were 226 arrivals of steamboats with a carrying capacity
averaging 425 tons each. Situated on Big Cypress Bayou, Jefferson was a river
port town, and, in fact, has been described as the "River port to the
Southwest." The boats came up the Mississippi River into the Red River,
through Caddo Lake, and up Big Cypress to what was known as, and still is
termed, the "Turning Basin" where the stern-wheelers loaded and
unloaded cargo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From Jefferson, G.K. Williams moved 31 miles
further northwest and settled his family in a community known as South Union which
was four miles south of Daingerfield in Titus County, Texas. The farm was known
as the Hedrick's Place and is now located in Morris County which was formed
from Titus in 1875. The farm was also about five miles west of Hughes Springs
in neighboring Cass County. The family worshipped at the South Union Baptist
Church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G.K. Williams may have picked this area in
which to settle for the region had a strong Primitive Baptist and Missionary
Baptist Churches at an early date and he may have known Alabama people there. His
sister Mary West family was located in Titus County. The family of John and
Mattie Smith's also settled at the South Union Community where Rev. Green and
Hattie made their home with them. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Here in
South Union GK Williams raised corn, cotton and livestock to support his
growing family.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Cotton remained the principal cash crop, and corn
remained the principal food crop. Hogs remained the other principal food
product until the 20<sup>th</sup> Century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the 12th of July 1873, G.K. and Shelomith
Williams’ first son was born on the Hedrick's place at South Union in Titus
County, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was named Edgar
Lewis.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The middle name Lewis was for his
brother Lewis Crawford with whom he had served in the Civil War. Edgar was not
a family name but eventually would be passed down to several of his
descendants. Edgar Lewis always went by “Edd’ as an adult spelling it
distinctively with the double consonant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edd Williams was followed by another son, who
was named George Myles Williams. He was born on the 28th of January 1875, also
born on the Hendrick's place.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George
Myles was named after his father and his uncle Miles Williams. It seemed that sibling
rivalry kept the two brothers from being very close. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1876 the
East Line and Red River Railroads was constructed through the southwestern
corner of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cass county with its principal
station at Hughes Springs about 7 miles from South Union. The two railroads
gave residents more reliable transportation for their crops and enabled Hughes
Springs and Atlanta to develop as supply centers. Within the area the
predominant means of transportation remained horses, mules, wagons and buggies.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Shelomith Williams was pregnant with a set of
twin daughters who were born on the 5th of November 1876 on the Hendrick's
Place.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They were named Anna and Hattie.
Little Anna died September 7, 1881 at South Union, Morris, Texas at the age of
5 year of consumption. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following year, on April 28, 1878, G.K.
and Shelomith's eighth child was born. She was their sixth daughter. They named
Martha Rushton Williams after Shelomith's sister. She was known as Mattie and as
“Aunt Rus”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In July 1879, G.K. Williams' father, Green
Williams died while living at South Union now in Morris County, Texas, on or
near Edgar Louis Williams birthday. His widowed mother Hattie continued to make
her home with G.K. Williams and later his sister Mattie Smith until her death
in 1900 at the age of 89 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1880 census of Morris County, Texas
listed 12 persons in the household Of G.K. Williams. They were living within
Precinct #1 when they were enumerated 14 June. This census did not record his
financial status but evidently he was living on the farm his father had rented
at South Union according to the 1880 Agricultural Census. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Kearse Williams was listed as “George”
Williams age 33 a farmer born in Georgia with both parents born in South Carolina.
Shelomith Williams was listed as 32 year old housewife when she was actually 34
years old. Their children listed in the census were Margaret Williams age 12,
Bettie Williams age 10 and Fannie Williams age 7 all born in Alabama. Next came
Eddie Williams age 6, George Williams age 5, Annah Williams and Hattie Williams
both age 3 and Mattie Williams age 1. All of these children were born in
Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also included in this household
was George Kearse Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>widowed
mother, Harriett age 65 and born in South Carolina. She was actually closer to
70 years old. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also within this household
was a 43 year old single man named Hiram Pritchard who was listed as a boarder
and a farmer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1880 agricultural census showed that G.K.
Williams was renting his farm and owned $30 worth of farm equipment, $127 worth
of livestock, with the total worth of everything being $405.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He owned 2 horses, 2 milk cows, 6 head of
cattle with 2 calves being “dropped” during the year, 17 hogs and 35 barnyard
fowl. His farm produced 100 pounds of butter and 140 dozen eggs. He also had 17
acres in corn which produced 250 bushels, 14 acres in cotton which produced 5
bales, 1 acre in sorgum which produced 127 gallons of molasses, and ¾ of an
acre in sweet potatoes that produced 60 bushels. Hiram Pritchard most likely
was a hired hand who helped G.K. Williams farm as his eldest son Eddie Williams
was only about 7 years old. Certainly all the kids old enough did chores like
feeding and tending the livestock and out in the fields as soon as they were
old enough to hold a hoe.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Most likely
Rev. G.K. Williams’ family lived on this place until about 1898 when he moved
to Cass County, Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1890 census was destroyed so it would be
twenty years before Rev. G.K. Williams and his family would be enumerated
again. During those two decades, more children were born, one died and several
married and left home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">About two weeks after the 1880 census was
taken, the South Union Missionary Baptist Church licensed G.K. Williams to
preach on the 3rd of July 1880. He used as the text for his first sermon the
topic, "Prepare To Meet Thy God" and he was so well accepted as a
preacher that he was ordained a Baptist Minister in August that same year. At
the time all the local Baptist Churches had pastors so Rev. G.K. Williams
preached at schoolhouses for the rest of the Associational year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the following year, Rev. GK. Williams
was called to act as Pastor at three Baptist Churches, one forth time each, for
one year, making it a full time ministry. These churches were the South Union
Baptist Church, the Avinger Baptist Church, the Turkey Creek Baptist Church and
the Bear Creek Baptist Church. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rev. G.K.
Williams was to be an active full time minister for the next fifty-six years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the 4th of May 1881 Rev. G.K. and
Shelomith's ninth child and seventh daughter was born, they named Mary Ellen. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However the following September one of their
twin daughters, Anna, died at the age of five years. She was buried next to her
grandfather William Green Williams at the South Union Cemetery in Morris
County, Texas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Katy Belle Williams was born the 24th of
March 1883. She was Shelomlth's 10th child and eighth daughter. Katy Belle was followed
by Lula May Williams born the 11th of September 1886. The last child born to Rev.
GK and Shelomith was a son named Leonard Ferman Williams. He was <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>born the 10th of January 1889. Shelomith
Williams was 44 years old at the time of the birth of her last child. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Bettie Williams was the first daughter to
marry. On 3 Mar 1890 in Morris County, Texas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">at the age of 20, she married Thomas Cobb
Glover son of William Franklin Glover and Sarah A. Smith. They had five
children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Fannie the third daughter of Rev. GK Williams
and Shelomith was next to leave home. Fannie married Charlie Clyde Collins son
of R.B. Collins on 7 Jan 1892 in Morris County, Texas. She had three children,
one which died in childbirth with the mother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the age of 25, Maggie” Williams, the
eldest daughter, married next on November 8, 1893 to Thomas White “Tom” Williams
but had no children.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>About three weeks
later daughter Harriet Emiline “Hattie” Williams left home at the age of 17 when
she married Riley Frederick Smith on 25 Nov 1893 in Cass County, Texas. Riley
Frederick Smith was the son of Jhn E Smith and Martha Dawkins. She was the
mother of six children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar Lewis Williams at the age of 20 years married
January 14, 1894 Rosa Lee Perser of Carterville, Cass Texas. She was the
daughter of William John Perser and Martha Ann Carter. A Rev. James Smith
married them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They were the parents of
12 children and later moved from Cass County to Dickens County, Texas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Later that year his younger brother 19 year
old George Myles Williams married August 21, 1894 in Morris County, Nora
Estelle Nelson daughter of George Washington Nelson and Martha Goodson. They
had four children.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There is a family story that took place in
May 1895 when Shelomith’s daughter in law Rosie Lee Williams went into labor
with her first child. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her son Edd
Williams was such a nervous father to be that he refused to leave Rosa Lee's
side even to get a doctor but it was Shelomith who said, "Your Pa got the
doctor for me and you married this woman so you go get the doctor for
Rosie!" No one in that family ever crossed Shelomith, so Edd went and got the
doctor for Rosa Lee but it was a mid wife, which ended up delivering Edd first
child, a son the named Clarence George Williams after Edd's father. 1895 and
was followed by eight more children while Rosa and Edd resided in Cass County
Texas. Rosie Lee said she always appreciated Shelomith's no nonsense approach
to life after she needed a doctor that time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“Rus” Williams was 17 years old when she
married Rufus “Ruf” Lafayette Fite on her parent’s 70th anniversary, November
3, 1895. Rufe Fite the son of Joseph Fite and Sarah Permelia Goodson and they
were the parents of twelve children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Fanny Williams Collins died 9 May 1897 in Hughes
Springs, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cass, Texas at the age of 25.
She left a widow Charlie T Collins and two daughters who was raised by Rev. G.K
Williams after Mr. Collins remarried in 1898.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He died in 1907 which left the girls orphans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sometime around 1898, Rev. G.K. Williams moved
from Morris County to the Bear Creek Community in Cass County where most of his
churches were located in the 1890's. Bear Creek was 15 miles south east of
South Union, 11 miles southeast of Hughes Springs, and 6 miles east of Avinger.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was here where many of his married
children were living. Katy Belle Williams, a month shy of her 15th birthday, married
William L. Parker on the 2 February 1898. He was the son of Noah Lewis Parker
and Cynthia Ann Stubbs. C.A. Earp, a Justice of The Peace, married the pair.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thus when Rev. G. K. Williams moved to Bear
Creek only three of his children were still living at home, 18 year old Mary
Ellen, 16 year old Lulu Belle, and 10 year old Leonard FermanHe eventually
bought 57 acres in Cass County from J. T. Henderson in the Bear Creek Community
where he moved his family on the 24th of November 1899. By this time he only
had two children still living at home, Mary Ellen and Leonard Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century,
Rev. G.K. Williams and his wife Shelomith were living at Bear Creek, active in
the Baptist Communities of Cass County. The 1900 Census which was taken 8 June
1900 showed he lived in Precinct 1 “West of Jefferson and Petty’s Ferry Road
and was enumerated as household 80. He <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>listed
his occupation as farmer and minister and stated he owned his farm free and
clear. Others in his household were his wife Shelomith R Williams, eighteen
year old daughter Mary E Williams, fourteen year old daughter Lula May Williams
and eleven year old Leonard F Williams who was listed as a farm laborer.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shelomith stated she was the mother of 12
children with ten still living, daughters Anna and Fannie having died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the 24th of September 1902, Rev. G.K.
Williams bought a home in Hughes Springs where he and his wife were to live out
the remainder years of their long lives.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Their home was lot 16 of the Hughes' Addition tract in Hughes Springs,
Cass County, Texas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Their daughter Lula May Williams married
Leonard Wesley “Bud” Neville November 3, 1902 which the 77th anniversary of her
grandparents Rev. Green and Hattie Williams marriage. He was the son of Albert
Neville and Laura Henrietta Ramsey. Four children were born to this marriage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The youngest child<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of Rev. G.K. Williams, Leonard Ferman
Williams, was just five days shy of his 19th birthday when he married on 5
January 1908 Vera Reeder the daughter of Berry Reeder and Elizabeth Ann Bearden.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He only had two children before dying of
tuberculosis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The eldest daughter Maggie Williams wife of
Tom Williams died 19 May 1909 of tuberculosis in Avinger, Cass, Texas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1910 census of Cass County, Texas<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was taken 22 April for the household of Rev.
G.K Williams which resided in Precinct 1 near Linden.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>None of his married children lived in close
proximity of him. It is not certain who have the information to the enumerator
as G.K Williams is listed as having been born in Alabama and Shelomith’s
parents being from North Carolina. Their 26 year old unmarried daughter Mary
may have been the source of this misinformation. The census for household 158
lists George K Williams as the head age 62 years old, married for 40 years, a
minister by occupation and owned his farm free and clear. His age is correct as
he would not be 63 until December.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Shelomith Williams is listed as his wife age 63 years born in Alabama
and the mother of 12 children with 9 still living.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shelomith was actually 65 years old. Others
in the household was daughter Mary Williams age 26 whose occupation was a
seamstress and granddaughters Clyde Collins age 16 and Louisa age 13 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mary Ellen was actually 29 years old in 1910
when she made her home with her parents where she worked as a dressmaker.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She married William Bedford “Cap” Harris on
Christmas Day 1911. She was 30 years old when she married and last to leave
home. Rev. S.G. Echols married them. She was the mother on one child. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cap Harris was the son of William Handy Harris
and Margaret Lemmon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. G.K. Williams was pastor of New Colony
Baptist Church from 1912 to1913. The church was about four miles northeast of
Linden in east central Cass County. The New Colony Baptist Church was
established in 1889 and by 1891 services were held in a log schoolhouse. The
building was destroyed in a 1908 cyclone, but members rebuilt the structure
within a year. The New Colony Cemetery sat behind the church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The youngest son of Rev. GK and Shelomith
Williams, Leonard Ferman Williams died</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">25 October 1915 of tuberculosis at the age of
27. He left a 25 year old widow with a six year old daughter. She left Cass
County to move to a drier climate in Hale County, Texas not far from her
brother in law Edd Williams’ family in Dickens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Within the year Mary Ellen Harris died 30 June
1916 in Cass County, Texas of typhoid fever. She was survived by her husband
Cap Harris and a four year old son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In November
1917 Rev. G.K. Williams and Shelomith celebrated fifty years of marriage with
his remaining children hosting a celebration. His son Edd Williams and his
family who were now residents of Dickens County in West Texas came by train to
be at the reception to honor his parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the close of World War I, about 1918, Rev.
G.K. Williams and his wife Shelomith returned to Crenshaw County, Alabama to
visit relatives after an absence of nearly 45 years. They made the train trip
to Laverne, Alabama in less than a day. It is believed that Rev. G.K.
Williams’s sister made the trip also for a family reunion. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of his parents ten children, only three
remained alive in 1918, and they were Miles, G.K. and Mattie. Relatives there in
Crenshaw some 40 years later told a family researcher that they and all others
who met Rev. G.K. were deeply impressed by his Christian demeanor and
Christ-like life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
1920 Census of Cass County, Texas showed the Rev. G.K Williams had relocated
back to Hughes Springs in Precinct 2. The census was taken 23 January which
showed that he was living near his son George Myles Williams who was listed as
an operator of a Saw Mill.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rev. G.K.
Williams was listed as “George K.” Williams age 72 years old born in Georgia
and a minister of the Gospel. The only other person in his household was his
wife “Shelomith R” whose age was listed as 73 born in Alabama. Her parents were
said to have been from North Carolina which again is incorrect. It had been
nearly 50 years since Shelomith’s parents died so perhaps memory dimmed with
time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Four years after this census Rev. G.K.
Williams' companion of 56 years passed away at the age of 78 on the 24th of
July 1924. She died at her home in Hughes Springs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Grandma Toad as she was affectionately called
by her family was buried at the Hughes Springs Cemetery. Her gravemarker has
the inscription “Here is one who is Sleeping in faith and love With hope that
is treasured in Heaven above”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. G.K. Williams continued in the Baptist
ministry for the next 16 years cared for by his various daughters. It was
remembered that all of Rev. G.K. Williams daughters supported their father's
ministry and attended their father's meetings regularly.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Several of his daughters were described as
"heavy set" women and "mighty shouters" who would clap
their hands and shout "Amen" at Rev. G.K. Williams' meetings causing
the church benches to rock and shake. They would also "Hallelujah
"though out their father's sermons as they felt the Spirit move upon them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1930 Census of Cass County, Texas was
taken on 22 April <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>for Rev. G.K.
Williams. He is listed as living in Hughes Springs on the road “going east to
Linden, Turkey Creek and Sardis Church. He is enumerated in household 44 with
his daughter Hattie Smith and her two children Genie Belle and Fred.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“George K. Williams” is the head of the household
listed as an 82 year old widower. He stated he was born in Georgia and was 19
years old when he married. He owned his house that was valued at $1200 and the
census stated this family did not live on a farm. His occupation was given as a
“Baptist Minister” and he stated he was a veteran of the “U.S. military or
naval forces.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This was not correct as
he had been a soldier in the Confederate military.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The others in his household were his widowed
daughter Hattie Smith age 53, and his grandchildren “Bell G Smith age 17 and
Fred Smith age 15.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As no occupation was
given for Hattie certainly she was keeping house for her father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Later that summer Lula May Neville died 23 July
1930 in Hughes Springs Cass County just a day before the sixth anniversary of her
mother’s passing. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Five years later Rev. both
of Rev. G.K. Williams son died. Edd Williams, age 62, died 16 July 1935 from heat
stroke in Afton, Dickens county, Texas and George Myles Williams died 1 October
1935 age 60 of Typhoid Fever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 6 May 1936, Rev. G.K. Williams last remaining
sibling, Mattie Smith died about 85 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Finally in October of 1936 Rev. G.K. Williams
retired from the active ministry at the age of 88 years. At the time of his
retirement he was the Pastor of the New Prospect Baptist Church four miles
north of Jefferson on Highway 8 and the Lassiter Baptist Church eleven mile
south west of Jefferson on Highway 49 in Cass County, Texas. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In his long career he had served as a Pastor
for twenty-three different churches in the East Texas region.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was Pastor of the New Prospect Baptist
Church for 45 years, the Bear Greek Baptist Church for 28 years, and the
Avinger Baptist Church for 25 years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After a physical check up as he neared ninety
years, in 1937, Rev. G.K. Williams' doctor told him that he was in as good
physical condition as most men at the age of forty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In a newspaper Interview in 1938, Rev. G.K.
Williams admitted to being "a full scholar of tobacco.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I smoke, chew, and dip also."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When asked what gave him the most trouble
during his long ministry Rev. G.K. Williams said, "In looking back over
the ministry, dogs had had interfered more with the performance of duty as a
Clergyman than any other one thing but they provided a number of light spots. In
particular one night when performing a marriage ceremony in my front yard two
dogs came around the corner of the house fighting.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The couple were seated in a buggy when the
horse bolted and began to run. The groom finally stopped the scared horse in a
pea patch nearby then drove back to the yard for the completion of the
ceremony."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In this same article Rev. G.K. Williams
stated that he never used a sermon prepared by anyone else or wrote his out
before hand.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said he always prayed
before attempting to preach so that the Holy Ghost would help him rightly
interpret the scriptures so they could be applied in a practical manner.
"I studied the great plan of Salvation and tried to make it plain to the
listener in a way that I could be understood by all reasonable people. I
sincerely believe the Spirit of God has been with me through these years and is
still with me in my preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I love the Church and God's people and
righteousness with all my heart and hate sin in all its forms.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The people have always treated me nice. Only
three times have I had to reprove anyone for misbehaving during services.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It has been my pleasure to assist young
people every way possible."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1940 Census of Cass County is the last time
Rev. G.K Williams was enumerated. On 16 April 1940 he is listed as “George T” Williams
age 93 years old and a widower. He was still listed as head of the household with
his daughter Hattie Smith and another widow named Mattie Patrick. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The house was valued at $1000. In this census G.K.
Williams stated he had a 5<sup>th</sup> grade education. He gave no occupation and
must have been living on old age pensions. His daughter Hattie Smith was listed
as 62 years old who had completed 1 year of high school. Mattie Patrick was a 60
year old widow who worked as a seamstress and was a lodger in the house. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rev. G.K.
Williams’ household was the 202 visited on the Linden Highway. Near him at household
200 was his daughter Katy Belle Parker the wife of William L Parker and at 206 was
his daughter in law the widow of George Myles Williams. Nora Williams’ house was
valued at $3000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As Rev. G.K. Williams neared his 94th
birthday, his health declined from a kidney infection. At his home in the care
of his daughter Katy Belle Parker, Rev. G.K. Williams died on his 94th birthday
of Malaria complicated by his kidney infection. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died disappointed that he had not realized
his ambition to live to be a hundred years old.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. G.K. Williams died the 6th of December
1941 the day before Pearl Harbor brought America into another World War.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As America was mourning, its lost in the
Pacific Cass County, Texas was mourning the loss of a beloved man of God.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rev. G.K. Williams' funeral lasted over nine
hours as the community paid its last respects and anyone who wanted to say
something about him was allowed to speak.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Babe Williams was laid to rest next to his companion of 57 years in the
Hughes Springs Cemetery which is about three blocks from the home in which he
spent the last thirty-nine years of his life. Rev. G.K. Williams outlived all
his brothers and sisters, his wife, and nine of his 12 children including all
his sons. He was survived only by daughters Betty, Hattie, and Katy Belle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A portrait of Rev. G.K. Williams hangs in
many of the Churches he was a Pastor of and one known specifically is in the
Turkey Creek Baptist Church. During his long ministry Rev. G.K. Williams
established and built 8 Baptist Churches, helped organized several others, and
preached the dedicatory sermon for a number of other new churches.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was the moderator of the Salem Baptist
Association for I7 years and the moderator of the Enon Baptist Association for
3 years. Rev. G.K. Williams was also chosen a Messenger from Cass County to the
Southern Baptist Conventions at New Orleans and Washington D.C.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was also a Messenger to the Texas Baptist
Convention on numerous occasions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. G.K. Williams has estimated that he had
baptized over 3,000 persons, held 2,000 funerals including the funerals of I7
Baptist Ministers, and married 2,500 couples during his long career as a
Baptist Minister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G.K. Williams was a large framed man over six
feet tall as was his father and was said to have favored him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Instead of a long thick beard like his father
G.K. Williams wore a neatly trimmed Van Dyke beard.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Shelomith was a petite woman with sparkling
blue eyes and blond hair in her youth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the opinion of a nephew of Alabama who
wrote an initial Williams Study in 1959 stated that George Kearse Williams was
the most outstanding personality and of the most service of any member of the
family of William Green Williams. This man wrote that as one talks with people
who knew him, one is struck by the way he was universally admired.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One gets a picture of a kindly genial, fun loving,
physically active, and alert individual, who was also simple and direct in his
approach. He was extremely understanding and tolerant of his fellow human
beings but withal he had a deep and sincere testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ
and was an earnest and devout Christian.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A sister-in-law of Edd Williams, Nora Davis
in 1974, stated that Rev. G.K. Williams was her Pastor while growing up in Cass
County and was well acquainted with him since he was her sister, Rosa Lee
Williams' father-in-law.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She said that
she greatly admired G.K. Williams and she believed him to be the finest man
that ever lived; a true Christian man who feared God and loved his fellow
man.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nora Davis named one of her sons
George Kearse in honor of Rev. G.K. Williams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A granddaughter, Marye Jim Glover remarked,
“Truly he was God’s spokesman to many people including me.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A grandson, Perry Fite stated, “My
grandfather the Rev. G.K. Williams had a great influence on my life and I am
truly grateful I had with him as a Christian and I share with him the strong
love we hold for the Hughes Springs Community.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One of the outstanding early ministers of
this and other Baptist churches in the area was brother G.K. Williams. An old
Civil War Vet. with a long white beard, he was well loved and will be long
remembered by many. Baptist Church Hickory Hill Avinger Texas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">GEORGE KEARSE “BABE” WILLIAMS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Born December 6, 1847 Cuthbert, Randolph,
Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Died December 6, 1941 Hughes Springs, Cass,
Texas. Rev. G.K. Williams is buried in Block 3 Lot 9 with wife and son Leonard
Fermon Williams and his wife Vera. Babe Williams married Rebecca “Shelomith”
Rushton August 1, 1867, Vidette, Crenshaw, AL daughter of William and Rebecca
Rushton. She was born September 13, 1845 Ramer, Montgomery, AL and died July
24, 1924 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Margaret
“Maggie” Jane Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> was born <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>June 1,
1868 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama and died May 19, 1909 Avinger, Cass, Texas. She
married 8 November 1893 Thomas W. “Tom” Williams (1870-1943 Hughes Springs,
Texas). They were married by W.F. Martin. Her Obituary was printed <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>25 May 1909-We are grieved to record the death
of Mrs. Margaret J. Williams which occurred on last Wednesday May 19. Remains
interred Hughes Springs Cemetery daughter of G.K. Williams. Tom Williams 1910
Census says he is 35 (1875) born in Texas and a widower. He’s boarding with
family of Isaac Burkhalter.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Elizabeth
“Bettie” Victoria Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> was born March 2, 1870 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama and died
June 24, 1954 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She married 1890 Thomas Cobb
Glover<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>son of William Franklin Glover
and Sarah A. Smith (Born July 2, 1864-Died May 25, 1939) In 1910 Census family
is living next door to John S. Perser, Edgar L. Williams brother-in-law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clarence
Glover</b> was born <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>March 1891 Bear
Creek, Cass, Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Newton
Judon “Jude” Glover</b> was born July 8, 1896 Avinger, Cass, Texas and died Nov
30, 1971. He was a WWI Veteran. He married Lillie Joyce (March 8, 1914-Jan 14,
1988). There were the parents of Franklin Delano Glover 1934-1988, Billy Gene
Glover, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Barbara Jane Glover, Minnie E.
Glover, and Don Glover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pauline
Glover</b> was born Born October 1897 Avinger, Cass Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Loonie
Ward Glover</b> was born August 30, 1902 and died Dec 6, 1976 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baby
Glover</b> Tom Glover and wife rejoicing over advent of a sweet babe Sunday,
but the little one passed away Monday- Bear Creek. October 4, 1905 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bernice
Glover</b> born 1914 “</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sarah
“Fannie” Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born July 24, 1871 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama and died May 9, 1897 Hughes
Springs, Cass, Texas. She is buried<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in
Block 1 Lot 16 of Hughes Springs Cemetery. She married Charlie Collins son of
R.B. Collins born November 1868 and died March 14, 1907. His second wife was
named Emma. Next to her grave is a small grave containing a small iron marker
with lamb on it. Presumable this is a baby’s grave. In the 1910 Census these
two daughters are show as grandchildren of G.K. Williams and were being raised
by him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clyde
Collins</b> (female) born 1894 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Louvinia
Collins</b> born 1897 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edgar
Lewis Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born July 12, 1873, South Union, Titus, Texas and died July 16, 1935 Afton,
Dickens, Texas. He married January 14, 1894 Rosa Lee Perser in Carterville,
Cass Texas, daughter of William John Percer<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>and Martha Ann Carter. They were married by James Smith.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clarence
George Williams</b> was born May 22, 1895 Avinger, Cass, Texas. He married
November 13, 1915 Lillie “Pearl” Callaway daughter of William A. Callaway and
Margaret Frances “Fannie” Hall. She was Born April 9, 1893 and her father was a
charter member of Hughes Springs First Baptist Church. It was first a two-story
log building. She died Lufton Texas. Their children were Theresa LaJuan
Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Callaway Williams, Edgar
Lyon Williams, and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Billy Gene Williams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Onie
Belle Williams</b> was born February 5, 1897 Avinger, Cass, Texas and died Feb
7, 1988. She married John Oberlin Colberg. Their children<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>were Doris Rose Colberg and Virgil Orin
Colberg 1920-1980 Hobart, OK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Austin
Edgar Williams</b> was born January 30, 1899 Avinger, Cass, Texas. He died
March 18, 1960 in Columbus, Ohio. He was first<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>married to Ione Robertson whom he later divorced. He later remarried
Lorraine Junkins. Children by Ione Robertson were I. Glynton Williams 1926 -1936
and Billie Ware Williams. Children by Lorraine Junkins were Becky Williams and Eddy
Williams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thurston
Lee “Joe” Williams</b> was born November 8, 1900 Avinger, Cass, Texas. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died March 17, 1967 Empire, California. Joe
Williams as he was known married on December 21, 1922 Ruth Mims. After she died,
he remarried Jane Wylie.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His
children were Joe Billy Williams, Truman Lee Williams, Bobbie Ruth Williams, Freddy
Wayne Williams, and Donald Williams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Louis
Milton “Boots” Williams <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></b>was
born October 22, 1902 Avinger, Cass, Texas and died January 20, 1978 in Cherry
Hills, Riverside, California. He married 27 September 1921 Anne Ruth Danforth
(1902-1979). Their children were Oscar Louis Williams, Raymond Leonard “Ray”
Williams, Edgar Hugh Williams, Wallace Willard Williams, Minnie Lee Williams, Bonnie
Ruth Williams, and Milton Bradford Williams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.
William Russell “Tab” Williams</b> was Born December 9, 1904 Avinger, Cass,
Texas and died September 22, 1958 in Dickens County, Texas. He married Irene
Putnam. Their children were Mildred Williams, Francell Williams 1934-1998 wife
of Mr. Young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hattie
Lillian Williams</b> was Born August 22, 1906 Avinger, Cass, Texas and died
December 11, 1923 in Upland, California giving birth to the son of Tom Chesney.
Her only child was Raymond Chesney born December 11, 1923 and was raised by his
aunt Onie Belle Colberg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Horace
Vernon “Bunch” Williams</b> was Born March 9, 1910 Linden, Cass, Texas and died
November 6, 1987, Afton, Texas. He married Edna “Anne” Gentry and had children,
Jerrie Ann Williams, and Tommie Ruth Williams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hazel
Clyde Williams</b> was Born July 22, 1912 Linden, Cass, Texas and died
September 10, 1956 Ashland, Nebraska. She had a son by Michael Maynor named
Michael Michael who was raised by his Aunt Jerry Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">J. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elizabeth
Lorrene “Jerrie” Williams</b> was Born April 13, 1915 Midway, Dickens, Texas and
died May 26, 2003 Dickens, Texas. She married Gail Smith June 1946. She raised her
nephew as her son Michael Smith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">K. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winnie
Morlene Williams</b> was born February 14, 1917 Midway, Dickens, Texas and died
April 16, 2004 died San Dimas California. She is buried in Earth, Texas. She married
John Walker while pregnant with a son named Gene buried in earth. He was the
son of a New Mexico . Her other son was Kenneth Walker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">L. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nellie
Juanita Williams</b> was born December 12, 1920 Afton, Dickens, Texas and married
Wayne Howell whom she later divorced. Her third husband was Art Czarapota and
her 3rd marriage was to Toy Dial.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She
had one child Darlyn Howell. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George
Myles Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born January 28, 1875 South Union Community, Titus, Texas and died October
1, 1935. He married August 21, 1894 Nora Estelle Nelson daughter of George
Washington Nelson and Martha Goodson. She was born March 3, 1978 Livelys
Chapels crossroads, Cass, Texas . <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As a
lad it was necessary that young George work to help support the family, so he
did not attend school regularly. Most of his work and social life took him into
the Cass County area where he met and married what he called "the
prettiest girl in Cass County". She was Nora Estelle Nelson born while her
parents lived in the Livelys Chapel-Cross Roads area where her father was an
enterprising farmer, had a blacksmith shop and operated a sawmill where young
George Myles was working at the time. The first child born to George Myles and
Nora was a daughter born 21 August 1895, whose name was Lola Mae, but from
infancy to the present time was called "Bill". When she was almost
eight years old they moved "to town" where George Myles had built a
house on the north side of what is now East First Street in the 800 block,
across from where his parents lived. Eventually he and his father-in-law owned
the land East to North Pecan and on the North to School Drive and four houses
were built by them and occupied by the two families at various times. On 17
Dec. 1903 a son was born to the Williams family and his name was Esker Ray, but
better known as "Boots". George Edna was born July 27,1908 and Myles
Guinn on 1 Dec. 1911. He was called "Squirrelly" - and the name grew
up with him. George Myles was working at T.B. Keasler Co. most of this time,
and later he worked at a cotton gin. George Myles engaged in the lumber
business and street and road construction and he and E.B. "Cap"
Phillips had a partnership for a number of years. Williams built the rock
filling station at the corner of East First and N. Pecan Streets in the 1920's.
It was built of native rock and became a landmark. It was regrettably removed
in the 1970's. George was civic minded and served on the School Board and City
Council. He encouraged his children to attend school and to take part in
worthwhile activities. "Squirly" played Clarinet in the first band
that was organized in Hughes Springs. Lola Mae “Bill” married Ernest “Judge”
Traylor after he returned from during World War I and finished his degree in
Pharmacy in Baylor School of Pharmacy in Dallas. Their wedding was at the
Williams home 11 October 1919; their children were Ernestelle, Charles Norman
and Billy Merrill. "Judge" died 23 Dec. 1929 and was buried in Hughes
Springs Cemetery. Esker Ray married Maggie McLeary on 23 Dec. 1928. They moved
to Rayville La. and later moved to Monroe. They had two children, Gene and
Bobby. Bobby died at age 10 and was buried in W. Monroe Cemetery. George Edna
graduated from C.I. A. now Texas Women’s University in 1931 and in 1968 retired
from a teaching career that spanned 29 years. She was married to Burgess Henry
Hooton 11 June 1939, Burgess died 16 May 1968, and was buried in Hughes Springs
Cemetery. Horace Samuel Wallace, Sr. of Austin and George Edna were married 23 Jan.
1983. They live in Austin and Hughes Springs. Myles Guinn was born1 Dec. 1911,
and was married to Willsie Kathleen McCain of Daingerfield 3 Aug. 1933. They
had three sons, Ronald Guinn, Michael Kent and Jack Alan. Jack died 1 May 1974.
They live in Tyler, Texas. George Myles and Nora were devoted members of the
First Baptist Church where he was a deacon. He belonged to the Masonic Lodge
and they both were members of the Order of the Eastern Star. As soon as
"Bill" and George Edna were eighteen, they also joined the O.E.S. and
have been members for over 50 years.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Informant: George E. Hooton Wallace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.
Lola Mae “Bill” Williams</b> was born August 21, 1895 and married October 11,
1919 George Ernest Traylor. He died December 1929. Her children were Ernestelle
Traylor, Charles Norman Traylor 1922 -1969 and Billy Merrill Traylor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esker
Ray “Boots” Williams</b> was born December 17, 1903 and died July 8, 1990. He married
December 23, 1927 Maggie McLeary. They moved to Monroe, LA. They had Juan Jean
Williams, Gene W. Williams 1936 -2002, Bobby Williams died at age 10 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Edna Williams</b> was born July 27, 1908 and married June 11, 1939 Burgess
Henry Hooton son of John David Hooton and Luella Shumate . He was born Dec 28,
1908 in Hughes Springs and died there May 16, 1968 and she remarried January
23, 1983 to Horace Samuel Wallace Sr. George Edna graduated from Denton’s Texas
Women University in 1931 and taught school for 29 years. Her children were
Judith “Alison” Hooton, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Myles
Guinn “Squirly” Williams</b> was born 1 December 1911 and married Wllsie
Kathleen McCain on 3 August 1939. They had Ronald Guinn, Michael Kent and Jack
Alan</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anna
Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born November 5, 1876 South Union, Morris, Texas and died September 7, 1881
South Union, Morris, Texas at the age of 5</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie
Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born November 5, 1876 South Union, Morris, Texas and died September 27,
1955 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is buried in Block 3 Lot 7 of the Hughes
Springs Cemetery. She married Riley Frederick Smith born July 1869 and died Nov
14, 1928.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clifton
Smith</b> born October 3, 1895 died Oct 1968 Haltom City, Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gladys
Smith</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Preston
Williams Smith</b> born Feb 24, 1900 died March 3, 1939</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.
Fred Smith</b> born December 5, 1902 died March 1973 Hughes Springs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Claudine
Smith</b> born Aug 6, 1904 died July 30, 1905</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genie
Belle Smith</b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mattie Eva Rushton “Rus” Williams was born
April 25, 1878 South Union Community, Morris, Texas and died January 25, 1941
Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is buried in block 5 Lot 9 in the Hughes
Springs Cemetery. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She married November
3, 1895 Rufus “Ruf” Lafayette Fite on her parents 70th anniversary.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rufe Fite was the son of Joseph Fite and
Sarah Permelia Goodson and was born March 29, 1871. He died August 2, 1944. She
was the mother of twelve children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hattie
Oreeta Fite</b> was born August 1 1896 and died November 30, 1970. Oreeta Fite
married Feb 1, 1914 Thomas Floyd Glover. He died Jan 28, 1951 age 63. Their
children were Thomas Floyd Glover Jr. 1914-1916, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Auvis Vernon Glover 1916-1918, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Marye Jim Glover 1920-1990, Mattie Don Glover 1923-2003
wife of H.J. Shaid, Frances Floydine Glover 1925-2001 wife of Don Tittle, Lilly
Maurine Glover wife of Bill Proctor Nelson, Willie Loreta Glover wife of Calvin
C. Hodges, James Morgan Glover husband of Rosanna Keys, Rebecca Jacqueline
Glover wife of Andy Beakey Jr. and Bob Jones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Odis
Willard Fite</b> was Born 27 Sep 1897 died May 27, 1966 Hughes Springs, Cass,
Texas. He married Minnie Wallace. Their children were Odis Willard Fite Jr. and
Wallace Elwin Fite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lawrence
Weldon Fite</b> was Born September 4, 1899 and Died October 1979 Madisonville,
Texas. He married Frances Steel January 18, 1935. Their children were James
Richard Fite husband of Wilma Gilbert and David Lawrence Fite husband of Diane
Suther</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Perry
White Fite</b> was Born January 30, 1902 Hughes Springs and died 15 Jan 1988
Dallas, Texas married May 31, 1929 Florence Jane Gregg. He was a High School
Football coach in Cass County for many years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Katie
Louis Fite</b> was born June 2, 1904 and died March 27, 1969. She married Sam
Hull</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Audrey
Mae “Lillie Bell” Fites</b> was born October 30, 1906 and died August 16, 1983.
She married Delbert Clark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Horace
Orvie Fite</b> was born July 6, 1909 and died February 23, 1969. He married
Gladene Hull</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Frances
Maurine “Peg” Fite</b> was born Feb 20, 1913 and died March 13, 1999. She married
Charlie Morris Lee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baby
Boy Fite</b> was born October 5, 1915 died November 29, 1915</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">J. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rufus
Lafayette “R.L.” Fite Jr.</b> was born May 18 1917 and died May 3, 1994 New
Braunsfels, Texas. He was married by his grandfather Rev. G. K. Williams
October 11, 1941. This may have been G.K.’s last wedding ceremony since he died
two months later age 94 years. R.L.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>married Mary Frances Davis. He was a schoolteacher and principal. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their child was <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>James Howard Fite born June 25, 1951 husband
of Kathy Evans </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">K. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Kearse Fite</b> was born May 16, 1921 and died May 17, 1966. he married
December 24, 1947 Oreeta Nelson. He was a school teacher and principal in Cass
County for many years. His son George Kearse “G.K.” Fite Jr. was husband of Pamela
Penn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">L. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jack
Rustin Fite</b> was born June 24, 1924 and died October 13, 2003 Hughes
Springs. He married<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>July 7, 1947
Johnnyrea Luker.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He worked for the
National Weather Service for many years. His children were <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Gay Beth Fite, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jack Rustin Fite Jr. husband of Mary
Churchwell, and William Gregg Fite </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mary
Ellen Williams was</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
born May 4, 1881 South Union, Morris, Texas and died June 30, 1916 Hughes
Springs, Cass, Texas. She married<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>December 25, 1911 William Bedford “Cap” Harris. They were married by
Rev. S.G. Echols. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cap Harris was born
November 28, 1883 and Died November 3, 1950. His 2nd wife was Vivian Hulan
Surratt. The 1910 Census shows that Mary Williams was living with her parents
unmarried and working as a seamstress. Her only child was William Bedford
“Buck” Harris Jr. 1912-1964</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Katy
Belle Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born March 24, 1883 South Union, Morris, Texas and died March 16, 1976
Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She married William L. Parker February 2, 1898 by
C.A. Earp Justice of The Peace. Her children were Mary O. Parker, Morris S.
Parker, Leone Parker 1904-1920, Maude Mae Parker, and Willie Belle Parker. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lula
May Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born September 11, 1886 South Union Community, Morris, Texas and died July
22, 1930 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is buried in Block 3 Lot 8 on the
other side of her father G.K. Williams. She married Leonard Weldon “Bud”
Neville November 3, 1902 the 77th anniversary of Rev. Green and Hattie Williams
marriage. They were Married by T.C. Ayers. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Leonard Wesley “Bud” Neville<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was born in1882 and died 1954. Their children
were Lorene Neville 1903-1992, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and George
Kearse Neville 1907- 1966 husband of Maggie Ora Morgan, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Leonard
Ferman Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was born January 10, 1889 South Union, Morris, Texas and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">died October 25, 1915 Hughes Springs, Cass,
Texas. On 5 January 1908 he married Vera Reeder daughter of Berry Reeder and
Elizabeth Ann Bearden. She was born November 24, 1889 Lasseter, Cass, Texas and
died September 27, 1964 in Amarillo, Potter, Texas. After the death of her
husband she moved to Plainview, Texas. They are buried in Block 3 Lot 9 with
G.K. Williams and Shelomith.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1910
Leonard was working in a lumber camp and Vera was running a boarding house.
Their children were <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mary L. Williams
1909-1911 and Myrtis Williams. </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>This Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-59611623294376850572017-08-21T08:31:00.001-07:002017-12-28T11:16:21.861-08:00Rev. Green Williams son of Wilson Williams (1804-1879)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 24pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">WILLIAM
GREEN WILLIAMS AND HARRIETT KEARSE</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Reverend William “Green” Williams, farmer and
Baptist minister, was born 7 March 1804 according to Bible records.
Further investigation has determined that he was the eldest son of Wilson and
Elizabeth Kirkland Williams of Swallow Savannah, South Carolina. The community
of Swallow Savannah no longer exists however a small cemetery, which was once
part of the Swallow Savannah Methodist Church, still remains in Allendale in
present day Allendale County. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Allendale County separated from Barnwell
County in 1919 so at the time of William Green Williams' birth, his father's
lands laid within the boundary of Barnwell District a few miles from the
Savannah River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">According to the family traditions of
grandchildren of Rev. Green Williams, he was quite bitter towards his South
Carolina relations and would tell his children very little of the history of
his family or allowed his wife, Hattie, to do so. He said, in effect,
"What those families are does not matter. The only thing that counts is
what we are!" </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Few of Rev. Green Williams descendants even
knew that he was from a prominent Barnwell District family or even that
his father's name was even Wilson Williams. In fact a history of the Williams
family written in 1959 by a great grandson of Rev. Green Williams stated
erroneously that Rev. Green Williams was named after his father whom he called
William Green Williams Sr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Although he was named William Green Williams,
he went by both “Green” Williams and “Wylie Green” Williams as an adult. Green
Williams' mother, Elizabeth Kirkland Williams, named him William Green probably
for a prominent land surveyor and neighbor in the region. He may have
been a Baptist also. This William Green’s name appears on many of the plats of
the late 1700s. He made the survey for Elizabeth [Calthorpe] Williams's
state grant of 100A in 1785. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green Williams was born into the plantation
class of Barnwell District's society and was virtually related to all the
governing families of the region; through either blood or marriage. His father,
Wilson Williams, was a prosperous farmer and livestock raiser, and as far as
it is known, the only son of Britton Williams, an American Revolutionary War
Soldier. Green's mother was the daughter of George Kirkland another
Revolutionary War Soldier and a slave owning planter. On his mother's side,
Green Williams became related to the numerous Kirkland relations of Barnwell
District. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green's mother died while he was about
thirteen years old. Later his father Wilson Williams filed a petition on the
behalf of Green’s brother and sisters as well as himself for their share of the
estate of his grandfather, George Kirkland. In this partition request, Wilson
Williams stated that he was the legal guardian of the children of Elizabeth
Williams, his wife being deceased. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green Williams’ father remarried Esther
Roberts, who was only eight years older then Green. The children of Elizabeth
Kirkland who were raised Baptist did not get along well with their stepmother,
the young Esther Williams and as soon as she was having children of her own,
she doted over them and did not feel motherly to her stepchildren by Wilson's
two previous wives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Religion also played a role in the growing
family tension between the children of Mary Mallard and Elizabeth Kirkland and
their step mother Esther Williams. Esther was a devout Methodist while most of
her stepchildren were Baptists who resented that their father began
attending Methodist Services with his young bride. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green Williams grew to young manhood among
the enslaved African Americans that belonged and worked for his father and
other relatives. This was the world in which he spent his adolescence. As a
young man he and his younger brother began to court the daughters of a
neighboring plantation owner who lived within the community of Buford Bridge.
Harriett “Hattie” Kearse and Sarah "Sally" Kearse were the daughter
of William and Flora Brabham Kearse. Hattie was born October 4, 1810 on
her father’s farm on Alligator Pond, near Buford’s Bridge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">According to the History of Buford's Bridge
and Its People by Rev. M.M. Brabham written in 1923, "William
Kearse-originally spelled Kersh-was a German, but came to America from Holland.
He was born 1746 and died 1837. He settled first just below Barnwell Village
near where Hagood’s Mill later was built. He was probably a soldier in the
Revolutionary War. His first wife was Flora Brabham, daughter of Joseph Brabham
and Flora McPhail. By this marriage, so far as I know, were only one daughter
and one son. The son's name was George, he married either before or after going
to Mississippi, which was his first place of residence after leaving South
Carolina. Later he moved to Texas where he probably died. He was fond of good
stock and liked farming though he seemed somewhat given to speculating also. It
is said of him that on one occasion, having sold a load of cotton, and
returning home with the proceeds of the sale, which was in silver money,
suspended from his neck and shoulders in a small sack which worked against the
saddle till a hole was worn, through which a considerable part of the money
gradually wasted, on reaching home after dark, he discovered his loss and early
next morning, retracing his journey, recovered most of his lost treasure. The
daughter of William Kearse, by his first wife Flora Brabham, is said to have
married a Baptist preacher named Rev. Green Williams. They went to Alabama and
we know nothing more of their history."</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>THE KEARSE FAMILY CONNECTION</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">William Kearse was certainly the son of George and Barsheba [Barbara] Kersh a pioneer German settler. George and Barsehba Kersh had at least four sons, William Kearse husband of Flora Brabham and Elizabeth Rebecca McMillan, Evans Kerce, George Kerce Jr, and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Kerce husband of Rebecca McLain, Jacon Kearse husband if Nancy Brbham Mrs. Elijah Gillette., </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kearse Sr.may have been the son of Hans George Kersh. He was born circa 1746 and died after 1813. He was a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Revolutionary War Soldier in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1775, in Capt. James Jones Company of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Volunteers at "Saltketcher". </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 3 April 1775 George Kersh "of Granville County sold lands at Boggy Gut a branch of Lower Three Runs waters of the Savannahto Aaron Gillette and John Weekley lands . </span></div>
</span></span></span></span>On 1 January 1789 George Kersh of "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Winton county" bought 4 slaves with Solomon Owens </span><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">He was granted on 27 Aug
1791 426 acres at the head branch of Coosawhatchie River with all sides vacant. In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1793, he-bought land from James Waldrup first granted to Thomas
Cox. The Witnesses were John Allen and John "Kearsh". </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 25 July 1801 George Kersh had lands at Boggy Gut adjoining Aaron Gillett,
Henry Connerly, Joseph Allen, Thomas Allen, and Abraham Markley. On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">27 July 1801 he had lands at Log Branch and Jackson Branch
adjoining Joseph Allen, Thomas Allen, Henry Connerly, David Edenfield, John
Weekley, and Williams Sturgis. George Kersh with Eve Atkins on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">8 Aug 1801 had 217 acres lands on Coosawhatchie
and Log Branch adjoining Joseph Allen and Thomas Allen, William Sturgis,
Thomas Arrington, and James Lipsey </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 8 Dec 1804 George Kersh sold to Stephen Sylvester Middleton
217 acres on Coosawhatchie and Log branch adjoining Thomas Herrington, and Joseph <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Allen. At the same date </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George and his wife “Barshaba” sold to Stephen Sylvester Middleton 209
acres on waters of Coosawhatchie River. The Witnesses were George Stokes and Samuel
Middleton</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie Kearse’s mother also died when she was
a child and her father remarried Elizabeth “Betsy” McMillan who was said to be
a granddaughter of Britton Williams and first cousin to Rev. Green
Williams. William Kearse actually had five children by his first wife and
seven by his second wife. Although her father was quite wealthy, Hattie Kearse
was never schooled nor learned to read nor write.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green Williams and Hattie Kearse were married
3 November 1825 probably at Swallow Savannah, at the ages of 21 and 15 in
Barnwell District South Carolina. The couple must have appeared odd because
Green was said to be a fair-haired, blue-eyed, lanky six-footer while Hattie
was not even five feet tall, and very petite with dark hair and dark eyes.
Their first known child was a daughter they named Mary Elizabeth Williams born
in 1827 at Swallow Savannah. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1829 land records of Barnwell District
show that Green Williams had lands at Three Hole Savannah near Bud Land, where
his father’s plantation was located. He was neighbors with his brother Martin
Williams, cousin James McMillan and the Dunbar family.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1830 Federal Census of Barnwell District,
South Carolina, listed Rev. Green Williams on page 140 showing that he lived
between his father Wilson Williams and his brother Martin Williams. He would
have been 26 years old. According to this census he had three African American
slaves within his household. His father, Wilson Williams, owned 11 slaves and
his brother Martin owned 1 slave. In this census Rev. Green was listed as the
head of a household consisting of his wife Hattie, and his two children William
Rice and Mary Elizabeth Williams although they are not named. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Reportedly when Rev. Green and Hattie were
married, Wilson Williams set them up with some land and slaves. According to
one version Rev. Green lost this farm and his slaves by signing a note with
some one whom then defaulted. Another is that he was simply a poor manager and
became so involved financially that he lost his property. It seems that
neither he nor his brother Martin Williams had a head for business and may have
been too interested in theological matters as that they both became ministers
although in different denominations. When Green's father died in late
1835 he left his estate intestate without a will. Probate records seem to
indicate that Green Williams had the use of an old African American named Ben
until he was sold back to the estate.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green's father-in-law, William Kearse then
offered to provide another farm and slaves for Green however with the
provision, that the property would be deeded to his wife Hattie, in such a way
that Green could not encumber it. Green’s pride made him refused to allow
Hattie to accept the offer on these terms. However when William Kearse died he
willed to his daughter Hattie Williams two slaves. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Land records of Barnwell District show
that Green Williams had lands adjoining James R. McMillan, Hattie Grimes,
Kellis Halford, and Mrs. Nestor in 1833. Hattie Grimes was a maternal aunt of
Hattie Kearse Williams. Lands records of 1834 stated that Green resided in
neighborhood of Three Hole Savannah on lands adjacent to his brother Martin and
James McMillan.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green's father, Wilson Williams died in late
December 1835 and the riff between him and his stepmother deepened after she
was appointed Administratrix of Wilson's Estate. No will could be produced for
Wilson Williams so the courts declared his estate intestate. Wilson’s
probate records show that Rev. Green Williams bought several household items
from his father’s estate in January 1836. “1 old saddle $1.00, Leather and 4
halter chains $4.62, cutting knives $1.75, 1 shot gun $8.00, 1 trunk and 2 kegs
$.'50, 1 lot of crockery $1.25, Castors and lots of bottle $1.25, 1 lot of
ovens, pots, and pans $5.75, a half bushel of salt at 57 cents per bushel 28
cents, and 60 bushels of cotton seed $5.40.” </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A year after his father died, deed records of
Barnwell District show that in December 1836 Green Williams bought a tract of
land containing 100 acres on Well Branch in Barnwell District from Hattie
Grimes, his wife's aunt. This document proves that he was still living in South
Carolina as of this date even though several of his children who were born in
the early part the 1830's declared that they were born in Georgia. Additionally
Barnwell District Equity Records show that Green Williams was appointed
guardian of Piety Jane Grimes March 6, 1837. Piety Jane Grimes was the
illegitimate daughter of Harriett Grimes, and was a young cousin to his wife.
“Piety Jane, under 12, no father or guardian…her kinsman and friend William G.
Williams appointed guardian of said child.” On October 2, 1837 Green and his
brother-in-law Absalom B. Best posted a bond of $400 as surieties for the
child.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The earliest that Green Williams could
have moved to Georgia is in 1838 after a last transaction was made between him
and his father’s estate. On 1 January 1838 Green Williams was paid $300 for an
African American slave named Ben. "Cash paid W. G. Williams for Ben."
It seems logical to presume that the estate took Ben back from Green Williams
or as some have suggested that he was selling his slaves in preparation to
enter the ministry. Later in the year Ben was sold to James Madison Loper
for $225. Ben must have been old for that price. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie Williams inherited two African
American slaves named Molley and Dorcus from her father's estate in September
1838. They were probably sold to finance the family’s move from the state as
that the 1840 Census for Green Williams showed no slaves within his household.
Green's son, Rev. George Kearse Williams, in a short statement dictated to a
granddaughter shortly before his death in 1941, stated that his father sold his
slaves when he was ordained into the ministry. However a mortgage deed record
found in Randolph County, Georgia records show that Green Williams had in his
possession an African American male slave named Harrison in 1842. Whether
this means that Rev. Green Williams went into the ministry after this time or
whether his son was mistaken is unclear.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the 1830's Green and Hattie Williams had
four more children, Rice, Hanson, Georgiana and Wilson. The military
records of Green’s son, James "Wilson" Williams, who died in the
Civil War, state that this son was born in Crawford County, Georgia, in the
latter part of 1838. However all these other children had to have been born in
Barnwell District. Hattie may have been pregnant with Wilson when they left
South Carolina. Other military records for Green's younger sons state that they
were all born in Randolph County, Georgia in 1842 and 1845 respectively.
Green’s youngest son, G.K. “Babe” always maintained that he was born near the
village of Cuthbert in Randolph County, Georgia.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Eventually Green and Hattie Williams were the
parents of ten known children. It appears probable in view of the available
facts that their first four children were born in Barnwell District, South
Carolina and sometime before 1838, near present day Allendale and Ulmers.
Mary Elizabeth Williams was born circa 1828, William “Rice” Williams born circa
1830, Sarah “Hanson” Williams born August 4, 1832, Georgiana Williams circa
1834, and James “Wilson” Williams in 1838, perhaps in Crawford County, Georgia
as the family was moving to Randolph County.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It seems that Green and Hattie left South
Carolina on bad terms with their extended families. With their relocation
from South Carolina, they severed their family association with the inflexible
slave holding class system of the old South. If Green and Hattie had left on
more amicable terms, then family members who remained behind would have known
more about them. But as Rev. M.M. Brabham commented wrote in 1923 "They
went to Alabama and we know nothing more of their history." </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green Williams at the age of 34 moved his
family nearly three hundred miles away to Randolph County, a county in the
southwestern part of Georgia. Randolph was established by act of Congress on
December 20, 1828 from Lee County and named for John Randolph of Virginia. At
the time Randolph County included all of Stewart and Quitman Counties and parts
of Terrell and Clay Counties. Cuthbert was established and made the county seat
in 1831 and was incorporated into a town in 1834. American Indians were in this
area until as recent as 1836 when they were driven out after the Creek
Rebellion and relocated to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A near neighbor and family friend of Green
Williams, Matthew “Allen” Moye, son of Matthew Moye and Susannah Ward, had
moved to Randolph County, Georgia in 1834. It is highly likely that Rev. Green
Williams moved to Randolph County because of this association with the Moyes.
Allen Moye and Rev. Green Williams were about the same age grew up as Baptists
in the same community and may have been childhood friends.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Allen Moyes father had received 160
acres of land in Lee County from the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery. Later this part
of Lee County became part of Randolph County in 1828. Allen Moye's mother
Susannah Ward married a William Rice as her 3rd husband and Green's eldest son
was named William Rice Williams. Additionally Hattie's uncle John Brabham had
married Martha Moye an aunt to Allen Moye. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Allen Moye married Sarah Jane Rice and became
a deacon in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Cuthbert in 1834, and became
partners with David Rumph proprietors of the first store built in Cuthbert.
Allen Moye was also a Georgia state representative from the county in 1837, and
county sheriff. In 1838 he became a state Senator. He died June 10, 1843 at the
age of 43 in Randolph County, Georgia</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Rumphs, Holmans, Rices, and Odums
families came to Randolph County from Barnwell District South Carolina in 1834
and certainly glowing letters were sent back to Barnwell about the new area and
especially about Cuthbert becoming an important cotton-trading center. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When Allen Moye moved to western
Georgia in 1834 it was still the frontier. The Creek Indians burned down the
community of Roanoke in July 1836 and Randolph County pioneers huddled at the
Mount Zion Baptist Church, which was a large log structure just outside of
Cuthbert. The Creeks were subdued and in 1838 the United States began the
removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma, fulfilling a promise the government
made to Georgia in 1802. General Winfield Scott, arrived on May 17, 1838 with
7000 men and early that summer the United States Army began the invasion of the
Cherokee Nation to remove them forcefully from their homes and lands. About
4000 Cherokee died as a result of the removal. The route they traversed and the
journey itself became known as "The Trail of Tears". </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When the American Indians were removed from
Georgia a flood of settlers moved west including Green Williams’ family. In
1837 a Baptist Missionary Society was organized in Randolph County, which would
have attracted Green Williams to the region. Cuthbert, Georgia began to
develop economically in 1838 when the first frame homes were built in town.
Previously all homes had been log cabins. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1839 The Rehobeth Primitive Baptist Church
was organized which also shows the new growth in the area. As Green Williams
was a Baptist, certainly his family would have attended. One of the early
Baptist pastors at both Mount Zion and Rehobeth was a William Lewis Crawford.
It seems plausible that Green Williams named his fourth son Lewis Crawford for
this preacher.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1840 Rev. Green and Hattie Williams are
found farming in the vicinity of Cuthbert in Randolph County where Cotton was
king. Randolph County had a population of about 5400 whites and 2600 blacks
according to census records. The 1840 census also reveals that Rev. Green
Williams family had grown to include besides his wife Hattie, his eldest
daughter Mary Elizabeth, his eldest son, William Rice, a daughter Sara Hanson,
a daughter Georgiana, a son James Wilson, and a baby daughter named Winifred
Elliott. Also living within Green's household was an unidentified white male
age 20 to 29. This may have been Hattie’s brother George Kearse or perhaps
simply a hired hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Deed records of Randolph County, Georgia have
scant information on the family of Green Williams while they were living in
there. In 1842 records indicate that he owned a 160-acre farm described as lot
253 of District 9 originally recorded in Lee County. Dr. August C. Hawkins of
Monroe County, Georgia was the originally Lottery winner of that parcel of land
in 1827. Records do not show how or when Rev. Green Williams acquired the
property. </span><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On May 31, 1842 “William G. Williams” of Randolph
County sold to Andrew J. Pace of the same county a “parcel of land” described
as lot 253 in the 9th district of originally Lee County. He sold the land for
$1500 and fifty cents. The deed was recorded June 7, 1842 Deed Book F page 61.
A following deed was recorded at the same time with Andrew J. Pace recording
promissory notes for the mortgage. The notes were to be paid in two
installments one for $775 and the other $750. Also this deed either gave or
used as collateral the use of an African American Slave named Harrison to Rev.
Green Williams. This sounds like he did not own Harrison but rather was using
his labor. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following year A.J. Pace paid Rev. Green
Williams on New Years Day all his crop of “corn, cotton, peas, and potatoes now
growing on the plantation of said Andrew J. Pace” for the first installment of
payment on the note held by Rev. Green Williams. The remainder of $775 was paid
on 23 August 1843. No other land deed records have been found in Randolph
County concerning his family</span><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is here in Randolph County that Green was
probably ordained a minister in the Missionary Baptist Church. Perhaps around
the time Lewis Crawford Williams was born. Missionary Baptists are a group of
Baptists that grew out of the missionary / anti-missionary controversy that
divided Baptists in the early part of the 19th century, with Missionary
Baptists following the pro-missions movement position. Those who opposed the
innovations became known as anti-missions or Primitive Baptists. Since arising in
the 19th century, the influence of Primitive Baptists waned as "Missionary
Baptists became the mainstream".</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">According to family members, "Rev.
Green" began to press his family very hard in the fall to get a bale of
cotton ready for market, so that he could pocket the money to go off on trips
visiting his churches and to attend meetings, until the money gave out. This
may have been why records show that he owned no property of his own after this
1842-1843 transaction. However the 1840 through 1850 land records of Randolph
County, Georgia have not been fully researched and thus it’s not clear whether
Rev. Green Williams owned other property during his ten years of residency in
that County. Most likely he rented land on which his family subsisted. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green and Hattie’s family continued to
increase in the 1840’s. Additional children were born into the family during
these years, including Elliott Winifred “Winnie”, born 1840, Miles Perry
born 1842, Lewis Crawford born 1845, and George Kearse born 1847. Rev. Green
and Hattie’s eldest son Rice Williams died the 7th of December 1845 while
living in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia. He was only about 15 years
old. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A year later Rev. Green and Hattie’s oldest
daughter Mary Elizabeth Williams married John Allen West on December 27, 1846.
John A West was born circa 1825 in Jasper County, Georgia the son of Rufus M
West and Nancy Merrill. In the 1840 census Rufus West was shown as living
in Talbot County, 75 miles northwest of Randolph County where he was a farmer
with ten slaves. Their first daughter was named Harriet Kearse West.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1850 Rev. Green Williams had moved his
family nearly one hundred miles west from Georgia to Pike County, Alabama where
they settled in the community of Missouri Village just west of the town of
Troy. The move was based on the fact that he was hired as a preacher for the
Missouri Missionary Baptist Church where he preached for the next 10 years. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Missouri Village, Alabama was located in the
northwesterly portion of Pike County and does not appear to exist anymore. When
the family moved from Cuthbert is unclear exactly. The youngest daughter of
Rev. Green, Mattie R. Smith, stated in the 1900 US Census of Cass County, Texas
that she was born in August of 1849 in Alabama. However the census of 1850 does
not include her in the family indicating that she was probably born after
December of 1850.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The information of the 1850 census is hard to
read but it stated that the family was living in Pike County, Alabama some 350
miles from Swallow Savanna, South Carolina. They are enumerated as the 1883
household visited on 20 December 1850. Green Williams is listed as a 50
year old farmer, and Harriet as being 45; both born in South Carolina. The ages
for both of them was wrong as Green was 46 years old and Harriet 40 years old.
Children still listed in their household were Hanson age 19, Georgian age 16,
Wilson age 14, Winiford age 10, Miles age 8, Lewis age 8 and George age 4. All
of these children are listed as having been born in Georgia. When the census
was taken Hattie must have been <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>pregnant
with her last child, a daughter born that was born in August the following year.
Their eldest daughter Mary Elizabeth Williams was married to John Allen West.
Green’s first known grandchild was Hattie West born 1848 in Cuthbert, Georgia. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1850 U.S. Census shows that the Williams
were living near relatives from Barnwell District, South Carolina. The next
successive family living in the neighboring household was Hattie's maternal
Uncle Archibald Brabham and his wife Rebecca Grimes. Archibald Brabham was the
younger brother of Flora Brabham Kearse, Hattie's mother. Archie Brabham
moved from South Carolina to Georgia in 1838 as did Rev. Green Williams and
they may have been traveling together. Rebecca Grimes Brabham’s brother Nathan
Grimes was married to Green’s maternal aunt Esther Kirkland. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another neighbor of Rev. Green and
Hattie Williams in Pike County was the family of George Ward Moye Jr. from
Barnwell District; SC. G. W. Moye Jr. as he was known was the son of George
Ward Moye Sr and Rebecca Spears who were residents of the Buford’s Bridge area.
George W. Moye Jr married Susannah Barwick November 2, 1845 in Washington
County, Georgia where he had two children before moving to Alabama. George W Moye
deserted his wife and children later in life, when the children where about
grown. He then went to Texas and stayed a few years. It has been said that he
had another family out there. He came back to Alabama later and remained here
until his death. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following was in the May 14 1903 issue of
the "Crenshaw County Critic" newspaper: "Mr. William Welch of
Patsburg has discovered his father-in-law has been absent for 18 years. He was
supposed to have been dead for eleven years. His name is G.W. Moye and is 94
years of age." (According to his birth he would have been 73 years old.) A
granddaughter of Rev. Green Williams later would marry into this Moye Family.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The family of Rev. Green Williams was not
wealthy but neither were they poor farmers.. A few years after this census was
taken Rev. Green Williams was listed in the tax roll of 1852 as paying a tax of
25 cents on a very expensive clock. His address was given as Missouri Beat
Two. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Williams like most early settlers raised
corn, oats, rice, and sweet potatoes on their farm along with some livestock
but not much cotton. These were principal crops of the Pike County region. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cotton was grown mainly on large farms as it
was a labor intensified crop and after 1850 Rev. Green Williams no had cheap labor
beyond his own family. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Agriculture Census for 1850 showed<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>that Rev. Green Williams was working a 40
acre farm worth $350. Only 25 acres were improved. The census showed that for
livestock he owned only a horse and 20 hogs [swine] but no milk cows for all
those children. His livestock was worth $110. On this farm Rev. Green raised
150 bushels of Indian corn, 25 pounds of oats, 25 pounds of rice, 20 bushels of
sweet potatoes, and 4 bales [400 pounds] of cotton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The family manufactured $50 worth of goods to
sell and had $75 worth of slaughtered livestock.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie and her daughters carded, spun, and
wove the family clothes. There wasn't much cotton raised at that time just a
little as most families had to pick the seed from the lint and spin and weave
the cloth for clothes.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The nearest market for Pike County was Troy northeast
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of the Williams’ home. They only went to
market about once or twice a year and bought a years supply of sundry goods
then. The family raised nearly everything they had at home so it wasn't
necessary to go to market so often. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the 1850’s Rev. Green and Hattie’s
daughter Mary Elizabeth and son-in-law John Allen West moved from Pike County
Alabama, while daughters Hanson, Georgiana, and Winnie married sons of local
farmers. Three of Rev. Green and Hattie’s eldest daughters were married by
1860. Hanson Williams married Andrew Jackson Mills on the 3rd of October
1854. Jack as he was called was the son of William and Eleanor Graham
Mills having been born 1833 in Columbus, North Carolina. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Georgiana Williams married a medical student Dr.
William L. Simmons on the 3rd of January 1856. He was the son of Daniel and
Elizabeth Simmons and a graduate of</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Graefenberg Medical Institute in <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dadeville, Alabama 1858. Dr. William and
Georgiana Simmons were the parents of two children, George Joyce Simmons born
December 8,1856 in Goshen, Pike County, Alabama and Elizabeth P. Simmons born
the August 17 1861 also in Goshen. Georgiana Simmons was the wealthiest of any
of Green’s children due to her marriage to Dr. Simmons. The 1860 census
reported that he owned a plantation worth $11,600 and had a personal estate worth
$1,815. While war records described Wilson Williams as dark complexioned,
Georgiana Simmons was reported to have been a beautiful, vivacious redhead. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Georgiana had married Dr. William Simmons
over the strong opposition of her parents because of religious differences
between the two families. Close familial ties were broken because of Green’s
opposition to the marriage. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Winifred Williams married James “Jim” A.
Hawkins on the 29th of December 1859. He was the son of William Hawkins
and Anna Shanks. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1860 Rev. Green Williams had moved his
family from the village of Missouri to the community of New Providence where
there was another Missionary Baptist congregation. In 1860 James J. Thurston,
N.C. Kirkland, James Brabham and Hugh Cameron from Barnwell District South had
come into Chapel Hills neighborhood to preach a revival meeting. James J.
Thurston was the brother-in-law to Jones M. Williams, Rev. Green Williams
nephew. James Brabham may have been Hattie’s uncle. Her uncle Archibald Brabham
was located in the county and was near neighbors to the Williams. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There in New Providence, Rev. Green continued
to farm and Pastor in several Missionary Baptist churches in the county
including the Good Hope Baptist Church., which was a simple log cabin
structure. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Times were sometimes
difficult during these moves. It was remembered by some of Green’s children
that he would sometimes move his family into very dilapidated and undesirable
houses with all his frequent moves. One of his daughters remembered one of
these particularly bad moves and recalled her mother Hattie going in and out of
the house carrying out ashes, dirt, and trash with tears streaming down her
face. Hattie was the daughter of a prosperous plantation owner and she was not
accustomed to such a life.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green Williams was quite active in the
Missionary Baptist ministry during the antebellum years. Marriage licenses on
file in Pike County show numerous weddings performed by Rev. Green Williams from
the mid-1850’s to the start of the Civil War. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green Williams was a strict; no nonsense
Missionary Baptist Pastor while Hattie was a enjoyable, lively person with a
fun loving disposition who enjoyed dancing and parties, however strict
Missionary Baptist doctrine excluded members for dancing or even allowing
dancing in their homes. Rev. Green Williams, as a minister, sternly disapproved
of such festivities so when Rev. Green was away on weekends serving his
churches, Hattie would invite neighboring young people over for dancing and
partying. This was kept from Rev. Green Williams for many, many years.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This census of 1860 was taken a year before
the Southern Rebellion began revealing that Green Williams was a middle class Southern
farmer, a respected Baptist minister with a large, nearly grown family. Rev.
Green and Hattie’s daughter and son in-law Mary Elizabeth and John West had
moved out of the county but not out of state, but the rest of the family were
either at home or living within the county. Only the following children Wilson
Williams, Miles Williams, Lewis Williams, G.K. Williams, and Mattie Williams
were all living at home in 1860. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Within
five years, he would be ruined financially, and had a son and two sons in law
lost to the war of secession.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the census taken 12 June 1860 Rev. Green
Williams was listed as “Wyley G. Williams” living in the Western Division of
Pike County with the Post Office address of New Providence. He is listed as a
56 year old farmer which is correct and worth $1000 in real estate and $800 in
personal estate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Harriet is listed as 50
years old which she would have been in October. Both said they were born in
South Carolina. Harriett is listed as not being able to read nor write. The
children living at home were listed in this order; “Myles P” age 17 a farm
laborer in school, “James W” age 22 a farm laborer, “Louis C” age 15 in school,
“George K” age 15 in school and “Martha R” age 10 in school. All of the
children except Martha were said to have been born in Georgia with Martha born
in Alabama. The age if George Kearse Williams is wrong as he was circa 13 years
old. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1860 U.S. Census reveals that Rev. Green
Williams was fairly comfortable and well off owning $1000 worth of real estate
and $800 worth of personal property. While not as wealthy as his father,
neither was he a poor preacher. Agricultural census records show that he cultivated
75 acres and had 73 acres of uncultivated land valued at $1000. His livestock
had increased during the decade of the 1850’s as now he had 3 horses, 5 milk
cows, 2 working oxen, 4 head of cattle, 10 sheep and 30 hogs [swine]. The value
of his livestock was $700. On his farm he raised 300 bushels of corn, 1 bale of
cotton, 27 pounds of wool, 100 bushels of peas and beans, 200 bushels of sweet
potatoes and 75 pounds of butter. The family manufactured $150 worth of goods
and sold $100 worth of butchered livestock.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The family certainly had fowl on their farm however the census did not
bother to record that asset. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the election of Abraham Lincoln in
November 1860, America was thrown into its worse crisis ever. On January 11,
1861 Alabama votes to secede from the United States. On the 12th of April
1861 Alabama, as part of the Confederate States of America, was at war with the
Federal Union. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Green’s son Wilson Williams immediately
enlisted in Company H of the 18th Alabama Volunteers on 29 July 1861 at Troy
Alabama. By 1861, the population was of Troy was 600 making it the largest town
in Pike County. Hotels, taverns and mercantile stores made the town a social
center and when the Civil War began a recruiting station. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Confederate service records described Wilson
as being five feet eight inches tall, dark complexion, with black eyes and
black hair. He must have gotten his coloring from his mother who were said to
have been dark complexioned. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> The 18th Alabama Regiment was fully
organized at Auburn, Alabama September 4, 1861, with its field officers
appointed by President Jefferson Davis. A few weeks later, it went to Mobile,
by way of Huntsville, and was there brigaded under Gen. Gladden of Louisiana,
with the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-second, and Twenty-fifth Alabama
regiments, Withers' division. Ordered to Corinth, Mississippi in March 1862,
the regiment was there brigaded under Gen. J.K. Jackson of Georgia, with the
Seventeenth and Nineteenth Alabama regiments. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wilson Williams as a member of the 18th
Alabama Volunteers fought at the Battle of Shiloh April 6-8, 1862, which was
one of the great battles of the War Between the States. The battle erupted near
the banks of the Tennessee River at Shiloh, Tennessee. Following the
battles of Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson, Union General Ulysses S. Grant moved his troops
south along the river to Pittsburg landing for training and field
exercises. Many of his men were raw recruits. Grant did not fortify his
position. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Following the losses of Ft. Henry and
Ft. Donelson Confederate forces under the command of General Sidney Johnston
established a new line that covered the Memphis to Charleston Railroad.
General Johnston concentrated his forces near Corinth, Mississippi in hopes of
engaging Grant's army before it could be reinforced. Johnston began marching
from Corinth on April 2, 1862 towards the suspected location of the Union
forces. By the evening of the 5th, Johnston was prepared to attack.
Grant wired his superior, General H.W. Halleck, with slight suspicion of
attack. Halleck ordered Grant to stay at Shiloh and await reinforcements
from General Beull. It was believed that the nearest Confederate forces
were at Corinth, Mississippi. The following morning, April 6, 1862, Johnston
launched his attack. The Union forces were quickly driven back to the
north and east. They found themselves rapidly approaching the Tennessee
River to the east and Owl Creek to the north. However, the Union troops
finally established a line at a area known as "the sunken
road". Confederate forces launched eleven attacks against the position,
but the line would not break. The area became known as the "Hornets
Nest" because of the intensity of gunfire and grazing of bullets.
Finally the southern troops brought sixty-two artillery pieces to bear on the
Hornets Nest, many at point blank range. After holding the position for
six hours, the Union forces surrendered. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Fighting also occurred near the Hornets Nest
in a peach orchard. General Johnston personally led the final Confederate
assault. He emerged with clothes torn from grazing bullets. He was
moved to a nearby tree where it was discovered that he had been shot in the
back of the leg. He refused medical attention and bled to death even
though a tourniquet would have saved his life. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">General Buell arrived with Union
reinforcements the evening of the 6th. They arrived by river under the
cover of fire from the Union gunboats Lexington and Tyler. The Federals
had established a line near Pittsburg Landing. The arrival of fresh
troops and gunboats only strengthened this line. By morning the southern
army was outnumbered. The combined Union Army of the Tennessee and the
Ohio numbered 65,000. The Confederate Army of the Mississippi numbered 45,000. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">General Beauregard, who took command after
the death of Johnston, was aware of the gunboats, but unaware of Buell's
reinforcements. Beauregard attempted attacks on Pittsburg Landing with no
success. The Confederate Army was forced to retreat to Corinth,
Mississippi. The final number of dead or missing was 23,746: 13,047
on the Union side and 10,699 on the Confederate side. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Eighteenth fought the first day at
Shiloh, and lost 125 killed and wounded out of 420 men engaged. It was detailed
to escort the brigade of Gen. Prentiss, which it had largely aided to capture,
to the rear, and did not take part the second day. After the battle, the
regiment being without field officers was for a short time under officers
detailed for the purpose. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Military records show that in June 1862 Rev.
Green’s son James Wilson was reported sick at the university hospital in
Oxford, Mississippi where he died on 16 June 1862. News of tragedy reached the
family of Rev. Green and Hattie. When they learned of the death of their son
Wilson Williams, their son Miles Williams filed a death benefit claim, and carried
it with him to Mobile, Alabama. His father had given Miles Williams power of
attorney. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The claim was filed with
company authorities on the 16th of October 1862 and it stated that James Wilson
Williams had served under Captain Ruff who was then in command of Company H.
This claim showed that pay was due Wilson Williams from 31 December 1861 to 16
June 1862. An official certificate of discharge for Wilson was issued on the
10th of October 1862.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The discharge papers were apparently
forwarded through regular army channels to the War Department in the Capital at
Richmond, Virginia and a record for a request for confirmation by the Second
Auditor's Office of the Treasury Department was made on 25 February 1863.
However on 22 May 1863 the Adjutant and Inspector General's office reported
that the muster rolls of Company H did not report to them the death of Wilson therefore
it wasn't until 1864 that his death was finally verified. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Only then was the claim was forwarded to the
Confederate Comptroller on the 11th of August 1864. Payment was finally
authorized on the 15th of August 1864 and Rev. Green Williams then received
$60.86 for his son's back pay, $25.00 for his clothing allotment, and a bounty
of $50.00. In all Rev. Green received $135.86 for the death of his son. However
he was paid in Confederate currency, which at this point of the war was
virtually worthless. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Inflation was eating up any real value of
Confederate money. For an example in 1860, 10 pounds of bacon had cost $1.25
but by 1863 the price had skyrocketed to $10. Sugar had zoomed from 40 cents
for five pounds to $5.75 and coffee from fifty cents for 4 pounds to over $20!
By 1864 the cost of a pair of boots was $50 so the bounty money that Rev. Green
received from the death of his son was comparable to the worth of a pair of
boots.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green and Hattie's son-in-law, Jim
Hawkins had enlisted in the service even before hostilities broke out between
the North and the South. He was a private in Company I of Alabama's 1st
Artillery Battalion. He enlisted on the 12th of March 1861. The 1st Alabama
Infantry regiment was the first to be organized under an act of the Alabama
State legislature authorizing the enlistment of troops for 12 months. The
companies rendezvoused at Pensacola in February and March 1861, and about the
1st of April organized and elected regimental officers. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The men were recruited from Barbour, Lowndes,
Macon, Pike, Talladega, Tallapoosa, and Wilcox counties. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Jim Hawkins’ Regiment was transferred to
the army of the Confederate States soon after organized and it remained on duty
at Pensacola for a year. It occupied and manned the batteries, taking part in
bombardments on 23 Nov 1861 and 1 Jan 1862. A detachment of the Regiment was in
the night fight on Santa Rosa Island. As the oldest regiment in Confederate
service, it was the first called on to reenlist for the war, at the end of the
first year, and seven of the companies did so. Ordered to Tennessee, the
regiment, 1000 strong, reached Island No. 10 on 12 March 1862, and it joined General
J.E. Johnston at Alatoona, Georgia.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jim Hawkins died of what was called “Camp
sickness” on 25 May 1862 probably at Alatoona, Georgia. He died a month before
his brother-in-law Wilson Williams did but news failed to reach the family
until after news of Wilson's death. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green’s daughter Winnie Hawkins became
was a young widow at the age of 22 years with a two year old daughter and a six
month old infant son. She returned to her father's household after the death of
her husband and lived with them throughout the remainder of the war. The death
of her husband was not the only tragedy to strike Winnie Hawkins. Before the
war was over, Winnie’s daughter Mary Etta Hawkins died on the 14th of November
1864- at the age of 4. The little girl was buried at the New Providence Baptist
Church Cemetery in Pike County, Alabama. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Both Wilson Williams and Jim Hawkins deaths
within a month of each other were contributed by the precarious medical
services of the Confederate Army. Measles, malaria, smallpox, pneumonia and
other diseases took a heavier toll of life on Southern soldiers than did Yankee
bullets. Of the estimated 258,000 deaths on the Confederate side, 164,000 were
said to have resulted from disease and other causes not associated with combat!
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green Williams’ son in law Jack Mills
was the only member of his family who actually died from wounds associated with
fighting. Mills joined the Confederate Army in May 1862 around the time his
brother in law died, and was a private in Company A 39th Alabama Regiment of
Pike County. The 39th Alabama Infantry Regiment was organized at Opelika, Lee
County, Alabama in May 1862 with men from Barbour, Henry, Pike, Russell, and
Walker counties. It was sent at once to Mississippi where it participated in
the march into Kentucky with little fighting, and came back with the army to
Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The regiment took part in that battle, and took heavy
losses. Ninety-five soldiers including Jack Mills were casualties in the
fighting. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The family evidently had to learn from other
returning soldiers that Jack Mills had been wounded in battle at Murfreesboro, but
he had sufficiently recovered from his wounds to attempt to travel. However he
could not have gotten far, for the Battle of Murfreesboro lasted for some time
after he died January 2, 1863. Family tradition is that somewhere on his
journey home, he is presumed to have died and is buried in an unknown grave.
probably from his wounds and his name is inscribed on a monument in the town
square of Troy, Alabama as a Confederate Soldier from Pike County. His widow,
Hanson Mills remained on her husband's farm and raised her three surviving
children alone.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The husband of Rev. Green's daughter
Georgiana Williams, Dr. William L. Simmons did not join the military but rather
was in charge of the military hospital at Troy Alabama. n 1864,
while in Key West, Florida, on an expedition to recover salt to bring back to
Alabama, Dr. Simmons was captured by Federal Troops and taken as a Prisoner of
War. It was said he and a group of Confederate Soldiers had been captured while
bathing the Gulf of Mexico. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the Federal Prison at Key West, Dr.
Simmons was offered his freedom if he would take the oath of allegiance to the
United States and serve in Union Hospitals for the duration of the War. Since
he had not actually been a Confederate soldier nor taken up arms against the
Federal Government, he was given this opportunity to be paroled from the Prison
Camp. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dr. Simmons, believing that as a
physician it was his duty to relieve the suffering of the sick, accepted these
terms. He was carried away to the Mower Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
where he served as a contract surgeon for the duration of the War. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dr. Simmons was assigned to Wards 33 and 35
by the hospital's executive officer on the 4th of October 1864 about the same
time his brother-in-law G.K. Williams enlisted in the Confederate Army at Troy
Alabama. After the War, Dr. Simmons was awarded a citation for his services,
which was unusual with him being a Southerner, and the patients of the hospital
in appreciation of his kindness and efficient service presented him a silver
watch, which he treasured highly and wore for many years. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When the war ended Dr. Simmons was allowed to
return to Alabama and to his wile Georgiana who had grown fragile and frail
from the hardships of managing his farm during the brutal war years. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> All of Wylie Rev. Green and Hattie
Williams' sons would eventually serve in the Confederate armed forces. Miles
Williams enlisted on the 25th of July 1862 in his older brother’s Company H
18th Alabama Infantry, at the age of 19, Lewis Williams on the 1st of May 1863
at the age 18 in the 47th Alabama Infantry, Company H, and George Kearse
Williams in 1864 joined the 47th Alabama Company H on October 1, 1864 at the
age of 16.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After Miles Perry joined the 18th Alabama Infantry
he was sent to Mobile, Alabama. There the Eighteenth remained till April 1863,
when it rejoined the Army of Tennessee, in a brigade with the Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-eight Alabama regiments, and the Ninth Alabama battalion.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the woods surrounding a small creek in
northwest Georgia, Union and Confederate armies clashed September 19-20 1963 in
some of the hardest fighting of the Civil War. The prize was Chattanooga, the key
rail center and gateway to the heart of the Confederacy. The 18th Alabama
fought in this battle as it had done so in other western battles since Shiloh. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As in most Confederate regiments, the members
of the 18th were not plantation owners, rather they were farmers, shopkeepers
and common everyday folk. At Chickamauga the 18th was terribly mutilated,
losing 22 out of 36 officers, and 300 out of 500 men, killed and wounded. At
Mission Ridge where the Eighteenth was engaged, they and lost about 90 men,
principally captured.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Early in September 1863, the Federals crossed
the Tennessee River to the southeast of Chattanooga and again forced General Bragg
to withdraw without a fight. Eluding his Federal pursuers, Bragg concentrated
his forces at LaFayette, Georgia, 26 miles south of Chattanooga. Here
reinforcements from East Tennessee, Virginia, and Mississippi swelled his ranks
to more than 66,000 men. Thinking that Bragg was in full retreat, General Rosecrans
of the Union Army split his army into smaller commands and swung the various
parts south over Lookout Mountain trying to catch Bragg. However, Bragg was not
in retreat, rather Bragg was moving to catch and destroy these isolated
commands. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Twice he tried unsuccessfully to destroy
segments of Rosecrans' army as they crossed the Lookout Mountain range. Alerted
to the fact that Bragg was not in retreat, Rosecrans began concentrating his
troops along the LaFayette Road near the Lee and Gordon Mill. Then, on
September 18, hoping to wedge his troops between the Federals and Chattanooga,
Bragg posted his army on the west bank of Chickamauga Creek along a line from
Reed's Bridge to just opposite Lee and Gordon's Mill. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Fighting began shortly after dawn on
September 19 when Union infantry encountered Confederate cavalry at Jay's Mill.
This brought on a general battle that spread south for nearly four miles.
The armies fought all day on the 19th and gradually the Confederates pushed the
Federals back to LaFayette Road. On the 20th Bragg again tried to drive between
the Federal force and Chattanooga, but failed to dislodge Rosecrans' line. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Then the fortunes of war changed in favor of
the Confederates when, due to a staff error, Rosecrans ordered a division to
close in on the division to his north. This movement created a gap where by
chance Confederate General James Longstreet's right wing was attacking. As the
Confederates poured through the Federal line much of the Federal right,
including General Rosecrans, were routed from the field. At Chickamauga the Alabama
18th had a part in an uncommon sight for the Army of Tennessee, the routing of
a Federal army from the field. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> However Miles Williams was seriously
wounded, in the thigh in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. Miles
Williams was just one of thousands wounded on the battlefield. He was
unconscious when he reached the army hospital but regained consciousness in
time to hear the Surgeon giving instructions for the removal of his injured
leg. Miles protested and absolutely refused to have the leg amputated, saying
that he might never get well and go home, but that if he did he would have two
legs. Eventually the leg did heal and it gave him very little trouble in later
years.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Miles as a wounded soldier was allowed to go back
home to Goshen, Alabama were he recuperated from his injuries. Originally
called Goshen Hill, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Goshen was one of
the oldest communities in Pike County, which organized in the 1820s. The Elam
Primitive Baptist Church, established in 1830, was one of the earliest
institutions serving the town and county. Land around Goshen Hill was fertile
enabling farmers to grow cotton, corn, peanuts, and hay for cattle. During the
Civil War, the fields around Goshen Hill were used as training grounds for
Confederate soldiers.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On June 1, 1864 Miles re-enlisted at Florence
Alabama back in the 18th Alabama Infantry Company H where he was given the rank
of 2nd Sergeant and later promoted to corporal. He fought with the regiment in
Northern Georgia trying to stop Sherman’s Atlanta to the Sea campaign; <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>fighting all the way down to Jonesboro,
Georgia where by late August his regiment lost nearly half its number during
the campaign. Miles was in Macon, Georgia when the unit he was with surrendered
in April, 1865 and was paroled at Macon Georgia April 28, 1865.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green son Lewis C. Williams is shown in Confederate
records as enlisting in the Alabama 47th Regiment Company H. The 47th Alabama
regiment was organized at Troy, in Pike, March 1863 as part of the brigade of
General Clanton of Montgomery. Lewis Williams was in some of the fiercest
fighting of the war after the 47th joined the main Army of Northern Virginia,
and marched into Pennsylvania. He was at the Battle of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Gettysburg which was fought over 1-3 July <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1863 where his regiment suffered 40
casualties. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Two months later, Lewis Williams was
transferred to north Georgia where the 47th was at the Battle of Chickamauga on
20 September 1863. His brother was in the same battle and was wounded. Lewis C.
Williams told his family when he came home that he escaped capture by Federal
Troops at Chickamauga by some very hard running. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lewis C Williams then took part in the Battle
of Knoxville, Tennessee on 17 November through 4 December 1863 and in other operations
in East Tennessee before the 47th rejoined the main Army of Northern Virginia
again, in the spring of 1864. The 47th fought in Battle of the Wilderness on 5-6
May, 1864 and lost 111 men. They participated in the charge on Union Troops at
Spotsylvania where the Alabama Brigade opened the battle. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lewis Williams was finally wounded at the
Battle of Cedar Creek on19 October 1864, in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. At
dawn, October 19, 1864, the Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal
A. Early surprised the Federal army at Cedar Creek and routed the 8th and 19th
Army Corps. Union Commander Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan arrived from
Winchester to rally his troops, and, in the afternoon, launched a crushing
counterattack, which recovered the battlefield. Sheridan's victory at Cedar
Creek broke the back of the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley. During
the battle a bullet “blistered” his big toe, making it painful for him to walk.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the fall of 1864, Lewis C. Williams was furloughed
to go home and there he convinced his folks to allow his youngest brother,
George Kearse Williams, who was a large 16-year-old boy to join the Confederate
Army. Green and Hattie Williams agreed as long as Lewis promised to look after
him. Babe Williams, the youngest son of Rev. Green and Hattie Williams joined
the army October 1, 1864 at Troy, Alabama enlisting in his brother’s company.
Later the 47th was consolidated into the 57th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He later
was made a corporal in the 57th Alabama Infantry Unit.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 57th was originally organized at
Troy, in Pike County, in March 1863, as part of the brigade of General James H.
Clanton of Montgomery. The 57th joined the Army of the Tennessee in time to
share fully the hardships of the Dalton-Atlanta campaign in early 1864. The
casualties of the regiment, however, were not severe until the Battle of Peach
Tree Creek, when it was cut to pieces. Afterwards the regiment was consolidated
with other decimated regiments including the 47th. In the 57th the Williams
brothers participated in the movement into Tennessee, and at Franklin and
Nashville, where losses were again large. Transferred to North Carolina, the
regiment fought at Bentonville, North Carolina with severe losses.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 19 March 1864, Confederate General Joseph
E. Johnston, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>with 21,000 men, surprised
General Sherman's left wing just south of Bentonville, North Carolina. The
Confederates were initially successful, but the Federals had taken-up positions
on the battlefield. On 21 March, That night the vastly out-numbered Confederate
force withdrew across Mill Creek with the Confederates suffering 2,606
casualties. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kearse Williams was granted a furlough
April 1, 1865 at Greensboro, South Carolina and he was on his way home when the
war ended. He surrender and was granted parole at Augusta, Georgia not far from
Barnwell County, the home of his grandfather, many of his relatives. He
arrived home the later part of April walking all the way. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The dream of Southern Independence was doomed
from the start when at the beginning of the conflict the Northern States had a
population of 22,000,000 while the South had only 9,000,000 and three million
of these were African American Slaves. The North's superior
resources and Europe's neutrality were principally responsible for the Confederate
defeat. The South was incapable of fighting a Modern War, which required
massive armies, skilled workers, and trained managers. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Civil War did not end when General Robert
S. Lee surrendered to General Grant on the 9th of April 1865, however that
signaled the end to formal hostilities. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham
Lincoln within weeks of the surrender of the armies of Virginia, and President
Jefferson Davis was captured with what was left of the Confederate Government
on the 10th of May 1865. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During much of the war years, Rev. Green
Williams was supporting a household consisting of himself, his wife Hattie, his
daughter Winnie Hawkins, and her two children, Mary Etta Hawkins and Willie
Green Hawkins, a son George Kearse Williams, and daughter Mattie Williams.
During the war years, they lost a son, two sons-in-law, Andy Mills, and a granddaughter.
Rev. Green Williams was also entering his senior years. In 1864 he was 60 years
old.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The personal cost of the Civil War to the
family of Rev. Green and Hattie Williams can never be fully measured. On the
home front as the war continued the cost of living escalated almost daily and
the Confederate dollar dwindled until in early 1864 it was worth a Yankee
nickel. A barrel of flour sold for $150 in 1864 and by March 1865 it was nearly
$300! The ever-tightening naval blockade made it a daily struggle for families
such as Rev. Green Williams just to keep clothed and fed. This may have been a
consideration in allowing George Kearse Williams to enlist at the young age of
16 years</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The eminent collapse of the Confederacy was
evident when it began to recruit 16-year-old boys like George Kearse Williams
and talked about granting slaves their freedom in exchange for military
service. The fall of Atlanta and General Hood's defeat in Tennessee showed that
the South's iron determination was not enough to overcome the Yankee's vigor. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In late spring 1865, the war was behind them
and Rev. Green Williams and his remaining three sons who had returned from the
war, planted crops and tried to repair the damages years of neglect had done to
their father's farm. They raised corn, cotton, cattle and tended a vegetable
garden and peach trees. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It was shortly after the war that Rev. Green
Williams quit the Missionary Baptist Church ministry when he had considerable
differences with them. He joined the Primitive Baptist Church and after
being received into the church he asked to be licensed to preach. When Wylie
Rev. Green preached his trial sermon it proved unsatisfactory to the Primitive
Baptist Elders and he was forbidden to preach. Green’s pride was hurt and he
said some harsh words to the Primitive Baptist Elders who excluded him from the
church. Rev. Green Williams returned to the Missionary Baptist Church but he
refused to preach anymore and retired as an active minister. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the war when Dr. William Simmons
returned from Philadelphia, his wife Georgiana and he moved to Lowndes County,
Alabama where he set up practice for about two years. The family may have moved
from Pike County due to an incident that involved a freed person of color shortly after the
Civil War according to one family legend. Supposedly Dr. Simmons rode away one night
on a medical call when a man jumped at his horse's head but missed the bridle
reins. Dr. Simmons managed to get away and it was assumed that the man then
went to the house and broke in. According to the family legend Georgiana
was setting at her vanity brushing out her long red hair when she spied a man
in her mirror hiding under the bed. Coolly she got up and made a fuss like she
had forgotten an item in another room and went to another part or the house
where she could run out side and alert her neighbors. The unfortunate fellow,
hiding in Georgiana’s bedroom, was lynched without benefit of trial. This appalling
episode may have hastened Georgiana’s demise, who was said to have been very
delicate and in frail health. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Not long after moving to Lowndes County, the
lovely Georgiana Simmons died on the August 13, 1868 at the young age of
thirty-three years. She left behind an eleven year old son George Joyce Simmons
and a six-year-old daughter Bettie P Simmons. Now Rev. Green and Hattie
Williams had out lived three of their ten children, Rice Williams, Wilson
Williams and Georgiana Simmons.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dr. Simmons remarried a year later on 20
December 1868 in Pike County, Alabama, Mary E Kirbo (1849–1893) who raised
Georgiana’s two children.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dr. Simmons
left Alabama afterwards and took Rev. Green and Hattie Williams' grandchildren by
Georgiana off to Texas where they settled at Weatherford. George Joyce Simmons
and Bettie Simmons grew up on the Texas frontier near Weatherford where their
father had a successful medical practice. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green William’s granddaughter Bette
Simmons later married Winfield Scott who became a Texas Millionaire dealing in
cattle, cottonseed oil, and real estate. She built a magnificent mansion at
1509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Worth Texas, which has been acquired by the
city and is open to the public for tours. She became a pillar of Fort Worth
High Society and donated thousands of dollars to civic projects. She died in
1938 at the age of 77 years and is buried at the family mausoleum in East
Oakwood Cemetery. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Grandson George J. Simmons married Lennie Coleman in
Weatherford Texas in 1896 at the age of 41. He had ranches at Colorado City,
and Big Spring Texas. George Simmons lived at Big Springs, Texas until 1911
when Winfield Scott, his brother-in-law died. George Simmons then moved
to Fort Worth to help her sister manage her fortune. George Simmons ran the
large Scott ranch some thirty miles southwest of Fort Worth while retaining his
own ranch near Big Springs. George Simmons died of cancer of the stomach on the
16th of May 1919 age 63 years.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In January 1866 Rev. Green and Hattie’s sons
Miles and Lewis married daughters of local farmers. Miles Perry married on
January 11, 1866 Nancy McLeod, the daughter of Malcolm and Christian
McLeod. Nancy grew up on a farm only a few miles from Rev. Green.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A week later Lewis Crawford married on January
18, 1866 Louisa J. Owens that daughter of Evan Owens and Sophia Caffey. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Miles P. Williams bought out father’s farm in
Goshen, and Rev. Green then retired from farming. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Miles built a home for him and Nancy only a
few hundred yards from the site of his parent's home. Miles and Nancy lived one
mile east of Darien for the remainder of their lives. Here they reared their family
of five children; two son and three daughters. Lewis C and Louisa Williams moved
to the Darien Community where the Darien Primitive Baptist Church was located about
two miles from Goshen. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the fall of 1866 the widow Winnie Hawkins met and
married James Jordan Calhoun Prim an ex-Confederate Soldier whose family had
removed from Dale County, Alabama to Pike County. Jim Prim was the son of Abraham
Prim and Elizabeth Davis and he courted Winnie Hawkins at her father's
residence while her four-year-old son Willie Green Hawkins sat on his lap or
straddled his neck. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jim and Winnie were married 4 October 1866 on
Hattie Williams's 56th birthday. Jim Prim hired out as a farm laborer in
the New Providence Community where Winnie and their first child Eliza Ann
Elizabeth Prim was born August 8 1868. The following year the Prims moved to
Clarke County Alabama in 1869 where Jim purchased a farm from his brother
Thomas Jefferson Prim of Salltpa. Here a second child was born to Jim and
Winnie Prim, another daughter Mattie Moyler Prim who was born December 27,1869
at Salitpa in Clarke County. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Crenshaw County was established on November
30, 1866, about two months after Winnie Prim’s 2<sup>nd</sup> marriage. It was
created by the Reconstruction era legislature from parts of Butler, Coffee,
Covington, Pike and Lowndes counties. Rev. Green and Hattie's farm was
incorporated into the new county. Crenshaw County is located in south central
Alabama in that section of the state known as the timber belt. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green Williams’ eldest daughter Hanson
Mills is shown in the 1870 census as forming a household of her own and owning
real estate valued at $200.00 and personal property worth $150.00. Her post
office address was given as Rutledge as was true of all residents in Crenshaw
County at the time. Rev. Green Williams three grandchildren were listed as
Augustus age 14; Graves age 11, and Elizabeth age 9. Gus Mills as he was
called was shown as being hired out and Graves was also listed in his uncle
Lewis Williams household, where he may have been working or being taken care
of. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hanson Mills raised her several children
alone after the death of her husband. She had four known children. Her eldest
was John Allen Mills was born October 7, 1855 near Rural Home. John Allen was
named for Hanson’s brother in law John Allen West and died September 9, 1856 in
Pike County at the age of' 2 years. George Augustus Mills was born September
29, 1857 and married Edith Wise. He lived in Crenshaw County, Alabama all of
his life and died May 20, 1893 just before his 36th birthday. James K. Graves
Mills or Graves Mills as he was commonly known was a prosperous and
well-respected farmer in the Stokes Cross Roads Community in western Pike
County. Elizabeth A. Mills was born December 9, 1861 and married George
Moye the son of George W. Moye and Susannah Barwick, and lived many years in
Crenshaw County until they moved to Conecuh County, Alabama where they are both
buried in the Belleville Baptist Church cemetery. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hanson Mills never remarried and lived out
the remainder of her life in the Chapel hill community of Crenshaw County,
Alabama. Hanson was said to have resembled her father Rev. Green Williams and
was a tall, thin, somewhat large-framed woman with a rather sparsely build.
Hanson Mills died on May 29 1900 and is buried in the Chapel Hill Cemetery in
Western Pike County, Alabama. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Winnie and her husband Jim Prim were living in Clarke
County, Alabama according to the 1870 census. In this census they were listed
as living in the Good Spring's community on a farm worth $300 and a personal
property valued at $1OO. Here they farmed until all their children were grown
and married with children of their own. In 1911 Jim and Winnie Prim moved to
Jackson near the Tombigbee River. However Winnie Prim died on the June 12, 1911
shortly after moving to Jackson. Jim Prim died on the May 22, 1933, almost
completely blind, deaf, and bedridden at the ripe old age of 95.</span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Winnie's son by her first marriage,
Green Hawkins married Josephine Browning and lived on a small farm his
step-lather gave him at the Cross Roads community, about three miles from
Salitpa. Later he bought another farm about four miles from Jackson until he sold
it and bought a house in Jackson. Here he engaged in the trucking business
while his wife kept a boarding house. Eventually Green Hawkins health became
impaired and he sold his trucking;, business. A few weeks before he died, his
son Jim Hawkins brought him to Mississippi and where he died. Green Hawkins was
brought back to Jackson and buried in the family plot at Jackson. .</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Eliza Ann Elizabeth Prim or “Annie” as she
was known grew up in the Salitpa community in Clarke County. She was a good
student and eventually became a teacher and taught for a number of years. Annie
married late in life at the age of 45 to John L. LaCoste a widower about 16
years older than she. They removed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where Annie LaCoste
also kept a boarding house. In 1922 John and Annie LaCoste left Tuscaloosa and
returned to Jackson to care for her father who was now some 89 years of age. As
they were packing their things for the move John L. LaCoste had a heart attack
and died. He was buried at Jackson and Annie assumed care of her father. After
the death of Jim Hawkins, Annie LaCoste sold the old home and purchased a small
house on Rose Street near her half brother Green Hawkins where she lived until
her death in 1958. She is buried in the family plot beside her parents. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green and Hattie’s granddaughter Mattie
Moyler Prim was born December 27, 1869 and married Gerald Walthall “Watt”
Creagh on the December 29, 1897 at Salitpa, Clarke County, Alabama. Watt Creagh
was the son of Gerard Walthall and Emma May Creagh. They lived in Salitpa until
moving about forty miles to Suggsville Community in 1899. Here Watt Creagh
worked the family farm. In 1918 they bought a home in Suggsville where they lived
until they died. Mattie Creagh died on Christmas Day 1962. Watt Creagh was born
July 28, 1868 and died September 11, 1963. Their joint headstone reads; “True
and dependable servants of God.” They are buried in the Creagh Family Cemetery
located on County Road 35, at the site of the Old Suggsville Methodist Church
at Suggsville. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the 1st of August 1867 Green's youngest
son George Kearse Williams who was also called by his nickname “Babe” and by
the initials “G.K.” married Shelomith Rushton in Crenshaw County. Shelomith was
the daughter of William and Rebecca Fanning Rushton who had moved to the county
from Ramar in Montgomery County. The Rushtons were near neighbors of the
Williams according to the 1870 census. After his marriage Babe Williams farmed a small portion of his
father's land and lived with his parents.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Miles P. Williams had purchased Rev. Green
Williams’ 160-acre farm on Christmas Day 1868. This family farm was located in
the Northeast quarter of Section 13, township 9, Range 18. The farm had been
homesteaded by Thomas Axon in the 1850’s then sold to an Oliver Fleming before
Rev. Green acquired it. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mattie Williams was the last to leave Wylie
Rev. Green and Hattie' household when she married John Arnold Smith, a former
confederate soldier. The pair was married the December 3, 1868 in Crenshaw
County, Alabama over the objections of Rev. Green and Hattie Williams who felt
Smith was a poor match for their youngest daughter. John was ten years older than
Mattie, and had been previously been married and had a son named Marion. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1870 U.S. Census showed a different South
then did the 1860 census. Gone were the slave rolls and the large plantations
and in their place were small farms and tenant farms worked by both white and black
sharecroppers. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rev. Green and Hattie Williams’
family are enumerated on 16 June 1870 in the census of Crenshaw County.
Rutledge is their post office address. Rev. Green’s <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>occupation was given as both as farming and a
minister. He formed a household which included himself “W.G.” age 60, Harriett
age 54 and their daughter Mattie Smith age 20, her husband John Smith age 30 and
their eight month old son, John Smith who was born in October the previous
year. Rev. Green owned $200 worth of property and his personal estate was worth
$250.00. No real estate or personal property is shown for John and Mattie
Smith. The Rev. Green Williams family was listed as the 249 household.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His widow daughter Hanson’s household was
number 247.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Kearse Williams’
widowed mother in law Rebecca Rushton’s place was number 252.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Miles Williams place was number 266 and
George K Williams lived at household 267. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Eventually Miles Williams and his sons became
large landowners in the Vidette-Darien Community and operated a cotton gin and
gristmill. Miles Williams was an active member of the Dorman-Vidette Community
in Beat 7 for much of his adult life. He served as a Petit Juror for
Crenshaw County in spring 1891. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Miles was a member of the New Harmony
Missionary Baptist Church of which his father had been pastor. Miles’
wife Nancy McLeod Williams was a member of the Elam Primitive Baptist Church
near Goshen, in Pike County to which her family had belonged. They
lived the remainder of their lives in Beat 7 approximately one mile east of the
Darian Church, his home only being a few hundred yards from the site of the
house in which Rev. Green and Hattie Williams lived just before leaving for
Texas in late 1871.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On May 11, 1893, after a popular election the
county seat of Crenshaw was moved from Rutledge to the new and enterprising
town of Luverne. Luverne, later to become the leading town of the county,
and is located in the central part of the county on the Patsaliga River near
the site of an old Indian village. The land where the town was built was at one
time part of the Cody Plantation. Luverne was named after the wife of M.P.
LeGrand of Montgomery who had purchased land in the county for a railroad. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sometime after the Crenshaw county seat was
moved to Luverne, Miles Williams who was a great friend of Judge John Frank
Walker, was said to always stop by the Courthouse to visit with the Judge. One
thing they enjoyed very much was bragging about which one had the poorest set
of sons-in-law. One day Miles went to town with a son-in-law, Henry Patterson
and after attending to his business Henry went by the Judge’s office to see
whether Miles was ready to go home. He walked in just in time to hear Miles
assure the Judge that no one could possibly have a sorrier set of sons-in-law
than Miles had. Miles had a lot of explaining to do on the way home and kept
saying over and over again, "Dang it all, Henry, you know I wasn't talking
about you!"</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Nancy McLeod Williams was on the other hand very quiet,
reserved by nature, and she dressed somewhat soberly but neatly and well.
However it was reported that when she went with Miles to his Missionary Baptist
Church she would wear some of her older clothes but when she attended her own
church at Elam or any other Primitive Baptist Church, she would wear her newest
and best. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On one Sunday morning when it was meeting
time at Nancy’s church, it was also meeting time at Miles Church, a few miles
away in the opposite direction. Miles plowed until it was time to go,
hitched up his horse and buggy to pick up Nancy to go to her church.
Nancy got in the buggy, reached over and took the reins <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>from Miles and turned the buggy around and
started up the road the wrong way to the Primitive Baptist Church. When
Miles asked what in the world she meant, she said quietly, “We are going to
your church today!”, and they did.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He
was too dirty to attend her church she thought.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1871 George Kearse Williams and his brother-in-law
John A. Smith decided to immigrate to Texas where their eldest sister Mary
Elizabeth West had written glowing accounts of fresh opportunities and new
beginnings. John and Mary Elizabeth West had moved to Kaufman County, Texas in
1869. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As George Kearse Williams saw no
future for himself nor his family any longer in the seemingly poverty stricken
rural countryside of Alabama, he decided to leave for new opportunities. By
1871 George Kearse had a small family three daughters and John Smith had a family
of two sons John and Willie Smith and he had a difficult time providing, for
them. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green Williams still smarting from the
rebuke the Primitive Baptist community gave him and having differences with the
members of Missionary Baptist Church decided to go with his youngest son and
daughter to Texas. Hattie Williams was heart broken over leaving her home of
the past twenty years and her older children and grandchildren; but she held it
was her duty to remain at her husband's side. Hattie resigned herself to moving
to Texas because Green’s health was failing and she hoped the western climate
would do him some good. She was however encouraged by the prospects of seeing
her daughter Mary Elizabeth West and her older grandchildren in Texas. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The departure of Rev. Green and Hattie
Williams along with his youngest children from Alabama was a momentous
decision. They never were to see their Alabama children, nor grandchildren
again. For the third time in their lives, Rev. Green and Hattie were making a
break from all former associations. In 1838 Rev. Green left South Carolina in a
huff depriving Hattie of the association of her kinfolk there. In 1850 he
uprooted his family from Georgia to move to Alabama. Now in 1871 it was Rev.
Green who was being taken from his children and grandchildren, who had
established a life for them selves in post-bellum Alabama. However one only can
imagine the teary farewell as Rev. Green, Hattie and their youngest children
prepared for departure and said their goodbyes. They spent their last Christmas
in Alabama and after the New Years 1872 were ready to leave. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The families set off from Darien-Vidette and
traveled to Mobile Alabama where they sailed to New Orleans. Here they traveled
by paddleboat up the Red River to the Cypress River where they landed at
Jefferson, Texas on January 12, 1872. Jefferson, Texas resembled Louisiana,
Arkansas and Missouri more than it did Texas to the West. Instead of
ranchers and cowboys there were lumbermen, riverboat captains, and
dockhands. In fact, the earliest settlers probably didn’t consider
themselves Texans at all. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Situated on Big Cypress Bayou, Jefferson
early became a river port town, and, in fact, has been described as the
"River port to the Southwest." The boats came up the Mississippi
River into the Red River, through Caddo Lake, and up Big Cypress to what was
known as, and still is termed, the "Turning Basin" where the
stern-wheelers loaded and unloaded cargo. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The years after the Civil War became
Jefferson's heyday with people coming from the devastated southern states
seeking a new life. In 1872, there were exports in the thousands of dry hides,
green hides, tons of wool, pelts, bushels of seed, several thousand cattle and
sheep, and over a hundred thousand feet of lumber. For the same period, there
were 226 arrivals of steamboats with a carrying capacity averaging 425 tons
each.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George K. Williams, after landing at Jefferson,
took his father, mother, sister and brother in law to what was then Titus
County near the Lake of the Pine where his sister Mary West lived. The community they settled in was known as
South Union and here George K Williams bought a farm known as the Kendrick's
Place. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">South Union was about four miles south of
Daingerfield in the southern portion of the County and just a couple miles west
of Hughes Springs in neighboring Cass County. The region had a strong Primitive
Baptist and Missionary Baptist Churches at an early date, which would have been
a prime reason for settling in the area. In 1875 Morris County was created from
Titus County and Daingerfield was selected as the County Seat. The East Line
and Red River Railroad came to Daingerfield in 1877 which brought more goods to
the area. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The family of John and Mattie
Smith's also settled at the South Union Community where Rev. Green and Hattie
made their home with them. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1871, half of Rev. Green and Hattie
Williams's<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>posterity became Texans; the
Wests, the Simmons, the Smiths, and George K. Williams' descendants while the
other half of the family remained in Alabama; the Mills, the Hawkins-Prims,
Miles Williams, and Lewis Williams.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Earlier in 1872, Rev. Green and Hattie lost a third grown child. Shortly after Rev. Green and Hattie had moved to
Texas, Mary E. lWest died in Titus County. She was the mother of 12 children
born between 1850 and 1872. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In November 1875 Rev. Green and Hattie had been
married fifty years. However Rev. Rev. Green Williams was quite feeble and while living
with his daughter Mattie Smith, he fell from a porch and broke his hip in early
summer 1878. Mattie Smith was unable to care for her father properly and Hattie
and Rev. Green went to live with their son George K. Williams. There Green’s
health failed and he died at the home of his son on or about July 12, 1879 near
Jenkins, in Morris County, Texas. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Rev. Green Williams was 75 years
old at the time of his death. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The death date is only calculated from the second
hand source of Rosa Lee Perser Williams who was married to Rev. Green Williams
grandson, Edgar L. Williams. Edd Williams said he remembered not having a birthday
celebration when he was 6 years old because his grandpa had died. He never
remembered the old gentleman but remember not having a party. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Morbidity Schedules for the 1880 census of Morris
County also stated that<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“W.G. Williams” age
76 died July 1879 of Catarrhal Fever, an obsolete term once applied to various
respiratory and upper respiratory infections, including the common cold,
influenza, pneumonia and bronchopneumonia. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green Williams was buried at the Old
South Union Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. None of his children from
Alabama could make the long journey to Texas for his funeral. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His grave was marked originally with a native
sandstone tombstone, which has since worn away. In 1959, 80 years after his
burial, some of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>his descendants tried to
find his grave but all trace of his marker had disappeared.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The church that once was there is also long
gone but the small cemetery is still there. The cemetery has only twelve rows
of graves, all facing the east. Most of the graves are only denoted by a pile
of rocks or by native sandstone markers that inscriptions have eroded with
time. The cemetery can be located by taking US 259 from the community of
Jenkins south to 3421then head east to Jerusalem Road head north on county road
2113 for a half-mile then turn left another 8/10 of a mile. The property is on
private land and you must ask for permission to enter. Most of the identified
graves are from the Glover and Collins families. The oldest date found in the
cemetery is for Mary Ida Collins who died February 4, 1887.
Granddaughters of Rev. Green Williams married into both the Collins and Glover
families.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1880 Agricultural Census of Morris County listed "Green Williams" although he died in July 1879. Since the census included farm produce from
1879 to 1 June 1880, Green's farm was listed. The
census placed a value on crops and livestock raised on the farm but excluded cabbage and
potato patches as well as family vegetable gardens.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This census showed that Green's farm consisted
of 39 acres which was being rented for a share of the product. The farm had $10 worth
of farming implements and $130 worth of livestock. All in all the farm produce
was worth $600. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The farm according to the census had 30 acres in corn which produce 300
bushels, 2 acres planted in oats which produced 20 bushels. He had 10 acres in cotton which he produced 9 bales. L</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ivestock listed on the farm were 2 horses, 2
milk cows and 3 head of cattle. During the year 2 calves had dropped and 40 pounds of
butter churned.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The place also had 19
hogs and 25 barnyard fowl that produced a 100 dozen eggs. As that Rev. Green Williams was nearly 76 year old at this time and his son George had his own farm, surely he had hired help working this place. This is the last known record for Rev. Green Williams.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">
</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Relatives remember Rev. Green Williams as
being tall over six feet with a large frame. He was a man with thick
shoulders and a rather large head. He probably inherited his looks from his
Kirkland side of the family many who were described as tall people over six
feet tall. He had a heavy growth of hair on his head and wore a long heavy
beard for much of his life. His son G.K. Williams was said to have favored his
father in looks. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As a widow, Hattie Williams went to live with
her son George K. Williams because she did not care for her son in law John Smith.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She moved with her son’s family from Morris
County to Cass County where her son, George K was now a Baptist minister in Hughes Springs. Hattie Williams also had extended visits with George .K.
Williams grown children after they married, including Rosa Williams who doted
over her. Rosa even named a daughter after her.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mattie Smith's husband John Smith also became
a Missionary Baptist Minister and was ordained by the Turkey Creek Church
located between Avinger and Hughes Springs. He was ordained into the ministry
around 1890 and the first marriage license for a wedding, he performed, was
recorded the 7th of February 1892. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Relatives who knew John and Mattie Smith
remember John as being nervous, impulsive, high strung, subject to violent
rages of temper, and given to violent and extreme statements, and expressions
of opinion. He was also described in records as being “fleshy” which today we
would say obese. Mattie Smith is remembered as being very quiet, very even
tempered, but positive and strong-willed. She could very quickly quiet her
husband down when he was in one of his rages by facing him, and stating that
she heard enough of that, and that there was not going to be any more of it.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While visiting her daughter Mattie Smith, who
had moved to the Watson Creek Community in Cass County, Hattie Kearse Williams died
in her sleep on or about the 22nd of May 1900. The Watson Community was half
way between Hughes Springs and Linden. The 1900 census record of John and
Mattie Smith was taken on June 1, 1900 and Hattie is not listed in their
household nor is she in any other family member’s household so she must have had
recently passed away. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Her grandson’s wife Rosa Lee “Granny Rose”
Williams remembered Hattie Williams’ funeral because Rev. Green Williams had
died when her husband was about six years and Hattie died when Rosa’s oldest
boy was five years old. In her old age Granny Rose could not remember what she
had for breakfast but could tell stories from her youth and young married life.
The family of Edgar L. Williams would have certainly attended the funeral of
his grandmother, having lived within miles of the Watson (Bear Creek)
Community.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie Williams was buried in the Watson
Cemetery over the protest of George K. Williams who wanted his mother buried at
the South Union Cemetery next to Rev. Green Williams. However by then, nearly twenty
years after Rev. Green died, the location of his grave had been nearly
forgotten. The Watson Cemetery in which Hattie is now completely abandoned, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and grown up in underbrush. Hattie’s grave was
unmarked but was located on a hill above the house where Mattie Smith lived in
1900. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hattie Williams was remembered as being
bright and lively right up until her death at the age of ninety. She was a
small dark complexioned woman who was brisk and quick in her actions. She had a
lively disposition. She was less than five feet tall while her husband
had been over six feet! Hattie’s son Wilson, who died in the Civil War, was
said to have favored her. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Strangely Hattie Williams could neither read
nor write although her husband and all her children were literate and wrote a
good hand. It seems out of the ordinary that she being the daughter of a
wealthy plantation owner that she was never taught to read and write.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hanson Williams Mills died within days after
her mother on May 29, 1900 in Alabama after receiving news of the death of her
mother.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. Green’s daughter in law Nancy McLeod
Williams died on March 17, 1922 and his son Miles Williams died on the
September 10, 1924 at the age of 82. Miles’ Will was filed May 16, 1925,
in Crenshaw County Probate Records Book A page 276. It stated that he was
at the time of death an inhabitant of Crenshaw County, Alabama. “Being in
failing health but of sound mind do make and publish this my last will and
testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore
made….I give to my two sons H. (Hugh) Williams and J.W. (James Wilson) Williams
all my land ....I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Christi Rhodes $200 in
cash. My last request at my decease I want to be buried at Emmaus Cemetery
[Location City of Luverne] as near my daughter Docie Patterson’s grave as can
conveniently be put also fixed with the same kind of material as her grave is
fixed with….I do nominate my two sons H. and J.W. and my legal counsel and
friend M.W.Rushton to be Executors. Signed April 01,1925.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The dates on this document are extremely
strange. Perhaps the transcriber got the dates wrong because Miles died nearly
six months before this document was signed. The request that he be buried
near his daughter Docie Patterson was not honored evidently because both Miles
and Nancy Williams and their youngest child are buried in the Elam Primitive
Baptist Church Cemetery near Goshen in Pike County, Alabama. Goshen is about
ten miles from Vidette. Miles and Nancy had three sons Hugh Williams, James
Wilson Williams, and Willie Make Williams and three daughters, Mary Ola
Patterson, Sarah Rhodes, and Effie Donie Patterson.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lewis Williams and his wile Louisa Owens
reared their family on a farm near Darien and were members of the Darien
Primitive Baptist Church. Louisa Owens Williams died the May 24, 1904 and Lewis
Williams died May 6, 1906. They are both buried in the family plot at
Darien Baptist Cemetery. They were the parents of five sons and five
daughters. George Lee Williams died age 24, Lewis Crawford Williams Jr. died
age 72 Evan Green Williams died age 72, Bailey Griffin Williams died age 60,
Calvin Kearse Williams died age 57 years, Lella Golden, died age 27, Lula Jane
Thompson died age 32, Marietta king died age 22, Georgia Ann Texas Davis died
1961, and Sarah Winifred Williams died six months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lewis Williams Will was filed May 4 1908; in
Probate Book A page 145. He was at the time of death an inhabitant of Beat 7
Crenshaw County, Alabama.(Darian). “I give to my son L.C. Williams Jr.,one
dollar…and to my daughter Marieter King, one dollar…and to my daughter Lula
Thompson one dollar….and my son E.G.Williams one dollar…and Lella Golden one
dollar. I will to my 2 sons B.G.Williams & Calvin Williams the following
land ....I will to my daughter Georgia Williams the following land ....I leave
my personal property with my 2 sons Bailey and Calvin Williams to be divided
and do as they see proper. I hereby appoint my sons B.G.Williams and Calvin
Williams to be Executors of my will without bond . Signed April 19,1906.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The youngest children of Rev. Green and Hattie Kearse Williams died in Cass County, Texas. Mattie Smith died 4 May 1936 and her brother Rev. George Kearse Williams died 6 December 1941 in Hughes Springs. He died the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entrance in to World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">WILLIAM “REV. GREEN“ Wylie Green” WILLIAMS
son of Wilson Williams and Elizabeth Kirkland</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Born March 4, 1804 Swallow Savannah,
Barnwell, South Carolina</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Died July 12, 1879 South Union Community,
Morris, Texas age 74 years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Buried South Union Baptist Church Cemetery,
Morris, Texas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Married November 3, 1825 Buford’s Bridge,
Barnwell, South Carolina</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">HARRIETT “Hattie” KEARSE daughter of William
Kearse and Flora Brabham</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Born October 4, 1810 Buford’s Bridge,
Barnwell, South Carolina</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Died May 22, 1900 Watson Community, Cass,
Texas age 89 years</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Buried Watson Cemetery, Cass, Texas</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>“MARY”
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS </b>was b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn 1827Swallow Savannah, Barnwell, South
Carolina and d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ied 1872 Titus County, Texas age 45 years
complications from childbirth. She m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">arried John Allen West on December 27, 1846 in Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia. He was b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn circa 1825 Jasper County, Georgia and d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ied after 1880 in Kaufman County, Texas. The 1880 Census of
Kaufman County shows that John West was living in Precinct 6 as a widower with
a large family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harriett
Kearse West</b> born June 1850 Cuthbert, Georgia died 1855 Pike County,
Alabama</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
Allen West Jr</b>. born February 28, 1851 Missouri Village, Alabama and died <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>6 August 1916<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>McCurtain, Oklahoma. He married Martha Daisy Smith and had George
Washington West, James J West, Mary Rebecca West, and Daisy Jullieth West.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Miles
Green West</b> born March 20, 1853, married Nancy A. Crocker December 18, 1879
in Kaufman County, Texas and 2<sup>nd</sup> Barbara Ella Price by whom he had
three children Ernest L West, William Doyle West, and Mrs. Verna Bell White</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">James
Hartsfield West</b> born August 26, 1855 died after June 1929. He married December
24, 1879 Mary E. Crocker born 1858 Mississippi to Thomas and Louisa Crocker.
She was the sister of Nancy A Crocker. He helped secure a Confederate Pension
for his uncle George Kearse Williams in 1929 saying, “I was well acquainted
with G.K. Williams in 1864 and know of my own knowledge that he enlisted in the
Confederate Army about October 1st, 1864 and served 7 months in Company H 47th
Alabama Regiment.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jim West and Mary
were the parents of William Claude West husband of Bessie J Anderson, James
Frank West husband of IdaBelle Cagle, Charles West husband of Minnie Della
Green, and Walter W West husband of Lena J Reed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. Mary
Amerine West</b> born March 1858 in Alabama married Mr. Hines, 2nd November 26
1882 W.C. Black, 3rd A.W. Cunningham on August 18, 1885. Daughter <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bettie Hines born 1877 Texas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David
Franklin West</b> was born 7 April 1860 in Pike County, Alabama and died 10
April 1940 in Fort Worth, Texas. He married Mary E Kemp a native of Indiana 13
November 1887 in Kaufman County, Texas. No known offspring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Frances
“Fannie” West</b> born 1862 in Pike County Alabama married Samuel W Cole 14
March 1880 in Kaufman County, Texas. Nothing further is known.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Minnie
West</b> born 1864 Alabama. She is mentioned in the 1880 census of Kaufman
County, Texas but nothing more is known.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Georgia
Ann West</b> born 1866 Alabama. Nothing more is known of her after 1880.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">J. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary
“Mollie” C. West</b> born 6 February 1869 in Alabama. She died 3 October 1944
in Victoria, Texas. She married Joseph Peter Jecker of French descent but they
were divorced by 1900 and she never remarried. Her children were Frank P Jecker
1886-1934 husband of Derena Schroeder, Clarence Victor Jecker 1888-1966 died
unmarried. Leila U Jecker 1893-1990 married William C McRae later divorced and
was married to a Mr. Karm, and Frederick Joseph Jecker 1895-1976 husband of
Ruth Madden. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">K. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nancy
West </b>born 1870 Titus County, Texas Nothing more is known of her after 1880.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">L. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evie
West</b> born 1872 Titus County, Texas Nothing more is known of her after 1880.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WILLIAM
RICE</span> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>“Rice” WILLIAMS </b>was b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn 1830 in Swallow Savannah, Barnwell, South Carolina and d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ied September 7, 1845 in Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia age 15</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>SARA
HANSON WILLIAMS </b>was b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn August 4, 1832 Swallow Savannah,
Barnwell, South Carolina and d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ied May 29, 1900 in the Rural Home Community, Pike,
Alabama age 68 years. She is b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">uried Chapel Hill Baptist Cemetery, Pike,
Alabama. Hanson m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">arried October 30, 1854 in Missouri Village, Pike,
Alabama, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Andrew Jackson “Jack” Mills the son of William
and Eleanor Graham Mills. He was born </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1833 in Columbus, North Carolina and died </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jan 2, 1863 Murfreesboro, Rutherford,
Tennessee during the Civil War as a soldier. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
Allen Mills</b> was born October 7, 1855 Missouri, Pike, Alabama and died
September 9, 1858 Pike Co, AL age 2 years</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Green Augustus “Gus” Mills</b> was September 29, 1857 Missouri, Pike, Alabama
and Died April 17, 1893 Mitchell, Pike, Alabama age 35 years. He married Edith
F. A. Wise by 1880 in Mitchell, Pike, Alabama. Edith Mills never remarried
after the death of her husband and reared her children on her farm near Camp
Ground Church. Their children were Hubert Mills, Carrie Mills, Parker Mills, Augustus
Mills, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">James
Robert Graves Mills</b> was born November 4, 1859 New Providence, Pike, Alabama
and died May 24, 1934 at Rural Home, Pike, Alabama. He married Mary Emma Rhodes.
Graves as he was known was a prosperous, respected and well-known farmer in the
Stokes Cross Roads Community in Pike County. He married and had at least one
daughter Ola Mills Finley.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elizabeth “Lizabeth” A. Mills</b> was born
December 9, 1861 New Providence, Pike, Alabama and died February 1, 1920
Belleville, Conecuh, Alabama.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She married
George W. Moye by 1880 Fullers Crossroads, Crenshaw, AL. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was born March 1860. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">They lived for many years in the Camp Ground
Community where they reared a large family. In later years they moved to
Conecuh County, AL near Belleville. Both are buried in the Belleville Baptist
Cemetery. Their children were George Moye 1881-1973, Mrs. Sally Jones, Sam Moye
1884-1975, Henry Moye 1886 -died Apr 1970 Mattie Moye wife of Will
Jones </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">GEORGIANA
WILLIAMS </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">was
born 1834 Swallow Savannah, Barnwell, South Carolina and died August 23, 1867
Lowndes County, Alabama at the age of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>33
years. She married Dr. William L. Simmons January 3, 1856 Troy, Pike, AL. After
her death, he married 2nd Mollie E. Kirbo December 28, 1868 Pike County, AL.
She was only 18 years old. After the death of Georgiana, Dr. Simmons lived in
Butler County in 1869 before moving to Texas in 1870, settling in Weatherford
where his brother Dr. Austin S. Simmons was practicing medicine. Dr.
William L. Simmons and his family sailed to Galveston and went by stage to
Waco, on to Cleburne, and then Weatherford. Family history stated that Dr.
Simmons stopped practicing medicine and went into the cattle and livery stable
business in Texas. However the 1880 US Census of Parker County shows that in
that year was still practicing medicine and wealthy enough to employed a cook.
Dr. Simmons secured a patent for a “liver Invigorator” which was sold quite
widely in the South for many years. The commonly known name of the product was
“Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator” The Simmons brothers both died in 1913 and are
buried at Weatherford.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Joyce Simmons</b> was born 8 December 1856, Troy, Pike, Alabama and died <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>May 16, 1919 at Fort Worth, Tarrent, Texas of Cancer of the Stomach. He
married Lennie Coleman April 22, 1896 at Weatherford. As a widow she married
second Robert E. Lee Culp who died seven years later. George J Simmons children
were Elizabeth “Bess” Simmons wife of Carl Francis (Pete) Clark, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>James Coleman Simmons 1903-1976 husband of Berenice
Johnson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elizabeth
“Bettie” Perry Simmons</b> was born <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>August 17, 1861 Troy, Pike, Alabama and died
September 20, 1938 Fort Worth, Arrant, Texas. She is buried at the family
Mausoleum at East Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX. She married Winfield Scott
December 9, 1884 and like her mother she was red headed, attractive, and
vivacious. The family left Alabama and were living in Weatherford, Texas by July 1870. Weatherford was regarded as frontier until 1877 because of Indian raids, but Weatherford was never attacked. Bettie attended Ursuline Academy in Dallas and Weatherford College. It is told that she taught school in Mineral Wells before she met Winfield Scott. They met in the home of a friend somtime after 1882. Winfield was a wealty man when he courted Bettie. She married Winfield Scott who was born 1849 in Missouri and who had walked to Texas as a young boy. He became quite wealthy dealing in cattle, cottonseed oil, and real estate. He had been married previously and had a daughter, Georgia. A marriage license was issued in Parker Co for Bettie Simmons and Winfield Scott on Dec 6 1884. They were married Dec 9 in Weatherford. The wedding was reported as most brilliant social event Weatherford had ever seen. The newlyweds traveled to Europe for their honeymoon, and in Paris, Winfield purchased a diamond dog-collar for Bettie. In 1885 Bettie and Winfield moved too Colorado City, Texas. It was more frontier-like then Weatherford but prosperous. 34 cattlemen who were worth $100,000 lived in the city, with Winfiled Scotts name heading the list. The Scotts sold their home in Dec 1889. By 1892, they had a residence at Lamar & West 5th(Valcour) and rooms at the Pickwick Hotel. Bettie returned to Weatherford to be at the bedside of her stepmother. Mrs Simmons had suffered from pneumonia several years earlier and had contracted "consumption". She was present when Mollie Simmons died at the age of 44. Both Elizabeth and Winfield attended the funeral at the Simmons home on South Main and the burial in Weatherford. They returned to their home in Fort Worth and after 17 years of marriage, when she was 44 and he was 52, they had a child. Winfield Scott Jr. was born on 2 Nove 1901, in Fort Worth. Seven months later , in June 1902, Elizabeth traveled to Deatur to atten the wedding of Electra Waggoner and AB Wharton. One of Electra's cousins (Annie) married a Simmons. Fort Worth papers indicate that the Scotts led a busy social life in the early 1900's. In both 1908 and 1909 the Scotts and Winfield Jr. toured Europe. They moved to St Louis and lived on Washington Ave in 1910. At this home they had 3 servants including a cook and a nursemaid for Winfield Jr. The Scotts moved back the Forth Worth and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">purchased Thistle Hill a palatial estate in 1911. Thistle Hill was designated in 1978 as the first City of Fort Worth Historic and Cultural Landmark. A rare Georgian Revival mansion in a neighborhood once known as Quality Hill, Thistle Hill epitomizes the architectural grandeur of the cattle barons. Albert Buckman Wharton, Jr. and Electra Waggoner Wharton, the daughter of wealthy pioneer cattleman W.T. Waggoner, moved into to this 11,000 square foot, 18-room mansion in 1904. Originally designed by Sanguinet and Staats, the house was redesigned by the same firm in 1911 when the mansion was purchased for $90,000 by Elizabeth and Winfield Scott. While the Scotts were remodeling Thistle Hill, Winfield Sr. died at the St Joseph's infirmary on Oct 16. Elizabeth and Winfield Jr. were the only family present(his death was unexpected). One of the most impressive surviving mansions of the “cattle baron” era, is Betty Schott's home Thistle Hill which is situated on a 6.5-acre plot in the Near Southside. It and was purchased in 1903-04 and the Georgian Revival-style mansion was remodeled in 1911. Today it is listed on the National Register. The nearly</span><br />
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11,000-square-foot, red brick structure was once the scene of lavish dinners and parties as its owners entertained Fort Worth's powerful and elite. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Some said Elizabeth became a social recluse after Winfiel's death. During the next 8 years following her husband's death, Elizabeth lost her uncle, father, and brother George. Bettie inherited her husband’s huge fortune and invested it to make even a greater fortune.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span> The following is a list of some of her activities: served on the Children's Hospital Board, was a life time member of the Fort Worth Womans' Club, was an original member when the Fort Worth Garden Club was formed in 1926, member of Rivercrest Country Club, served as a director of Fort Worth State Bank, direcor of the Fort Worth Stock Show, belonged to the West Side Bridge Club and the West Side Luncheon Club, was on the Fort Worth Centennial Livstock/Pioneer Day Commission and was on the hospitality committee for the Fort Worth Garden Club in 1933. Elizabeth and Winfield, Jr. donated the site of the downtown YMCA. After several months of health problems, Elizabeth Bettie P Simmons Scott died in Fort Worth on Sep 20, 1938 at the age of 77. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Their
children were step daughter Georgia Scott 1870-1957 wife of Mr. Carter and Mr. Townsend. She
was disinherited and contested her father’s will and received $250,000 from
father’s estate in 1915. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Winfield Scott
Jr. 1901- 1956 and was married 8 times. He died of alcoholism. Only child was by third wife Charlotte
Morgan. After her death the Thistle Hill Mansion was acquired by the Girls Service League of Fort Worth in 1940. The house was then empty from 1968 to 1975. A year later, in 1976, a preservation non-profit organization called Save-the-Scott purchased the house and restored it. On January 1, 2006, Historic Fort Worth, Inc. took possession of the house and has devoted time and resources toward further restoration.The home continues to be rented for weddings and receptions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FWA_4-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton-Scott_House#cite_note-FWA-4">[4]</a></sup></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">JAMES
WILSON “Wilson” WILLIAMS </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">was born 1837 at Swallow Savannah, Barnwell,
South Carolina and died June 16, 1862 at Oxford, Lafayette, Mississppi at the
age of 25 years while serving in Alabama 18th Infantry Company H as a Private. He fought in the
Battle of Shiloh.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ELLIOTT
WINIFRED “Winnie” WILLIAMS </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">was born February 15, 1840 in Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia
and died June 12, 1911 in Jackson, Clarke, Alabama. She married James “Jim” A.
Hawkins December 29, 1859 at Goshen, Pike, Alabama. He died in the Civil War.
She married 2nd James Jordan Prim October 4, 1866 Goshen, Pike, Alabama. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. Mary
Etta Hawkins</b> was born November 3, 1860 New Providence, Pike, Alabama and died
February 14, 1864 New Providence, Pike, AL</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">William
Green Hawkins</b> was born February 11, 1862 Goshen, Pike, AL and died after
1927 Jackson, Clarke, AL. He married Josephine Browning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eliza
Ann “Annie” Elizabeth Prim</b> was born August 8, 1868 Goshen, Pike, AL and
died 1958 Jackson, Clarke, AL. She married John Le Costa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mattie
Moyler Prim</b> was born December 27, 1869 Salitpa, Clarke, AL and died December
25, 1962 Suggsville, Clarke, AL. She is Buried in the Creagh Family Cemetery
100-200 yards behind her home in Suggsville. She married Gerald “Watt” Walthall
Creagh 29 December 1897 Clarke County, AL. Watt Creagh was the son of Gerard
Walthall and Emma May Creagh. Watt Creagh was born July 28, 1868 Greenboro, AL
and died September 11, 1963. Their children were Mattie Moyler Creagh 1898-
1991 wife of Allen Lorenzo Glidden and Oscar Dresse, Gerard “Elliott” Creagh
1900-1970 married Flora Johnson, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>James
“Clyde” Creagh 1901- 1983 married Olive Nolan, “Joe” Massey Creagh 1903-1976 married
Sadie Denny, Daisey Lee Creagh 1905-2002 wife of Herbert Spencer Grayson,
Joseph Otto Screws, and Mr. Carpenter, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Edgar” Wall Creagh 1907- 1997 married Georgia
Frazier, and Clarence “Aubrey” Creagh 1908- 1979 married Myrtle Sachman </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">MILES
“Miles” PERRY WILLIAMS</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> was born Sept 26 1842 in Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia and
died September 10, 1924 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama age 82 years. He is b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">uried in Elam Cemetery, Goshen, Pike,
Alabama. He Married January 11, 1866 Nancy McLeod daughter Malcolm and
Christian McLeod. She died March 17, 1922 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL Buried Elam
Cemetery, Goshen, Pike, Alabama</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hugh
Williams</b> was born 23 July 1867, Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died 12 June 1936
Vidette, Crenshaw AL. He is buried Darian Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. He
married 1894 Mannie “Perry” Lee Moore [4 July 1871-6 July 1925]. Their children
were <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dora L. Williams 1894- 1977 Goshen,
Pike, AL married Ivey Sikes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">James
Wilson “Jim” Williams</b> was Born July 23, 1870 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama and
Died October 14, 1954 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. He Married Loura Emily Jones 18
Dec 1901. He bought land and built his house at Vidette, south of where he grew
up. Here he ran a store, sawmill, gristmill, cotton gin, and farmed. Loura was
raised in the Camp Ground Community a very staunch and devoted Methodist. After
they were married Jim and Loura joined the Luverne Methodist Church where their
seven children became members. “Mr. Jim” enjoyed a long life and instilled the
appreciation for hard work in his seven children. Loura was very pleasant and
positive lady and always welcomed her children’s friends and others into their
home. After her death in 1944, Jim lived at home with four sons until they
married. Both Jim and Loura are buried in Emmaus Cemetery in Luverne. Their
children were Bernice Williams 1903-2002 wife of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Milton Hightowe, James Ralph “Tony”
Williams 1905-1991married Eugenia Smith. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Col. Eugene Wilson “Gene” Williams married
Virginia Chandler, Leo Harold Williams 1910-1971 married Helen Fomby, Lucille
Williams 1910-1992 wife of Edward Kenny and Ed Mac Farrior, Ella “Kate”
Williams 1912-1978 wife of James McGrath, and Dr. Joseph Warren Williams
married Martha Brush, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary
“Ola” Williams</b> was born January 11, 1873 Vidette, Crenshaw, Al and died
November 12, 1954 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. She married David Lee “Henry”
Patterson born June 1858. Their children were Oliver Patterson, Willard
Patterson, Cumi Patterson 1896-1974 wife of<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Mr. Norman, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>E.J. Patterson 1898-1985,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sarah
Christi “Sac” Williams</b> was born 1875 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died
July 6, 1923 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. She married Joseph “Joe” Lee Rhodes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fredonia “Effie Docie” Williams</b> was
born <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>April 18, 1877 Vidette, Crenshaw,
AL and died December 22, 1913 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. She married Robert “Bob”
Patterson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Willie
Make Williams</b> was born September 14, 1880 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died
June 5, 1885 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL in childhood. He is buried in Elam Cemetery,
Goshen, Pike, Alabama</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">LEWIS
CRAWFORD</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
WILLIAMS was born April 28, 1845 Cuthbert, Randolph, GA and died May 6, 1906
Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. He was buried in Darian Baptist Church Cemetery. He
Married January 18, 1866 Louisa J. Owens daughter of Evan Owens and Sophia
Caffey. She born 27 July 1844 died May 24, 1904 mother of 10
children</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Lee Williams</b> was born October 5, 1866 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died Oct
17, 1890 at Vidette age 24 years. He is buried in the Darian Primitive Baptist
Church Cemetery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lewis
Crawford “Dock” Williams Jr</b>. was born January 29, 1868 Vidette, Crenshaw,
AL and died March 6, 1940 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL ..He is buried in the Darian
Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. He married Leona Frances Carter (1871-1952) on
January 29, 1890 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. Their children were Clinton Williams, Leila
Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Carl Williams <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1895 died 4 months old, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bettie Williams, Victor Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>James Douglas Williams 1902-1903 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C.. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ella
E. Williams</b> was born April 6, 1870 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died October
1897, age 27 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. She married Francis M. Golden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evan
“Green” Williams</b> was born February 9, 1874 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died
February 24,1947 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. He married Emma Jackson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lula
Jane Williams</b> was born born October 31, 1876 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died
April 9, 1909 age 32 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. She married James Zimri Thompson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary
Etta Williams</b> was born born October 1879 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died 1949
Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. She married W. Pink King</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bailey
Griffin Williams</b> was born 4 May 1882 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died May 20,
1942 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL. He never married.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Georgia
Ann Texas Williams</b> was born 24 May 1884 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died after
1958. She married Columbus Davis (Oct 26, 1879-May 1966Autauga, AL)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sarah Winifred Williams</b> was born July
14, 1888 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died Dec 13, 1888. She is buried in the
Darian Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">J. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Calvin Kearse Williams</b> was born October
12, 1889Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died March 4, 1946 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama.
He married Oma R. Fowler born 01 Oct 1895 and died 15 Aug 1997 in Chancellor,
Geneva, AL. He served from Luverne, Alabama in WWI July 1917</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rev. GEORGE
KEARSE “BABE” WILLIAMS</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> was born December 6, 1847 Cuthbert, Randolph, Texas and
died December 6, 1941 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. Rev. G.K. Williams is buried
in Block 3 Lot 9 with wife and son Leonard Fermon Williams and his daughter in
law Vera. Babe Williams married Rebecca “Shelomith” Rushton August 1, 1867, Vidette,
Crenshaw, AL daughter of William and Rebecca Rushton. She was born September
13, 1845 Ramar, Montgomery, AL and died July 24, 1924 Hughes Springs, Cass,
Texas</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Margaret
“Maggie” Jane Williams</b> was born June 1, 1868 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died
May 19, 1909 Avinger, Cass, Texas. She married Thomas J. “Tommie” Williams
(1867-1921 of Douglasville, Texas) 25 May 1909-We are grieved to record the
death of Mrs. Margaret J. Williams which occurred on last Wednesday May 19.
Remains interred Hughes Springs Cemetery daughter of G.K. Williams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elizabeth
“Bettie” Victoria Williams</b> was born March 2, 1870 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and
died June 24, 1954 in Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She married Thomas Cobb
Glover 1890 son of William Franklin Glover and Sarah A. Smith. He was Born July
2, 1864 and died May 25, 1939)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sarah
“Fannie” Williams</b> was born July 24, 1871 Vidette, Crenshaw, AL and died May
9, 1897 in Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is Buried in Block 1 Lot 16
of Hughes Springs Cemetery. She married Charlie Collins son of R.B. Collins. He
was born November 1868 and died March 14, 1907. His second wife was named Emma.
Next to her grave is a small grave containing a small iron marker with lamb on
it. Presumable this is a baby’s grave. In the 1910 Census these two daughters
are show as grandchildren of G.K. Williams and were being raised by him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Edgar
Lewis Williams</b> was born July 12, 1873, Jenkins, Titus, Texas and died July
16, 1935 Afton, Dickens, Texas. He married Rosa Lee Perser January 14, 1894
Carterville, Cass Texas. She was the daughter of William John Percer and
Martha Ann Carter. He was the father of 12 children.
. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Myles Williams</b> was born January 28, 1875 South Union Community,
Titus, Texas and died October 1, 1935. He married August 21, 1894 Nora Estelle
Nelson daughter of George Washington Nelson and Martha Goodson. She was born
March 3, 1978 Livelys Chapels crossroads, Cass, Texas </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hattie
Kearse Williams</b> was born November 5, 1876 South Union, Morris, Texas
and Died September 27, 1955 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is buried in Block
3 Lot 7 of the Hughes Springs Cemetery. She married Riley Frederick Smith born
July 1869 and died Nov 14, 1928. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mattie
Eva Rushton “Rus” Williams</b> was born April 25, 1878 South Union Community,
Morris, Texas and died January 25, 1941 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is
buried in block 5 Lot 9 in the Hughes Springs Cemetery. She married November 3,
1895 Rufus “Ruf” Lafayette Fite on her parents 70th anniversary. Rufe Fite the
son of Joseph Fite and Sarah Permelia Goodson was born March 29, 1871 and died
August 2, 1944. She was the mother of twelve children. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary
Ellen Williams</b> was born May 4, 1881 Jenkins, Morris, Texas and died June
30, 1916 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She married after 1910 William Bedford
“Cap” Harris. Cap Harris was born November 28, 1883 and Died November 3, 1950.
His 2nd wife was Vivian Hulan Surratt. The 1910 Census shows that Mary Williams
was living with her parents unmarried and working as a seamstress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Katy
Belle Williams</b> was born March 24, 1883 Jenkins, Morris, Texas and died
March 16, 1976 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She married William L. Parker
February 2, 1898</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">J. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lula
May Williams</b> was born September 11, 1886 South Union Community, Morris,
Texas and died July 22, 1930 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. She is buried in
Block 3 Lot 8 on the other side of her father G.K. Williams. She married
Leonard Weldon “Bud” Neville November 3, 1902 the 77th anniversary of Rev. Green
and Hattie Williams marriage. Leonard Wesley “Bud” Neville was born
in1882 and died 1954.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">K. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leonard
Ferman Williams</b> was born January 10, 1889 Jenkins, Morris, Texas and died
October 25, 1915 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. On 5 January 1908 he married Vera
Reeder daughter of Berry Reeder and Elizabeth Ann Bearden. She was Born
November 24, 1889 Lasseter, Cass, Texas and Died September 27, 1964 Hughes
Springs, Cass, Texas. They are buried in Block 3 Lot 9 with G.K. Williams and
Shelomith. In 1910 Leonard was working in a lumber camp and Vera was
running a boarding house. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">MARTHA
RILEY WILLIAMS</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
was Born August 4, 1851 Pike County, Ala and Died May 4, 1938 Bryan Mills,
Cass, Texas. She married December 3, 1868 Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama Rev.
John Smith, a Missionary Baptist Minister. He was the son of Henry George
Smith and Susan Ledlow. He was born August 1838 in Georgia and died<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>5 February
1916 in Cass County, Texas. He is buried in Queen City, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cass, Texas</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
Thomas Smith Jr</b>. or <b>A. James Smith</b> was Born October 9, 1869 Vidette, Crenshaw, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and Died unknown. The 1880 census list this
son as A. James Smith age 12 [1868].</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">William
Lee Smith</b> was born March 4, 1870 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and died April 14,
1904 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas at the age of 34. He married Fanny Lee Humphrey
the daughter of William Jesse Humphrey and Mary Eliza Elmira Alsobrook. Fanny
was born 30 July 1879 in Cass County and died 29 April 1949. They had children
Mattie Belle Smith 1897-1985 wife of George Homer Falkner, Annie Maddie Smith
1900-1984 wife of Willie Tidwell and Ottie Murphy, and Fred Lewis Smith
1902-1973 who married Dura Downs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Kearse Smith</b> was born January 21, 1873 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and died
June 22, 1906 Avinger, Cass, Texas age 33 of Tuberculosis. He married Cora L
Watson the daughter of Thomas J Watson and Lucinda Sarilda "Rilla" Alsobrook,
granddaughter to George M. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Alsobrook and
Mary Ann Mitchell. Cora L Watson was born 19 Dec. 1878 in Cass County, Texas
and died 25 Oct. 1902 in Cass County. He was the father of three daughters,
Lillie Mae Smith 1896-1900, Ollie M Smith 1899-1920 wife of Cletis Floy Ray,
and Eunie Belle Smith 1901-1979 wife of Mr. Echols</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">D. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lou
“Ella” Smith</b> was born 26 March 1875 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and died after 4
March 1958 in Hunt County, Texas. She was married twice. Her first husband was
Robert E Lee Humphrey the son of William Johnson Humphrey and Sarah English
Wheeler.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was born 26 July 1871 but it
is uncertain when he died. Lou Ella was married to William Haskell Kelley by
the 1910 Census of Cass County. He named five children living within his
household with the surname Humphreys but some of these children he listed as
stepchildren and some as children. William H. Kelley was born 29 October 1866
and died 25 November 1965 at the age of 99 years. He was the son of William P
Kelley and Elizabeth Ann Rebecca Thompson.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Lou Ella’s children by her two husbands are as follows; John W Humphrey 1893-1910,
Dora Humphrey 1895-1962 wife of Samuel Nathaniel Jackson, Guy H. Humphrey
1897-1980 married Lula G Emerson, Harry P Humphrey 1901-1918, Mancel Pinckney
Humphrey-Kelley 1903-1996 married Thelma V Randle, Millard Singleton
Humphrey-Kelley 1905-1982 married Ila Mae Sartain, Annie Carrie Humphrey-Kelley
1907-2004 wife of Ira Bryan Joyce, Charlie Lloyd Kelley 1911-1986 married Helen
Payne, Jesse Peeples Kelley 1913-2012 married Lilly Leona Gibson, and Emma Kate
Kelley wife of Willie Cast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">E. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pinkney
“Pink” Bandy Smith</b> was born 14 July 1875 and died June 19, 1933 of
Tuberculosis age 58. He was buried Union Hill Cemetery. He married 14 February 1904
Lee Julia <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Gibson the daughter of George
Buchanan Gibson and Amanda Susan Smith. Lee was born 8 January 1889 and died 2
August 1968.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their children were Rosa
Lee Smith 1905-2000 wife of John Burns, Liddie Mae Smith 1908-1911, Ola Belle
Smith 1910-1990 wife of Hardy A. Dooley, William Pink Smith 1914-1963 married
Hazel Corine Lee, Herman Vigil Smith 1916-1986 married Norma Juanita Maxwell,
Loy Vallis Smith 1918-1982 married Agnes Irene Dooley, Mattie Sue Smith
1923-2009 wife of Theodore Roosevelt Pritchett, and Lois Fay Smith wife of
James Wilborn Dooley. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">F. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charley
Homer Smith</b> was born 4 May 1877 at Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and died and died
2 <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>February 1951 in Morris County, Texas.
He married Mary Francis Byrd the daughter of John Wesley Byrd and Ruth Jane Paulette.
She was born 13 July 1882 and died 7 February 1941. They were the parents of Hardy
Lee Smith 1904-1958 married Ellie Opal Gilmore, Minnie Ola Smith 1907-1986 wife
of Hubert Daniel Buchanan, Osa Morris Smith 1910-1980 married Leona Marie Buchanan,
Mary Francis Smith 1913-2003 wife of F.M. Elliott and Frederick Whitmeyer, and Lena
Ruth Smith 1918-2001 wife of Robert Jake Lee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">G. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sally
Smith</b> was born 4 May 1878 at Bear Creek, Cass, Texas died July 1879 at Jefferson,
Texas of Tuberculosis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">H. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alice
Smith</b> was born August 1881 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and died 25 October 1914
in Cass County. She married circa 1902 Colonel Levi Spivey Biddy son of Calvin
Biddy and Elizabeth Hawker. He was born<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>4 July 1875 in Dangerfield, Morris, Texas, and died 28 April 1955 at Avinger,
Cass, Texas, United States. Their children were Aubra Cal Biddy 1903-1927, Artie
Mattie Ola Biddy 1905–1994 wife of Lonnie Shepherd Rankin, Willa Merle Biddy 1907–1997
wife of Esco Glen Bolton and John Harold Breon, and Osie May Biddy 1910–1993
wife of Lanceford Spain Davis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I. <b>Hardy Lee Smith </b>was born 1883 and died before June 1900 at the age 16 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">J<b>.
</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Arnold “Johnie” Smith</b> was born January 1886 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and died 13 June 1930. He married Dessa Green in 1925. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">K. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Josephine “Josie” Smith</b> was born April 9, 1888 Bear Creek, Cass, Texas and Died July 2, 1895 Avinger, Cass, Texas at the age of 7</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">L. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew
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on 5 July 1920 Johnie Foster the daughter of Samuel Buckner Foster and Laura Elizabeth
Cates. She was born 12 June 1900 in Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas and died September
1984 in Dallas, Texas. They were the parents of two daughters Carrie Mathine 1927-1992
wife of Mr. Nicholson and Freida Morhea Smith 1935. </span><br />
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can presently be determined Wilson Williams was the only son of Britton and
Elizabeth (possibly nee Calthorpe) Williams. Wilson's two known sisters both married into families with ties to the Calthorpe family of Southampton County, Virginia although they each later settled in North Carolina and Georgia. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams was born between 1768 and 1770 as can be determined according to various census and land records. A St. George Parish, Georgia land grant petition of Wilson’s father Britton Williams in 1768 he indicated that he had no children at that time, but that he was married with two slaves.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The 1790 census of South Carolina stated that Wilson was over sixteen years of age, indicating that he was born before 1774. The 1800 census of Georgia has been lost. The 1810 census for South Carolina listed Wilson Williams in the twenty-six to forty-five age group placing the year of his birth between 1765 and 1784.<span style="margin: 0px;"> He has not been located for sure on the 1820 census but may have been in Georgia. A</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ccording to the 1830 census of South
Carolina, which is the last census to enumerate Wilson Williams, he gave his age
as being between sixty and seventy years of age. This would place his birth
between the years 1760 and 1770. Consequently, from these records, it would appear that Wilson Williams was born approximately between
1768 and 1770. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just as we do not know the date of Wilson's birth, we do not know the location of his birth either.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>According to the 1880 census records of all his surviving children, all agree that he was born in South Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If Wilson Williams was born near 1770 it is most likely he was born in St. George Parish, Georgia but he could have been born on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River in Granville County where many of his relatives had property. No Bible records have been located for Wilson Williams which would indicate when he was born or when he died.<span style="margin: 0px;"> It is said t</span>he family had a Bible, which remained in the possession of his last wife, Esther, but the where about of it is unknown and probably lost. </span></span></span></div>
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resolutely believe Wilson was born no later then 1760 because of John Williams,
who is claimed to have been the first-born son of Wilson Williams. He or someone in his household stated in the 1850 census that he
was 70 years old; born in 1780! If this was true it would appear unlikely for Wilson to have been born after
1764. It is doubtful however that he was
siring a son at the young age of 16 years or younger although it would not have
been impossible. This this would also contradict census records regarding the age
of Wilson Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A more likely
explanation is simply that the 1850 US Census is wrong. John Williams may not have been the one to have given the information to the census taker or he was simply mistaken about how old he was. Another possibility is that John Williams is the son of Britton Williams instead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is for certain is that Wilson Williams
was born into the property class of the old colonial South, held African Americans as a captive labor force, and was raised in the
Savannah River area on both sides of the river in Colonial Georgia and Colonia South Carolina. </span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a child Wilson Williams family fled to
the safety of South Carolina after a Native American uprising against white occupiers. His father Britton Williams reestablished the family on a large farm near Kings Creek in what was then Granville County a part of Orangeburg District which later became Barnwell District. His father Britton Williams was a Representative to the South
Carolina Colonial Assembly until later he joined the Partisan Rangers and was hanged as a traitor by the Tory Loyalists in
1781 when Wilson was just a lad. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson may have been as young as 11 years old but no more than 12 years when his father was murdered and his mother left a widow on the colonial frontier. She never remarried which is unusual for widowed women with property and slaves. In any instance, Wilson was old enough to know about
the bitter struggle between the British and the Americans during the War for
Independence. He knew first hand of the persecution that the Patriotic settlers
suffered at the hands of the British, his Tory neighbors and their Native American allies who were murdering and
massacring old men, women, and children on their isolated farms and
plantations in the backwoods of South Carolina. </span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His mother Elizabeth may have even sent her young daughters back to the safety of her relatives in Southampton, Virginia during this trying time when South Carolina was occupied by British forces. This would explain why these girls married men from there rather than local South Carolinians. Wilson Williams was barely a teenager when in 1783 the British forces surrendered to
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the war, prosperity came back to South
Carolina as the new United States of America came into existence. Records show that his mother had law suits in the late 1780's which indicates that he probably was in now Winton County still on his father's large plantation at King's Creek. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Page 14, of the Southern Portion of Orangeburgh District, at the end of the census, were listed the families in the Brier Creek and Kings Creek area on the Savannah River. They were the families of Henry McMillan, William Grimes, John Mixon, James Joice [Joyce], Mary Best, Sarah Best, Henry Best, Abraham Mixon, and Wilson Williams the son of Britton Williams. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson Williams was listed between John Hicks and James Lee [Leigh]. Others near him were William Bryant, Rauley [Rowley] Williams, Tarleton Brown and John Cave. Wilson Williams was listed in the census as head of the household and having 13 slaves in his household. Wilson Williams may have been 21 years of age at the time of the census and therefore listed as head of a household. Other slave owning farmers near him were Tarleton Brown who had 5 slaves and Sarah and Henry Best who each had three slaves. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1790 census s<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hows that Wilson Williams was the head of a family of females and a young male. The 13 enslaved African Americans in this household showed that they were extremely wealthy compare to their neighbors. Wilson Williams' household was listed as having in it one male over 16, one male under 16, and five females. The make up of the household opens itself to speculation. As he was only about 20 or 21 he could not have accumulated that many slaves on his own and mostly likely they belonged to his widowed mother. There is no way from the census itself to determine if he was married and raising a family at that time or whether he was simply living with his mother and siblings. </span></span></span><br />
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T<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he five females within his household were most likely his widowed mother Elizabeth Williams, his two sisters Sarah and Martha, and perhaps another sister. The young boy under 16 was certainly John Williams who was born in 1780. No other scenarios seem plausible.<b> I</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">t is clear that by 1790 Wilson was a young man of marriageable age but generally men of property married later than in their early twenties. </span><br />
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Wilson Williams' wife Elizabeth Kirkland came from a Baptist family while his wife Esther Roberts was a Methodist. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These were the two main sects that competed for congregants on the frontier of Georgia and South Carolina. </span><br />
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settled in the Barnwell District region of South Carolina because of the Coosawhatchie Baptist Church which
had been founded there in 1759 by Rev. James Smart. The Coosawhatchie Church structure was erected in 1769 on a one-acre lot on Duck Branch, donated by Thomas Collins. Wilson Williams’ uncle Joshua Williams lived nearby and probably was a member.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The Duck Branch is just south of the town of Allendale and runs along the Allendale- Fairfax Highway and flows into the Coosahatchie River.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1796, James Smart, Jr, son of the first pastor, obtained 71 acres of land on Beech Branch waters of the Coosawhatchie River and granted seven acres to the church. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Later Smart, by his will, left the remainder of his land for the church’s use. This constitutes the present property of the church. Church records <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ecords indicated that baptismal services took place, first, in Dr. William Thomas Breeland’s Mill Pond, and later in a small pool of water in the Coosawhatchie River between Barton and Fairfax. T</span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he Coosawhatchie Church became the Beech Branch Baptist Church in 1822. It is certain that the Williams attended church here. “The Coosawhatchie Church, is the oldest church in the county. The church is located in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In these early days members of churches took membership seriously and felt it their responsibility to see that no one misbehaved to discredit the church. Lack of law enforcement agencies on the frontier and inadequate or poorly organized courts, may have fostered this attitude. T<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hese </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">early Baptists regularly submitted themselves to discipline of the church, and in all probability were
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Smyrna Baptist Church building is an antebellum frame structure meeting house set upon a low brick foundation. A central Palladian window flanked by balancing nine-paneled entrance doors with transoms characterizes the front entrance. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The church exemplifies the meetinghouse design,which gained prominence in the early nineteenth century. A cemetery adjoining the church contains the remains of Reverend Joseph Lawton [<span class="info middot" id="birthDateLabel" itemprop="birthDate">19 Aug 1777-</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="info middot" id="deathDateLabel" itemprop="deathDate">23 Sep 1858] who would have been the minister during this early period.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The farm on which Wilson Williams grew up belonged to his deceased father and was located on the Savannah River between Kings Creek on the South and Briar Creek on the North to the west of the Coosawhatchie River in what was at the time Winton County within the Orangeburgh District of South Carolina. Kings Creek was approximately 4 miles southwest of the present day community of Allendale.The exact size of this property has not been determined but was substantial and was worked by at least thirteen African Americans and tenant farmers. His near neighbors were James Lee and James Joyce . William and Sarah Brown's daughter Elizabeth Brown married John Joyce, the brother of James Joyce. Both Britton Williams and William Brown had been killed by Tories during the Revolutionary War.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 10 August 1784 George Kearse conveyed 150 acres m bought from Reuben Golightly to his son William Kearse. William Kearse married Flora Brabham and was the father in law of two of Wilson Williams' sons. On 16 October 1784 the same George Kearse sold to Cyntha Murdock 270 acres in Orangeburgh District near the mouth of Kings Creek on the Savannah River adjoining vacant lands and lands of John Green and Britton Williams. This deed indicated that the Kearse and Williams families knew each other for a long period of time. George Kearse also had lands at Wells Branch near John Williams the presumed brother of Britton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In this same area of Kings Creek where the lands of Britton Williams was located, another presumed brother named Asa Williams also lived. It would appear that the widow of Britton Williams and Asa Williams were near neighbors in an area called the "Little Swamp" on the Savannah River. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1795 Wilson's widowed mother, Elizabeth Williams, was dispersing some of her slaves probably as gifts to her recently married children Wilson, Martha, and Sarah</span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. A deed dated 11 April 1795 is the only document that names Wilson Williams' mother and father and two of his sisters. This document if it was a deed of gift to his mother's married children then it would not exclude the possibility that she had other unmarried children. Elizabeth and Britton were married for at least 13 years and it is likely they had more than 3 children. Two women named Rebecca Williams and Holly [Olive] Williams are claimed by descendants of the McMillan Family as sisters of Wilson Williams. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Rebecca Williams was born 1776 and married Major James "Jim" William McMillan born circa 1760 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Antrim</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland, the son of Hugh McMillan. Major Macmillan died in </st1:country-region></st1:place>August or September 1847 in Barnwell District. James William McMillan, was a major in the Revolutionary War and known as "Major Jim." He was a sporting character, especially fond of horse racing, and for this purpose kept a number of fine horses. He took horses to <st1:city w:st="on">Charleston</st1:city> for racing events. Major McMillan was a man of influence and good social standing and was a member of the State Legislature in 1826. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Olive (Holly) Williams was the wife of William McMillan who was a nephew of Major Jim McMillan. The 19 Feb 1833 Columbia Telescope listed him as a Barnwell Veteran age 56.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles B Bowen's father Jonathan was the son of John Bowen Jr and his wife Mary Warren. This made Charles B Bowen the great grandson of Sarah Warren. After the death of her first husband Thomas Warren, Sarah married Thomas Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Records in Isle of Wight County show that this Thomas Williams “of North Carolina” married about 1750 Mrs. Sarah Warren “relict [widow] of Thomas Warren”. Thomas Williams' other step daughters were Martha who married Arthur Hart, Patience Warren who married George Jordan, and Jane Warren who married Hardy Hart the brother of Arthur Hart. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;">In a Committee Report on the Petitions of Sundry Persons dated 10 December 1802 this document was found: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Your humble petitioner purchased in your state a valuable tract of land with the intention of becoming a citizen of said state at the same time being, entirely ignorant of the prohibition of the immigration of people of color in your state. Your petitioner therefore prays you will take his case into your serious consideration and pass a law to enable him to bring his Negroes from the state of Georgia to his plantation in this state for the object of which he will ever pray."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 20 September 1804 William McMillan filed a plat for 440 acres near Wells Branch waters of the Salkehatchie River that was surveyed by James Thurston. His near neighbors were Benjamin Corbett, his own lands, and Wilson Williams. On <span style="margin: 0px;">20 November 1804 Wilson is also mentioned as a neighbor of William McMillan at Wells Branch of the Salkehatchie River in Barnwell District. It is not clear who this William McMillan was as that the name William was attached to several of that clan. There was Major Jim William McMillan and his brother Henry William McMillan but this may have been William McMillan, the son of Henry McMillan who was married to Holly Williams. Major Jim McMillan was the husband of Rebecca Williams. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This William McMillan may have been </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wilson Williams' brother in law in any case. Many land records from this period show that they had adjoining lands in the Wells Branch area.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Major Jim McMillan was <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">granted lands on Alligator Branch of Salkehatchie River as early as 1774. </span>He was a </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Revolutionary War Veteran having served from 1776 through 1781.In the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1830 US Census of Barnwell County he was a near neighbor of Martin Williams, Wilson's son. He was a witness to the will of William Kearse Senior who was the father in law of Martin Williams and his brother William Green Williams. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Major McMillan and Rebecca Williams children were William McMillian, Jane Caroline McMillan </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">wife of Josiah Dickerson, John McMillan husband of Milly Roberts, Elizabeth Rebecca McMillan 2nd wife of William Kearse Sr. and Joseph Brabham Jr., Henry McMillan husband of Gatsy Ann Moye, Richard Creech McMillan husband of Elizabeth Moody, Williams McMillan husband of Mary E. Brabham, William Lawrence McMillan husband of Priscilla Bradley. Milly Roberts wife of John McMillan was the sister of Esther Roberts the third wife of Wilson Williams. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 1806 deed, recorded in Book 59 on page 417 in Barnwell District records, showed that Wilson Williams received a 640-acre state grant which is a section of land one mile long, by one mile wide. This piece of property was on Wells Branch, and called in the records the "Williams Estate." On <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">29 August 1806 Wilson Williams filed a plat for this 640 acres on Well Branch of Big Salkehatchie River in Barnwell District which was surveyed by John Allen. His neighbors were listed as John Huggins, and William McMillan. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today Wells Branch is located at the county line between Barnwell County and Allendale County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> This land was later sold to John Williams.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams added 64 acres to his lands when on 21 June 1808 he filed a plat surveyed by William Neely. His neighbors on the plat were Mr. Harrison, William McMillan, and Mr. "Pretcher" [Nicholas Prester]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next available census for Wilson Williams after the 1790 one, is the 1810 for Barnwell District, some twenty years afterwards. He would have been about 40 years old at this time. He is listed as the head of a household of nineteen people, eleven white folks and eight enslaved black folks. His family consisted of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">himself, his wife Elizabeth Kirkland Williams and nine children which included four sons and five daughters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Both Wilson and his wife Elizabeth’s ages were recorded as being between 26-44 years old (1766-1784). The two "free White" Males who were under 10 years old were William Green Williams born in 1804 and Martin Jones Williams. Three free white females under the age of 10 were daughters Patsy [Martha], Fanny [Frances], and Winifred Riley Williams. Winnie obvious named for her aunt Winifred Kirkland Riley was born in 1810. Two adolescent "Free White" females between the ages of ten and fifteen were mostly likely Elizabeth Harriett Williams born 1795 and perhaps Mary Williams. There are two teenage "Free White" males, one age 10 through 15 [1795-1800] and the other <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">16 through 25 [1785-1794], who have not been identified. They may have been hired hands enumerated within the household or sons who have never been identified and died before 1835. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams was married to Tamer [Creech or Chessereau] with a family of his own in 1810 could not be one of these individuals.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Nearest neighbors to Wilson Williams in 1810 were Ezekiel Smith and James Lee [Leigh]. James Lee had been a neighbor of Wilson Williams on his former Kings Creek properties. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Other close neighbors were Kellis Halford, Eli Myrick, William Creech, John Hugon [Huggins], John Williams and Wilson's father in law George Kirkland. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 26 November 1810, Bartlet Brown filed a plat for 188 acres on Brier Creek, in Barnwell District, surveyed by John Allen. The plat named his neighbors as Daniel Blake, William Campbell, and lands of "Britain Williams." The fact that Britton Williams lands were still being recorded as such in 1810 nearly 30 years after he died showed that family members were still owning the lands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">There were three African Americans called "fellows" which would indicate that they were adult males. Their names and values were Tom $500, Prince $500, and Harris $500. Two were called wenches who would have been adult females one listed with an unnamed child with children were called wenches. The term wench was applied to a young woman; especially a young woman who was a servant. Their names and value were Dafney $450 and Miley with her child $400. Miley's [Milly] child while unnamed in the inventory is named Stephen in the December sale. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">They boys probably ranged from adolescent youths to children as shown by their value. They were "Baleem" $350, Britton $200, Hampton $200, Nate $150, and Brister $100. The same for the girls who were named Tamer $400, Grace $300, Lise [Lucy] $250 and Nanna $240. These females were probably teenagers as their values as workers were considerably higher than the "boys" except for Balaam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On the 6th of December property was sold from George Kirkland's estate, including 16 slaves who were all sold to his sons in law, perhaps to keep them together. Each of the adult males were sold to three of George Kirkland's sons in law. Wilson Williams purchased from his father-in-law's estate Harry [Harris] for $802, Grace for $500, and Lucy [Lise] for $474. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Nathan Grimes bought Tom for $701, Milly [Miley] and her two children Nat [Nate] and Stephen for $783, Britton for $320, and Hampton for $326. Tom and Milly may have been a family unit. Milly had two young children who were included in her purchase. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">John Creech bought from his father in law estate Prince for $801, Tamer for $608, and Balaam [Baleem] for $550. Miles Riley purchased Dafney and her two children, Brister and Cato, for $891 and Nanny [Nanna] for $402. Dafney must have been pregnant when George Kirkland's estate was inventory in October as that by December she had a child named Cato who was not included in the October inventory. It does not appear that she was sold with the father of her children. George T Grimes was the only son in law not a buyer of George Kirkland's enslaved people. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A <span style="font-family: "arial";">partition petition was filed in 1818 by Wilson Williams on behalf of his children were heirs of George Kirkland. In this partition petition he only named five children as the heirs although there are nine people listed in the 1810 census who could have been Wilson's offspring. The five were William Green Williams, Martin Jones Williams, Patsy Williams, Fanny Williams, and Winifred Riley Williams. Wilson Williams' married daughter Elizabeth Hariett Williams Kirkland died in March 1818 and would not been listed as an heir. That leaves the female and male listed between the ages 10 and 15 and the male between <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">16 and 25 that were listed in Wilson's 1810 household in accounted for. The girl may have been Mary Williams Brunson who must have died before 1818 but the two boys are unknown but were either not an heir or died before 1818. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It is assumed that Elizabeth Kirkland Williams died not long after her father, as that Wilson Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">remarried after her death Esther Roberts in 1817. Esther was the daughter of Stephen Roberts and granddaughter of Captain James Roberts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">It appears that his main residence was near Swallow Savannah a branch of the Coosahatchie River south of present day Allendale. This area is located between The Burton Ferry HWY 301 and State Road S3-47 known as the Old Revolutionary Trail. Here a<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t Swallow Savannah, most of Wilson's children by his wives Elizabeth Kirkland and Esther Roberts were born.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is here also his second wife Elizabeth Kirkland died circa 1817. The Swallow Savannah Methodist Cemetery is not far from his main home and here his wife Esther and some of his children are buried. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams had farms of about six miles of land between the town of Allendale and the community of Ulmers on water ways known as the Wells Branch, Log Branch, Jackson Branch, and Big Salkehatchie.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This area was also called the Great Cypress Area and Sycamore. He also held land in the Whippy Swamp area of Beaufort District among other locations at Swallow Savannah near the Coosahatchie River. south of the town of Allendale</span><br />
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On <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">25 November 1818 James Brown filed a plat for 278 acres on Well Branch in Barnwell District. His neighbors who lad lands there were Richard Brown, William Creech, Kellis Hansford, and Wilson Williams. The following spring on </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">31 May 1819 William Creech and Wilson Williams filed a plat together for 105 acres in Barnwell District surveyed by Benjamin Allen. Their neighbors were James Brown and Eli Myrick. In March of 1819 Wilson Williams received 105 acres from the state. </span></span></span><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the fall of 1818 Wilson Williams bought property from the sons of George Mallard who inherited the properties upon their father's death. in 1812. Mallard was from Duplin County, North Carolina and first cousin to George Stokes and his brother Ezekiel. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 20 October 1818 Wilson Williams bought 191 acres from Daniel Mallard, which was his half of his inheritance from his father George Mallard. Wilson paid $400 for this land on the Coosawhatchie River in the Duck Branch area. The deed record showed this acreage was part of lands first granted to Charles Boyles, William Bryan, and Joshua Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson must have also bought property from Daniel's brother Durin [Dewing] too. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson Williams filed a Bill of Complaint in the Equity Court of Orangeburgh District on 12 March 1819, against "Durin" Mallard [George Duran Mallard]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This complaint was over a tract of land "on the Coosawhatchie River", which had once belonged to George Mallard. The only surviving record of this case is found in an announcement in the Columbia Telescope newspaper. It stated that “Durin” Mallard resided outside the limits of the state of South Carolina and that a Samuel Jones was the commissioner handling the case. The results of this suit has not been located but this information strongly suggests that Wilson Williams had an interest in an estate belonging to George Mallard . This interest was probably due to the purchase of land from the estate of George . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1820 census listed Wilson Williams as a free white male over the age of 45 years [before 1775] with a male 16 through 25 [1795-1804], three females under the age of 16, a female age 16 through 25 [1795-1804], and a free white female 45 and older. The age grouping is problematic for his sons. One of the males could have been William Green Williams who was born 1804 but where was Martin Jones Williams? Wilson would have had four daughters when the census was taken, Patsy, Fanny, Winnie and Elliott. Patsy, Fanny, and Winnie were all daughters of Elizabeth Kirkland while Elliot was the daughter of Esther Roberts. As that only three daughters were mentioned and that both Winnie and Eliott grew to adulthood and married, either Patsy or Fanny had died by 1820. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Milledgeville which is presently the county seat of Baldwin County was at the time that Wilson Williams lived in Jones County the capital of the state of Georgia. Jones County was created out of Baldwin County. In 1820 Jones County was bordering the Creek Nation's lands in western Georgia. But Jones County was caught up in the lucrative cotton boom as large plantations were developed based on slave labor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams and Esther Roberts had a son born 20 September 1822 who was named Wilson Roberts Williams. Whether he was born in Georgia or South Carolina is unknown as that he died as a young man in the Mexican America War in Mexico City. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams was back in Barnwell District when his father in law </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Stephen Roberts of "Crane Savannah" died before 30 December 1823. His brother in law Dr. Richard "Creech" Roberts applied to be the administrator and that fact was posted at the Salkehatchie Meeting House on Sunday 11 January 1824. Creech Roberts, Wilson Williams, and Amos Smart placed a bond of $6000 on 14 January 1824 to act as suretors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Stephen Roberts had 14 heirs including his widow Elizabeth the former wife of Alexander Campbell. He also held nine African Americans in bondage. One these Wilson Williams bought for $399. Her name was Teaner who is probably the same girl that was called Tenah in the probate records of Wilsons. Between 1824 and 1836 she had four children. She was later bought from the estate of Wilson Williams by Dr. Creech Roberts in 1836.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams and his sons William Green Williams and Martin Jones Williams bought several items from the estate sale of Stephen Roberts. Beside the African American woman, Wilson bought from his father in law's estate 8 head of cattle, 3 beehives, a still for making whiskey, a table and an assortment of old iron and tools. William Green Williams bought 4 head of cattle, a saddle, 3 candlesticks, 2 banks of potatoes, a coffee pot, and an assortment of glass and tin. Martin Jones Williams only bought one thing from the estate, a shot gun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams in </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">October 1825 he received another 518 acres from the state and on 30 November 1825 Wilson Williams filed a plat the land which was located on Jackson Branch and Log Branch of Salkehatchie River Barnwell District surveyed by Benjamin Allen. His neighbors were John Allen, Josiah G Allen, Benajah Best, Charles Boyles, John Boyles, and John Brunson. Log Branch was just north of the community of Allendale and flowed into the Jackson Branch of the Salkehatchie River</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Another son, with a grave marker that just reads R.C. Williams was born in 1827. His name was probably Richard Creech Williams and he died in 1835 before his father. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Wilson’s last land entry was in 1829 when he sold 300 acres to his infant grandson, Josiah D. Williams, for $900 to keep the property out of the hands of his son, Martin Jones Williams’ creditors. The property was adjacent to his son, William Green Williams' land.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Previous to January 1828, Wilson's son Martin Jones Williams had opened an account with Josiah Dickinson a merchant at Buford’s Bridge and until 1830 was giving him promissory notes. for goods purchased from the store. Martin Williams became indebted to Dickerson who filed a suit to collect money owed him. A Judgment against Martin was filed March 1830 for $293. Martin was making payments on the debt so Dickinson did not enforce judgment until 7 April 1834.<br />
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The land that the Merchant Dickerson wanted to put a lien against did not belong to Martin Williams but to his infant son Josiah Dickerson Williams whom Wilson Williams, his grandfather ,had sold it to him 1 March 1829 for $900.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dickinson claimed that this land, long before 1829, was given by gift or payment and actually belonged to Martin Jones Williams. He maintained "<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josiah D. Williams was and still is an infant of tender years and the son of Martin J. Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> " </span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dickerson also claimed that no money was ever paid to Wilson Williams and that Wilson’s deed to his grandson Josiah D. Williams was fraudulent.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Martin J. Williams answered saying that the deed was good and the debt real and he wished to pay it. On 17 October 1834 the Judgment went against Martin J. Williams and Josiah D. Williams’s and some lands were sold to William Priester for $150 and $350. The land was in the neighborhood of Buford’s Bridge on Big Salkehatchie from a plat made by John M. Allen; part of a larger tract where Martin J. Williams resides containing 200 acres. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span>The land was partly sold to settle the debt but title was confirmed to Josiah D. Williams. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson Williams remained on this Plantation in Barnwell District, South Carolina for the remainder of his life. In December 1835 Wilson Williams died intestate without a recorded will. Esther Williams was nearly 39 years old at the time of her husband's death at around the age of 66 years. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">If the foundation of his old home could be located perhaps a cemetery site could be discovered. However o</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">ne cannot explore his former property without permission and it is doubtful if any stones are still standing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In these old plots, the graves often sank and the stones, if any fall in on them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Some descendants feel that </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson's <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> grave</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> is probably right outside of the town of Allendale on the road to Barnwell, just across the railroad, on the left. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson's </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Estate’s Administration papers are found in Book E, p. 76, Bundle 64, page 5.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span>On 15 January 1836 a securities bond of $6000 was supplied by Esther Williams brother, Robert Creech Roberts and Amos Smart s</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o that she could act as the “Administratrix” of the Estate. </span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> She appeared before the Ordinary Court of Orasmus D. Allen and made an oath "on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that Wilson Williams, deceased, made no will as far as she knows or believes and that she would produce to show and inform the appraisers appointed all and singular the goods and chattel of said Wilson Williams deceased."</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 23 January 1836 a petition of Esther Williams was back in the Ordinary Court asking for a sale of the personal property of Wilson to satisfy his creditors and his heirs. "The petition of Esther Williams sheweth that her intestate Wilson Williams was considerably in debt before his death and the estate to divide among his heirs (say ten of them) a majority of whom are of age and will want their distribution after the payment of debt. Your petitioner therefore prays leave to sell the whole of his personal property consisting of negroes, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, corn and fodder, plantation tools and house and kitchen furniture on such terms and credit as you may think may be consistent with the interest of the heirs and creditors. And your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray etc."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Judge O.D Allen agreed to Esther's petition setting the date of the sale for February 22nd from 10 in the morning to 5 in the evening. He stated that any item under $5 had to be paid at the time of the sale however all other items were given 12 months from the date of the sale. However other arrangements must have been made for the sale of Adam, an enslaved African American as that his sell price was not satisfied until 3 October 1842.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson Williams' farm was quite self sufficient. It had its own cotton gin, plantation tools, and even beehives. Also found among the inventory of Wilson's estate were tools for making barrels, a loom for weaving cloth, cross saws for cutting lumber, wagon repair tools, and. other items for the successful operating of a plantation in the early 19th Century. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The inventory filed in court papers by the Allen brothers was as follows: "</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A True and Perfect Inventory of all the Goods, Chattels, and Personal Estate of Wilson Williams late of Barnwell District in the State of S.C. made the 10th of January 1836."</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Negro man Ben $150, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Negro Man Isaac $100, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I Negro Woman Penny $100, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Negro man Adam $600, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Negro man Daniel $500, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Negro girl Milly<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>$450, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Negro woman Tenah & her 4 children Mariah, Pheby, Henry, Hampton $1200. These enslaved African Americans were valued at $3100 and made up nearly 3/4 of the value of Wilson Williams personal estate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Side Saddle $3, (a woman's saddle), 2 wagon saddles $3, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Wagon and Gear $130, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Cart $10, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 old Wagon, Wheels & Gear $5, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plantation Tools $20, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cotton Gin $20, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grindstone $5, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tin 75 cents, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 pair of Steel Yards 75 cents, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Running Gear for Gin $1, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cooper Wares $3.00, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hogshead Barrels $5, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 loom $1, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 Cross Saw $3, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leather $5, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slaughter Hides $5, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10 stick Baskets $2.50, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 spool lock bore Shot Gun $5, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Packing parcels $1, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13 yards of cotton Bagging $3.90, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 beehives $1, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Absalom Best, Wilson Williams son in law bought Daniel for $935, and J.M. Loper bought Adam for $1150. He also bought Ben who was reference as an "old Negro" for $225. John Williams bought Milly for $762. Moses Boyenton bought Isaac and Penny together for $500 which might indicate that they were a couple. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Daughter </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hanson Williams,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>bought: 1 Bed and Stead $5</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brother in law </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richard Creech Roberts, bought: 1 bay mare $96, 1 sorrel horse $31, 1 sow and 3 pigs $5, 22 head of Geese $11.22, 3 beehives $1.15, 1 Pair of Hand Irons $1.13, Lot of Jugs $3, Safe and Chest $1.50, Large Trunk & Coffee, Sugar, etc. $1.25, Side Saddle $1.25, Coffee Mill and Small Mill $1.50, Lot of Pots $2, Cooper Wares and Old Loom 75 cents, Lot of Baskets and Barrels 36 cents, 1 bedstead, bed<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>& etc. $31, 1 bedstead, bed<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>& etc $21, 1 Mahogany Table $1, Glass Ware $2, 18 Silver Spoons $5.50, Knives and Forks $1.50, 2 Chests of Drawers $25.50, 8 Sitting Chairs. $2.12, Flour & Spinning Wheel $2.25, Large Bible & other Books $3.37, 86 lbs of Bacon @ 11 ½ cents per lb $99, 55 ½<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>lbs of Lard @ 10 ½ per lb $58.28, 15 ½ lbs of Tallow, 1000 lbs of fodder, Pen of Corn Shucks $1, Sack of Salt and Lot of Barrels $2.50, Lot of Barrels & Hogshead etc $1, 1000 lbs of fodder $7, 62 bushels of Corn $49.60, 23 bushels of Corn $9.20. <span style="margin: 0px;"> R.C. Roberts, Esther’s brother bought up the furniture and kitchen equipment.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He could have been buying it for Esther.<span style="margin: 0px;"> A family Bible was included in the purchase.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Only two daughters of Wilson Williams are actually mentioned in Wilson's probate records as distributees. In February 1841 Absalom B Best was paid $400 "in right of his wife a distribute." He was married to Winifred Riley Williams. The other daughter was Elizabeth Hanson Williams. On 3 October 1842, John Harley was paid $409.30 "in right of his wife Elizabeth formerly Williams."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The personal estate sale in 1836 netted $6,573.50 but the estate had large debts.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One debt was to the estate of Stephen Roberts (deceased), Esther's father.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her brother, Creech Roberts (one of her first securities), was the executor of his father's estate and as such, received large sums of money, in the estate papers, several times.<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">By the 3rd of October 1845 it had been nearly ten years since her husband had died when </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esther's son </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Lawrence Williams received $394.31 from his father's estate. For 1846 and 1847 Esther declared that between those years she </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">neither received nor paid monies out from Estate of Wilson Williams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams’s widow Esther Williams lived for another forty-four years following the death of her spouse. Esther stayed on in the home place after Wilson's death.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The land that she and her son got from Wilson's estate was in the lower Salkehatchie River and Coosahatchie River areas of Barnwell County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Also within her household was twelve enslaved African Americans who may have been all of a single family unit. Esther's property included a 45 year old woman and eleven minor children, an female 18, a female 14, a male 12, a female 10, a female 8, a female 6, two males 4, a female 3, a female 1, and a 6month old baby boy. This family may have been </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Tenah and her 4 children Mariah, Pheby, Henry, Hampton bought from Wilson Williams estate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">The Agricultural Census of 1850 showed that Esther Williams had 800 acres of land of which 130 was cultivated. Her farm was valued at $1200. She owned six horses, 4 milk cows, and 18 head of cattle. Additionally she had ten sheep, and forty swine and in all her livestock was worth $500. On her farm she produced six bushels of wheat, 1 bushel of rye, 600 bushels of "Indian corn", six bales (400lbs each) of cotton, 100 bushels of peas or beans and 1,200 bushels of sweet potatoes.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Between 1850 and 1860 Esther Williams bought at least four more adult slaves with the majority of the difference probably occurring naturally through childbirth. Nine of these people considering the age difference were among the eleven enslaved African Americans she owned in 1850. The former slaves were a female 50, a female 28, a female 24, a female 22, a female 20, a female 16, a female 12, a male 14, and a male 10. Children born after 1850 were two females 8, two females 4, a male 4, and an 11 month old baby boy and a 7 month old baby boy. That would leave a female 32, a female 26, a male 25, and a male 18 having been added during the decade. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">All this wealth vanished after the Civil War when her slaves were freed and the land devalued. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1860 Agriculture Census showed that Esther Williams had 250 acres in cultivation probably due to her increased labor force. She still owned 800 acres more than a square mile of land worth $6500. She now owned twenty horses, 3 mules, 6 milk cows, 9 head of cattle, and 30 swine worth $1,080. Her farm produced 10 bushels of wheat, 700 bushels of "Indian corn", 17 bales of cotton, 200 bushels of peas or beans, and 150 bushels of sweet potatoes. She also produced 52 pounds of butter and the value of her slaughtered animals was $300. Her son James Lawrence Williams must have lived on her land as he was listed with no land but had one horse, three milk cows, five head of cattle, twenty sheep and twenty swine all worth $310. He also raised 250 bushels of Indian Corn.</span><br />
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Esther Williams's <span style="font-family: "arial";"> Allendale log house had a room and porch added after 1848 then a breezeway connecting the 2-room clapboard addition.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There was a foundation for another room that was never built.<span style="margin: 0px;"> On the property was </span>a gristmill, which brought in farmers to get their corn ground.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Two corncribs, a gin house, a dairy house and a smoke house were also on the premises, as well as stock pens, 2 lots and barns.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This old place is written up extensively (5 pages) in "Allendale on the Savannah". When Sherman's army came through Allendale, they set fire to this house, but it didn't burn.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The original structure is completely mortised and pegged--without a single nail.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There was a well on the property used by all the neighbors.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is still there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1870 census lists twelve African American households with the surname Williams living in Allendale Township where Esther Williams lands were located. Often freed African Americans adopted the surname of their former masters when they were emancipated. While it is not known if any of these individuals were once property of Esther Williams there is a strong likely hood that some of them were. Esther Williams had 13 African American females and 7 males on her estates in 1860 with only two of the males being adults. Many of the females probably married after they had their freedom; but there were as heads of households the following; Lena Williams age 65 , Betty Williams age 50 , another Betty Williams age 40 , Girty Williams age 38, Jane Williams age 55, Ella Williams age 50, and Suckey Williams age 26. Males with the surname Williams were James Williams age 26, Nate Williams age 30, J.M. Williams age 25, N.C. Williams age 40 and Harkley Williams age 60. </span><br />
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After rising from the ashes of Sherman's march during the Civil War, families due to financial circumstances in the early 1900s, were forced to sell their cotton fields to big corporate growers. With little industry other than the US nuclear facility on the Savannah River, run down infrastructure, dilapidated rail lines, some marginal cotton and timber farming and no Interstate highway to bring in traffic, Allendale County, South Carolina is the poorest and most neglected county in South Carolina and the 10th poorest county in the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The town of Allendale had 3,482 people in the town in the 2010 census down over 600 people from 2000. Its been in steady decline ever since. The rapidly diminishing population is overwhelmingly African-American and majority female. The population of the community is nearly 80 percent descendants of the African Americans who were held in bondage and 20 percent white folks. Half the population of Allendale live below the poverty level. In The median income for folks living in the town is below $17,000 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">"In January 2011, there was no operating businesses on either of the two main drags. Likewise the streets were striking in their absence of both cars and people. The single operating restaurant was a warm and friendly place that was not prepared to serve more than coffee and iced tea.-J.A.Miller."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In his 2015 book entitled <i>Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads</i>, author Paul Theroux describes Allendale as a "ghost town", "poor, neglected, hopeless-looking, a vivid failure." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slavery was psychological damaging not only to African Americans but also to the White Europeans who profited from their forced labor and servitude. A concept of racial superiority and inferiority was maintained through convoluted laws and by theological dogma to justify keeping human beings as chattel.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Williams Family's history is tainted by this stain on our ancestor's character despite the times in which they lived. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">South Carolina's antebellum laws prohibited the freeing of slaves. Even mixed race slave children were not allowed to be freed by their fathers. Two examples of the cruelty of this system is that of Nathaniel Badger and Elijah Willis both of Barnwell District. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Nathaniel Badger died in 1842 leaving three children and a slave daughter named "Clara the child of Lydia” who was given to his daughter Delia Ann Harden along with $500 for her upkeep. Clara was not to be “compelled to work or kept in slavery”. As that Nathaniel could not free his mixed race daughter, providing for her by giving her to her white half sister was the best he could do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Chancery records from 1852 show that his son John P Badger had died before 1852 and that Delia Ann Harden was “advanced in life and without children." The records showed that another daughter <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rebecca Badger was the wife of Edward Furse and that Nathaniel Badger had four female slaves at the time of his death named Lydia, Jenny, Maria, and Fillis [Phyllis]. “</span> Lydia had other children Delia, Nancy, Tempa, and Sally. Another woman named Jenny had children <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jenny, Quincey, Maria had Becka, Polly, Betsey, Flora, and Fillis (Phyllis)’s children were Magg,and William. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Elijah Willis was the son of Elijah Willis, and born 1797 in Barnwell District. He was a wealthy planter with 42 slaves in 1850. His housekeeper was one of his slaves named "Amy", who was in all practicality his common law wife. She had several children by a previous slave union but she and Elijah had at least three children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Elijah as he was aging decided to escape with Amy and her children to Ohio to free them rather than them become the property of his brothers and sisters after his death. He died shortly after he arrived and left his entire estate to Amy. A rather famous court case was fought between his relatives in South Carolina and the Ohio attorney Amy had obtained, a Mr. Joliffe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. I was acquainted with Willis twenty years or more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. We occasionally visited each other. I had very few professional calls to his place previous to 1850, and not very many since.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. His business appeared well conducted, his habits regular, and his ability fully sufficient for the management of his business.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. About five years or more previous to his death, he appeared to become reserved and melancholy in social intercourse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Elijah Willis, about two years, more or less, previous to his decease, took occasion to spend a night with me at my residence. We were not incumbered by company, and as it were tete-a-tete; he conversed freely, stating that his situation was apparent to his neighbors, distressing to him. That the connection he had formed was evidently unpleasant to his relations and acquaintances, and disreputable. He wished to place the cause of his disquietude on some small farm, remote from this region, where they could be in society of their own class. He had an idea of purchasing a small farm in Tennessee for them. I recommended placing them in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia, where about two thousand or more free persons of color resided, and an ineffectual attempt for their expulsion had been made before the legislature of Virginia. He expressed himself under obligation to me for the recommendation or suggestion, and, as I understood, was governed by it so far as soon afterwards to carry the slaves alluded to, viz: Amy and children, to Virginia, for the purpose of settling them. But little communication was held between us afterwards. I did, on one occasion afterwards, at his house, in presence of F. W. Matthews, suggest to him in strong terms the propriety of shaking off his connection with Amy, and endeavoring to regain his proper position in society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I had some business transaction with him early in May, 1855. He stated to me that he would travel abroad soon, and return in a few weeks, and probably occupy the summer, as he did for a year or so past, in travelling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">James M. Gitchell, sworn.-The paper marked A (the will) is in my own handwriting. It was written under the immediate direction and supervision of Elijah Willis. Said Elijah Willis came to the office of Jolliffe & Gitchell, in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the day previous to the date of the will, and introduced himself as Elijah Willis, of Barnwell district, in the State of South Carolina, and said that his object in coming to Ohio was to make his will, and provide for certain persons whom he held as slaves in South Carolina. That he desired to make those slaves his heirs, and wished to find some persons of property and character in Ohio, who would consent to act as his executors. Mr. Jolliffe recommended several persons, and finally went with Mr. Willis to see Messrs. Ernst and Harwood, who agreed to act as executors, and with whom Mr. Willis seemed to be satisfied. When the will was being written, Mr. Willis insisted that Mr. Jolliffe should act as one of the executors. He, at first, declined, but finally consented at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Willis, and his name was inserted as one of the executors. Elijah Willis was present during the time said paper (the will) was being written, and read it himself after it was finished. Said paper was executed in duplicate, either copy to be and have the effect of an original, and one copy was retained by Mr. Jolliffe and myself, at the request of Mr. Willis, and the other taken by himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mr. Willis told me at the time said paper A (the will) was being written, and after its execution, that it was his purpose to have Amy and her seven children, Elder, Ellick, Philip, Clarissa Ann, Julia Ann, Eliza Ann, and Savage, the persons named in said paper, as his heirs, brought to the State of Ohio, and set free. On parting with Mr. Willis, he told me that he would return to South Carolina, and so arrange his business there as to bring the persons named to Ohio himself, and that he thought he should be in Cincinnati with them in about one year from that time. After that, I saw or heard nothing further from Mr. Willis until I heard that he had died upon the wharf, and I saw his corpse at the Dumas House, in this city, on the 21st day of May, 1855. Thomas Ewing, Jr., sworn.-I am a practicing lawyer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Elijah Willis brothers and sisters were heirs in a will drawn up by him 8 August 1846 and they contested the second will providing for Amy and her children and the South Carolina Court sided with the heirs of the 1846 will in effect saying that Amy and her children were property of Elijah and one cannot leave property to property. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />There is s</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">peculation is that Wilson Williams had a first wife related to t</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">he Mallard Family of Dublin County. The belief that Wilson may have been married prior to Elizabeth Kirkland is based on John Williams who was born 24 years before William Green Williams, Wilson's documented son. As there is no 1800 census to indicate the number of children Wilson Williams may have had or their ages it can only be speculated. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A plat filed by Joseph Lawton on 2 December 1774 for 330 acres in Granville County, South Carolina showed that John Kirkland and George Kirkland had adjoining lands. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Kirkland</span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is included in the 1783 and 1787 tax list of Orangeburgh District. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A court record from 1785 showed that his lands were on the n</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orth side of Great Salkehatchie River near Widow Williams’ Ford [Abigail Williams] bounded by Verdemon
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1788 William Williams was a Petite Juror and he posted a bond 27 February 1788 with his Surities being Isham Clayton, George Kirkland and Nathan Grimes. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Kirkland in 1790 he received letters of administration for the estate of James Bond along with Isham Clayton. That year he posted a bond for Benjamin Corbit along with Captain Richard Creech. Corbit was accused of cow Stealing. On 25 August 1790 the Census recorder remarked “Gone to Georgia “ in the enumeration of William Williams in South Orangeburgh District South Carolina. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">George Kirkland was enumerated in the Southern portion of Orangeburgh District in the 1790 Census which would have been Winton County at the time. He is listed as being over 16, a son under 16 years, six females, and six slaves. His near neighbors were John McFail, Angus McFail and Joseph Brabham. Twenty-five households away was Abigail Williams. He was one of the appraisers of the estate of Abigail Williams in 1802. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1790 George Kirkland, Nathan Grimes and Isham Clayton acted as suretors for the estate of James Bond. On 20 Jan 1790 he bought land from John Winn. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 4 March 1811 George Kirkland sold to his brother Reuben Kirkland 73 acres at Alligator Branch for $80. The property was part of a larger grant he received 5 June 1786. The witnesses were Robert Kirkland and George Kirkland [Jr.] They were sons of Reuben Kirkland and Robert was a son in law of Wilson Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Very little is known of Elizabeth Kirkland except what was listed in the 1810 census when she was enumerated as being between the ages of 26 and 44 [1766 and 1784]. She was born certainly during the American Revolution [1775-1783] at her father's properties at Alligator Creek in Granville County, South Carolina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">When Elizabeth and Wilson married is unknown but after 1790 as that census showed that George Kirkland had all his daughters living within his household. If Elizabeth Harriett Williams who was born in 1795 was her daughter then she was married between 1790 and 1794 in Winton County of the Orangeburgh District. If married during this period she went with her husband when he moved to Washington County, Georgia before returning to Barnwell District in 1802. There she had five children between 1804 and 1810 which may have contributed to her early death. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">These heirs were named as William Green Williams, Martin Jones Williams, Patsy [Martha] Williams, Fanny [Frances] Williams, and Winifred Riley Williams. Not included in the petition were John Williams, Elizabeth Harriett Williams wife of Robert Cornelius Kirkland, or Mary Williams wife of Jacob Brunson. A possible explanation for this that both Elizabeth Harriett Kirkland and Mary Brunson were deceased by 1818. </span><br />
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widow of Alexander Campbell. Esther Roberts step sister Catherine Blanche Campbell became her sister in law when she married Esther's brother Richard Creech Roberts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Esther's grandfather was Captain James Roberts who married to Amy Creech. </span>Wilson Williams' grandmother may have been Abigail Creech Williams. It is a possibility that Captain James Roberts and John Williams, Wilson’s grandfather were brothers-in-law.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Capt. James Roberts
had settled by 1767 in St. George Parish, Georgia and his lands bordered Wilson's father, Britton
Williams’ lands on the north. During the Indian uprising, Capt. Roberts returned to North Carolina where his</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> lands Dobbs Counties
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Roberts died in 1802 he had lands at Turkey Creek near present day Allendale County. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Stephen Roberts and wife Elizabeth on 15 February 1807 sold a tract of land for $700 to John Miller located by John Hill. This wife would have been Elizabeth Grimes as that his second wife also Elizabeth was the widow of Alexander Campbell who died in 1807. John Miller of St. Peter Parish South Carolina died 27 September 1812.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 17 December 1810 Stephen Roberts sold to Samuel Carr 595 acres on Craigs Pond.
This man was probably a relative of the Carr Family who lived at Miller Swamp. A John Carr who died before 1833 in St. Luke Parish, South Carolina married a Miss Roberts as his first wife and 2ndly to Mary the widow of John Miller. John Carr had lands <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Miller Swamp brought from William Carr and lands at Duck Savannah. Miller Swamp was north of Allendale and Duck Savannah was south of that community/</span></span><br />
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February 1814 John Carr wanted to move to Georgia. His stepson was John Miller and daughters Rebecca Carr wife of Michael Brown and Susan Carr wife of Mr. Gardner and Charles J Brown who had lands on Duck Savannah. William Carr as of 25 February 1789 had lands </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">on Great Salkehatchie Swamp adjoining
George Kirkland, John McFail, N. Walker, William Smith, and Isham Clayton. In 1800 William Carr bought land from John Weekley at Miller Swamp. </span></span><br />
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Elijah Boylston who <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">died before February 1851. Other sisters were Martha the wife of John H. Mixon,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Georgiana Boyleston wife of James Hair, and Elizabeth Boyleston wife of Samuel S. Hair. </span></span><br />
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1754 in Onslow County and died 10 July 1825 in Barnwell District. His wife Mary died after 16 Sept 1829. Their children were <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Stephen
Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">born 1792 husband of Sarah H. Loper,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John
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Susannah Burnett of Bertie Co. NC to her grandson Marmaduke. In February 1780 he sold his Bertie County </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">inheritance to Ezekiel Wimberley<span style="margin: 0px;"> witnessed</span> by Benjamin Harrell. In the 1790 US Census Marmaduke is listed in Cheraw District South Carolina and in 1800 in Darlington District. Marmaduke Williams had in 1816 bought land from Kellis Halford for $1. In 1819 he sold </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">107 acres land to his son Stephen Williams on Miller Swamp
adjoining Henry All and Sister Ferry Road. This land was first bought from Willis Knight and surveyed by James Thurston</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">. On 9 November 1824 Marmaduke sold to his son John Williams 334 acres for $500. These lands were first bought from Willis Knight and were located on Milers Swamp adjoining John Deer and Cornelius Carr. Witnesses were Son in law John Mayer and William Register. These lands were northeast of Allendale towards the community of Ulmer.</span></span><br />
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Alexander Campbell. She died in 1828 as the widow of Stephen Roberts Sr. On 16 January 1824 Stephen Roberts deed personal property to "Catherine Campbell", his step daughter and future daughter in law. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Alexander Campbell’s daughter Catherine Blanche Campbell was born 1796 and was the same age as Esther Roberts. She married Stephen Robert’s son Richard “Creech Roberts who was born in 1794 and died 1 April 1841.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There seems to be an unusually close relationship between Wilson Williams and the family of William Campbell, the grandfather of Catherine Blanche Roberts.
William Campbell was born circa <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1740<span style="margin: 0px;"> and died </span>1 July 1823 in Barnwell District. His wife was Mary "Polly" last name unknown but possibly Lee. His 2nd wife was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“Milly” Williams. His Children were J<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">oshua Campbell husband of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Zipha Best,</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Millicent Campbell wife of Mr. Bryant, </span>Israel Campbell husband of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Leodica “Dicy” Best, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Mary Campbell wife of Mr. Fullerton and James Bowie, Alexander Campbell husband of Elizabeth, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and Sarah
Campbell. Zilpha and Dicy Best were diaghters of Absalom Best and Elizabeth Blanchard. They both remarried after the deaths of their husbands. Dicy remarried John Mears and Zilpha remarried Thomas Green Arthur.</span><br />
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of Savannah River by "Lee’s Old Place." He fought in the Revolutionary War and settled in South Carolina. Ambrose Boatwright and John M Davis witnessed deed of William Campbell on 21 Oct 1796 in Winton County. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">18 Feb
1799 William Campbell bought from Wilson Williams his father's lands on King
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams' mother Elizabeth, widow of Britton Williams <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">made a deed of gift to her three married children in April 1795 witnessed by Israel Campbell, the uncle of Catherine Blanche Campbell. The deed was not recorded until 1807 the year Alexander Campbell died. </span></span></span><br />
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shortly afterwards. Daughter Millicent Bryant "lives in North Carolina. His daughter Dicy Campbell<span style="margin: 0px;"> "</span>wife of John Mears" moved to Georgia. Daughter Mary
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams’ eldest known daughter was Elizabeth Harriett Williams. She married Robert Cornelius Kirkland the son of Reuben and Sarah Clark Kirkland. George Kirkland was Robert Cornelius' uncle and he was first cousin to Wilson Williams' wife Elizabeth Kirkland Williams. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth Harriett Williams married<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> her mother's first cousin Robert Cornelius Kirkland in 1811. "Cornelius" Kirkland was born 3 September 1788 and died 28 September 28 1866 at the age of 78. His father Reuben was one of the Kirkland brothers who settled in the Jackson Branch region of Barnwell District in the 1770's and served in the Revolutionary War where he lost an arm. He later served as a state senator. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth died at the young age of 22 years the mother</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> of three young children under the age of six. Elizabeth Harriett died in childbirth but the child survived. One of her children was name Britton Williams Kirkland the only known descendant named for Britton Williams. Two other children Charles Seaton Kirkland and Harriett Brabham wife of Hampton Brabham are listed as receiving money from Wilson's estate. However as that this Elizabeth is not mentioned as an heir of George Kirkland in Wilson's 1818 partition petition, she might not have been a daughter of Elizabeth Kirkland. But she might not have been mention simply as that she was a married woman or that she died 18 March 1818. </span></span></span></span></div>
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Robert Cornelius was one of the wealthier planters in Barnwell District. He bequeathed in his will 71 slaves, livestock, a mill, and several thousands of acres. One child was left 1,000 acres! But as that he died after the Civil War ended his wealth vanished with the freeing of his African American Slaves.<br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">The Kirklands lived one mile north of Buford’s Bridge, 3 miles east of Hwy 301 and 300 yards east of Kirkland Mill Creek and here they established a family cemetery. Both Robert C. Kirkland and Lavicy Mixon are buried there as well as Elizabeth’s daughter Harriett E. Brabham and grandchildren. Elizabeth H. Kirkland and her son Brittain W. may both have been buried here but they have no visible marker.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B. <b>Brittain Williams Kirkland </b>was </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born 8 August 1816 in Barnwell District, South Carolina and died 14 March 1831 Buford’s Bridge, Barnwell District, South Carolina at the age of 15 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">C.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Harriett Elizabeth Williams</b> was born 18 March 1818 Barnwell District, South Carolina and died 9 July 1888 at Buford’s Bridge, Barnwell District, South Carolina at the age of 70. Her mother died giving birth to her. She was named for her mother and married Hampton Brabham 4 Feb 1836 at the age of 17 years. She was his 2<sup>nd</sup></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> wife. Hampton was the son of John Brabham and Martha Moye and born 11 September 1812. He died 8 December 1881 at the age of 69 years. Hampton bought a young bay horse from the estate of John Williams named “Brittain". Harriett's father left her 13 slaves, $400, and a piano in his will.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Harriett was the only one of Wilson's grandchildren by his daughter Elizabeth Harriett Williams who left him posterity. They were R</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">osa Brabham, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elliott J. Brabham, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary A. Elizabeth Brabham wife of LeRoy Wilson, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martha Brabham wife of Josiah Seth Mixon, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles Franklin Brabham husband of Cornelia A. Brabham, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Robert Brabham husband of Laura Brant, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Allen Hampton Brabham husband of </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Josephine Barker,</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moye Elliott Brabham, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Caroline (Carrie) Brabham, and H</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">attie Brabham. Harriett's son in law </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Josiah Seth Mixon, born 28 April 1836 and died 22 March 1899, married Martha on 23 Dec 1859. He was the son of <span style="margin: 0px;">William Joyce Mixon Sr. and Sarah Ann Johnson and a graduate of the Citadel. He became a judge in Allendale. Harriett's son Moye Elliott Brabham was born 1848 but never married. He was well established in business when he died young. Daughters Caroline (Carrie) Brabham, and Harriett (H<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">attie) Brabham died 5 June 1866 when the Masonic Lodge Building in Bamberg collapsed killing six children and two adults.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mary Williams</b> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Brunson</b></span></span></div>
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She is perhaps a daughter of Elizabeth Kirkland. She may have been born circa 1797 and died before 1818. She is thought to have married </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacob Brunson but without issue. Knowledge of Mary Williams is from researcher the late Mrs. Elizabeth Davis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacob Brunson was the son of John Brunson Sr. and born 1800. The Brunson family had land at Jackson Branch and Whippy Swamp adjoining John Allen Esq., the estate of Benejah Best, Charles Boyles, John Boyles, Josiah G. Allen, and Wilson Williams. </span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacob Brunson later married Harriett Myrick daughter of Eli Myrick and Mary Creech. Jacob and Harriett had children, Eli Isaac Brunson and Elizabeth E. Brunson wife of William R. Williams. </span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacob Brunson is mentioned as receiving money from the estate of Wilson but Mary is not listed as an heir of either George Kirkland or Wilson Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacob Brunson and Harriett Brunson are listed in a 1841 deed as living near Richard Creech Roberts on Jackson Branch. In March 1841 a 152-foot dam was destroyed and a mill that ground for neighborhood was also destroyed. Jacob Brunson was listed as insolvent in 1841.</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was born circa 18</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">00 in Barnwell District, South Carolina and died in</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> October 1843 in Barnwell District, South Carolina at the age of 43 years. He married Sarah Kearse who was born 1805 the daughter of William Kearse and Flora Brabham and sister to Harriett Kearse Williams. Not only were Martin and Green Williams brothers they were also brothers in law. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Martin had some serious debts and probably was not good at farming or business. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Previous to January 1828 Martin Williams opened an account with Josiah Dickinson a Merchant at Buford’s Bridge. Until 1830 Martin was giving Dickerson promissory notes rather than paying what was owed. A Judgment against Martin was filed March 1830 for $293. Martin then was making some payments so that Dickinson did not enforce judgment until 7 April 1834. (Chancery and Equity Records Group 37 Josiah Dickerson vs. Martin J. Williams And Josiah D. Williams). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> 1830 US Census of Barnwell District, Martin Williams was living near his father Wilson and his brother Green. He had a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter and had 1 slave at the time. Only the name of one of these children is known and the others probably died in childhood. This is the only census for which Martin Williams can be located. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The land that the Merchant Dickerson wanted to put a lien against did not belong to Martin Williams but to his infant son Josiah Dickerson Williams whom Wilson Williams, his grandfather ,had sold it to him 1 March 1829 for $900.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dickinson claimed that this land, long before 1829, was given by gift or payment and actually belonged to Martin J. Williams. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Josiah D. Williams was and still is an infant of tender years and the son of Martin J. Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> " </span>No money was ever paid to Wilson Williams and Dickerson claimed that Wilson’s deed to Josiah D. Williams was fraudulent.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Martin J. Williams answered saying that the deed was good and the debt real and he wished to pay it. The land was partly sold to settle the debt but title was confirmed to Josiah D. Williams. On 17 October 1834 Judgment against Martin J. Williams and Josiah D. Williams’s and lands were sold to William Priester for $150 and $350. The land was in the neighborhood of Buford’s Bridge on Big Saltketcher from a plat made by John M. Allen; part of a larger tract where Martin J. Williams resides containing 200 acres. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In 1834 Martin resided in the Three Hole Savannah neighborhood on 300 acres adjacent to William Green Williams and James McMillan. In 20 Nov 1835 with his son Josiah Dickerson Williams, he sold more land to William Priester on Big Saltketcher. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1838 Equity Court Bundle 71 package 12 showed that Martin J. Williams was a son-in-law of William Kearse. His wife Sally was given two slaves, Mary and Lorra from her father’s estate in 1838. They were her property and not Martin's. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It is not known when <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin J. Williams became a Methodist Circuit Preacher but he evidently was frequently away and for long periods of time leaving his wife and children in the care of relatives. He and his brother Green Williams were religious men and poorly suited to be farmers. However they were separated by denominational differences. Green Williams became a Missionary Baptist minister while Martin became a Methodist Circuit Rider minister. Both eventually lost their inheritances from their father in law William Kearse. Green Williams removed from South Carolina to western Georgia while Martin's Methodist Circuit included eastern Georgia and western South Carolina.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Martin Williams nor his wife Sarah are listed in the 1840 Census of Barnwell District, South Carolina although the family would have been living in the Three Hole region unless they had temporarily moved out of state. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Rev. M.M. Brabham, in his often-quoted book, related that Martin Jones Williams died a mysterious death. His wife Sallie Kearse was tried in Barnwell District for the poisoning of her husband.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Rev. Brabham stated n</span>ot enough evident could be found to determine what had happened to Martin and she was acquitted. Evidently this bit of information was true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">In late 1843 the state of South Carolina tried Sarah Williams for the murder of her husband Martin Williams by poison. Judge Josiah J Evans presided over the trial. Edmund Bellinger, the prosecutor ordered Martin Williams' stomach removed from his body and it was taken by Dr. John Bignon to Augusta, Georgia for chemical analysis. Augusta was the closest town which had medical doctors capable of doing the examination. Bignon stayed a week assisting Doctors L.D. Ford and L.A. Dugas where the "work was done in the most scientific style" with "proof of poisoning complete." Arsenic was detected "while the "prosecution is idle." Dr. Dugas attended the trial as a witness testifying the "detection of arsenic in the dead man's stomach." His testimony was "most clear and satisfactory." However Sarah Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">was acquitted as that the "case turned on circumstantial evidence as the fact of poisoning by the prisoner." It may be that she was too well connected in the community to be hung for murder. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n 14 November 1843 the Citizens of Barnwell District filed a petition and supporting papers asking the state of South Carolina to award compensations to Doctors L.D. Ford and L.A. Dugas of Augusta, Georgia for examining the stomach of Martin J Williams to determine if he had been poisoned. They asked for $500 saying it was just and fair for their services. The petition stated that Martin J Williams was "murdered no doubt". and the names signed in the document were James J Aldrich, E Bellinger Jr., B.F. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Brown, John S. Brown, J. G W. Duncan, Winchester Graham, James O Hagood, Joseph Harley, William Hay, J.M Hutson, J.J. Ryan, Wilson Sanders, M.F. Stansell, S.W. Trotti, N.G.W Walker, and V.J. Williamson.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A year later the inhabitants of Barnwell District sent another petition dated 19 November 1844 asking compensation be made to Dr. John E. Bignon for the chemical tests on the stomach of Martin J Williams "allegedly poisoned by his wife Sarah". The petition was 8 pages long. The names indexed in the petition were John </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Aaron, James Aldrich, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Orsamus</span> Allen, Edmund Bellinger, B.F Brown, J.C Buckingham, Winchester Graham, W. A. Hay; F. Miller, L O'Bannon, W.A. Owens, William H Rice, Wilson Sanders, S.W. Trotti, and V.J Williamson. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span> O<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n 14 December 1844 a Committee of the Lunatic Asylum and Medical Accounts issued a 2 page report of the petition asking for compensation for Doctor Bignon who assisted in the chemical detection of arsenic in the case of the "alleged murder of Martin J. Williams. The content of the report has not been researched.<br /><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b>S</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">arah Kearse Williams who was tried for poisoning her husband was not convicted as there was not enough evidence and she remained free for the remainder of her life. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">On 24 Feb 1844 Sarah Kearse Williams bought box of table salt from the estate of William McMillan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 25 May1845 Martin Williams's estate paid $86.50 to the estate of Richard Creech Roberts through his agent A.P. Aldrich. There is no record of Martin Jones Williams after the 1854 settlement of his father's estate. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1850 census of Barnwell District taken on 29 July 1850 listed Martin J. Williams wife Sallie and his children. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Census listed Martin's family in Household # 308 with out any property. This suggests that the family had lost its land and slaves due to bad management of finances. The <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Census only listed Sarah Williams age 45 as head of household. Included in her household were her children, George [George Perry] age 11, Mary age 9, Sophronia age 8, Henrietta 6, Aldred [Aldrich] age 4, and Cornelius age 1. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A grown male named Allen Harter was also listed in her household. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allen Harter was the son of Abraham Harter. Allen Harter was born 1825 and died in 1866. He was listed as some twenty years younger than Sally Kearse Williams. The 1850 census indicates that any children born prior to George Perry Williams were either married or had died. The nearest neighbors to Martin Williams' family in 1850 were John Lyons age 56, Henry Mixon age 47, William Smith age 20, and Martin's half nephew William B Williams who resided in household 306. </span></span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Sarah Williams was cohabitating with other men after the death of Martin J. Williams as that Henrietta, Aldrich, and Cornelius were born after his death in 1843. Sarah's last known child Savannah was born in 1854 according to the 1860 census. Without the 1840 census there is no way of telling how many children may have been born between 1830 and 1840. The couple had at least 3 children before 1830. Who the father of Sarah's children were after Martin died is unclear but as she named one of her children Aldrich, therefore his father could have been J.J. Aldrich and the others fathered by Harter. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The descendants of Abraham Harter's family became intertwine with the family of Martin J Williams and Preston L Williams, who was a descendant of Marmaduke Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> On 20 Jan 1859 Sarah Williams bought 977 pounds of pork from the estate of Mary Myrick, widow of Eli Myrick. Why she would need so much meat is interesting.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sally Williams and Allen Harter ar</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e still living together in March 1859 when they, were mentioned in estate of John Platt as having doubtful accounts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The 1860 U.S. Census of Barnwell District showed Sarah Williams still as the head of household or within the household of Allen Harter as the enumerated crossed out the name of Allen. The census was taken 21 July 1860 with Sarah Williams listed as 53 years old. Above her is listed Allen Harter age 40 years old who is listed as a farmer with $600 worth of real estate and $800 worth of personal property. The reason to believe that Allen Harter is listed as head of this Williams Household, is the inclusion of Andrew Harter age 60 who was Allen's uncle. </span></span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also included in this household are all the children who was listed in 1850 except for daughter Mary Jane Williams. She was living with Allen's brother George Martin Harter who was also living with Teresa Ann Harvey. Both these women were not married to George M Harter but bore him many children. This was not the only unusual relationship as that Allen's sister Milly Harter was married to Preston L Williams who was also having offspring by Allen's sister Seleta Harter. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"> The other children of Martin and Sarah Kearse Williams included in the census was George Williams age 22, Sophrony age 20, Henry E Williams age 16, Aldred Williams age 14, Cornelius Williams age 12, and Savannah Williams age 6. The child Henry E Williams is certainly the same as Henrietta Williams age 6 in the 1850 census. What is peculiar is that in 1850 this child was identified as female but in 1860 the child was identified as male. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would not be too speculative to accept that after Martin Williams murder that Sally Kearse Williams became the common law wife of Allen Harter. When the Civil War commenced, Allen Harter joined the Confederate Army and served until the Confederacy was defeated. He then he met a 23 year old woman named Melissa Padgett by whom he had a daughter named Minerva born 13 January 1865. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Sarah Kearse Williams probably died around this time. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Allen Harter died in the fall of 1866 and his estate was probated until October 22, 1866. <span class="ng-binding">His widow then married Levi Padgett by 1870.</span> His brother George M. Harter was appointed administrator and the estate was appraised by Preston L. Williams, Edward M. Cope, and Abraham Chasseareau. George M Harter was the son in law of Sally Kearse Williams. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Preston L. Williams,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>son of Stephen Williams [1835- 1902] married Allen’s sister Milly J. Harter circa April 1851.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Buyers from<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the estate included Daniel All, Martin Branch, Riley Cope,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>G.M. Harter,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Harter,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Jacob<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Kinard, Milledge Lightsey,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Miles Loadholt, Preston L. Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and P.W. Williams. Interestingly Martin Williams' son Josiah Dickerson Williams agreed to be a suriety along with George M. Harter and Henry Mixon on November 21, 1866.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin Jones Williams and Sarah Kearse had probably at least six children and she had at least four more children after his death although she remained unmarried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>D<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Mary Jane Williams</b> born 18 Sept 1840 died 10 May 1887. She cohabited with George Martin Harter the brother of Allen Harter and sons of Absolum Harter. George Martin Williams in the 1860 Census of Barnwell as living with two women by who he was having children. Mary Williams age 20 is listed with a 1 year old son George M Williams and others in the household was Teresa Harvey and her children Rebecca, William, Eleanor, and 6 month old Teresa. He continued to have children by both these women all whom went by their father's name Harter. Mary Jane Williams had nine children by George M. Harter. They were </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George M Williams </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1859-1887, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Harry Walton Harter Birth 1860 1921 married Rosa Pauline Faust, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sarah E Harter 1862-1937 wife of Virgil Wilson Manuel, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Harriet "Hattie" Corine Harter 1865-1937 wife of Charles J Cadle, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Jasper Harter 1866-1899 married Savannah Bates Creech, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Wyman Jones Harter 1871-1938 married 1</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><sup>st</sup> Addie Lou Ann Croft 2<sup>nd</sup> Rosa Wade </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">3<sup>rd</sup> Mrs. Angie Rebecca Owens Crumple, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Eddie Frampton Harter 1878-1960 married brothers widow Savannah Bates Creech, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Pinkey Mollie Harter 1881–1898, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Joseph Perry Harter 1882-1961 married Harriet Eugenia Platts</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Aldridge J Williams</b> born 1846 married Frances Lyons the daughter of Edward Lyons and Milly All. He may have been named for J.J. Aldrich.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Allen </b><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Cornelius Williams</b> born 21 March 1848 died 3 Aug 1927 Hickory Grove, Hampton, South Carolina. He married Harriett Simpson Cone 1839-1881 and 2nd wife was Mary Elizabeth Barnes 1862-1897. Children by his 1st wife were William Jones Williams 14 December 1872 - 21 June 1948 who married Susan C Platts, Wade Hampton Williams 16 Dec 1875-31 Oct 1941 who married Viola May Platts and John Allen Williams 27 Sept 1880- 28 Sept 1945 who married Verna Louise. Children by his 2nd wife were Harriett Cone Williams 18 Sept 1886-25 June 1981 who married Albert Roy Monroe, Thomas DeWitt Williams 17 April 1888-26 July 1960 who married 1st Olive Murray and 2nd Maude C Johns, Mary Ursula Williams 3Nov 1892-24 Sept 1982 who married Jasper Lee Weekley and Mamie Edna Williams 9 Jan 1897-24 Feb 1898. Interesting that he may have been named for Allen Harter.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Savannah Williams</b> born 1853 died 4 October 1931 Edgefield County, South Carolina unmarried.</span><br />
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</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born 7 March 1804 in Barnwell District, South Carolina and d</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ied 12 July 1879 in Jenkins, Morris County, Texas at the age of 75 years. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">married Harriett Kearse on 3 November 1825 at the age of 21 years. Harriett was the daughter of William Kearse and Flora Brabham. He was listed as an heir of Wilson Williams in 1854 and an heir of Elizabeth Kirkland on partition deed 1818. When he became a Baptist Preacher he left Barnwell District in 1838 and moved to Randolph County, Georgia. About ten years later he then moved to Troy, Alabama where he was living during the Civil War. After the Civil War he moved to east Texas with some of his married children. where he died. Half of his family stayed in Alabama and the other half went to Texas. The Kearse Family is written up extensively in Rev. M.M. Brabhams Mizpah: A Family Book.<span style="margin: 0px;"> He had at least ten children all but William Rice and James Wilson leaving his posterity. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">A.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Mary Elizabeth Williams</b> was b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn 1827 near Swallow Savannah, Barnwell, South Carolina and d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ied 1872 Titus County, Texas at the age of 45 years from complications from childbirth. She m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">arried John Allen West on 17 December1846 in Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia. He was b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn circa 1825 Jasper County, Georgia and d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">ied after 1880 in Kaufman County, Texas. The 1880 Census of Kaufman County shows that John West was living in Precinct 6 as a widower with a large family. Her children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Harriett Kearse West, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Allen West Jr. husband of Martha Daisy Smith, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Miles Green West husband of Nancy A. Crocker and Barbara Ella Price, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">James Hartsfield West husband of Mary E. Crocker, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b> </b>Mary Amerine West wife of married Mr. Hines, W.C. Black, and A.W. Cunningham, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">David Franklin West husband of Mary E Kemp, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Frances “Fannie” West husband of Samuel W Cole, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Minnie West, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Georgia Ann West, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mary “Mollie” C. West wife of Joseph Peter Jecker, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Nancy West, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Evie West. </span></span><br /><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">F. <b>Elliot Winifred "Winnie" Williams</b><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> was </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">born 15 February 1840 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia and died 12 June 1911 in Jackson, Clarke, Alabama at the age of 71 years. She married James “Jim” A. Hawkins 29 December 1859 at Goshen, Pike, Alabama. He died in the Civil War. She then married James Jordan Prim 4 October 1866 Goshen, Pike, Alabama. Their children were </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mary Etta Hawkins, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Green Hawkins husband of Josephine Browning, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Eliza Ann “Annie” Elizabeth Prim wife of John Le Costa, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mattie Moyler Prim wife of Gerald “Watt” Walthall Creagh </span></span><br /><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H. <span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Lewis Crawford Williams</b> was born 28 April 1845 in Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia and died 6 May 1906 in Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama. He was buried in Darian Baptist Church Cemetery. He Married 18 January 1866 Louisa J. Owens daughter of Evan Owens and Sophia Caffey. She was born 27 July 1844 and died 25 May 24, 1904. They were the parents of 10 children. They were <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>George Lee Williams</b>, <b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Lewis Crawford “Dock” Williams</b> Jr. husband of Leona Frances Carter, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Ella E. Williams</b> wife of Francis M. Golden, <b>E</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>van “Green” Williams</b> husband of Emma Jackson, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Lula Jane Williams</b> wife of James Zimri Thompson, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Mary Etta Williams</b> wife of W. Pink King, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Bailey Griffin Williams</b>, <b>G</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>eorgia Ann Texas Williams</b> wife of Columbus Davis, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Sarah Winifred Williams</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Calvin Kearse Williams</b> husband of Oma R. Fowler. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">I.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <b>Rev. </b></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>George Kearse "Babe" Williams</b> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was born 6 December 1847 Cuthbert, Randolph, Georgia and died 6 December 1941 in Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. He was 94 years old on his birthday. Rev. G.K. Williams is buried in Block 3 Lot 9 with wife and son Leonard Fermon Williams and his daughter in law Vera. Babe Williams married Rebecca “Shelomith” Rushton August 1, 1867, Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama daughter of William and Rebecca Rushton. She was born September 13, 1845 Ramar, Montgomery, Alabama and died July 24, 1924 Hughes Springs, Cass, Texas. Their 12 children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Margaret “Maggie” Jane Williams</b> wife of Thomas J. “Tommie” Williams, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Elizabeth “Bettie” Victoria Williams</b> wife of Thomas Cobb Glover, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sarah “Fannie” Williams</b> wife of Charlie Collins, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Edgar Lewis Williams</b> husband of Rosa Lee Perser, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George Myles Williams</b> husband of Nora Estelle Nelson, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hattie Kearse Williams</b> wife of Riley Frederick Smith, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mattie Eva Rushton “Rus” Williams</b> wife of Rufus “Ruf” Lafayette Fite, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Ellen Williams</b> wife of William Bedford “Cap” Harris, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Katy Belle Williams</b> wife of William L. Parker, </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lula May Williams</b> wife of Leonard Weldon “Bud” Neville and </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leonard Ferman Williams</b> husband of Vera Reeder. </span></span></span><br /><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">J.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <b>Martha</b> "</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Mattie" Riley Williams</b> was b</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">orn August 4, 1851 Pike County, Alabama and died May 4, 1938 Bryan Mills, Cass, Texas. at the age of 87. She married December 3, 1868 in Vidette, Crenshaw, Alabama, Rev. John Smith, a Missionary Baptist Minister. He was the son of Henry George Smith and Susan Ledlow. He was born August 1838 in Georgia and died<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>5 February 1916 in Cass County, Texas. He is buried in Queen City, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cass, Texas. Their children were </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> <b>James A Smith Jr., </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b> William Lee Smith</b> husband of Fanny Lee Humphrey , </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>George Kearse Smith</b> husband of Cora L Watson, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b> Lou “Ella” Smith</b> wife of Robert E Lee Humphrey and William Haskell Kelley, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Pinkney “Pink” Bandy Smith</b> husband of Lee Julia <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Gibson, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Charley Homer Smith</b> husband of Mary Francis Byrd, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Sally Smith, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Alice Smith</b> wife of Colonel Levi Spivey Biddy, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Hardy Lee Smith</b>, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>John Arnold “Johnie” Smith </b>husband of Dessa Green, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Josephine “Josie” Smith</b>, and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Matthew Smith</b> husband of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Johnie Foster . </span></span></div>
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S<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he was </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born 6 Nov 1809 at Swallow Savannah, Barnwell District, South Carolina and died a</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fter 1882 Barnwell County, South Carolina. Winnifred was an heir of Elizabeth Kirkland according to a partition deed dated<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1818 as well as an heir of Wilson Williams in 1854. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She</span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">married 1834 Absalom Blanchard Best, born Apr. 7, 1811 and died June 28, 1850 at the age of 40. He was the son of Benajah Best. He’s written up in "Allendale On the Savannah". On July 6, 1822 he purchased from William Jones an African American woman named Abigail for $450. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On December 31, 1833</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span>AB Best sold a 2 yr old African American girl named Sally to his brother-in-law Richard Creech Roberts for the upkeep his sister Mary Best who was mentally retarded. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A. Mary Elizabeth Best </b>was born 4 October 1832 and died May 22, 1905. She is buried with her husband at the Allen Family Cemetery. She married John Wesley Allen who was born 11 February 1811 and died 24 May 1886 Virginia Catalano stated " in our family Bible my gg grandparents are mentioned by name of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318968903_0">Absalom</span> and Winifred Best. Their daughter Mary Elizabeth Best married <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318968903_1">John Wesley</span> Allen, my great grandparents." In the 1850 Census for the Barnwell District for household #1825 is listed Wesley Allen agee 40, Mary age 18, and James age 2. In the 1860 Census, of Barnwell, J.W. Allen is listed with his wife, M.E., and five children. In the 1870 SC Census for Allendale TWP, Barnwell Co. JOHN W. ALLEN is listed with his wife and nine children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">B. <b>Benjamin Blanchard Best Sr. </b>was born September 1832 and died in October 1908. He is buried at Swallow Savannah Methodist Church Cemetery. He married in 1861 Susan Harley. Their children were Winifred Best wife of Mr. Shuman, Susan Cornelia Best wife of Wade Hampton Brabham, S.Elizabeth Best married Mr. Priester, Benjamin Blanchard Best Jr, husband of Carrie E, Ora S Best wife of James Wyatt Priester, William R Best, Willie Orr Best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">D. <b>William Capers Best </b>....was Born Mar 18, 1841 and died Feb 1913. Buried at Mizpah United Methodist Church Cemetery, Bamberg Co., South Carolina. Married on Jul 1, 1865, Jane Rebecca Kirkland. . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">E. <b>Wilson Williams Best </b>...was Born about 1844 and died after 1884. He married his 1<sup>st</sup> cousin Susan W. Mixon the daughter of Edward Miles Mixon and Sarah C. Best. Children were Susan Best, son M.A. Best, <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">M.J. Best, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Callie Best </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">F. <b>Lawrence Capers Best </b>..was Born Jul 24, 1845 and died Feb 23, 1885. Buried at Swallow Savannah Cemetery. He married Nov 10, 1868, Julia Indiana McAvoy. Children were Son L.W. age 9, Son R.A. , Daughter M.J. , and Daughter CALLIE age 2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">In 2003 an article of the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Charleston Post and Courier the entitled </span><span style="margin: 0px;">'Labor of Love'<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>described how the Mizpah Church is being preserved. Descendants of founders strive to preserve historic Mizpah Church by Bo Petersen Of The Post and Courier Staff ULMER--The church is so old the red clay mortar that caulked it no longer can be found. Its congregation is so tiny it fits on one of the hand-hewn wood pews. Sherman's troops burned the town for which it was built to the ground. All except for Mizpah Church. The heart-pine church is one of the last of its time, an antebellum rural family worship hall still preached in by a "circuit rider" minister one Sunday in every four, a practice that dates back to the wilderness Colonial days. Stiltz made his career circuit-riding -- moving church to church among smaller congregations each week -- so he was comfortable coming out of retirement to divide Sundays among four tiny churches in the region. Circuit preaching remains customary among the smaller Methodist churches in the state, those that have fewer than 200 members, said James McGee, conference district building board chairman. Still, the size of these four churches is unusual. They have maybe 75 members total, Sojourner said. Mizpah has the smallest congregation among them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Antique lanterns hang outside the windows behind the pulpit. The rumpled old window glass casts burnished sunlight in the sanctuary. Iron crosses of honor rise from the tombs of Confederate veterans in the church cemetery. One of the Brabhams buried there signed the state's Order of Secession. Around it was once the town of Buford's Bridge -- post office, boarding house, shoe shop, tailor shop and Masonic hall. It is now woods. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"In the wintertime sometimes you can see where the foundations of some of these things were," Sojourner said. Each year for generations, extended members of the five families have held a reunion at Mizpah that draws as many as 300 people from across the country. By the 1990s, the century-and-a-half old floor beneath them was rotting away. There already had been talk of what would become of the church when it lost the last of its members. The reunion families decided to try to save it. They raised more than half a million dollars with contributions and the trustees' sale of lumber from 400 acres deeded to the church in 1900 by James M. Brabham. They volunteered labor and expertise.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Led by grounds committee chairman Clyde Kearse, they restored the 19th century sanctuary down to the old hand-cut nails. They preserved it so authentically that on the backs of the pews in the rear of the sanctuary are scrawled signatures and dates apparently penciled more than a century ago by mischievous children. "Sweetpea O'Neal, June 25th 1881," reads the flowing script of one. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2000, the restored church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sojourner has attended the reunion all his life. His grandmother carried him when he was younger. He carried his children when they were young enough to stand on the pews. When there was nobody left to fill a vacancy on the church board of trustees, he was asked to step in because he is a Brabham, and because he is an active conference member, a board member of its Methodist Home in Orangeburg. When they needed cypress to replace the balustrades around the pulpit, they razed an old barn on the Sojourners' family farm in Demark and pulled the beams. "We don't want to see the church fall by the wayside. It's still of such value, family value," Sojourner said. "We're preserving history with family because we couldn't preserve it without families," said Kearse, who is now the trustee board chairman. "It's a labor of love."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was born 8 November 1820 in Swallow Savannah, Barnwell District, South Carolina and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died October 18, 1899 in Allendale, Barnwell District, South Carolina.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">married 1841 Dr. John Harley son of Jackson Harley and Nancy Wright He was born October 20, 1809, and died June 23, 1881. John Harley graduated from Medical College of South Carolina in 1837. He wrote his medical thesis on dyspepsia. His practice was for the most part in and around Seigling, South Carolina, which is presently in Allendale County, but was in Barnwell District at the time. In 1841 Dr. John Harley was administrator of estate of Hezekiah Frazier. In 1854 he bought from estate of brother-in-law a Jackass for $126. He witnessed the will of Charles Boyles 4 May 1863.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">A.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>John E. Harley</b> b. 1842-1843, Barnwell City, South Carolina; d. June 25, 1864, Virginia. He died in Civil War as<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Pvt. John Harley, 1st Co. I and 2nd Co. C, 1st (Hagood's) SC Infantry. Age 18, Barnwell District, SC, enlisted in Captain J.J. Brabham's Co., 1st SCV subsequently Co. I) at Cole Island, SC, on 1 September 1861. He was wounded at second Manassas on 30 August 1862 and killed at Hanover Junction, VA. on 25 June 1864. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">C.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Robert Rhett Harley</b> born 25 Dec 1848 died 25 Aug 1895 married his second cousin Rebecca Barker daughter of James Barker and Elizabeth Harley. He married 2<sup>nd</sup> Mary Elizabeth Newman. He was married a 3<sup>rd</sup> time to another 2<sup>nd</sup> cousin Henrietta Hazeltine Harley on November 20, 1884. She was the daughter of James Harley and Susan Harley.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was a Civil War Soldier. He was the father of </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ida Harley 1874-1954, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jack Roberts Harley born 1876 He married Ella Oglesby, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Percy Harley born 1878, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mattie Harley<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1880-1963, wife of Ernest George Strauss September 28, 1904 in Augusta, Georgia, son of George Strauss and Evaline Johnson</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was born </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 20 September 1822 at Swallow Savannah, Barnwell, District, South Carolina and d</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ied 20 August 1847 wounded at the Battle of Churubusco, in Mexico at the age of 24. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">President James K. Polk called for volunteers for the Mexican–American War and soon in 1846 South Carolina's "Palmetto Regiment" was formed. The regiment provided 10 companies of men, from both US Regular Army and Volunteers. Wilson Roberts Williams enlisted in C</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ompany K Hammond's Guard, of the Palmetto Regiment. His eulogy stated he was "</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-- a youth blest with the kindest and most generous nature. He had borne himself gallantly through the fight, and near its close, almost at the very last moment, he received a ball in his forehead, just above the eye, and he fell speechless to the earth, though life did not become extinct for several hours."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seventy years, in their silent progress have rolled away since these stirring scenes were enacted on our soil. Time has wrought vast changes in the condition of our whole country. We have grown to be a mighty people in arms and resources. But let us endeavor to go back, in imagination, to that period, now far distant, where a few bold and determined spirits were struggling for liberty, against a nation the most powerful on the globe, in all the muniments of war. Let us go back and ponder on that stern devotion to principles which defied the blandishment and threats of power, and preferred the rugged track of duty, even though it should lead to death upon the scaffold. Let us go back to Britton Williams and his companions in misfortune, on that gloomy morning which was to be their last on earth. There stood the brave men, bound for the sacrifice. Before their eyes the gallows reared its hideous form, and in the deep solitude of the waving pines, the enemy would be the only witnesses of how bravely they could die. It must have been a solemn spectacle, and calculated to soften even the steeled and rugged heart of the foe. And yet these gallant men might have saved their lives, and no doubt many were the temptations held out to them. The whole State was overrun with British forces, and for aught they knew, disasters might everywhere else have attended our arms. Doubtless they were told they were warring against their righteous sovereign -- that their countrymen were few and unable to maintain their resistance, much longer -- that as to rational independence, it was out of the question -- that England would never part with so bright a gem from her crown, and that now was the time to enroll themselves under the standard of their sovereign, and that pardon and promotion would be extended to them. But no -- far more glorious to Britton Williams and his comrades was death upon the gallows, no life, or fame, or fortune, in the ranks of the country's enemies. They died as they had lived -- true to the noblest impulses of duty. They died martyrs to the cause of liberty. For nearly three quarters of a century the remains of these men have reposed in the soil of your District without a stone to tell where they lie or how they fell; and, perhaps, many have heard today, for the first time, a brief statement of their history. Let this no longer be a reproach to us. Let some memorial, however humble, mark the spot at Wiggin's Hill where the heroes sleep. Let them not be neglected because they breathed not their last amid the roar of cannon and the shout of charging legions. They fill in the same great cause, with Campbell and DeKalb. </span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>James Lawrence Williams</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born 28 September 1825 at Swallow Savannah in Barnwell District, South Carolina. He died </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 4 January 1900 Barnwell District, South Carolina at the age of 74 years and is b</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uried in the Swallow Savannah Methodist Church Cemetery in Allendale. He was only about 10 years old when his father died and barely knew his half siblings, except for perhaps Winifred Riley. His half brother William Green Williams was grown and married when Lawrence was born and had moved away when Lawrence was about 13 years old. </span></span><br />
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Lawrence was the youngest surviving son of Wilson Williams and the only surviving son of his wife, Esther Roberts Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When Wilson died in December 1835, his personal estate was sold for division among his legatees.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is not clear about the home place in the records or his other real estate. The records do not show how much acreage Lawrence inherited from his father from the estate settled in 1854, but in cash he received $334.19 In <b></b><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a large, imposing marble monument to James Lawrence Williams and Ellen Lydia Williams in the Williams plot that is enclosed with a wrought iron grillwork fence in Swallow Savannah Cemetery. His estate paper stated that he paid $60.00 for the marker. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">A. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson "Wilse" Roberts Williams</span></b> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born October 1849 died <span class="userCardEventDetail factDeath"><span class="deathDate">5 September 1902 at the age of 52. </span> </span> He was named for an uncle killed in the Mexican American War and was called “Wilse. He married Mary Anna Brabham the daughter of Robert Cornelius Brabham and Mary Rebecca McMillan.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Wilson lived all his life in Allendale and worked in the family saw mill. He received an equal share of father James Lawrence Williams' estate but not much from special bequests in the will--just a gold watch that was already in his possession.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is recorded as owing money, and father picked up deficit accounts for him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The executor of the estate (in the final papers) denies one of these, however. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His cash share was $707.54.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His share of land was deeded to him prior to father's death. His children were <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Wilson Williams Jr, husband of Mary Estelle Jenkins, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alice May Williams wife of George F. Young, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary Elenor "Nell" Williams wife of Wallace Warren Preister, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gatsy Maud Williams wife of Vasco Whatley, and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">James Lawrence "Laurie" Williams husband of Annie Mae Jeffcoat</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">B.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <b>James Britton Williams</b> was born 1852 died 7 June 1883 at the age of 31. He married on 12 Nov 1876 Margaret Eliza Wilson the daughter of Charles Hillary Wilson and Mary Weiman Pooser. . She was born June 28, 1847, Edisto Island, SC and died January 9, 1929. They were married by Rev. J. B. Massofrau.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was a merchant in Allendale, SC. On 14 July 1878 he was elected secretary of Swallow Savannah Methodist Church a position he served in until his death. James Britton Williams died young but his share of his father's estate went to his 3 daughters, 1/3 each, plus one special bequest. Inez and her sister, Sallie (Sarah), who were under age in 1900.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their guardian was J. M. Gray.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sister Margaret was of age.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Inez and Sarah operated a private school in Allendale and taught there. The daughters of James Britton Williams were <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Williams, </span></span></span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Margaret Eliza (Maggie) Williams wife of William E. Jones, </span></span></span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inez T. Williams wife of Alfred Dunbar, and </span></span></span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah (Sallie) Elizabeth Williams wife of Alfred Fripp. </span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">D. <span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Paul Allen Williams</b> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born August 28, 1856 and d</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ied June 3, 1933 . He </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">married Sarah Peach (1861-1929). Sarah was a beauty from Alabama<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and considered quite a belle.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was easy to see that James Lawrence's favorite son was Paul Allen.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He left this son the homeplace.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also wagon, mower,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>rake,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>horse named Jim, a mule named Dandy, hogs, hay and fodder.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also a gold watch already in his possession.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Paul Allen was a small man, one of twins (the other twin died).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had a cat 17 years old. His children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom Frank Williams b. 1878, L</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ena (Lila) Lawson Williams 1890-1963, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Agnes Peach Williams wife of Hubert Smoak, from Orangeburg, SC.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was in the state legislature for several years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> J</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ames Williams, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Medicus Green Williams 1899-1920 </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They explain the discrepancy of John Williams saying he was 70 years old in the 1850 census by believing that Wilson Williams had to have been born prior to 1760. This is not borne out by census records. John Williams' </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">age, given in censuses from 1810 through 1850, list him as being born circa 1780 which would make it impossible for him to have been the son of Wilson Williams considering other census records give Wilson as being born circa 1770. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Working backwards, the 1850 census states that John Williams's age as being 70 years old. The 1840 Census listed John Williams as even older born between 1771 and 1780. This would have placed him the same age rage as the birth of father, if Wilson was his father. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1830 census makes the same claim as that of the 1840, that John Williams' birth range was between 1771 and 1780. The 1820 census has him born between 1776 and 1794. The first census in which John Williams is found as head of a household is in 1810. There he is listed as born between 1766 and 1784. In that census he is also listed with four children under the age of 10 showing that he was married at least by 1800. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">He was </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">born circa 1780 probably at Briar Creek, in Orangeburgh District, South Carolina and died in </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">March 1855 at his plantation near Ulmers, in Barnwell District [Allendale County], South Carolina. He was b</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uried in the Great Salkehatchie Baptist Church Cemetery, near Ulmers. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">John Williams estate was probated on 2<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7 Mar 1855 </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams was married twice but there are questions to the identity of each. He married first a woman named Ta</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mer , maiden name thought to be Creech or Chessereau. As the close connection between the Creech and Williams family, Tamer was more likely to have been a Creech but as to who her father was, that is a mystery. As that she was the mother of four children in 1800 she probably was born no later than 1785. She died February 1816 probably near the time of the death of Wilson Williams' wife Elizabeth Kirkland Williams. She was buried in the Great Salkehatchie Baptist Cemetery. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As that John Williams had small children and had an estate to manage he married in September </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 1816 a widow named Mrs. Mary Jones Rawley. She was born 1797 in Winton County, South Carolina and died 1868 near Ulmer, Barnwell County. Some members of this family believe that Mary Jones Williams was the widow of a Mr. Rawley before marrying John. The name Rawley or Rowley enters the family through her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A plat dated 17 July 1812 for Lewis M Ayer for property on the "Big Saltketcher River" showed that property owners near him were Benjamin Corbitt, Jacob Free, William Warnal, ad Edmond Jones. As these people were also in the same area as John Williams, Mary could have been a relative of Edmond Jones. The only Rawley mentioned in land records of a man named Rawley is Amos Rawley. In a plat dated from 1785 Amos Breland had lands on "waters of Savannah River" in Beaufort District with near land owners being Abraham Breeland, and Amos Rawley. The Breland Family represented by William Breland Sr., the son of Abraham Breland, had marriages within the Kearse family. </span><br />
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which was organized Jan. 19, 1790. The first building was erected on the banks
of the river and given the Indian name--Great Salkehatchie. The site was near a
settlement known as Buford’s Bridge, settled prior to the Revolutionary
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were Rev. Holcombe and Rev. James Sweat. The original church building was
destroyed by Sherman’s Army and lumber was used to build bridges on his march through
the South Carolina. It was later rebuilt but then in 1915 a new site was selected in the town of
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">John Williams' widow Mary J. Williams is found in the Great Salkehatchie Baptist Church Records several times.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was even excluded from the Salkehatchie Church at one time. Her slave Eliza was also excluded in October 1858. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The community now known as Ulmer goes back for many years and is located in northeastern Allendale County where US 301 and US 321 converge.. The surrounding
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the citizens were choosing a name for their town, the land around the train depot was owned by two men, Ephraim Ulmer and a grandson of John Williams. The plans for the town's new business district encroached more on Mr. Ulmer's property than on Mr. Williams'. Mr. Ulmer agreed to give up his acreage in exchange for having the new town named for him.The first building in Ulmer was erected on the banks of the Salkehatchie River. The site was near a settlement known as Buford's Bridge - which was there prior to the Revolutionary War. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In years gone by, Burtons Ferry Highway (US 301) was the major road from Columbia to Savannah running right through Ulmer and Allendale. Many motels, gas stations, and small groceries prospered along the route. Then along came I-26 and I-95 and overnight the commerce along this route dried up. The filling station-grocery pictured here, located in uptown Ulmer, is of a style typical of the 1940s. As the sign indicates it has been closed for a while, and its gas pumps removed. The single pump island is intact except for some wildflowers which have pushed through cracks in the cement. Although its highway commerce is gone, Ulmer has been around for many years and from all indications its industrial and agricultural production are still going strong." In the 2010 census the population of the community was only 88 people. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WIFE TAMER</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John's first wife was a woman named Tamer who died in 1816 and is buried in
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Great Salkehatchie Baptist Cemetery. Her monument reads: Beneath this stone
rests the remains of Tamer Williams wife of John Williams-Who departed this
life in February 1816. She was a kind mistress and neighbor, devoted wife and
mother-In her, many qualities of Christian virtue were exemplified-Having been
for many years A member of the Baptist Church-She died, leaving a husband and
six children to mourn their loss-They that trust in the Lord shall be as
mountains which cannot be moved, but endureth forever. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tamer’s identity has
been a mystery with some members of the family believing that she was a Creech
while others believed that she was the daughter of John Chessereau.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">William
Chessereau of</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Winton County
(Barnwell) Book of Records 1787-1791 left a feather bed and 1/3 of bed clothes,
a sorrel mare, and a yearling colt to his wife to descend to sons at her death
but there appears to be no other record of this family. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Creech family, on
the other hand, have intermarried with the Williams and their kin for
generations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>1810 CENSUS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1810 US Census of Barnwell District showed John Williams five families away from Wilson. He is married with a son and three daughters which indicated that Tamer was having a child every other year. John Williams gave his age as between 25 and 44 years old. This would indicate that he was born between 1785 and 1766 which was the same age group as was Wilson. The His wife Tamer gave her age as between 16 and 24; 1796 and 1786. Certainly she was born in 1786 to have had four children born between 1802 and 1810. This family is listed with five enslaved African Americans. He is located between the widow Mary Edgefield and the family of John Hugon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1811 John owned 333 acres on Big Salkehatchie; lands between Saltketcher and Miller Swamp adjoining Kellis Halford, Henry Creech, John Harrison, Stephen Creech, and Nicholas Priester. The proximity to the Creech families gives more circumstantial evidence that his wife Tamer was a Creech. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams bought</span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">received considerable amounts of land from Wilson including a 464 acre
tract called the Mill Track that was divided among his own three sons James
Wilson, Jones Martin, and William Britton. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Wilson Williams’ lands were scattered, John’s
were concentrated mostly in the Ulmers area and contained nearly 6000 acres or
almost 10 square mile! The full appraisal of personal property at the time of
his death was $13,636.96 which included 31 slaves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THE WILLIAMS HOUSE</b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams built a two story</span></span><br />
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1810 located in present day Ulmers. It still stands but some of the lumber was
taken out of the old structure. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Williams House had an addition built on circa. 1906. It is a farmhouse consisting of one and one-half story, with three-bay, lateral gable-roofed, log and clapboard hall and parlor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The house’s exterior walls are of log construction covered with clapboards. There is no evidence of chinking. The floor joists consist of undressed logs resting on heavy hand-hewn plates and sills atop brick piers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The main body of the house consists of two rooms measuring approximately 30 feet by 16 feet. The larger of the two rooms on the first floor had a Federal-style mantle with gouge work in the form of scallops and stars on the piers and semicircles on the center panel. A porch stretches </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Although its physical condition is currently less than perfect having lost one chimney stack and some of its exterior weatherboard siding, the house’s overall integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association have not changed significantly throughout the building’s history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Williams Home Place has been named a National Bicentennial Farm, as the property has remained continually in the same family for more than 150 years. Listed in the National Register February 17, 1999. -It is now in the owners’ possession in Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After the death of his first wife in 1816, John Williams married Mary Jones Rowley </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">1820 US Census of Barnwell District showed that John Williams had a household of 10 people. They were </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 male age 26-45<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(1775-1794), 1 male 10-16, Angus Williams, 3 males under 10, James Wilson, Jones M, 1 female age 16-26 Mary Jones Williams, (1794-1804) </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 females 10-16, Mary , Elizabeth, and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>2 females under 10 Zilpha, Elsie </span></span></span><br />
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T<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he 1830 US Census of Barnwell District, showed that John lived seventeen households a way from Wilson Williams but was enumerated on the same page. Wilson was listed on line 3, next to his sons Green Williams on line 4 and son Martin Williams on line 5. </span></span><br />
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White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: William B Williams </span></span></span></div>
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White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: Jones M Williams </span></span></span></div>
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White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: J. Wilson Williams </span></span></span></div>
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White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: John Williams </span></span></span></div>
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White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: Elsie Williams </span></span></span></div>
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White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: Mary J Williams</span></span></span></div>
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- Males - Under 10:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>2 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves
- Males - 36 thru 54: 2 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves
- Females - Under 10: 2 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves
- Females - 10 thru 23: 1 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves
- Females - 24 thru 35: 2 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves
- Females - 36 thru 54: 1 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slaves
- Females - 55 thru 99: 1 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Free
White Persons - Under 20: 4 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Free
White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Total
Free White Persons: 6 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Total
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- All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 17</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1832 he purchased 149 acres near the Great Salkehatchie and on 15 Oct 1832 John bought a African American man named Dick for $230 from the estate of John A. All </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The 1840 US Census of Barnwell District listed John Williams <span style="margin: 0px;">as being between </span>60-70 years (1770-1780) Mary J. Williams 40-50 years (1790-1800) Jones M Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>20-30 years (1810-1820) and William B Williams 20-30 years (1810-1820). </span></span></span></span></div>
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the 1840 John Williams had 28 African Americans in bondage with 13 of them
employed in agriculture.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As ten of these
African Americans were children were under the age of ten, 7 boys and 3 girls,
that left eighteen of these folks to be working as farm laborers but as the
census stated only thirteen were engaged in agriculture, five of these people
were probably house domestics or too old to work .<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Seven of the 28 African Americans were young
adults ranging in ages 10 through 23. These were three males and four
females.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Three males and three females were
between 36 and 54 years old. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Two females
were between the ages 24 and 35.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Three
of John Williams people he held in bondage were between the ages of 55 and 99
years; one man and two women. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1841 John Williams petitioned the court to be released from securityship to R.C. McMillan who was the administrator for the estate of James Moody, his former son-in-law. He says, Having lately been unwell with the prevailing fever of the country, and now considerably advanced in life (in his sixties) and apprehensive that I may eventually be injured by my securityship…… etc.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1848, John Williams deed the Savannah Tract to his son Jones M. Williams lands which were on the Wells Branch. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <b>1850 CENSUS</b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The 1850 census of Barnwell District South Carolina showed the county had more slaves than free persons. The census showed a white population of 12,289 people with 14,008 African Americans in bondage. Evidently much of the wealth of the county was based on human bondage. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1850 US Census of Barnwell District South Carolina listed on 25 October 1850 John Williams as living in the community of America which later became Ulmer. He is listed age as 70 (1780). Mary Williams age was given as 50 (1800). His occupation was given as "planter" and his estate was worth $6000 which made them some of the wealthiest people in the county due to their human chattel. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were living on their home place with 29 African Americans kept in bondage. One of these was a 100 year old woman. Another was an 80 year old woman. Two males and one female were 60 years old. There were eight other adults. A 56 year old male, a 50 year old female, a 40 year old female, a 35 year old female, a 30 year old female, a 28 year old male, a 25 year old female, and a 23 year old female. There were four young teenagers, an 18 year old male, a 16 year old female and two 15 year old females. There were twelve children listed; a 12 year old male, two ten year old males, a 10 year old female, an 8 year old male, two 6 year old females, a 6 year old male, two 5 year old males, a 3 year old female and a 2 year old male. Undoubted most of these people were family units. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The names of 24 of these people were mentioned in the 1854 Last Will and Testament in which John Williams devised his property to his children. His daughter Mary Williams received Cato, Berry and her children Hannah, Maria, and Melly. His daughter Zilpha received Larry, Hannah, and Silas. His daughter Elsie received Mile [Milly] and her children Grace, Prince, Elleck, and Stephen. His son Wilson received Lucy, Paul, Hagar and her infant child. His son Jones received Old Abram, Sandy, Handy, and Flora. His son William B recieved Cynthia, Amy, Amada and Viney. </span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1853 John Williams owned 394 acres by Eli Myrick. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 16 August </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1854 John Williams wrote out his will in which he stated that his wife: "She will
have of my estate as much as any one of the most favored of my children has
gotten or will get from me."<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was
given the choice of slaves from his estate. After wife’s "share is ascertained,
rest and residue of estate to be divided among my children in such a manner as
will put them all on an<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>equality."</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The will was witnessed by Josiah J Brabham, Hampton Brabham, and G.J Priester.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died in March 1855 when his will was probated 27 Mar 1855.</span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The appraisers of his property were John
A. Hayes husband of Catherine B. Campbell Roberts Hayes, , John C. Sanders,
Hampton Brabham<span style="margin: 0px;"> (</span>husband of Harriett
Elizabeth Kirkland) and George I Priester.</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The top part of John’s headstone was broken
off and lost. The remainder states: "In him the poor and needy found relief. He
was ten years a consistent member of the Baptist Church. His wife of the 2<sup>nd</sup>
marriage and six children still survive him-Who will long continue to cherish
his memory with the most grateful recollections-The memory of the Just is
blessed And shall come to his grave in full age, like a shock of corn Cometh in
his season."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THE WIDOW MARY J WILLIAMS</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John's</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">widow Mary J. Williams continued to live in the community near Ulmer and in the 1860 Census she is listed as living within the household of her son William B Williams. Her Post Office address was Buford Bridge and she was enumerated on 13 July 1860. Her age was given as 63. She owned $4800 worth of personal property which was probably her 19 year old African American female slave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Together with John Williams' sons James Wilson Williams, William Britton Williams, and Jones Martin Williams, these families owned 97 African Americans kept in bondage. Their human chattel was worth nearly $100,000 near the beginning of the Civil War. There is no doubt that the economics of human bondage was the real cause of South Carolina succeeding from the United States in 1861 and firing on Fort Sumner in Charleston Harbor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cost of secession was the lost of African Americans after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and General Sherman's army swept through Barnwell District burning rebel homes and towns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary J Williams died in April 1868 and is buried in the Great Saltkehatchie Cemetery near her husband. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Harriett Elizabeth Williams</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was born in circa 1806 in Barnwell District and di</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed 1836 the same place. She married </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Married James Moody Jr (1808-1840) </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Mary
Elizabeth Moody</b> 1829-? Married Wilson Sanders 1829-1865. They were first
cousins. John Williams left his granddaughter $400 and her mother’s share of
his property. in his will. She had three children </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">William
Sanders, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Charles
Sanders and Etta S</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">anders</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sophronia (Sophia) Williams</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She born<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1808 Great Salkehatchie,
Barnwell, SC and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died 1841 Great Salkehatchie, Barnwell, SC. She </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Married 1828 Charles Sanders born March 13 1803 died Sept 27 1865
Charles was son of Moses and Rebecca Sanders </span></span></div>
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</b></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Wilson
Sanders</b> born 1829 died March 16, 1865. He was with Company G 2<sup>nd</sup> South
Carolina Artillery and was mortally wounded at the battle of Averyboro, North
Carolina. He was shot in the face. He married his first cousin Mary Elizabeth
Moody and had three children. (See above)</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>Zylphia (Zilpha) Williams</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was born 1810 Great Salkehatchie, Barnwell, SC and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died 1878 Great Salkehatchie, Barnwell, SC. She </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Married as the 2<sup>nd</sup> wife Charles Sanders. In 1854 Charles Sanders bought table, crockery, glassware, fire
logs, 1 bed and stead and furniture, leather goods, a bushel of whippoorwill
peas, a table and plow from father-in-law estate. Zilpha raised her sister’s
child and had several of her own. The Sanders were members of Mount Olivet
Church and good singers. Charles Sander was a substantial planter. He was tall
and muscular. Zilpha inherited three slaves and considerable property from her
father’s estate. Charles and Zilpha thought secession was a mistake but they
had three sons in the Confederate Army<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Will 19 Sept 1865. Inventory of estate by Wilson Sanders, W.S. Sanders
and W. J. Creech. Letters of Executor given to Jones M, Sanders on 8 Dec 1865)
(Equity Records- (165-1) </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His lands were on Hurricane Branch of Great Saltketcher</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Mary Sanders</b> born 1833</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B. <span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Sarah Sanders</b> born 1837</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jones M Sanders</b> born 1841<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>died Sept 1868</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">D. <b>John W. Sanders</b></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> born 11 March 1843 died 28 Feb 1856</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>James
Henry Sanders</b> born 1846 both of Hurricane Branch of Great Saltketcher,</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b>John C. Calhoun Sanders</b> born 1849, </span></span></span></div>
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</b></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Sophronia
Priscilla Sanders</b> born 1848</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Martha
Sanders</b> born 1856</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Angus Williams</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was born 1810<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Great Salkehatchie,
Barnwell, SC and died </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died 1856 Great Salkehatchie, Barnwell, SC</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>James Wilson Williams</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was born 31 Dec 1813 Great Salkehatchie, Barnwell, SC Barnwell, SC and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died 26 June 1879 Ulmers, Barnwell, South Carolina and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Buried in Great
Salkehatchie Baptist Cemetery. In 1849 he married Mrs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Winniford Susan Myrick Dunn daughter
of Eli Myrick and Mary Creech. She was born October 11, 1820 and died February
23, 1900. James Wilson Williams was known as "Ole Rock Williams". </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He married in
his mid-thirties Winiforrd Myrick whose first husband had deserted her. Winniford was
the wife of William W. Dunn whom she married before 1840, and had a daughter by
her first husband who then deserted her. When Winnifords father made a Will he
stated that the husband of my daughter Winniford Dunn shall not enjoy, or
receive, a cent in any manner. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a story that Dunn returned and Eli
Myrick gave him $100 to get lost, which he did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ole Rock was an executor of his
fathers estate. He received slaves Lucy, Paul, Hagar, and an infant from
father’s estate. Additionally John gave him $325 and 64 acres. James Wilson ran a cotton gin and grist mill in the area. In 1848 he was given 484 acres near Salkehatchie River. In 1853 he made several transactions probably from monies from his inheritance. He bought 207 acres from Stephen Williams (son of Marmaduke Williams) for $1650. He bought 630 acres in Millers Swamp for $630 from William Register (son-in-law of Marmaduke Williams. He also bought from Thomas Raysor 500 acres for $1500, In 1860 he paid $660 for 165 acres on Steel Creek.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Winneford Williams was
baptized at Great Salkehatchie Baptist Church in 1870. James Wilson had been a member
there since before the Civil War. He allowed three slaves to be baptized there
at Great Salkehatchie. A former slave named Philip was excommunicated from the
church in 1869.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> A</span>fter
slavery much of his lands if not all were rented out to tenant farmers who were share croppers. After the Civil War he bought 300 acres near Thomas F. Hogg in 1878.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of
his property was in the Ulmers area like his father before him. His home was on
the road between Ulmers and Sycamore and was still standing in 1970. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Wilson
died in 1879 when he fell from a wagon returning home from Allendale. He broke
his leg, which caused complications that led to his death. Dr. Henry W. Kearse,
(a grandson of William Kearse) and Dr. John William Ogilvie were the attending
physicians. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was a Mason and was buried with full honors in the Great
Salkehatchie Baptist Cemetery. The gravestone inscription reads: J. Wilson
Williams departed this life June 26 1879 Aged 65 years, 5 months, 26 days.
Today the gravestone is broken and lays flat on the grave. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the end of
an era. After five generations of building, family lands and fortunes of this
line of Williams seemed to scatter and fade away. The depressions of the 1880s
and 1890s hastened the end. The region never recovered its pre Civil War
prosperity. This gene pool according to Mrs. Elizabeth Davis was devitalized. The young
gradually left and agriculture, the mainstay, declined with nothing to take its
place. The big plantation blocks were broken up into poor tenant farming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A. <b>Sarah Emilia Dunn-Williams</b> 1840-1917 married Dr.
Richard Creech Roberts 1835-1905 son of Creech and Catherine B. Campbell
Roberts In 1861 J. Wilson transferred his wife’s inheritance to his
step-daughter which was worth $500. She had two daughters: </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jane Winiford
Roberts 28 Dec 1860 died Aug 1867 and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Clara Myrick
Roberts</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> born 19 Oct 1866 died
March 1894 </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Mary
Tucker Williams</b> 1844-? Married James Hamilton Barker. They moved to Beaufort
County SC</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Owen
Wilson Williams</b> born 1845-September 19, 1883. Married Rebecca S. Ulmer
1843-1923. Stayed at Ulmers. Owens was a law officer and was shot and killed
when he was 38 years old. Both are buried at Great Salkehatchie. His children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tamer Elizabeth Williams died 1962 married
Dr. James S. Greenleaf died 1959, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robbin Plateau Williams (Robben Plato
Williams) born 1876 died April 27, 1894 and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heney Edgar Williams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">D.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Harriett
Cornelia Williams</b> 1849-? married Nicholas Franklin Priester son of William
Priester and Betsey Moye. She was his second wife. They lived at the old
Priester place on the road from Buford’s Bridge to Allendale. Cornelia was
baptized a member of the Great Salkehatchie Baptist Church in 1870</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>John
(Jack) Williams</b> born April 1, 1851 died January 7, 1880. He married Clementine
Veila Bowers. She remarried Fleming Chavous (1857-1921) who was a mayor of
Allendale and a bank president. However he later committed suicide. Jack
Williams was said to be wild and reckless and had a temper also. He was charged
with assault but the charge was dismissed. He had one child who died young. He
was killed when thrown from his horse. He was named for his grandfather. He was
almost 29 years old when he died. His child was </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> J. H. Williams 1872 - 1876</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">F.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Orinona
(Ola) Agnes Williams</b> born October 11, 1853 died July4, 1928 married John
Turnbull (Bull) Hogg. Agnes Hogg was baptized 1871 a member of the Great
Salkehatchie Baptist Church. Her children were T</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">homas Franklin Hogg born July 27, 1880. He became a</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">prominent doctor in Barnwell
County after attending<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Clemson College and the Medical College of Charleston, SC. He married
Mollie F. Creech daughter of Henry C. Creech. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Hogg,
Infant 1884 Girl child of J.T & O. Agnes Hogg and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Turnbull Hogg
Jr. 3-28-1888 9-15-1889</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">G.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Tamer
Eugenia Williams</b> born September 27, 1858 died April 16 1901 married John Peter
Priester. (1859-1901) The son of William Priester and Isabella Mew. He was a
nephew of Nicholas Franklin Priester and twin to William Henry Priester.
Isabella died when the boys were quite small and they grew up to be spoiled
boys. John Peter rode his favorite horse, on a bet, one flight up and back down
the outside, circular wrought iron steps of the Barnwell County Court House. He
had fine horses that he took to Charleston to race. He had a racetrack on his
property. William Henry Priester in a fit of drunken lunacy over his young wife
shot his father-in-law in 1881. He was sent to an insane asylum for life.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The account of his trial is contained in the
Barnwell SC The People newspaper accounts for May5, May 12, May 19, and June
16, 1881. Tamer Priester was baptized a member of the Great Salkehatchie
Baptist Church in 1872. She had 7 children. They were William Martin Priester 1882-1962, Sarah Priester 1884-1962, Henry Counts Priester 1886-1962, Jane Isabella Priester 1888-1953, John Peter Priester 1892-1962, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ethlene Malinda Priester 1894-1975 and James Wilson Priester 1896-1973 .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">H.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>T. Eli
Williams 1848-1910</b> He married Josephine Bowers (1856-1927) on June 15, 1871.
She was the daughter of Giles Calvin Bowers and Sarah Loadholt and sister of
Capus Bowers who married his cousin Rosa All.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Evidently Eli was a small man who was also hot headed, high strung, and
had an explosive temper. This bad temperament mixed with alcohol made him an
abusive alcoholic. He was also credited with nocturnal soirees on horseback—-in
the grip of the grape no doubt There was no understanding or treatment for
alcoholics in those days.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He only stood
5 foot two inches and wore a size five shoe. His parents had a problem finding
shoes for him. He wore a mustache and was said to have been dead attractive! He
spent much too much time at his Uncle Jones’ Williams racetrack with cock
fighting, much betting, and booze making up the total scene. I guess the little
fella was over compensating. It was said he once snatched the dinner cloth from
the table, scattering dishes, food, and cutlery etc pell mell. Eli Williams was
elected the Town Marshall of Allendale in 1878 but got himself into trouble and
deserted his family fleeing to Dunellen, Florida. He was an alcoholic and had a
volatile temper. About a year later he became involved in a tragic accident on
an election day and his friend Emmett Allen was killed. There was one story
when the sheriff went looking for Eli at his father’s house, J. Wilson hid him
under a barrel, then sat on the barrel and talked to the sheriff.. When Eli
left Barnwell District, William Myrick, his mother’s nephew took him across the
Savannah River and he sang Barbara Allen all the way. His family moved to
Allendale and received a legacy from their grandfather. Eli is believed to have
died in 1910 and buried in Dunellen, Florida. It is also believed that he
remarried and started a new life there. His known children are </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucy Jane Williams born October 17, 1872
died November 25, 1934 married Jesse Frank Dyches. They had no children and
were buried at Bonaventura Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> William Aiken Williams born January 14,
1875 died December 12, 1913. He married Sarah Pauline Cave July 27, 1902. She
was born May 12, 1878 and died June 23, 1969. Both are buried in Boneventure
Cemetery in Savannah. Aiken was the dearly beloved only son of his mother but
like his father he could not handle alcohol. Aiken was high spirited, colorful
character. witty, with a keen sense of humor. He was always into mischief
usually at someone else’s expense.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Aiken
attended the first trustee-operated school in Allendale in 1886 on the corner
of Esther Street and Main Street. Esther Street was named for Esther Roberts
Williams his great-great grandfathers 3<sup>rd</sup> wife. It was upstairs over
a funeral establishment. Professor Henry Hartzog was head of the school. He was
later President of Clemson College. Much later he remembered Aiken Williams and
said he was a handful but one of the most attractive young men he’d ever
taught. Aiken weighed 165 pounds and was of medium height.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Aiken served in the Spanish American War and
he also managed liquor establishment for a time. He was killed in a shooting
accident in Kline, SC at the age of 33. After eleven years of marriage, Pauline
was left with six children and one on the way. Her life was full of hardship
afterwards. His mother was so devastated by his death that she would not go to
his funeral. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daisy Gertrude Williams born January 30,
1879 died August 5, 1934 married October 16, 1897 Judson Luther Lightsey
1877-1938. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Caroline Williams</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was born circa 1816 and d</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ied before 1854. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evidently no children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Children of John Williams and Mary Jones Rawley</b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ellsey Jones Williams</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was born July 23, 1817 near Ulmers, Barnwell, SC and died </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">26 June 1879 Ulmers, Barnwell, SC. In </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1833 she married
Richard Adam All,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(1812-1882). He was
son of Richard Adam Aull and Rachel Platts. Adam and Ellsey All were
baptized<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>members of the Great
Salkehatchie Baptist Church in 1874. Ellsey J.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>received four slaves from her father’s estate. In 1854 Adam All bought
table, bed, tools, a wagon, 15 head of sheep, and 7 heads of stock cattle from
father-in-law estate. She and her husband had fourteen children. The 14
children were listed on the back of Adam All’s photograph which Sara All
Abernathy of Newbern NC has in her possession.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">A.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>William Angus All</b> born October 19, 1834 died
October 22, 1902. He married Mary Ulmer (1838-1926). He was baptized at Great
Salkehatchie Baptist Church August 1, 1858. The pair were affectionately known
as Uncle Billy and Aunt Polly. Billy All was the first Mayor of Allendale in
1877. In 1898 the sheriff sold all his household goods and house lot for a $440
debt. His son William Angus Jr bought it for $786, the highest and last bidder.
He supposed died of a bloody nose during a terrible storm. His child was </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Angus All who married Ida Wilson
(1874-1954) the daughter of Captain LeRoy Wilson and Mary Brabham.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">B.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>James M. All</b> born 1836 married Martha
McMillan and 2nd Mrs. Sanderson. James and Martha joined the Great Salkehatchie
Church in 1877. Served in Capt. Smarts Co. Cavalry CSA. His son </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">J. Addie All was born January 3, 1856 died
August 14, 1885. He married Sallie V. Cave. Other children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hammie All, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Riley All, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nita All who married Johnny Green</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">C.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>John All</b> born 1838 married
Lavincey Copeland Served in Capt. Smarts Co. Cavalry CSA. He had a grandson
Ernest All</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">D.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Mary Williams All</b> born
June 20, 1841-June 2 1917 married Samuel Boynton. She had two children </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Boynton and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ellie E.
Boynton born June 3, 1869 died February 19, 1919</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">E.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>George
F. All</b> born 1843 married Ida Conner. He served in the Civil War as a sergeant
at Fort Sumter. Ida Conner 2<sup>nd</sup> husband was Joseph J. Brabham Jr.. He had four children; </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I. Ethel All, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gordon All, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ruth All, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heber All</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">F.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Elizabeth
All</b> born 1845 married Fred McMillan and 2nd James Boynton</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">G.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Rebecca
All</b> born May 22, 1847 died May 22 1878 married Joseph Josiah Loadholt
1845-1920. She was a member of the Great Salkehatchie Baptist Church. Her children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles Loadholt
born 1868, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ben Robert Loadholt
born 1870, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Hallie
Loadholt, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rebecca Loadholt</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H. <b>Jane Ann Olive</b> All born 1849 married
William Rivers of Hampton County, SC. Jane baptized Great Salkehatchie Baptist
Church. Her children were R</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ebecca Rivers who married Nathaniel Weekley, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elsie Suzanne
Rivers who married Cone Nixon, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rosa Josephine
Rivers married who Charles Harrison, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Willie
Longenia Rivers who married George Young, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Sophy
Lillian Rivers who married Henry Loadholt, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Adam
David Rivers who married Polly Cone, and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Amanda Jane Rivers married Mr. Cone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">I.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Jones
Henry Columbus All</b> born September 22, 1853 died December 12, 1937. He married
Theodosia Gertrude Bowers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">J.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Brooks
All</b> born Sula Beard and Polly Thomas. Brooks All joined Great Salkehatchie
Baptist Church in 1877. He had two children T</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">om Brooks All and B</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ecky All who married Mr. Padgett</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">K.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Richard
Allen All</b> married Emma Brant. His children were P</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">earl All who married George Black, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jane All who married D.H. Moring, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles All, J</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ones All, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Benjamin All died age 83 years</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L. <b>Rosa All</b> married Capus Bowers 1854-1888
son of Giles Calvin Bowers and Sarah Loadholt and 2<sup>nd</sup> Mr. Morris.
Capus Bowers got into a fight in a tavern with Pig Sullivan. In self-defense
Capus shot him and was subsequently imprisoned. Capus was a wealthy man when he
went to prison. Rosa All remarried and gave up custody of her children. One
died young, Joe Josiah Loadholt reared one boy and William All brought up the
other. Capus became terminally ill in prison and at he the request of his close
relatives he was released in their care. He died soon after. What a sad
homecoming that must have been-sick, children scattered, wife gone, and life
shattered. Her children were R</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">awley Bowers, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richard Bowers, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mamie Bowers who married Willie R. Harvey, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harvey Bowers died young</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">M.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Elliott
All</b> married Allen Lane. She had three children. They were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joseph A. Lane December 26, 1877 died
October 25, 1884, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martha M. Lane born November 16, 1892
died July 21 1898, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jones Lane</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">N.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>Sarah
(Sally) All</b> married William Beard son of Thomas Beard. She had one arm and
remarkable energy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Senator Jones Martin Williams</b> –SC State Senator</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was born November 8, 1818 near Ulmers, Barnwell, South Carolina and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died February 14, 1877 at Ulmers, Barnwell, South Carolina. He </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">married Rebecca T. Priester [1825 died 1908] </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was an executor of his father’s estate. and received four slaves from
fathers estate. He alos inherited from his father 300 acres called the Williams Estate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jones M. Williams ran a horse race track.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The sport of the day was horse racing with gambling a major part of it.
Several planters had their own racetracks. Jones M. Williams racetrack had a
mahogany rail around it. Rumor has it the door knobs in their home were of
silver. He was an influential and wealthy man. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His name appears in the deed records buying
and selling in Barnwell County many, many times.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1851 Jones M. Williams sold 132 acres
which had once belonged to Wilson Williams: For purpose of
obtaining a new grant for himself-It being a part of a tract of 640 acres
granted to Wilson Williams in 1806 on Wells Branch. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jones M. Williams plantation
contained 3,735 acres when he died. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is included in the Biographical
Directory of the Senate of SC 1776-1964. It states: Jones M. Williams, Senator
from Barnwell County, the son of John Williams. Extensive cotton planter of
Briar Creek Plantation, Barnwell District. Married Rebecca T. Priester, who
died in 1908. Commissioner of free schools, Magistrate. Commissioner of Roads.
Soldier’s Board of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Relief 1862-1864. SC
Senate, Barnwell Co. 1876-77. Member Great Salkehatchie Baptist Church. General
chairman for Barnwell Baptist Association 1867. As chairman finished paying for
publication of History of the Association and Its Churches by the Rev. Lewis H.
Shuck. Died in office as Senator February 14, 1877 in Barnwell County. Buried
in Great Salkehatchie Cemetery, in Ulmers. </span></span></div>
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Church. Jones was Junior Warden when the Masonic Lodge at Buford’s Bridge was
organized. It was later moved to Jennys, and Loadholts Mill, then to Fairfax,
SC. In 1850 he donated for the preacher. His wife was excluded from Great
Salkehatchie. Jones gave property for Allen Chapel Baptist Church in 1856 near
Ulmers on the Barnwell Road. This church still stands and is used today. Most
of his lands was around the Ulmers area (Wells Branch, Jackson Branch, Big
Salkehatchie)<span style="margin: 0px;"> was owned by Jones M Williams. </span>This area was called the
Great Cypress. He left his widow and child well taken care of.</span></span></div>
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Angus Williams</b> born Dec 18, 1842 died December 20, 1876 married Celia Amanda
Barker (1843-—1916). After his untimely death, his widow married his cousin
James Roberts Williams. At her death she was buried at Great Salkehatchie
Cemetery next to Angus. She was very attractive and full of life. She had
nicknames Hon and Cele. Her father was Capt. William Ransom Barker. Angus was
indulged and spoiled being the only child. This was a period of prosperity
before the Civil War.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Angus was a
student at Furman University when the Civil War broke out. He left school to
enlist. When Angus went to join his regiment for service in the CSA, his father
sent an African American boy to serve as a valet for him. The Captain of the
Regiment laughed at Angus, sent the boy home on the captains horse. He kept
Angus horse for his own use. Eventually Angus became a sergeant. </span></span></div>
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December 24,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1938. He married May Bamberg.
Her family was highly respected and well to do. Her father was General F. M.
Bamberg and mother was Mary Ann Jennings. Jones A. Williams Jr inherited all his
fathers property. This line of Williams was known to be proud, high living
people. When the ravages of the Civil War left an era of devastation and hard
times, with much change, many of these well to do families seemed to
deteriorate and not recover for generations. Two other children died in infancy </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
Elizabeth Wroten Williams and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Barker Williams. </span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was born 1820 near the Great Salkehatchie River in Barnwell District, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">died August 11, 1893 at Ulmer. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">married Sarah
Simpson Roberts daughter of Stephen Roberts and Mrs. Polly Lyons March 20
1819-March 22, 1878.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Captain Billy
as he was known received monies in the name of his father’s estate several times. Captain Billy
Williams received 500 acres and four slaves from his fathers estate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was the Tax Collector for Barnwell County
for years. Captain Billy Williams as recorded in Deed D 549 bought a slave Beth
and gave her to a free man of color named Moses.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>His father John Williams witnessed the deed. He must have been the
favored son for he inherited the family home built by his father in 1810. He
was one of the executors of his father’s estate. "The remainder of my tract of
land that I have heretofore conveyed to him containing 62 acres more or less.
Also the remainder of my tract of 411 acres, after cutting off sixty acres for
my son James Wilson: on condition said son William B. pays $649 to be divided
as part of my estate. Also four slaves." This bequest contained the homestead.
He was buried at Great Salkehatchie Baptist Cemetery.</span></span></div>
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Perry Williams</b> born April 24 1842 died March 18, 1878. He married Mary (Mollie)
Hoover the daughter of Rev. John Hoover. April 4 1838-December 2, 1902. He
received his inheritance from his father in 1873, 400 acres. He was a member of
the Salkehatchie Baptist Church and was a Mason.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This whole family died with Tuberculosis a
weakness for this disease ran through several generations of this branch of the
Williams. Much property in Barnwell County and surrounding areas was swampy,
which may have contributed to the diseased. His children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mack Williams, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Josie Williams 1876-1895 who never married, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Hay Williams, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Mamie
Williams married Dr. Craddock, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Mary
(Molly) Williams, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">William<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(Willie) J. born August 11, 1866 died April
30, 1891, and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Sally
Williams born May 1, 1871 died April 17, 1898 who married Henry Cummings</span></span></div>
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Williams</b> June 15, 1845 died June 3, 1908 married James Wilson Myrick son of
John Myrick. Her children were </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Viola
Myrick married Mr. Myrick from Virginia, </span></span><br />
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</span>Rebecca Williams</b> 1848-1878</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">D. <b>James Roberts Williams</b> May 20,
1849-January 4,1916 married Minnie Hoover July 6, 1848-June 4, 1878. She was a
daughter of Rev. John Hoover. After she died J.R. Williams married Celia Amanda
Barker widow of his cousin Jones Angus Williams. J.R. inherited from his father
the old John Williams homestead. He had three children. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edwin Rawley Williams January 12,
1872-January 28, 1907 who married Lennie Drew Folk. They lived on the old John
Williams place. Rawley had tuberculosis.
He added a room off the kitchen for a sickroom. Lennie Drew was quite young
when they married. She never knew anything but an ill husband and she nursed
him faithfully. But she was inexperienced and everything came hard for her.
After Rawley’s death she married Malvin Hogg and gave up her daughter to be
reared by Rawleys sister Jane. Rawley Williams had a daughter named </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Rowley
Williams (daughter) born Dec 23, 1906 died August 16, 1991 who married Lewis Lovett
(1903-1984) of Wrightsville Georgia. She inherited the old Williams house and
property from her father. The old house was was occupied
until 1950. Rawley Lovett has taken many of the old boards from the house for
paneling to enhance her present home in Wrightsville, Georgia. The poor old
house so rich in memories with daylight shining through the cracks is about to
give up the ghost. J R Williams's other children were </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Jane
Williams who married Dr. Mack Lewis. She had no children but raised her niece Rowley
Williams. He had a store in Sycamore SC with his doctors office in the rear.
Later they lived in Bamberg, SC. Janes nickname was Doll. She graduated from
Winthrope College. The other daughter was </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Ann
Williams</span></span></div>
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Caroline Williams</b> was born August 23, 1852 and died May 13, 1886. She married 1873 William Jeter
Myrick June 19, 1848-April 4, 1937. He was the son of John Myrick (1812-1879).
He served in Company G 2<sup>nd</sup> Infantry CSA. She eloped from a second
story widow. Her children were </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">William
Williams Myrick born March 7, 1873 died 1952 married Rosa Cave, and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Mary
Pauline Myrick February 21, 1878-February 10, 1956 married John Matthew Griffin </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> and </span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Myrick married Miss Fugeson</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was born circa 1825 Great Salkehatchie, Barnwell, and m</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arried James "Jim" Hick Williams. She inherited 5 slaves and “a tract of land
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Mallard was originally from Duplin County, North Carolina before moving to Barnwell District South Carolina where he had lands near Wilson’s uncle Joshua Williams in an area known as Duck Savannah. A deed from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1788 showed that Absalom Stricklin deeded 50 acres to George Mallard in Duplin County. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span>It is thought that George Mallard had two sets of children by two wives. His first wife's name is unknown and is thought to have died before 1790. Her children were possibly Miss Mallard wife of Wilson Williams, Adam Mallard, and Hiram Mallard husband of Maria Moore. His children by his second wife were Sarah Mallard, Rachael Mallard, Nancy Hester Mallard, Daniel Mallard and Duren (Dewring) Mallard. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i><br /></i></span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Mallard is shown in this 1800 census with a young family of three children under the age of 10 and with a young wife between the ages of 16 and 25 [1775-1784]. His near neighbors were James Lipsey, John McFail, Benajah Best, Henry Creech and Adam Mallard. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The woman in the 1800 census was evidently his 2nd wife Esther Allen and these children were from that marriage which indicates that his children by his 1st wife were grown and on their own. Not far from George was Adam Mallard who is believed to be his son, married with young children. James Lipsey was George's first cousin son of Roscoe Lipsey and Sarah Mallard. Adam Mallard may have married Elizabeth Bowen and moved to Georgia. On 13 March 1802 Adam Mallard sold 70 acres on Duck Branch. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">31 January 1801 Ann Meadows of "Winton County, South Carolina" sold to George Mallard of the same, 32 acres. The witnesses were James Lipsey and Charles Boyles. Another deed record dated 19 June 1802 Joshua and Elizabeth Williams of Georgia, sold to George Mallard of Barnwell District, South Carolina for $175.00, 200 acres adjoining Charles Boyles, Dempsey Phillips, William Bryan and Joshua Williams. . The witnesses to this deed were Ezekiel Stokes and George Stokes. These men were his first cousins son of Arthur Stokes and Catherine Mallard. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Stokes moved to the Barnwell District of South Carolina from Craven County, North Carolina. On 1 August 1799 Arthur Stokes bought 922 acres of land from Benjamin Allen on the Coosawhatchie River in what is now Allendale County, but in 1799 was in Barnwell County. South Carolina. Arthur shows as the head of household in the 1800 and 1810 Federal census of Barnwell District, South Carolina.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">George Mallard, James Lipsey, Ezekiel Stokes and George Stokes were all grandsons of George Mallard of Duplin County, North Carolina. James Lipsey's father and mother were Roscoe Lipsey and Sarah Mallard.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the 1810 Census however George Mallard is listed as over 45 years old [before 1755]. His neighbors were Josiah Allen, Benajah Best, John Boyle Sr., Henry Creech, John Lipsey, William Lipsey, and Arthur Stokes. </span></span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">George Mallard wrote his will 12 Sept 1812 in Barnwell District South Carolina and must have been ill as that he died not long after as that his will was then probated 30 Oct 1812. He may have only been in his late fifties. After his death his widow </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Esther Allen Mallard remarried Charles Boyles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 26 October 1818, Duren Mallard and his wife Eleanor sold to Wilson Williams 191 acres on the Coosahatchie River for $400. </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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This Day In Gay Utah Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544380943467268342noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223678108479540659.post-49816356248207930152017-08-12T15:12:00.001-07:002018-01-11T07:27:37.406-08:00John Williams son of John Williams the Emigrant (1672-1757)<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Preface</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The correct descent of Britton Williams, Revolutionary
War Patriot of South Carolina from his Virginia Colony seventeenth century
antecedents, may never be known. However DNA clues confirm that he is a
descendant of John Williams Senior our Welsh emigrant who died in 1692 in the
County of Isle of Wight. However John Williams Senior also had a brother named
Thomas Williams who had sons who would have carried the same DNA markers. The Y
male Chromosome does not care from which brother it was passed down to Britton
Williams but we the offspring of the Revolutionary patriot do care. What we
know for a certainty is that prior to the Revolutionary War many descendants of
the brothers John and Thomas Williams had left Southside Virginia for North
Carolina and eventually settled near the tributaries of the Savannah River in
Georgia and South Carolina. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Everything about Britton Williams direct antecedents, so
far, are speculative but one must follow the clues as closely as possible and
base a theory on the best circumstantial evident. There is no way to know for
certainty who is the patriarchal linage of Britton Williams without some paper
trail of legal document but unfortunately none seem to exist. Compounding the
problem is that there are many other Williams families in Surry and Isle of
Wight who were nears neighbors and yet not kinfolk. The Williamses in the area
of the Black Water River Swamp left a legion of descendants from various
unrelated Williams including George Williams the Quaker tailor, John Williams
the Quaker son-in-law of Captain John Whitley, Roger Williams of Surry, and our
Welsh Williams brothers. Without DNA evidence it would have been nearly
impossible to distinguish these families because they all had predominately
nine common Christian names. These names were Arthur, George, John, Joseph,
Lewis, Nathan, Rowland, Thomas, and William. Separating them is a challenge.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Besides DNA there are very few clues left from colonial
legal records that can connect Britton Williams to the Williamses of
seventeenth Century Southside Virginia and early 18th Century Bertie County,
North Carolina. The Y chromosome does not care which brother it descended
through to Britton Williams. There is no way to know for certainty who is in Britton
Williams’ patriarchal linage only that he is of the Williams Clan that came
from the brothers John and Thomas. He matched John Williams the Emigrant who died in
1692 but he would then have certainly matched Thomas Williams. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The first appearance of our Britton Williams, in any
known record, is from a 1768 Georgia land petition in which stated he was
married and had two slaves. There are no records that connect him to anyone one
in North Carolina or Virginia and yet we know as a young married man he came to
St. George Parish with two slaves that he was connected to the landed class of
Williams who used human chattel to work their farms. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Perhaps the strongest clue, beyond DNA, that Britton
Williams is connected to the clan of John Williams Senior is also the most
mysterious. After his death in 1781, in South Carolina, two of his daughters
married into the Vasser and Bowen Families, two old Southside Virginia
families. John Williams Senior grandson, Thomas Williams, had strong family
connections with these two families. These three factors, DNA, social position,
and marriage, suggests that Britton Williams was linked with the Williams folks
who drifted, at the beginning of the 18th Century, out of Virginia into
Albemarle County, North Carolina. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger, the eldest son of John
Williams Senior and Anne Vasser* seems the most likely person to be the great
grandfather of Britton Williams through his son Theophilus Williams. Theophilus
Williams migrated to Onslow County in the mid 18th Century and his eldest son
John Williams was in St. George Parish Georgia by 1762. Near this John Williams
is the land grant of Britton Williams. Of all of Theophilus Williams children
his eldest son John Williams is the least documented and there for the most likely
candidate due to circumstantial evidence. While all this is speculation, it
fits the most likely scenario for the paternity of Britton Williams.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">For the first fifty years in America (1666-1715) the
Williams Clan lived in the counties of Surry and the Isle of Wight [IOW]. These
counties, along with Nansemond County, are known as Southside Virginia as that
they were located south of the James River. The Williams settled in a corner of
Surry County, south of the Blackwater River as it flowed in to Isle of Wight
County and later on the many of its tributaries. At the turn of the seventeenth
Century many of the children and grandchildren of John Williams Senior had
moved west of the Blackwater to lands east of the Nottoway River that belonged
to the Nottoway Indians. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the early 1700’s, several branches of the family of
John Williams Senior began to follow the Blackwater River south where it merged
into the Chowan River then flowed on out of Virginia into the North Carolina
Colony. Friends and family ties, as well as property, connected the Virginia
Williamses with the Carolina Williamses for several generations. Those Williams
who remained in Virginia on lands west of the Blackwater River, found
themselves in Southampton County in 1749 when it was created from the western
portion of Isle of Wight. Also a portion of Nansemond County where Lewis
Williams once had lands was added to Southampton County. But by the time
Southampton County was created many of the Williams had already drifted into
North Carolina following the natural river ways that flowed out of Virginia
into the Albemarle Sound of the Colony of North Carolina. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Beginnings</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger is our first American ancestor.
He is referred in many documents as the “Younger” or even “Junior”. I will use
this appendage to distinguish him from his father which I will refer to as John
Williams the emigrant. And to distinguish John the Younger from his son John
Williams, I will call him “the Third” although there is no evidence that he
ever was so called.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger was born circa 1672 most likely
in Lawnes Parish, Surry County, Virginia Colony. His father John Williams the
emigrant, who had just been released from his indentures was recently married to
a woman named “Anne”. Strong circumstantial evidence points to her being the
daughter of John Vasser, a Quaker. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The first Virginia colonists in Surry and Isle of Wight
counties acquired ownership of large tracts of land from 200 acres to 2000
acres or more from head right patents. While John the Emigrant acquired large
tracts of land on the Virginia frontier he was considered a “Yeoman farmer” and
was not part of the “Gentry Class.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A
yeoman farmer owned what historians termed “middling plantation” or farms of
200 to about 2000 acres to distinguish these farmers from the Virginia “Gentry
Class” or “Aristocracy”, and the small farmers who were always in danger of
becoming landless.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Gentry were
termed “Gentlemen” as they did not work but earned their income from property
that others worked for them. A Yeoman was a farmer who worked the land he
owned.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">These so called “middling plantations” allowed their
owners to enjoy an affluent comfortable life despite their relatively small
size compared to the wealthy land owning Virginian aristocracy. These middling
plantations, however, generally required an additional workforce of about nine
laborers of either family members or servants beyond their owner’s effort. The
middling plantation owners were more numerous than the Virginia Aristocrats but
less in number than small farmers or landless workers. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While the Virginia land aristocracy governed the colony
and made the laws, the middling plantation owners were the “workhorses of the
community”. Like the country squires of old England, within their own county
jurisdiction, they often served as justices, constables, jurors, surveyors of
roads, estate appraisers, and tobacco inspectors. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Interestingly enough, John the Emigrant and his son John
the Younger served very little in any of these positions during the time they lived
in Isle of Wight and Surry counties beyond the obligatory grand jurist.
Certainly these John Williamses voted in local elections as voting was the
right of every property right but if they failed to do so they could have been fined
100 pounds of tobacco or nearly 17 shillings. Thus it is fairly certain they
participated in elections. Otherwise there are no records of them serving in
any civic capacity. Nevertheless as middling planters <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John the Emigrant and John the younger achieved
a respected place in Blackwater society and provide modest homes with a few
luxuries for his their families. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Yet the life of a middling plantation farmer wasn’t the
easiest occupation. Unless they could afford to bring over indentured servants
or own the rare African slave, most had to rely on themselves and their
children to do the backbreaking work of clearing and planting a field. John
Williams the Emigrant was known to have had several indentured servants but
never used enslaved Africans. John the Younger certainty continued to use
indentured servants until his move to North Carolina in 1714. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John the probably did not acquire African slaves
until a decade after that time when the pool of indentured servants from Great
Britain was diminished. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Cash Crop of Tobacco and the
Introduction of Slavery into the Family of John Williams the Younger</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Tobacco was the “king of Virginia's economy” ever since
the early 1600s and the growing and processing of tobacco dominated Virginia's
agriculture economy for over three centuries. In the 17<sup>th</sup> Century
tobacco even served as currency in Virginia. It paid for work done and supplies
bought. Court records showed that fines were meted in pounds of tobacco. Tithes
and taxes were also assessed in this manner. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However the growing and harvesting of tobacco is very
labor intensive and in the 17<sup>th</sup> and 18th Century everything was done
by hand. Thus Virginia farmers found it necessary to import a labor force
called “indentured servants” to assist them in growing the tobacco crop. The
Importation of these indentured servants was supported by head right grants of
50 acres for each individual brought to Virginia. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the emigrant was an indentured servant himself
but after he had fulfilled his contract he eventually acquired large tracts of
lands by bringing other immigrants to Virginia. Unfortunately the supply of
interested British indentured servants steadily declined after 1690 and by 1700
it was clear that the Virginian planters were committed to getting their labor
from Africa not England. In the latter half of the 17<sup>th</sup> Century,
Virginia began to institutionalize and expand slavery for the primary reason of
working tobacco farms. John Williams the Younger while living in Surrey County
was surrounded by neighbors who began to acquire Africans as chattel to work
their large estates. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">African slavery came to Old Dominion Colony of Virginia in
August 1619 when "20 and odd Negroes" from the English ship White
Lion who had stolen them from a Spanish ship headed for Mexico. Spanish records
suggest they had been captured in the Portuguese colony of Angola, in West
Central Africa. However in early colonial Virginia human bondage was not
reserved specifically for only Africans. Slaves of all nationalities existed in
the colony, including Indians, Africans, and even the Irish during the
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The English transported hundreds of thousands of Catholic
Irish to the British Colonies of the West Indies and North America. These Irish
were called by the English government “rogues, vagabonds, rebels, neutrals, and
felons.” While most were sent to work as indentured servants many of the Irish
as well as Englishmen who were convicted of certain serious felonies were
sentenced to perpetual bondage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">While Virginia’s “head right system” was still in place
in the early 1700’s, the indentured labor pool from England was slowly being
replaced with enslaved black laborers from the West Indies or Africa. By the
first decades of the 18th Century the majority of forced agricultural laborers
switched from being mostly whites to mostly blacks. While at first the price of
slaves was prohibitive for middling farmers and it was less expensive to pay
for the sea passage and upkeep of indentured servants. But as the supply of
indentured servant diminished, in the long run it soon became cheaper to keep
slaves over their lifetimes. This influx of Africa slave labor allowed the
wealthier Gentry planters to dominate the yeomen farmers like John the Younger in
Virginia.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">With the practice of receiving head right grants for
British laborers in decline, by the 1720’s the “peculiar institution” of the slavery
was wide spread in the southern colonies of Maryland, Virginia and North and
South Carolina. However slavery was a much crueler form of servitude than
indentured servitude, as that there was never any hope of freedom from
continuous toil. There would never be any benefit from the fruits of one’s own
labor. Slaves were marshaled to drain marshes, clear lands, and plant and
harvest tobacco crops</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The intense labor needed in the growing of tobacco forced
those middling farmers without slaves or indentured servants to either hire
white laborers or the labor of their neighbors’ slaves which was expensive. The
purchasing or hiring slave labor for farm work by these middling plantation owners
eventually became too expensive and many went into debt to the large land
owners. Losing their farms to sheriff sales for debt incurred, these farmers
were forced off their lands and forced to relocate to more remote frontier
lands. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A growing class of poor whites was a product of slavery
as the small plot farmers could not compete economically with wealthy land
owners and as slaves were trained to do crafts and occupations formerly done by
whites, eventually poor whites came to resent Africans for taking their labor. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As slavery became less costly than keeping indentured or
hired laborers this “peculiar institution” began to define Southern agrarian
life. This unfortunate institution was immensely profitable to the rich and
provided leisure time for the top echelon of Southern society who no longer had
to work with their hands at manual labor. So rooted and entrenched in the
agricultural economy was slavery that it would take a civil war to abolish the
institution although the by-product of racism it fostered continues to haunt
America. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This reliance on enslaved people eventually warped the
psyche of southern white people as they tried to morally justify slavery. They
constructed an entire narrative that the West Coast Africans who were enslaved
to work their lands were an inferiority people and who were ordained by
divinity to be servants to white people. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Institution of slavery was sustained by this racist
notion that people from African were inferior human beings ordained by God to
be servants. This view was supported by Biblical passages which were interpreted
to believe that African peoples were the descendants of Ham the cursed son of
Noah. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Additionally whites interpreted black
skin coloring as the ‘Mark of Cain”. Cain was the son of Adam who slew his
brother Abel.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These accounts were used
to support the belief that people of color were designed to be servants to
whites. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Slavery was never condemned as such in scriptural text in
the New Testament. In fact slaves in the Roman Empire were required to be
obedient to their masters if they were Christians. The moral dilemma of the slavery
was never settled among Southern Christians and thus was subjected to the
economic value of the institution. However the Quakers were among the first to condemn
slavery as a social evil. Over time as slavery became more entrenched in North
Carolina, the dislike of the institution led to a mass exodus of Quakers to Kentucky
and later to Indiana. Among these folks were the ancestors of Abraham Lincoln
who would be known as the Great Emancipator after freeing slaves in Southern states
in rebellion against the United States. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The institution of slavery nevertheless was inherently
degrading and corrupting, not only to those enslaved, but also to all stratum
of Southern white society. Slavery began to concentrate the wealth into the
hands of those who could afford to purchase slave labor. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This changing economical situation based on slavery was
one of the reasons many sons of the earliest families of South Side Virginia
began to start the migration southward as they could not compete with the large
plantations owners now using slave labor. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even successful planters such as John the
Younger Williams could not compete economically with the planters who had
dozens of slaves working large tracts of land and may have been a mitigating
factor in his decision to move. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As the </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">pernicious</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">practice of slavery began to concentrate
wealth into the hands of the Gentry class, “middling farmers”, such as John
Williams the younger, found it necessary to acquire slaves themselves in order
to maintain their economic security. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Slavery, as noxious as it was, allowed the
middling farmers the means from sinking into the growing class of landless poor
white. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is doubtful that many of the farmers who purchased
Africans in the slave markets or from other owners were aware of the horrors of
the Atlantic slave trade, or if they were, they simply dismissed it. The
enslaved Africans were viewed as chattel no different other property or
livestock. Over time, slavery became so ingrained into the economy, culture,
and the very fabric of Southern society that the ownership of human beings
seemed normal and part of an elite social status. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Besides the misery of perpetual bondage that African
Americans had to endure, slavery created a state of perpetual paranoia among
whites, especially among their owners. The loss of a runaway slave could be
ruinous to a small farmer and an economy grew up to recapture runaways.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Great Dismal Swamp in the Albemarle Sound
was a refuge for many run away Africans. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The fear of slave revolts lead to intolerable cruelty
towards people of color and came to damage the psyche of those whites who kept
others in bondage. The fear of a slave mutiny and uprising made retribution
against African Americans fierce and swift against any of those slaves who
dared defy their masters. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Africans were
whipped, maimed, and terrorized. The whipping of insolent slaves was a fairly
common practice and was seen as an appropriate punishment for blacks as well as
some whites for any malfeasance. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The fears of white owners in regard to their slaves’
resentment of being held in perpetual bondage were not all paranoia. There are
hundreds of accounts of slaves murdering their masters and sometimes their
entire family. These rebellious slaves were executed in gruesome manners, with
their heads posted on pikes as a warning to others on country roads. Some
slaves were even burned alive. The poisoning of members of the prominent Bryan
family, of which John Williams the Younger children and grandchildren had
intermarried, led to the public burning alive of the accused female slave in
the town square. All the slaves in the immediate area were forced to watch. In
the 1830’s some of John Williams the Emigrant’s descendants were killed in a
slave insurrection led by Nate Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s father the Welsh emigrant,
never owned slaves in Virginia due to the abundance of indentured servants in
the 17th Century as a labor force. It appears that his son John Williams the
Younger was the first of six generations to use coerced labor of African
Americans to increase their wealth and social status in the old agricultural
based economy of the antebellum South. From John Williams the Younger of Bertie
County North down to Rev. William Green Williams of Barnwell District South
Carolina, six generations of Williamses had owned slaves and had been comfortably
supported by this cruel exploitation of African labor. Rev. William Green
Williams however in the 1830’s sold his inheritance of human chattel upon
moving west to Alabama and was the last in my direct line to own slaves.
However, other of his kinfolk owned African Americans up to the time of their
liberation during the Civil War in the 1860’s. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is unknown when John Williams the Younger first began
to acquire African Americans as there are no records or bills of sales recorded
in the county court houses of Chowan and Bertie. He could have brought some
with him to North Carolina but there is no record of that. The practice
probably began in North Carolina in Bertie Precinct, North Carolina, where as a
prosperous land owner, he began to acquire people of African extraction as
human chattel to toil on his plantations. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Many of the African captives who served as
slaves on Albemarle County’s plantations <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>were brought into North Carolina from Virginia
or the Island of Barbados in the beginning. However as the practice increased
by the 1720’s Africans were directly sold from slave ships directly from the
West Coast of Africa.</span><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">By the mid 18<sup>th</sup>
century Bertie County had become one of the most densely populated counties in
North Carolina largely due to the numbers of African slaves brought into
the county. In the 1740's people of African descent made up 25 percent of the
population. These enslaved people were mostly owned by large plantations
with thousands of acres. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is doubtful that John the Younger would have owned
slaves before 1720 because he could rely on his own sons' labor. As he acquired
more and more property, and grew older and no longer could depend on his sons for
their labor as that they had their own farms, he probably then bought slaves to
help with labor and to add to his status. As that his son John the Third did
not bequeath any slaves in his 1722 will, this suggests that the family may not
at this time resorted to slave labor but by the 1730’s the institution was so
entrenched in Bertie County that certainly John the Younger had acquired slaves
by then. Sometime between 1722 and 1737 slavery as a form of labor is adopted
within the Williams family in order to maintain their economic affluence and
status. John the Younger’s son James Williams bequeathed a number of slaves to
his legatees. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When John the Younger made out his last Will and
Testament in 1747, he had at least five slaves living on his estate as well as
perhaps other free white and Indian laborers. When and from whom did he acquired
these slaves is unknown but certainly it was when he was middle aged between
the ages of fifty and sixty. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From his Last Will and Testament we know the names of
four of the five people who were forced to toil for the Williams' family. The
name of the male he willed to his son Isaac Williams, so far, cannot be
deciphered as the writing is illegible. However the other two males were named
Jack and Primus, and the two females were named Jene (Joan, Jenny or Jane) and
Grace. Grace may have been the daughter of Jene who was old enough to have had
children. In his will John Williams referred to any issue of Jene would also be
considered property of the estate which indicates she was a woman of child
bearing age or even pregnant. The woman named Jene [Joan, Jane, or Jenny] may
even have been purchased to help Ann Moor Williams keep house as that Ann would
have been in her 50’s in the 1720’s. It is assumed that all of the people
purchased to labor on John Williams the Younger’s farm in Bertie County were of
African descent, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>but as at this time
Native Americans were also enslaved we cannot be completely certain. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As that John Williams the Younger did not have gangs of
field slaves who he hardly knew, it is likely he would have interacted with
them personally by supervising them on a daily level. John Williams the Younger
may have had this paternal attitude or he may have simply seen them as
laborers. His chattel would have cooked for the family, washed and mended their
clothes, took care of feeding their livestock, milked cows, butchered animals,
tended vegetable gardens, chopped wood, built fences, worked as black smiths as
well as plowed fields, drained swamps, planted and harvested tobacco. As they
were in bondage they did all this and more for nothing but essentially
subsistence room and board. As that there were merely five of them they
probably all lived in the same cabin. These souls in bondage had no human
rights and could be traded off like any commodity. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams may have had even more than five African
slaves over the course of his life time, some perhaps dying before his will was
written or some even being sold off. However there are no records of any
transaction of purchasing or selling these people. However John Williams was
typical of most middling farmers of the period in that he owned less than 10
slaves. Only the upper classes of large land owners could afford gangs of
slaves. It may be that John Williams the Younger had only a few slaves, not
because he could not afford more, but perhaps because of the fear of an ever
present threat of revolt by a people forced into bondage. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Even if John and Ann Williams were benign masters to the
people who served them in bondage, the gulf between the mindset of Master and
Slave would have been immense. This was in order to justify keeping an entire
race in bondage. Within the “Master” culture, there was a definite paternal
superiority by whites towards black people who were viewed as subservient and
“child-like”. This deference to whites was developed to by blacks to present a
façade of benevolence to avoid punishment. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">To simply excuse our ancestors as being products of their
times does not relieve them of being responsible for the exploitation of a race
of people for their economic advantages. Other people of the time found owning
slaves immoral, and others simply freed their slaves in their wills. There is
no evident that the Williamses ever freed their slaves. Instead our family
choose to victimize these people who were kidnapped from their lands in Africa
and sold into bondage in the American colonies and while that may not reflect
on who we are today it also should be brushed aside either. Slavery however how
we feel today is the horrific legacy of our Southern Heritage. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Religion: Anglican versus Quakerism</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the 17<sup>th</sup> and 18th Century colonial families
were dominated by the politics of religion and it often determined the makeup
of family units as people tended to marry others of their own religious
persuasion. In the seventeenth Century the adherents to the Church of England
[Anglicans] and the Puritans Reformers of the Anglican Church were the primary
religions of Southside Virginians. However after John Williams Sr. arrived in
the colony, Quakers had replaced the Puritans as the rival church to the official
Anglican Church. The Church of England of Virginia was the state recognized
church prior to the American Revolutionary War and all land owners were
required to pay tithing annually for the support and upkeep of the Parish
churches whether they attended them or not.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The early settlers of Southside Virginia were
predominately affiliated with three major Christian sects of the 17<sup>th</sup>
Century. The only authorized and recognized one was the state sponsored Church
of England also known as the “Anglican Church”. The Puritan Church, which had
founded the New England Colonies, had a strong presence in Virginia and
Maryland also especially after the English Civil War up until the restoration
of the British monarch in 1660. At this time the Puritan influence waned and
many removed to New England from Virginia. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Quaker Movement, official known as the Society of
Friends, began in the 1640’s and quickly spread across the British Isle despite
fierce opposition to the sect. In fact the Virginia House of Burgess decreed
the importation of Quakers to Virginia outlawed in 1664. Nevertheless Quaker
communities sprang up in Southside Virginia, especially in Surrey and Isle of
Wight. It is known that several of John the younger’s siblings embraced the
Quaker faith.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His father, John Williams the Emigrant is often confused by
genealogists with the Quaker John Williams who married Anne Whitley and who
also lived in Isle of Wight County. This John Williams had a son John who was
also a Quaker in Isle of Wight and was fined on 10 December 1694 by the county
court for being a Quaker. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger grew to adolescence among the
many Quaker families in Surrey and Isle of Wight Counties, but it is doubtful whether
he was ever a Quaker himself. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That John
Williams the Younger was an Anglican is supported by the fact that he
bequeathed “Prayer Books”, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, to two of his
daughters. Almost every family that was literate had a King James Bible in
their home which was often their only book. Children were primarily taught to
read so they could read the Bible for its moral guidance. However only Anglican
families had the Book of Common Prayer Book in their homes. Books were
expensive and not common in colonial times so the fact that John Williams
willed two of them showed that his family was educated and they were very
affluent.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During the decade John Williams the Younger lived in
Surry County it appears that he was too busy with his farms to be bothered by
politics. Perhaps with the predominance of Quakers in his community, election
to public office might have been difficult. From court minutes from Surry, Isle
of Wight, Chowan, and Bertie Counties, John Williams did not seem much
interested in serving in any type of public office beyond civic duties. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger lived among the Quakers in
Surrey County although it is unlikely that he was ever a member of that faith. Although
children are usually influenced by the religious views of their mothers if John
Williams the Younger was ever a Quaker, like some of his brothers and sisters,
he had abandoned the faith and returned to Anglicanism. Thus if John Williams
was ever a Quaker, by the end of his life he was a firm Anglican. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">His younger brothers, William Williams, Thomas Williams,
Richard Williams and Nicholas Williams all seem to have strong Quaker
affiliations perhaps due to the influence of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>their mother Anne Vasser Williams who probably
was a Quaker herself. Anne Vasser Williams was raised in her sister’s Elizabeth
Boucher’s household after her father and mother deaths when she was in her infancy.
It is likely that the Vasser Family on John the Younger’s mother side were Quakers
from their intermarriage with other Quakers. John the Younger’s mother Anne
Vasser Williams certainly had Quaker sympathies if not actually a Quaker. She
was the daughter of John Vasser and Elizabeth Dowe. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Elizabeth Vasser had married George Boucher a prominent
Quaker and had a daughter named Elizabeth who married a Quaker named George
Williams whose occupation was given as a tailor. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This
George Williams was the son of Walter Williams of Bristol, England. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">DNA samples show that Lewis Williams of Catherine Creek,
Chowan County, North Carolina was related to the family of this George Williams
the Tailor. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lewis Williams, however was
an Anglican when he moved to Chowan Precinct from Nansemond County in the
1690’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lewis Williams descendants are
so intertwined with those of John the Emigrant, that many genealogists believed
that Lewis and John the Younger were related.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Lewis Williams of Chowan
Precinct was originally from Nansemond County, Virginia and is not connected to
the immigrant Lewis Williams who came to Surry County from Bristol England in
1666. That Lewis Williams died in 1679 and only had two children William and
Mary Williams. Here was certainly a brother of John the Emigrant or a close
kinsman. The DNA of Lewis Williams who died in 1717 in Chowan Precinct however show
clearly that his descendants did not carry the same genetic markers as John
Williams the Emigrant. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The difference in genetic markers is highlighted
in bold.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>13-<b>25</b>-<b>14</b>-11-<b>11</b>-<b>13</b>-12-12-<b>12</b>-13-<b>14</b>-29-<b>17</b>-9-10-11-11-25-15-<b>18</b>-30</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lewis Williams <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>13-<b>24</b>-<b>15</b>-11-<b>12-14</b>-12-12-<b>11</b>-13-<b>13</b>-29-<b>16</b>-9-10-11-11-25-15-<b>19-</b>30</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However, Lewis Williams's DNA sample
is identical to a Blaney Williams of Dublin County, North Carolina who was a
direct descendant of George Williams the Quaker who married Elizabeth Boucher,
the granddaughter of John Vasser Sr. John Williams the Emigrant married Anne
Vasser the aunt of Elizabeth Boucher. This means that Lewis Williams of Chowan
Precinct <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>bloodline was closely related to
George Williams the Quaker and could have easily known the family of John
Williams the Emigrant whose sons some of which were Quakers.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Prior to John Williams
the Younger arrival in North Carolina, Albemarle County was controlled by
Quakers. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Colony of Carolina which had not
yet been divided North and South had a more tolerant position on religion than
Virginia and the region quickly became mainly controlled by Quakers. There had
even been a Quaker Governor in the 1690's. Certainly Carolina was more inviting
to Southside Virginia's Quakers than Virginia where Quakers had to pay taxes to
support the Anglican Church and could not hold office unless they swore an oath
which Quakers would not do as part of their religious beliefs. In Carolina they
could "affirm" instead of swear and thus politically for about 25
years they controlled Albemarle Precinct which included Chowan and Bertie Counties
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However after John the Younger arrived in North Carolina the
Anglicans were in full control of the General Assembly and they divided
Albemarle between two Anglican parishes. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1715 the folks west of the Chowan River, where
John Williams the Younger lived, were placed in the jurisdiction of the “South
West Parish of Chowan Precinct”. The leading church men or vestrymen for the
parish were the men from the large ruling Planter Class. They included Col.
Thomas Pollock, Col. William Maul, William Duckenfield Esq., Maj. Robert West,
Capt. John Bird, Mr. John Hardy, John Worley Esq., Mr. Lewis Bryant [Bryan],
Mr. John Holbrook, Mr. Robert Lanier, Mr. Laurence Sarson and Mr. Lewis
Williams. This is the same Lewis Williams related to George Williams the Quaker
of Surrey County, Virginia and who had fought with the Meherrin Indians earlier
in 1711. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Childhood and Youth: 1672-1691 In Isle of Wight County
Virginia</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John the Younger was born circa 1672 and grew up into a
rural agrarian community on the Virginia frontier along the tributaries of the
Blackwater River. He is the first of our American ancestors never having known the
shores of Wales. As the oldest son of John the Emigrant, John the Younger probably
was given more responsibilities then his younger siblings and he grew up
learning to grow tobacco for a livelihood. As a child, when he was not helping
with the family farm, John the Younger most certainly learned the trade of
weaver or cloth maker. Deed records in North Carolina later referred to John the
Younger as a "weaver" by trade. As that there are no records of his
ever being apprenticed out to learn this trade, he must have learned it from
his father, John the Emigrant. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His
mother was Anne most likely the daughter of John and Elizabeth Vasser although
this has not been proven. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John the Younger’s father had immigrated to Virginia in
1666 from the port of Bristol, England as an indentured servant with his friend
John Moor the Shoemaker. They both bought tracts of land near Jenkins Pond east
of the Blackwater River.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John the
Younger’s mother Anne Vasser was born probably circa 1650 the orphaned child of
John Vasser who immigrated to Virginia with his wife Elizabeth in the 1630’s.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger grew up on a working plantation
where there could have been many indentured servants working the farm at any
given time. He would have seen the master and servant relationship between his
father and the laborers. As a boy his chores would have been to feed and tend to
the farm’s livestock which would have included horses, cattle, sheep, milk
cows, goats, hogs, and geese for feathers as well as eggs. Even small children
as young as 5 years were expected herd and tend the farm animals. His father
probably kept working dogs for herding, hunting and guarding and perhaps even
had cats to keep varmints out of corn bins. They would not have been considered
pets as in modern sense but certainly natural affection would have developed
with most of these critters especially those not seen as foodstuff. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In addition to the cash crop of tobacco, the family farm
in Isle of Wight County grew flax for linen and kept sheep for their wool.
These were the principal <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>used to make
cloth. These flax and wool would have been spun and woven into cloth which was
the family’s occupation besides farming. Little cotton, if any would have been
grown, as it was too labor intensive to have pull the seeds from the fiber by hand.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In colonial days the task of clearing a field for
planting was called grubbing. This was dangerous and arduous work. Trees had to
be cut down and cutting down a single large tree such as an oak could take two
men most of the day. The task of removing tree stumps by digging or chopping
them out then began. Stubborn tree were pulled out with a team of oxen but
often larger stumps were simply burned, or just left to rot before they could
be removed. Other debris like rocks and stones were manually dug out and
removed in barrows and often made foundations for basements of homes built. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Some trees were kept of course for the lumber to build
homes, barns, sheds or fences to serve as a physical property boundary to keep
people and livestock out of fields. Livestock was often allowed to roam and
forage freely while fields were fenced in with Zigzag fences. Known as Virginia
fences, they were one of the most common colonial log fence because they
require only logs, without need for special tools or hardware. What wood was
not useable for construction became fire wood. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Once the land was cleared, the work of preparing the soil
for planting began. This too was no easy task as land was frequently packed
hard and tight. Using oxen and a simple wooden plow that was drugged through
the fields,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the soil was broke up. Then
a tool called a “harrow”, consisting of many spikes, tines or discs, was
dragged across the soil to level it out. After all that farmers were ready to
begin planting tobacco and corn.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Besides the plow, spades, and harrow, by far the dominant
tool in farming during the seventeenth and 18th centuries was the simple hand
hoe. It came in three basic forms. The narrow, or hilling hoe, possessed a long
blade of about six inches width, connected to a homemade wooden shaft by a
round “eye” attachment. It was predominantly used for creating the mounds upon
which the plants grew and maintaining weed-free hills. Broad, or weeding hoes,
were of similar construction, but up to 12 inches wide and classically used for
shallow cultivation. Grubbing hoes were narrow and heavier in construction for
the strenuous work of cutting and removing roots and stiff soils in land
preparation.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The harvesting of tobacco was extremely labor intensive
as it required bending over constantly to pick the bottom leaves as they
ripened. Multiple trips to the fields were necessary to pick the tobacco and
after they were picked, the laborers tied them into bundles and hung from bower
rafters to dry out in the summer heat. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Although tobacco was the main cash crop grown mainly for
export, some was kept for local use. Almost every Virginian used tobacco in one
form or another. It was smoked in clay pipes, rolled into cigars, sweetened by
sorghum as chewing tobacco or ground into powder as snuff also known as “dip”.
Beyond the nicotine stimulant it provided both men and women often it was used
simply to alleviate sore teeth and gum pain in lieu of dentistry. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However tobacco agriculture transformed the land by
wearing it out by exhausting the minerals and nutrients from the soil. Unlike
small farmers, these middling plantation owners who owned hundreds of acres
could just simply abandon old fields and move to another section of the farm
once the soil in the old section had been depleted. However once the entire
farm was nearly depleted of nutrients it was time to move away. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor the Shoemaker of Isle of Wight County,
Virginia</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Moore families of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties
were almost as numerous as the Williams families and just as confusing and hard
to track. There were indeed so many Southside Virginia affluent planters by the
name of Moore and Moor that it is extremely difficult to separate all of them
into their proper families. Our ancestor “John Moor, the Shoemaker” however should
not be confused with another “John Moore”, the son of often married and widowed
Ann Rogers Moore Baron Matthews.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger grew up at Jenkin’s Pond in the
Kingsale area with the children of John Moor [Moore] the “shoemaker”. Among
these Moor children was a girl named Anne Moore born circa 1676 who he would
marry in about 1691. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor the Shoemaker was a long time friend of his
father’s and they had even traveled together from Bristol, England in 1666 as
young men. They were both indentured to Captain William Butler, a Burgess from
Surry County. After completion of their grueling servitude, the emigrant
friends became successful in their own right and even owned adjoining
plantations at Jenkin's Pond in Isle of Wight County. The men remained close
for the remainder of their lives and no doubt also their children.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Nothing is known about John Moor’s early life in England
any more than we know anything about John Williams the Emigrant. He was
probably about the same age as John Williams, about 20 years old, when they
crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Both John Williams and John Moor may have had
kinfolk in Virginia for them to choose Surry County over the riches to be had
in the British West Indies island colonies of Barbados or Neva. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The only deed for certain that relates for our John Moor
the Shoemaker is dated from 23 April 1681 when John Moor called <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“the Shoemaker” acquired 300 acres as part of
a head right patent for transporting six people to the colony. This property
was located below the enormous grant of land speculator George Pierce and next
to his 400 acres head right grant that Pierce acquired at the same time that John
Moor did his. Another neighbor of John Moor was Phillip Rayford [Raiford].
These two men, Raiford and Pearce took the inventory of John Moor’s estate
after he had died in 1688. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">About six months after John Moor received his grant, in
October 1681, John Williams the Emigrant <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>father and his brother Thomas Williams bought
George Pierce’s 400 acre tract that was next to Moor. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Certainly the fact that John Moor owned the
land next to this tract, influence the Williamses to purchase the property.
This of course made the Williamses and Moors neighbors. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The arduous trip to America, working off his passage as
an indentured servant, carving out a living for his family from the Virginia
wilderness all contributed to John Moor’s death when he was about 43 years old.
He was ill in 1687 when he wrote his will and succumbed to the malady that
claimed his life in 1688. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor’s death was hastened by the fact that there
were few medical resources in the 1600s. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Medicines often were nothing more than folk remedies
handed down from one generation to the next and did little to thwart the fevers
and diseases born by mosquitoes in Virginia’s swamps, and by viruses brought by
emigrants themselves. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Often fathers while toiling in the fields fell dead from
heat strokes, snake bites, were preyed upon by wild animals, or attacked by
displaced Native Americans. Mothers died in difficult childbirths and children
developed diseases or fevers prevalent in the area and died young. Most colonial
couples had numerous children as there were no form of birth control and these big
families insured that some of their children would grow to adulthood. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mothers and fathers, suddenly widowed and with small
children to raise, fields to work, and livestock to tend, quickly remarried to
solve their dilemma. It was common for most colonial men and women to have
several wives or husbands over their lifetimes and as women often married as
adolescents, it was not unusual for some women to have three or four husbands. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor the Shoemaker made out his last Will and Testament
on 18 March 1686 [1687] and stated that he was living in Lower Parish, Isle of
Wight County. John Sellers and Jenkins Dorman were the witnesses for his will
but what relationship, if any, to the Moor family is unknown. John Sellers
father William Seller had land next to Anthony Fulgham and Jenkins Dorman was
alive in 1708 when he witnessed the will of Thomas Joyner. John Moor’s will was
recorded 9 June 1688 which indicates that he died more than likely in May. That
he died nearly a year after he made his will also indicates that he had been
ill or had bouts of illness for some time.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">According to John Moor’s Last Will and Testament, he was
married, had three sons and two daughters. It appears that in his will he named
his sons first and then his daughters but they were probably not named in birth
order. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John and Elizabeth Moore could not have married before
1671 as that John hadn’t fulfilled his indenture as yet. His daughter Ann Moore
was married to John Williams the Younger by 1691 and if she had married at the
age of 15 or 16, she would have been born about 1676 during the Bacon
Rebellion. It is doubtful that John and Elizabeth Moor would have had four
children born between 1671 and 1676 but not impossible. A more likely scenario,
with the average of two years between births, John and Elizabeth Moor’s
children were more than born in this order; Ann Moore, born circa 1676, John
Moore Junior born circa 1679, Thomas Moor born circa 1681, William Moore born
circa 1683 and Elizabeth Moor born circa1685.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor the Shoemaker left about 700 acres of land in
Isle of Wight at the time of his death. Some of it was by the estates of Thomas
Parnell who died about the same time. Moor bequeathed two hundred acres “of
woodland adjoining Thomas Parnell” to his eldest son, John Moor Jr. He gave an additional
200 acres to his son Thomas Parnell. He gave 100 acres each adjoining “Thomas
Parnell’s line” to his youngest son William Moor and to his daughters Elizabeth
and Ann. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This legacy provided Ann Moore
a dowry of 100 acres when she married John Williams the Younger about 1691. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor died then when Ann Moore was a child about 11
years old and her future husband, John Williams the Younger, was a 15 year old
adolescent. John Moor never knew that John the Emigrant and he would one day share
grandchildren through John Williams the Younger and Ann Moor. As that John Moor
the Shoemaker had no known kinfolk in Virginia, certainly John Williams the
Emigrant as his good friend would have taken an interest in the family until
his own death in 1692 after Ann Moore had become his daughter in law. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Moor’s estate was appraised by his neighbors George
Pierce and Phillip Raiford but there must have been some difficulty with the
estate as the Appraisal was not filed and recorded until 6 March 1692 [1693] nearly
five years after Moor had died. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This
trouble may have been a factor in daughter Ann leaving her mother’s home and
marrying at such a young age especially if she was the eldest. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The inventory of John Moor’s estate was recorded 6 March
1692 [1693] by appraisers Phillip Raford [Raiford] and George Pierce nearly a
year after John Williams the emigrant had died. They listed three steers worth
900 pounds of Tobacco, three heifers worth 600 pounds of tobacco, three cows
worth 900 pounds, two yearlings and a bull worth 200 pounds, two brass kettles
worth 150 pounds, 1 “pott” and hangers, 1 “poudring tubb” [a tub in which meat
was powdered or salted or pickled.] 2 dishes, 4 spoons worth 150 pounds. The
inventory stated “Ann Moore made away since John Moore deceased.” </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Even after the estate appraisal was filed there must have
been more trouble as that in August 1694 the Widow Elizabeth appointed George
Moore her attorney. It may have been that John Williams the emigrant had helped
with legal matters of the estate until his own death in 1692 and then Elizabeth
Moor needed additional representation to which she felt close. George Moore was
a Justice in Surrey County. Elizabeth Moor had some type of kinship to this
wealthy planter whom she called “my brother”. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is easy to
speculate that Elizabeth was perhaps a younger sister of George Moore but in
the 17<sup>th</sup> Century the use of the term “brother” could also simply
mean “brother in law.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There are several
relationship possibilities using the term “brother”. The simplest is that
Elizabeth was George Moore’s sister. The second is that George Moore was the
brother of her late husband and was therefore her brother-in-law. Another
possibility is that Elizabeth and George Moore’s wife Jane Barcroft were
sisters. That would have also made George Moore “her brother.” </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This George Moore was born circa 1634, some ten years or
more before John Moor. He may have even have prompted John Moor to come to
America but not wealthy enough to pay for his importation. George Moore’s
daughter Ann married John the Younger’s brother William, and in his will, George
Moore left property to his Williams grandchildren.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sometime after Ann Moor married John Williams the Younger,
her younger sister Elizabeth Moore married Joseph Parnell the son of Thomas
Parnell. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This made John Williams the brother
in law of Joseph Parnell as well as Ann’s brothers John, Thomas, and William Moore.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The eldest son of John Moor the shoemaker, John Moore
Junior, was born after 1673. An Isle of Wight Court from 9 June 1694 decreed that
“John Moor ordered to return to his apprenticeship with his master John Davis,
shoemaker.” An apprenticeship was usually until the age of 21 therefore John
would have been born after that date. He died sometime after 1734 when he sold
to his brother William Moore 110 acres on the “Fork of Southern Branch of
Nansemond River in the Upper Parish of Isle of Wight which his father “John
Moor willed to said John”. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This John Moore Junior is thought by many genealogists to
be the father of John Moore the Third, Edward Moore and William Moore. If so,
these grandsons of John Moor Senior had moved to Bertie County, North Carolina,
and lived there surrounded by their Williams’ cousins. Edward Moore actually
settled in the same general area of his aunt and uncle, Ann Moor Williams and
John Williams the Younger at Horse Spring Branch. Edward Moore was married to
Elizabeth Bonner the daughter of Thomas Bonner and died before 1757 in Bertie
County at about the age of 65 years. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It appears that all of John Moor’s sons had moved from
the Isle of Wight to Nansemond County by the turn of the 18<sup>th</sup>
Century where in the 1704 Quit Rent records both John Moore Junior and Thomas
Moore are listed. They paid rents on 200 acres that they each owned. Also
listed in Nansemond was Edward Moore who paid on 250 acres, Richard Moore who
paid on 250 acres; James Moore who paid on 400 acres and a John Moore who paid
on 100 acres. How these men are related is unknown; probably the grandsons of
John Moor Senior. This Richard Moore of Nansemond moved to Chowan Precinct,
North Carolina <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and had a family there before
he died in 1718. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As for when John Moor
the Shoemaker’s sons John, Thomas Moore and William Moore died, that is an
enigma, but more than likely they all died in Virginia. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However it is evident that strong family ties
continued to exist long after the death of both John Williams the Emigrant and
John Moor the Shoemaker as that both their descendants moved to the Cashie
River area and settled in what became Bertie County.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Family of John and Ann Moor Williams
Grows 1692-1706</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As a young married couple John and Ann Moor Williams
began to have children immediately. Ann Moor Williams gave birth to seven known
children starting at the age of 16 and ending at the age of 30 but considering
the high mortality rates of infants and children in colonial times she may have
had many more. Having large families increased the chances that some children
would survive to adulthood and of course there were no effective means of birth
control in that period. If the birth of these children were ever recorded in a
Bible or church record they have long since disappeared over the past three
hundred years. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Given an approximate 20 months to two year period between
births of children, which is generous, the children of John and Ann Moore
Williams were most likely born as follows: John Williams the Third born circa
1692, Theophilus Williams born circa 1694, Ann Williams Herring born circa
1696, James Williams born circa 1698, Isaac Williams born circa 1700, Sarah
Williams Castellaw born circa 1702, Mary Williams Herring born circa 1704, and
Arthur Williams born circa 1706. As that John Williams the Younger did not move
to North Carolina until 1714, it is safe to suggest that all of his progeny
were born at his manor plantation at Parson Branch in Surrey County except the
youngest two who were born in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The birth order of the children of John and Ann Moore
Williams are speculative but are reconstructed from their being mention in the
1722 and 1747 wills of John Williams the Third and John Williams the Younger.
Two of John and Ann Moor Williams’ grown sons, John and James, had died before
their father and mother and left wills.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John
Williams the Third was unmarried at the time of his death in 1722 but he named
his brothers as heirs. They were listed in this order which strongly suggests
their birth sequence- Theophilus, James, Isaac, and Arthur. None of his sisters
were mentioned except the mention of his nephew Anthony Herring the son of Anne
Williams Herring. She married Samuel Herring in 1715 the first of John the
Younger’s children to have married there older than her sisters Sarah Williams
and Mary Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sarah Williams
married James Castellow circa 1722, and Mary Williams married Abraham Herring
the younger brother of Samuel.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When John Williams the Younger made out his will in 1747,
he named his surviving children in this order; Theophilus, Ann Herring, Isaac
Williams, Sarah Castellow, Mary Herring and Arthur Williams. His wife Ann and
heirs of his late son James Williams were also mentioned in the will.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Interestingly the names of John the Younger’s sons,
James, Isaac and Arthur and daughters Sarah and Mary, are not among the
traditional Colonial pattern of naming family members. These names are not
found among the parents or siblings of either John the Younger or Ann Moor
Williams. Mary was the name of John Williams the Younger’s uncle Thomas’ wife
and that may account for naming a daughter that name however many common family
names such as “Elizabeth, Thomas, Nicholas, Richard, and William” are missing.
This may indicate that there were more children born to this family than can
ever be documented. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is interesting to note that John and Ann Moor Williams
named their youngest children James, Isaac, and Sarah, which are of course
Biblical names with James being the English variant form for Jacob. They are
commonly found in colonial times. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“Arthur” the name of their youngest son is a Welsh name
popularized by the stories of King Arthur of the Britons and is found among
many of the 2nd generation Welsh American families of the County of Isle of
Wight. The name of their youngest son Arthur began showing up in the 2nd and
3rd generations of the progeny of both John Williams the Emigrant <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and his brother Thomas Williams Senior. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In fact the proliferation of “Arthur
Williamses” appears in both North and South Carolina records so frequently that
it becomes a challenge to separate them.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As that none of the children of John and Ann Moor
Williams knew their Williams or Moor grandfathers, they probably had little
knowledge of their antecedents in England. There is no record on how long their
grandmothers Anne Vasser Williams and Elizabeth Moor lived who could have to
pass down family information. Anne Vasser Williams Schumake although living
well past 70 years old would have had little knowledge of her husband’s family
nor would she have known much of her own as that her father died in 1651 in her
infancy. Records indicate that Grandmother Anne Vasser Williams died sometime
after the fall equinox of 1719. Even then much of the oral histories of the
families would have vanished with the early deaths of the emigrant grandfathers
who could have told them of families left behind in England. </span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Location of Williams’ Plantation In
Surry County, Virginia</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger lived in Surry County, Virginia
for a decade as a Yeoman farmer.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was
what was known by historians as a “middling planter”. It is obvious that
middling planters such as John the Younger were hard workers, shrewd
businessmen and most of them were educated enough to read and write and do
arithmetic. They and their sons often worked in the fields along with their
indentured laborers and slaves as well as supervising the general farming
operations. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The wives and daughters of these planters worked as hard
as the men if not harder. They cooked and preserved food and tended sizeable kitchen
gardens. While the farmers grew tobacco, the farmers’ wives and their children
grew corn peas, beans, sweet potatoes, yams, turnips, pumpkins, cabbages,
carrots, and melons. The Zigzag Virginia fences often supported a variety of
berry bushes or enclosed an orchard containing cherry, apple and peach trees.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It was generally the chore of children to tend to the
livestock such as milk cows, goats, sheep, and poultry like geese and chicken.
However hogs and cattle were allowed to roam free and forage for themselves
only identified by registered notches in their ears. Other animals found on
plantations were saddle horses, hunting and guard dogs as well as cats kept to
catch vermin attracted to the corn cribs. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The men and adolescent sons worked growing food staples
such as wheat, barley, oats, and Indian corn [Maize], which tended to require
short but intensive work. Flax was also grown to provide linen which along with
wool produced most of the clothes made for everyday wear. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A basic black smith shop was usually found on these
plantations to make and repair farming tools and household tools needed. All
these foodstuffs were consumed on the farm, although some surplus was sold
locally or exported like the famous Virginia hams which became prized throughout
the colonies. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Besides the general agriculture work most farmers also
had a specified trade such as John Moor who was a shoemaker. Occupations such
as cooper, chairmaker, smithy, or tailor would occupy the lives of these farmers
between harvesting and planting. Both John Williams the Emigrant and his
brother Thomas were probably cloth weavers as that the inventory of Thomas
Williams estate suggested. A document in North Carolina referred to John
Williams the Younger as a weaver a trade probably learned at home. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Virginia Gentry were the only class that could afford
leisure time and send their sons off to college often back in England. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As to the exact location of John Williams the Younger’
Surry County farm, it has not been identified exactly. From information found
in tax and tithing records it was within the jurisdiction of Lawnes Creek and
Southwark Parishes and from deed descriptions it appears that the plantation
was at a place located near Parson's Branch. This waterway was in Surry County
on the eastside of Blackwater River and Cypress Swamp. Here was the 150 acres farm
bequeathed to him in his father’s will, that was originally part of a 1200 acre
patent given to his father and brother-in-law, John Browne in the spring of
1685. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Emigrant divided his 600 acre share of
the 1200 acre parcel evenly among split to his sons John Williams the younger,
Thomas Williams, Nicholas Williams, and Richard Williams, with each son
receiving 150 acres. The other half of the 1200 acre tract belonged to John
Browne, a former son-in-law of John Williams the Emigrant. This land was
eventually given to John Browne’s sons by his 2nd marriage and appears to be
located near a planter named Timothy Walker. It is doubtful that if any of John
Williams the Emigrant’s sons other than John the Younger or perhaps Thomas
lived on this property but lived with their mother in Isle of Wight until they
came of age. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This original 1200 acre head right grant was in what was
often called the “Lower Lownes Parish”, however the boundary description of the
grant gives no geographical information, such as rivers or creeks, other than
its metes and bounds. The plat for the land did list the names the people whose
lands shared a border with the grant.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Roughly John Williams the Younger’s farm was located in
an area east of Cypress Swamp and west of Green Swamp. To the south was the
Blackwater River as it bends and to the north was Gray Creek. This area is
loosely known as the Third Swamp area of the Blackwater with Pigeon Creek and
Mill Swamp being the main tributaries flowing through the area back to the
Blackwater River. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The waterway called Parsons Branch or Creek is no longer found
on modern maps of Surry County but may have been a tributary of Blackwater. Nicholas
Session’s lands were on the south side of it of Parson Creek and John Williams
the Emigrant and John Browne’s plat of the 1200 acre grant started at the
boundary of the property of Nicholas Sessums. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A near neighbor of John Williams the Younger was Nicholas
Sessums who immigrated to Virginia in 1666 at the same time as John’s father,
father in law John Moor, his uncle Lewis Williams, and Rowland Pitts. They all
had been indentured servants as well but when Nicholas was done with his
contract he acquired property in Surry County and married well.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nicholas Sessums had married Hannah Culmer,
the widow of Robert Lane in the 1670’s. Hannah Sessums died prior to 1693 but
she and Nicholas had at least a son and two daughters. After her death,
Nicholas married a woman named Katherine, maiden name unknown, but probably a
widow. Katherine is first mentioned in a court lawsuit along with her husband
Nicholas in July 1693 in Surry County. Ten years later Katherine is shown in
May 1704 as relinquishing her dower rights to a tract of land Nicholas Sessums
gave to his daughter “Ann Williams,” who married John the Younger’s cousin
William. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Katherine is named as his wife
in Nicholas Sessum's will dated October 8, 1715 and probated October 21, 1716. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Nicholas Sessums’s lands were located primarily on Pigeon
Creek and Black Water River in Surry County where he had two patents equaling
1600 acres, but all in all he held nearly 1800 acres worked by numerous
servants and tenants. The tithing record for Southwark Parish in 1702 showed
that Nicholas Sessums had 4 servants living within his household and an
additional 98 other people living on his plantation property as tenants.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Patent grants and deed records from the 1670’s show
Nicholas Session acquiring large tracts of land in what was then the Lower Lawnes
Parish in Surray County. One patent dated from 30 May 1679 showed Sessums was
granted 550 acres on the Bridge Swamp in the Lower Parish of Surry County
between William Edwards and George Blow. A deed record from 2 March 1679 [1680]
showed that Sessums bought 100 acres on Green Swamp and the Bridge Swamp from
Richard Blow. This was part of an original 1663 patent that was given to George
Blow. One of the witnesses to this transaction was Sion Hill who would become
the guardian of Lewis Williams’ orphaned daughter Mary. Lewis Williams is
believed to be a brother or kinsman of John Williams the Emigrant. Robert
Littleboy who witnessed the will of Thomas Parnell the Cooper also lived in
this general vicinity. Another patent was from a grant dated 20 April 1684 for 1050
acres located on the south east side Pigeon Swamp. He received it for the
transportation of people to the colony. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From Nicholas Sessums’ line, probably on south side of
Pigeon Creek, the property of John Williams Emigrant’s 1200 acre patent went
north to Robert Savage’s [Savidge] plantation. Savage had received his 265 acre
patent dated 20 Apr 1682 near a parcel of land surveyed for Charles Savage,
possibly his son or brother. From Robert Savage’s place the property line went
to Charles Savage’s lands on a branch of the Blackwater River. Both Robert and
Charles received grants on 20 Apr 1682 next to each other. Charles Savage was
granted 570 acres also in the Lower Parish of Surry County. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The children of Nicholas and Hannah Culmer Sessums were
Thomas Sessums, Hannah Sessums who married William Black, and Ann Sessums who
married William Williams, the orphaned son of Lewis and Mary Williams. Lewis
and Mary both died in 1679 and their orphaned children were placed in homes of
William Newsum and Sion Hill.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Sessums was a contemporary with John Williams the
Younger and was born before 1677. He<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>married
to Elizabeth Smith the daughter of Richard Smith sometime in the late 1690s.
Thomas Sessums is shown in the 1693 Tithables List for Lawnes Creek Parish as
living within the household of his father there he was under the age of 16. The
will of Richard Smith and the deed of his brother in law Nicholas Smith both
mentioned Thomas Sessums. Nicholas Session’s <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>son, Thomas moved to Chowan Precinct North
Carolina prior to 1711 where he died in 1717 after to the death of his father. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The children of Thomas Sessums had business
interactions with John Williams the Younger in Bertie County so connections
between the two families continued for decades.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Other near neighbors who owned estates surrounding John
Williams the Emigrant and John Browne’s 1200 acres were among the most
prominent families of Surry County. They were George Blow, John Browne, Captain
Robert Caufield, William Edward, Sion Hill, Robert Lane, Robert Littleboy, William
Newsum, Charles Savage, Robert Savage, Richard Smith, Joseph Wall, and Thomas
Waller.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Charles Savage and Robert Savage held their lands on the
northern border of the 1200 acre grant and John Williams the Younger’s 150
acres were located near these men. The next neighbor over from Charles Savage
place was Richard Lane who was probably related to the late Robert Lane former
husband of Hannah Culmer the wife of Nicholas Sessums. In October 1682 Richard
Lane had bought 420 acre from Thomas Waller who had received his patent on 20
April 1682. This Waller/ Lane property line adjoined John Bynum on the east
side. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Richard Lane’s will was proved 3 May 1687 by Timothy
Walker and Charles “Savadge” [Savage] indicating that they were close
neighbors. Walker was a near neighbor of John Browne, John the Younger’s former
brother in law who owned half of the 1200 acre grabt. Richard Lane left his
estate to his wife Elizabeth, perhaps a Bynum, during her widowhood then, at
her remarriage, the property was to go two unnamed sons. Interestingly the
widow may have been the same Eliza Lane fined in 1690 for having two mulatto
bastard children.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From the Lane’s place the property line of the 1200 acre
grant went over to Captain Robert Caufield’s huge plantation at Blackwater
River and Sunken Marsh where the plat showed they shared over 2 miles of a
property line. Caufield has served in the House of Burgess with Captain William
Butler who transported John Williams the Emigrant and John Moor the Shoemaker to
America in 1666. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1679 Robert Caufield and Arthur Allen were the
administrators of the estate of the deceased Lewis Williams for his orphan
children William and Mary. Almost all the June Tithing records, for Surry County
in the 1690's, show that John Williams the Younger lived near William Williams,
the orphaned son of Lewis and Mary Williams. Already a large land owner
Caufield was granted 2250 acres on 29 April 1682 in the Lower parish Surry
County. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From Caufield’s plantation, the boundary line went to
Joseph Wall’s corner tree. The Wall’s lands were next to William Thompson who
lived on northeast side of Cypress Swamp. From Joseph Wall, the property line
adjoined Richard Smith’s lands on southside of Pigeon Creek. Richard Smith was
the father in law of Thomas Sessums son of Nicholas. Once back on the south
side of Pigeon Creek the property line extended to Richard Blow’s place and
from Richard Blow back to Nicholas Sessums. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Tithing Records of Surry County, Virginia
1692-1702</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The whereabouts and neighbors of John Williams the
Younger can be reconstructed through the Tithing Records of Surry County
“planters” which had mostly been preserved. The term "planter" was
nearly synonymous with "landowner". Whether viewed as a church "head
tax" or a state "poll tax", tithes were imposed on every
"planter" above the age of sixteen years. The tithable planters in a
parish jurisdiction consisted of all white males above the age of sixteen, imported
free persons above the age of sixteen, all male white servants, all female
white servants who “worked in the ground [fields]”, and all male and female
Negro and Indian servants whether above or under sixteen. The only ones not
counted as tithable were white females and their children under sixteen. These
tithing settlements seem to be always done around June 10th of each year.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Surry County near the Blackwater River was divided into the
Parishes of Lawnes Creek Parish and Southwark. The tithing records of these
parishes are useful for tracking John Williams the Younger and his near
neighbors of over a period of time. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lawne's Creek Parish’s jurisdiction was authorized by the
General Assembly January 1640 and it included lands on the southside of the
James River in what became Surry County. It went westward to the mouth of
Chippokes Creek. Southwark Parish was created in 1647 and described as
encompassing all the territory extending from College Creek to the Upper
Chippokes Creek. When Surry County was cut off from James City County in 1652,
both Lawne's Creek and Southwark Parishes then lay within it. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The area known as the 3rd Branch of the Main Blackwater
River evidently was in both Lawnes Creek and Southwark Parish according to land
deeds and parish tithing records and the property and tithables of John
Williams the Younger were taxed at different time in both precincts. It appears
that the lands on the northside of Pigeon Creek was in Lawnes Creek Parish
while those on the southside were in Southwark Parish.</span><br />
<span style="color: #009000; font-family: "arial";"></span><br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The first record of John Williams the Younger being a
land owner in Surrey County is in the 8 June 1692 tithing records of Lawnes
Creek Parish. John Williams the Younger is listed between Nicholas Sessums and
Robert Savage. Certainly John and Ann Williams were married by this time and
beginning their family. Sessums and Savage were both mentioned as neighbors in
the 1685 patent of his father. Savages property was north of Pigeon Creek. This
record is a good indicator that John Williams the younger chose to stay on his
plantation in Surry County rather than take the manor plantation in Isle of
Wight. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams brother in law, John Browne husband of his
late sister Anne, is also listed in Lawnes Creek Parish and listed living next
to Joseph Wall. Browne had a James Bragg listed in his household probably as an
indentured servant. The 1692 census also showed him as having James Bragg in
his household and living in Surry County at the time of John Willias the
Emigrant’s, his father-in-law, death. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Williams, son of Lewis Williams and cousin of
John Williams the Younger was listed in the household of William Newsum, who
was his guardian. He must have been at least 16 years old [born 1676 or
earlier] to have been listed in the record. The other Williamses in the same vicinity
were Roger Williams Senior and his son Roger Junior of the 3rd Main Branch of
Blackwater. DNA samples show that they were not related to John Williams the
Younger. They were listed in Southwark Parish so lived south of John Williams
the Younger. The father and son were listed as the sixth tithe payers from
Christopher Bly. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This Christopher Bly is
mentioned several times as a neighbor of John Williams the Younger in land
transactions, therefore Roger and John were near his neighbors at one tome and
would have known each other fairly well. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Browne was also taxed in Southwark Parish. He may
have been the same person whose 600 acre estate was taxed in each parish or
perhaps not. Also in Southwark Parish were George Williams the Quaker and a “Thomas
Williams” who was listed in the household of John Edwards probably as a laborer
or apprentice. He may have been the brother of John Williams the Younger as
that he would have been too young to have received his father’s inheritance.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following year, on 10 June 1693, tithing records of
Lawnes Creek Parish still showed that John Williams the Younger was living near
Nicholas Sessums but he was now listed three households away and not
immediately after Sessums. This is simply due to the order in which the tithe recorder
visited these households. Nicholas Sessums’ son must have turned 16 years old
[1677] for him to now be listed within his father’s household. Near neighbors
of John Williams were the households of Robert Lancaster and Henry Savage whose
relationship to Robert and Charles Savage is not determined. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Browne is still listed having James Bragg in his
household living about eight households from Robert Savage and about five
households from Charles Savage. It is doubtful that these men were moving
around but just were listed in whatever direction the tithing recorder went. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In Southwark Parish, in June 1693, Roger Williams Sr. and
Roger Jr. are living near the households of Thomas Waller, John Bynum, and
George Blow who were listed as neighbors in the Williams and Browne 1200 acre
plat from 1685 which indicated that John Williams the Emigrants original grant was
located in both Lawnes Creek and Southwark Parishes. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Tithing records from 1693 show that Francis Regan and
Christopher Bly were neighbors in lower Southwark Parish. Evidently John
Williams the Younger’s plantation was on the division between Southwark and
Lawnes Parishes as that a deed dated 4 July 1693, showed that Francis Regan and
his wife Jane [Gross], Planter of Southwark Parish, sold to William Ward, 200
acres for 2000 pounds of tobacco "up Parsons Branch", adjoining
"Christopher Bly and a corner of John Williams." </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the end of year, on 9 Dec 1693 , back in Isle of
Wight, Phillip Reyford [Raiford], who had property adjoining the deceased John
Williams the Emigrant, his brother Thomas Williams, and John Moor at Jenkins
Pond in Isle of Wight County, gave power of attorney to John Giles to pursue a
lawsuit against “John Williams and John Browne” </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“Know all men by these p'sents, y.t [that] I Phillip
Reyford of ye Isle of Wight County, do ordaine, & appoint for me and in my
Stead John Giles of ye afores.d my true and Lawfull attorney to appear for me
in ye Isle of Wight County Court, their [there] to prosecute on my behalfe John
Brown [Browne] and John Williams & his wife untill both ye businesses are
brought to Judgem't as wittnessed my hand this 9.th day of December 1693."
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">What the suit was about is unknown but it would have
involved John Williams the son of Thomas Williams and not John Williams the
Younger. John Williams the Emigrant had willed his 200 acre share of the
property at Jenkins Pond that joined Thomas Williams’ estate to his second son
William Williams. When Thomas Williams died the property descended to his children.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The legal guardian of William Williams, the orphan of
Lewis Williams, was William Newsum Senior who had by 1693. His wife remarried to
a George Foster and William Williams, the ward of Newsum, was now listed within
the household of George Foster. He must have wanted to stay with the woman who
raised him. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>George Foster’s place was in
the Lawnes Creek Parish Jurisdiction as that is where he paid his taxes. John
Browne was listed five households away from George Foster’s place. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the Southwark Parish George Williams the Quaker and
Thomas Williams were located. Whether this Thomas Williams was the brother of
John the younger is unknown but entirely likely. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The tithing records of Lawnes Creek Parish from 9 June
1694 listed John Williams the Younger as the household that was visited
preceding Robert Savage and five households after Nicholas Sessums and his son
Thomas Sessums. Between Robert Savage and Charles Savage was William Ward who
had previously in 1693 bought 200 acres from Francis Regan. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As a landed planter John Williams the Younger was called
upon to serve on Grand Juries and to assess the properties of deceased
neighbors but that was about it. A record from of the Isle of Wight Court showed
that he was appointed 10 October 1694 as a public surveyor replacing Peter
Vasser who was most likely his uncle and who would have taught him that skill. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The tithing records for 15 June 1695 show that John
Williams the Younger was still living next Robert Savage in Lawnes Creek
Parish. Five household away was Charles Savage’s place. Next to Charles Savage
was Robert Littleboy who had witnessed the will of Thomas Parnell in 1688. Thomas
Parnell was the father in law of Ann Moore Williams’s sister Elizabeth Parnell.
Also next to Charles Savage’s property was that of George Foster, however
William Williams is no longer listed in this household. He must have turned 21
years old [born circa1674] and he was now residing in Southwark Parish with two
indentured servants Robert Hart and Robert Barham. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Browne was listed in Lawnes Creek Parish next to
Joseph Wall but his household no longer included James Bragg. Browne was listed
as 12 households from Nicholas Sessum and his son Thomas. In Southwark Parish
Francis Regan is listed as next to Christopher Bly. Bly had two indentured
servants Ben Archer and William Huggins. Francis Regan had two indentured
servants John Thompson and Ed Barro. He also had two African slaves named Roger
and Mingo. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 5 May 1696 William Ward, nearly three years after
buying 200 acres from Francis Regan, sold that property to Henry Savage. This
deed gave a better description of the location of that farm.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It stated that this property was located near
Cypress Swamp on the Parson Branch of a tributary of the Blackwater River. The
parcel adjoined the lands of Christopher Bly, Francis Regan, and John Williams.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Interestingly, the Court records from Surry County reveal
that both the Regan and Bly families had colorful if unsavory reputation.
Francis Regan’s parents were strong supporters of the Bacon Rebellion in 1676.
His mother was even taken during the Bacon Rebellion and given ten lashes at
the “public whipping post” for fomenting “many malignant and rebellious words
tending to sedition.” His father was accused of burning a house down on the
parish’s lands for its nails. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Christopher Bly was convicted in a Surry Court in 1695
for “fornication” with Sarah Brown. Christopher Bly may have been a Quaker and
as their marriage would not have been recognized this may have been the cause
of the fornication accusations. A court record from 24 November 1685 show that
Christopher Bly was fined for not going to church and a Daniel Regan was fined
50 pounds of tobacco for “profaning the Sabbath.” A pound of tobacco was worth
about 2 pence. Another record dated 3 May 1687 shows that Bly was arrested for
not attending church and had to provide a bond with “good security” for
“contempt”. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Christopher Bly moved from Surry County, Virginia to
Albemarle County, North Carolina where Quakers were accepted at least by 1700.
A deed there dated 2 April 1700 shows that Bly bought 168 acres from Thomas
Everit “in Rockahock Neck being on Chowan River above ye sandy beach.” Bly
certainly was going back and forth between Surry and North Carolina for the
next several years because a deed filed in Chowan Precinct dated 1 April 1706
refers to Bly as a planter “of ye Colony of Virginia.” He was selling land to
Thomas Snowden of Perquimans Precinct in Albemarle County, North Carolina. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Bly was dead however by 1710 when his widow “Sarah” Bly
gave Power of Attorney to John Ward, formerly of Lawnes Creek Parish Surry
County, Virginia, to acknowledge the sale of “land by my husband Christopher
Bly” to Thomas Snowden. The POA deed was not dated but deeds dated prior and
after were from 1710. John Ward was probably a relative of William Ward.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The June 1696 tithing record for Lawnes Creek Parish now
listed John Williams the Younger as next to Thomas Sessums, who was now of age
and out of his father’s household. Nicholas Sessums, who was five households
away from Thomas, had a slave within his household. By this time William
Williams was now Nicholas’ son in law and was listed within Nicholas’
household. Robert Savage and Charles Savage were listed preceding John Williams.
Near them was the household of George Foster. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Ward whose farm bordered John Williams
the Younger was about 5 households from John Browne and Robert Littleboy in
Lawnes Creek Parish.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There was little change in the 1697 tithing records of
Lawnes Creek Parish. George Foster was listed followed by planters Robert
Ruffins, Thomas Jarrell Senior and Junior. After the Jarrells came Thomas
Partridge, followed by Nicholas Sessums. Within Sessums household was Thomas
Barrow and a slave named Tom. This certainly was the unnamed slave in the 1696
records. Next to his father was Thomas Sessums, and after him was William
Williams the son of Lewis Williams. Immediately following William Williams was
John Williams the Younger who lived next to Charles Savage and Robert Savage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Some distance away from John Williams the Younger was his
brother Thomas Williams who is listed next to John Clarke, a few households
away from Robert Lancaster’s place. John Clark was a Quaker. In 1693 John
Williams the younger had been listed a near neighbor of Robert Lancaster so by
this time it appears that John’s younger brother Thomas had moved to the 150
acres that his father had left him. In lower Southwark Parish Henry Savage was
listed. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the age of 26 years, John Williams the Younger was
shown to have served on the Grand Jury of Surry County from January 1698
through March 1698 as he was a prominent land owner of the area. He would have
been about 27 years old at the time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before the 10 June 1698 tithing settlement could be
taken, Robert Savage died prior to May 1698. John Williams the younger and his
brother Thomas Williams must have been witnesses to the will as that the Surry
County Court called upon them to prove "by oath" the Last Will and
Testament of Robert Savage. John Browne, Timothy Walker, and Robert Lancaster
were all ordered by the court to appraise the estate of Savage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1698 list of Surry County tithables in “Lower Lawnes
Creek Parish” included Thomas Williams who lived next to Thomas Lane. Two
households down from Thomas Williams was his brother-in-law John Browne. Among
those following them were Joseph Wall Sr. and Robert Littleboy. Some distance
away was the household of Nicholas Sessums with two men working for him and a
slave named John. After Nicholas came William Williams and then Thomas Sessums
followed by Charles Savage and then John Williams the Younger. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 27 April 1699 John Williams the younger at the age of
28 acquired an additional patent of 650 acres through the head right system of
Virginia. His patent stated that he transported 13 people to Virginia. He had
become quite prosperous to pay for the passage of so many people. How many he
kept as indentured servants for himself, if any, is unknown. However with all
his sons still under the age of 10 years, certainly he needed laborers to
maintain his farms. On this property that he acquired at “Gravelly Run”, John
Williams erected a mill which is the only clue where this property was located.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the 3 June 1699 when the Tithing Records were recorded,
John Williams the Younger is no longer listed in Lawnes Creek Parish near Nicholas
Sessums and Charles Savages. Whether he moved to his new patent or the parish
boundaries had shifted is unknown but now he was listed in “lower Southwark
Parish and as living next to Francis Regan. Francis Regan was listed two
households after Quaker George Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At this time John Williams the Younger was living
among many Quakers. Near him was the Quaker Thomas Warren who after he died in
the 1730s, Thomas Williams married his widow. She was the former Susannah
Blunt. Whether this Thomas Williams was the brother of John Williams the
Younger or his nephew is undetermined.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However Thomas Williams, John Williams’ brother, was
listed just three households down from Warren in 1699. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There is no record of John Williams the Younger selling his
lands in Lawnes Creek Parish but after 1699 there’s no record of him there
either. However Nicholas Sessums, Thomas Sessums, and William Williams all remained
in that parish. Tithing records there showed that Nicholas Sessums still had
two servants and a slave named Tom. The slave, named John in 1698, is an
enigma. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">All of John Williams’ children who were born prior to
1699 were probably born in lower Lawnes Creek Parish. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All of John and Ann Williams children after
1699 were probably born in lower Southwark Parish. On the 10 June 1700 tithing
records of “lower Southwark Parish,” have John the Younger listed next to
Francis Regan and not too far from Henry Savage. He also has two men working
for him now. They were named Richard Smith Sr. and Thomas Smith perhaps men he
transported in 1699. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Williams, John Browne, George Williams the Quaker,
Roger Williams Sr, and Jr., and Sion Hill all are listed within the same taxing
jurisdiction of lower Southwark Parish. Thomas Williams is only about two
properties away from George Williams the Quaker and some distance away from
John the Younger. Thomas was listed between the Middleton and Sweet families
and near Samuel Thompson who had also been a legal guardian for Mary Williams
the orphaned daughter of Lewis Williams and a cousin of both John and Thomas.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1700 Thomas Williams found himself indebted to Samuel
Thompson. On 14 October 1700 Thompson filed a complaint in Surry Court against
Thomas Williams and on the following 9 November a judgment against Williams was
granted to Thompson. However, at least by that time, Thomas Williams had
“departed the country” and Thompson took 714 pounds of tobacco from his former estate.
Thomas Williams evidently fled across the Blackwater River to the Seacock
Branch area of the Isle of Wight to start over.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 10 June 1701 tithing records recorded show that John
Williams the Younger had his younger brother Nicholas Williams living within
his household. Nicholas would have been close to 18 years old now and perhaps
ready to accept his father’s 150 acres legacy. The brothers were listed between
neighbors Francis Regan and Henry Savage in Southwark Parish. Their
brother-in-law John Browne and their Browne cousins live about 10 household
away but in same vicinity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1702 it appears that John Williams the younger and his
brothers had moved out from Surry County altogether. The 1702 tithing record
for Southwark showed that John Williams, Thomas Williams, and Nicholas Williams
are absent from where they had been living among their neighbors who had remained.
John Browne is the only member of John Williams Senior’s family who seemed to
have remained on the original 1685 land grant. The family probably moved back
to Isle of Wight County where Thomas Williams is found on the Seacock Swamp on
the west side of the Blackwater and John Williams may have returned to his
mother’s estate of which he was the sole heir. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thus it appears that John the Younger lived about 10
years from 1691 to 1701 between the ages of 20 and 30 years on a farm located in
Lawnes Creek and Southwark Parishes along a tributary waterway called Parson
Branch. During the decade John Williams the Younger lived in Surry County it
appears that he was too busy with his farms to be bothered by politics. Or
perhaps with the predominance of Quakers in his community election to public
office might have been difficult. From court minutes from Surry, Isle of Wight,
Chowan, and Bertie Counties, John Williams did not seem much interested in
serving in any type of public office beyond civic duties. As a landed planter
he was called upon to serve on Grand Juries and assess property of deceased
neighbors but that was about it. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Return to Isle of Wight County 1702 - 1712</span></b></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">For over a decade John Williams the Younger lived and
prospered in Lawnes Creek Parish and Southwark Parishes, Surry County,
Virginia. Here he built his first home, had most of his children, raised his
crops, and his livestock and built a mill. But by 1702, he had returned to Isle
of Wight County. The Tithing Records of Isle of Wight from this period are lost
so where he moved to his unknown. During this period many colonists were
leaving lands on the east side of the Blackwater River and moving to lands
between the river and the Nottoway River to the west. Or they were heading
south into Nansemond County or even into the Albemarle Sound region of the Carolinas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the turn of the 18<sup>th</sup> century most of the good land in Southside Virginia had already been claimed and was now expensive. There were no more free cultivatable land left to be patented east of the Blackwater River and many sons of earlier landowners had moved west of the Blackwater into lands bounded by the Nottoway River. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Even when new lands opened near the Nottoway Indians lands on the Nottoway River, they were quickly occupied by wealthier slave owning families. Economic opportunities were simply drying up along the tributaries of the Blackwater River as land suitable for farming nearly all had been taken and the head right system for acquiring cheap labor as well as land was ending. Until the early eighteenth century indentured servitude of white Britons was the preferred method of bondage in Virginia, however middling farmers like John Williams the Younger could no longer depend on the use of indentured servants for cheap reliable labor as did his father. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Williams, the younger
brother of John Williams the Younger was married to Mary Moore the daughter of Judge
George Moore Esq., and Mary Barcroft. She may have been a cousin of
Ann Moore Williams. William was about 15 years old when his father died in 1692
and bequeathed to him the 200 acres Plantation on Jenkins Pond in the Isle
of Wight County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Williams seemed
to have inherited more land from his father then his siblings and in 1694 his
mother Anne Vasser Williams left him two cows in her deed of gift to her
children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Williams and Mary Moore
married most likely about 1698 and had at least three sons, John, Samuel, and
Stephen and at least two unnamed daughters. The couple was only married about
11 years before William died and thus it is extremely unlikely they had more
than six children at the most. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Williams as a young married
man soon added to his lands in Isle of Wight by becoming one of the early
patentees in the Nottoway Basin between the west side of the Main Blackwater River
and the east side of the Nottoway River in an area that eventually became
Nottoway Parish. These lands today are located in Southampton County when it
was created from Isle of Wight lands west of Black water.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 28 October 1702, William Williams
received a patent of 600 acres from Governor Francis Nichols on the “westside
of Blackwater” on lands that are just north of where the town of Franklin is
today. Other patentees on the same day were James Bryan, Thomas Joyner whose
daughter married Thomas Williams, the brother of William and John the Younger.
The following year on 24 April 1703, William Williams added an additional 400
acres of land located in the Nottoway Basin. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 1704 Quit Rent records of Virginia show that John the
Younger and his brother Thomas Williams had returned to Isle of Wight County.
In 1704 he was about 33 years old. A quit rent was a tax of 1 shilling for
every 50 acres of property paid to the English crown. There are two John
Williamses in Isle of Wight who had to pay a Quit Rent on their lands. One was
a John Williams who had 600 acres and was recorded as next to Peter Vasser who
had 230 acres. John Williams the Younger’s mother was Anne Vasser therefore Peter
would have been his uncle. The other John Williams had the 971 acre plantation
by Henry Pope who was a Quaker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John the Younger’s brother William
Williams is also listed on the Quit Rent list of 1704 as owning 1000 acres of
land in Isle of Wight County however with his inherited 200 acres, the 600 acre
patent and 1703 patent he should have been listed as owning 1200 acres unless
he had already sold off some of his estates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In April 1704, William and Mary Williams
began to sell much of his land in Isle of Wight County, in smaller tracts, to
Thomas Kirby, John Barnes, Thomas Boone, and to his brothers John Williams,
Nicholas Williams, and Richard Williams. Evidently by April 1704 William
Williams began divesting his lands in Isle of Wight perhaps in preparation of a
move south into Albermarle County in the Carolinas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A series of land deeds made 3 April
1704 and recorded April 10<sup>th</sup> were filed in Isle of Wight’s deed
records from William and Mary Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">William and his wife sold to Thomas Boone 150 acres on the
Southside of the Blackwater Swamp it being part of a pattent of Six hundred
acres of land<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“in consideration of the
sum of Six thousand pounds of tabacco sold to Thomas Kirby 250 acres part of
the 600 acre grant. The Witnesses to the sell were his brothers John Williams
the Younger and Nicholas Williams as well as John Barnes. He then sold to
John Barnes 100 acres for “five thousand pounds of good sound merchantable lot
& cash.” John Williams the Younger again acted as a witness along with Mary
Williams, Richard Williams, and John Underwood. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Williams then sold to his brothers John the Younger, Nicholas
Williams and Richard Williams. Nicholas Williams bought 110 acres for in “consideration
of ye just quantity of five Thousand pounds of good sound merchantable
Lot & cash to me in hand paid on ye Southside of ye Blackwater Swamp.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Williams bought 125 acres “in
consideration of ye just quantity of nine thousand pounds of good sound
merchantable lot & cash to me in hand parcell of land containing one
hundred & twenty five acres of being on ye South side of Blackwater Swamp
beginning upon the upper side of Nottaway Swamp.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Richard Williams bought 100 acres also “in
consideration of ye such quantity of five thousand dollars of good sound
merchantable Tobacco & cash to me in hand paid or otherwise will &
sufficiently secured to be paid.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John the Younger’s Thomas Williams was by 1704
married to Miss Joyner and was living on Seacock Swamp, a branch of the
Blackwater on the west side. Thomas Williams, on the most part is not involved
in any of the many land transactions that his older brother William Williams
was involved in with every one of his other brothers, John, Nicholas, and
Richard. This may be due to his insolvency. Thomas Williams had married the
daughter of Thomas Joyner. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the Isle
of Wight Deed Book Thomas Joyner called Thomas Williams his “son-in-law”. On 9
August 1704, Thomas Joyner, Sr. of Lower Parish, gave to his son-in-law Thomas
Williams <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>a deed of gift containing 150
acres on the south side of Blackwater Swamp, bounded by Seacock Swamp and
Terrapin Swamp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 6 February 1708 [1709]
William Williams and his wife Mary sold off more land when they sold 70 acres
of land lying on the southside of Blackwater Swamp, part of a patent of 400
acres granted on April 24, 1703. When the family of William Williams actually
relocated to Chowan Precinct in the Albemarle County is unknown, and may have been
there as early as 1709. They were definitely there before December 1711 when
William Williams made out his will in Chowan Precinct. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The migration in to the Albemarle Sound by Southside
Virginians began in earnest in the late 1690s as folks from Nansemond County
Virginia continued to move southward following the Blackwater River as it
merged into the Chowan River which flowed into the Albemarle Sound. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There they encountered the Chowan and Meherrin
Indians. Lewis Williams of Nansemond County, a relative of George the Quaker, was one of the first of these pioneers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As that the boundary between the two colonies was not
legally fixed and so ill defined, many settlers in the Albemarle Sound area thought they were still in
Virginia simply <span style="color: black;">following the rivers that flowed out of Virginia into the Albemarle Sound. <span style="color: #1d2129;">Even at the time John Williams the Younger acquired lands in the Carolina Colony, its border with Virginia was in dispute and had been for over fifty years. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">Many Virginians who filed for land along the tributaries of the Chowan River believed their lands were part of Nansemond County Virginia and not in Albemarle County, North Carolina. </span><span style="color: #1d2129;">Thus for decades much of the land within the old boundary of Chowan Precinct was considered to be within Nansemond County, Virginia. The entire boundary for the Carolina Colony, the huge tract of land between Virginia and Spanish Florida owned by the <span style="color: black;">Proprietary Lords in Great Britain</span>, was in fact not legally defined until well into the 18th Century. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Northern Carolina was basically ignored by the Proprietary Lords in Great Britain so that the colony was a haven for pirates, outlaws, and Quakers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As that t</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hese</span> early settlers often did not know who had
jurisdiction over their lands, this lack of clear title kept many nervous Virginians from moving to the Carolinas. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1713 John Williams the Younger was preparing to move
his family south out of Isle of Wight to the Colony of Carolina specifically
northern Carolina along the waterways that flowed into the Albemarle Sound. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Sound is the second largest coastal
estuary in America with only the Chesapeake Bay being is larger. It is located
on the northern coast of North Carolina at the confluence of a group of rivers
that includes the Chowan, Meherrin, Cashie, and Roanoke. It is separated from
the Atlantic Ocean by a group of islands known as the Outer Banks. It is here
that the earliest attempts at establishing an English Colony were made in 1586.
The attempt is now known as the Lost Colony of Roanoke. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">To this entire region the name of Virginia was given,
named after Queen Elizabeth I as that she was often referred to as the Virgin
Queen for having never married. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After a
permanent colony was founded some twenty years later at Jamestown, the entire
British North American colony was known as Virginia. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In these early days there were no wagon roads into
Carolina from Virginia. The only trails were the footpaths created by centuries
of use by Native Americans. Pathways into the Sound were by the rivers Roanoke,
Meherrin, and Chowan which flowed out of Virginia or by ship down the Atlantic
Coast into the Sound. Elizabeth Town was established on the eastern side of the
Chowan River on a peninsula which was later renamed Edenton. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The main waterway flowing into the Sound was the Chowan
River which is formed from the convergence of the Black Water and the Nottoway
Rivers now just north of the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia. The
Chowan River received its English name long before the others water ways of the
Sound. It was named in 1584 by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, who
were sent to explore the region by Sir Walter Raleigh. It was named for the the
"Chowanook", or Chowanoke People which name was then shortened to
Chowan. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Meherrin River, west of the Nottoway River in
Virginia, flows southeasterly into North Carolina where it eventually joins the
Chowan River. Today it forms the Hertford-Northampton County boundary line for
approximately nine miles. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Roanoke River </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the
eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia southeast across the
Piedmont where it </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">empties into Batchelor
Bay about eight miles due east of the mouth of the Cashie River</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> in the Albemarle Sound. The river's
lower course began to be settled by Virginians about the middle of the 17th
century, in what was known as the Albemarle Settlements. An important river
throughout the history of the United States, it was the site of early
settlement in the Virginia Colony and the Carolina Colony. The name Roanoke is
derived an Algonquian word for wampum however in North Carolina the Roanoke </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">was first named the “Morratock” an Indian word meaning
“muddy water’. The Roanoke River makes up the entire southeastern shoreline of
Bertie County. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Cashie River where the Williams
family first settled when first coming into North Carolina is a slow moving but
beautiful river. It is pronounced ca-shy, and has sometimes been spelled Kesiah
or Cashy.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Total river length is about 55 miles, all contained within
Bertie County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Approximately 25 miles
are navigable from where it empties into the Albemarle Sound next to the
Roanoke River Delta. Settlers moved into the area by following the Chowan River
and the Salmon River. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Much of the land in the Albemarle Sound is swampy or
marshy in nature. It was not suitable to support the gentry class of wealthy
planters like in Virginia and South Carolina where 10,000 of acres of land were
owned by a few families. However it was well suited for middling planters and
small farmers. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The area’s lowland swamps were filled with tall
canebrakes that stretched as far as the eye could see and bred swarms of
mosquitoes and gnats. Moss hung from tree boughs in the wetlands, home to
numerous game animals, birds, fish and poisonous snakes such as copperheads,
water moccasins, and canebrake rattlesnakes. Predators like bears, panthers,
and wolves roamed freely feeding on the plentiful deer and other game animals. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The sound was also covered by forests of white pine, bald
cypress, tupelo, juniper and Atlantic white cedar trees. A forestry industry
eventually created an economy based on tar and pitch as well as farming
tobacco. Tar or pitch was treated as currency as well as tobacco. Documents
showed that John Williams the Younger traded tar for property in one of his
many land acquisitions. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the tops of elevated areas of lands in the Albemarle
County were found another type of swamp that the native people called
“Pocosins” which simply meant "swamp-on-a-hill". This term is unique
to land descriptions of early land deeds. At certain times these pocosins were
filled with water that would gradually drain. The English sought out lands
containing these pocosins because they retained their moisture and didn't erode
as did lands by streams and creeks. Conflict over who owned title to these lands
brought the Meherrin Nation of the area into conflict with English settlers.
Lewis Williams, a pioneer of Chowan Precinct, was even wounded by the Meherrins
in a quarrel over property . </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Proprietary Colony of Carolina </span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The story of Carolina’s first fifty years is one of
turmoil brought about by “political conflict, corrupt officials, unpaid taxes,
incompetent proprietors, open rebellion, angry Indians, and rapacious pirates.”
But at the same time, the colonists were building a new society along the
coast, with farms, towns, and a quietly functioning local government. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Carolina Colony was not established until after the
restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. King Charles II granted an
enormous tract of land in 1663 to English Lords who had supported him in his exile
and who had helped him reclaim his father’s throne. In the king’s honor the “Lords
Proprietors” named their new possession “Carolina”. This new colony was an
immense tract of land of 400 miles vaguely defined as lands between the Cooper
and Ashley Rivers in the south and the Albemarle Sound to the north. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">South Carolina and North Carolina technically constituted
a single province, but, as the settlements were far apart generally at
Charleston on the Ashley River, New Bern on the Neuse River, and Edenton on the
Chowan River, there were always separate local governments. Until 1691 the two
parts of the Carolinas each had its own governors, but from 1691 to 1712 there
was usually a governor at Charles Town and a deputy governor for the northern
settlements in Albemarle County. “As the two locales evolved separately and as
their differing geographies and inhabitants steered contrasting courses, calls
for a formal split emerged. In 1712, the Carolinas again had separate governors
and it is generally accepted at that time the proprietary colony was divided
into North and South Carolina. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The many of earliest inhabitants of the Albemarle Sound
region were displaced former indentured servants of Virginia who established
small tobacco farms. Slavery existed here, but in far smaller numbers than in
the neighboring regions of Virginia and Charleston. Northern Carolina, like
Rhode Island in New England also drew the region's discontented religious masses
especially the Quakers. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Lords Proprietors, desiring a quick settlement of their colony, offered
inducements consisting of religious toleration and political representation in
an assembly to attract emigrants. The fact that the Lords Proprietors allowed
settlers of any religion to settle in Carolina, allowed Virginian Quakers to
establish a foothold in the region. George Fox, the founder of the Society of
Friends [Quakers], even came to Albemarle County in 1672 to establish his
church there. The Virginia Quakers soon followed and eventually dominated all
branches of government for nearly 20 years. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Quakers from Virginia became entrenched in North Carolina helped in 1694 by
John Archdale, the only Quaker Lord Proprietor. When an avowed Anglican
supporter, Henderson Walker, became governor in 1699 more Anglican Virginians
began to move to North Carolina. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Anglicans felt that they were being discriminated against in political
matters by the Quakers and the two groups began to clash. Governor Walker
attempted to establish the Church of England as the official state religion of Northern
Carolina when he passed the Vestry Act of 1701 which divided the colony into
parishes. The act also levied a tithing tax upon all settlers to maintain
Anglican churches and to pay its ministers. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Anglicans’ position over the Quakers was strengthened in 1702 after
Queen Anne took the British throne. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Loyalty oaths to the queen were now required
for all public officials. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Oath taking
was against the tenets of the Quaker religion. Quaker officials maintained that
simply “affirming” their loyalty to the queen should be acceptable as they
objected to a mandatory oath swearing as it would preclude them from public
office. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anglican officials now empowered by Governor Walker, however refused to
accept “affirming” as sufficient and began to enforce loyalty oaths as a way to
wrestle political power away from the Quakers. As this loyalty oath act had the
potential to bar all Quakers from public office in North Carolina, the colony
quickly split into separate factions called the Church Party and the Quaker
Party. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As that Quakers made up a large portion of the colony's early population, they
were glad to be rid of Governor Walker when he died in 1703. For two years
North Carolina was without a governor and the Quakers reassumed their positions
in the North Carolina governing council.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1705 Thomas Cary, a South Carolinian and step son of John Archdale the
only Quaker Lord Proprietor, was named governor. Governor Cary enforced an oath
of allegiance to the Anglican Church which forced the Quakers out of the state
legislature. The Quaker Party sent an emissary to England to meet with the
Lords Proprietors. John Archdale commanded that Cary be removed from office. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During this time, William Glover was acting Governor of Carolina and he too
resolved to keep Quakers out of office. The Quaker Party then formed an
alliance with Cary who then switched his allegiance to the Quaker party. Thomas
Cary reclaimed the governorship and then appointed a number of Quakers to
office. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1708 Cary managed to oust Glover from office and force the more ardent
supporters of the Church party to flee to Virginia. From 1708 to 1710, Cary and
the Quaker party dominated the political life of the colony once again and
about this time many of John Williams the younger’s Quaker relatives and
friends moved to North Carolina. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Cary's government remained in control until 7 December 1710, when the Lords
Proprietors, disappointed with the reports of chaotic conditions in the colony,
appointed Edward Hyde, a relative of Queen Anne, as Governor of North Carolina,
separate from the Governor of South Carolina. In January 1711, Edward Hyde
arrived in North Carolina and claimed the governorship of the colony. Upon
taking office, nullified all of Cary's laws and reinstated laws establishing
the Church of England as the official church of the colony. Cary, backed by the
Quaker Party refused to recognize Hyde and planned a coup. Cary claimed he was
still governor until such time as Hyde could produce his commission from the
Lords Proprietors. This action prompted the conflict that became known as
Cary’s Rebellion. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Years of bitter political and religious strife had now split the colony
into two armed camps. Edward Hyde held his position from his home on Salmon
Creek in what is now Bertie County and Cary maintained his stronghold at his
plantation near the town of Bath on the Pamlico River. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Hyde declaring Cary in rebellion assembled an armed force of 80 men from
the Salmon Creek area in May 1711 and rendezvoused with 70 more men on the
south shore of the Roanoke River and marched south from the Albemarle Sound to
the Pamlico Sound. The fact that so few people lived in Albemarle County at
this time, the probability of some relatives and friends of John Williams the
Younger were involved in the conflict is great. When the forces of Hyde reached
Bath, they found Cary well fortified with cannons and forty men and was
unsuccessful in his attempt to capture Cary. This failure had a large number of
men rallying to Cary’s side and he went on the offensive. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In June 1711 Thomas Cary outfitted a two-mast brigantine vessel of six
small cannons and several smaller vessels and began an attack on Hyde and his
council at the home of Colonel Thomas Pollock on the Chowan River.
Unfortunately for Cary, a lucky shot from one of the two cannon Hyde had
severed one of the brigantine’s mast. The damage so discouraged Cary’s forces
that they stopped the attack and returned to Bath. Hyde then led another
attempt to capture Cary and his followers which failed. The two governors were
at a stand off until Royal Governor Alexander Spottswood of Virginia became
involved in the conflict.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Spottswood sent a company of royal marines stationed in the Chesapeake Bay
to aid Hyde in mid-July, 1711. The royal marines’ arrival ended the conflict
when Cary’s men were unwilling to fire upon the royal forces and become subject
to treason against the British Crown. Cary’s attempt to reclaim the
governorship collapsed in a comedy of errors and he with his chief lieutenants
were seized and sent in chains to England. There he was tried and acquitted for
lack of evidence. He returned peacefully to Carolina. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The disrupting effects of the conflict between the Church Party and the
Quaker that led to the rebellion kept the North Carolina courts and colonial
government in general from functioning from 1708 to 1711. The conflict of the
first half of 1711 exacerbated “the complaints of the poor men & families,
who have been so long in arms that they have lost their crops & will want
bread.” Conditions became especially desperate in the summer of 1711 when a
severe drought reduced crop harvests and an outbreak of Yellow Fever added to
the hardship and suffering of the settlers. B</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">y
the end of July Edward Hyde had triumphed. However Governor Hyde’s victory was short
as he died the following year of Yellow Fever.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Whether or not John Williams the
Younger’s brother William Williams was involved in any of the conflict
involving Cary's Rebellion, from 1708 until July 1711, the courts and
government in North Carolina ceased to function. On every side "the
complaints of the poor men & families, who have been so long in arms that
they have lost their crops & will want bread," could be heard. Even where
crops had been planted and tended, a drought during the summer of 1711 had
severely damaged their yield. Additionally yellow fever raged through the
colony, during the summers of 1711 and 1712 bringing death to many of the early
settlers.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">During this transition into two colonies the Native
Americans seized the opportunity to try and drive the colonists off their
lands. The Tuscarora Indians in North Carolina went to war in the Neuse River
area in 1711 and were not defeated until 1713.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As the Cary Rebellion was concluding, an outbreak of hostilities between
the Tuscarora Nation and the English settlers was to ravage even more the
fever-racked colony.<span style="color: #1d2129; margin: 0px;"> Without a strong central
government to keep the peace after the Cary Rebellion, an Indian War broke out
between the Tuscarora Nation and the English Colonists. The Indians had
strategically taken advantage of the civil war between rival governors to
retaliate against the settlers.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Before the coming the English, the Nansemond, Chowanoke,
Meherrin, Nottoway, and Tuscarora nations made the Albemarle Sound region their
home. These native people lived in villages where they farmed small plots on
which they grew tobacco, corn, beans, and squash. After the Virginia settlers
came many were dependent on the local Indians and their gardens for food stuff.
</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The first nations
of Albemarle Sound learned to produce good crops on these pocosin wetlands by
burning the fields despite its lack of nitrogen by burning the fields. The
ashes became a fertilizer to compensate for the soil’s natural deficiencies. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Native Americans controlled most of the North
Carolina in the early 18th Centuries and the encroachment of English and German
settlers on the fertile lands of the Indian Nations, unrestrained by any
government controls, led to an ever increasing animosity between the tribes and
the settlers. The Nations of the Albemarle Sound were on the most part a
peaceful people but once the Virginia settlers made their way into the area,
seeking new lands to farm, conflict arose due to the lack of a strong
government in northern Carolina. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Some of the earliest land grants along Chowan River in
the Carolinas were given as early as the 1690’s. Planters from Virginia began
to patent large tracts in lands that had belonged to the Meherrin and Tuscarora
Nations. This encroachment by Virginians led some Meherrin Indians to attack
settlers, even Lewis Williams who was attacked <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in his own home in 1707. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lewis Williams, probably a descendant of George Williams
the Quaker of Surry County, had moved to Chowan Precinct from Nansemond County
in the 1690’s. In a quarrel with the Meherrin Indians over land, Lewis Williams
was severely wounded in the attack but managed to drive them off. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A colonial record, dated 26 October 1726,
referred to this trouble Lewis Williams had with the Meherrins Indians.
Evidently some Mount Pleasant Meherrin Indians were angry with Williams at
being removed from their lands. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The record stated, “Settled at Mount Pleasant where Capt.
Downing now lives but being very Troublesome there [referring to the
Meherrins], one Lewis Williams drove them higher up [side of a hill] and got an
order from the government that they should never come on the So. Side
[southside] of Wickkacones Creek [Wiccoson Creek] and they Settled at
Catherines Creek, a place since called Little Towne but they being still
Mischievous by order of the Government Collonel Pollock [Thomas Pollack]
brought in the Chief of them before the Governor and Council And they were then
Ordered by the Government never to appear on the South side of Maherrin
[Meherrin River]. They Then pitcht [pitched] at the mouth of Maherrin River on
the North side since called old Maherrin Towne where they afterwards Remained
tho they were never Recieved or became Tributaries to this Government nor ever
assisted the English in their Warrs against the Indians but were on the
contrary very much Suspected to have assisted the Tuskarooroes [Tuscarora] at
the Massacree.” </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The massacre referred to in this report was the Tuscarora
attack on North Carolina’s capital at New Bern in 1711 in the Neuse River region.
The Tuscaroras of the Pamlico River area were angry that settlers were
increasingly encroaching on Tuscarora land and raiding their villages to take
their children as slaves. They had petition the governor of Pennsylvania a few
years before to move their entire nation to that colony because of ill
treatment on the part of English settlers. Their petition was denied because
North Carolina failed to provide to Pennsylvania with a letter of good conduct
for the nation. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Tuscarora Warriors mounted their first attacks on 22 September
1711, a few days after the execution of John Lawson. Lawson was well known for
having had written the first book about colonial Carolina in 1707. The Tuscaroras
headed out to massacre the settlers of New Bern which was almost wiped out. On
the first day the Tuscarora killed one hundred thirty Swiss, German, and
English settlers at New Bern alone. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">North Carolina was a terrifying place to live from
September 1711 until March 1713 as settlements were burned and “the Tuscarora ax
indiscriminately fell upon men, women, and children.” Over the next few months,
reports coming back to Virginia from fleeing Carolina settlers who told of
women being impaled on stakes and more than 80 children being killed in the
Neuse River area. Governor Edward Hyde having just dealt with the conflict with
Thomas Cary called out the militia of North Carolina and secured the assistance
of South Carolina.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The war with the Tuscarora lasted two year. In 1712 the English
attacked the Tuscarora and their allied tribes Fort Narhantes on the banks of
the Neuse River and slaughtered more than three hundred Native Americans and
made “one hundred prisoners." The prisoners were largely women and
children, who were sold into slavery and shipped to English plantations in the
Caribbean so they could not escape. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The war came to an end with capture of Fort Neoheroka,
the main Tuscarora fort located near Contentnea Creek and the Neuse River. The
English put the fort under siege which lasted for more than three weeks, from
around March 1 to March 22, 1713. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When the fort was finally burned and destroyed hundreds
of men, women and children were burned to death and approximately 170 more were
killed outside the fort. In total over 900 Tuscarora warriors, women, and
children were killed and nearly 400 more were taken to South Carolina where
they were sold into slavery. After a year and a half of war nothing remained of
the Tuscarora settlements but burned villages and abandoned forts
disintegrating in the forest along Contentnea Creek. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Tuscaroras who managed to escape fled north into the
Colony of New York where they joined the Iroquois Confederation. The
Confederation was made up originally of five Iroquois nations, who called
themselves “the people of the longhouse.” These nations were the Mohawk,
Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca but after the Tuscarora joined the
confederacy, it became known to the English as the Six Nations and was
recognized as such by Colonial officials in New York. The Tuscaroras were related
linguistically to the Iroquois and were thought to be the southern branch of
the same nation. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Not all of the Tuscaroras participated in the Neuse River
war against the English. A northern branch ruled by chieftain known as “King
Tom Blunt” [Blount] remained loyal to the English. The northern Tuscaroras
under the leadership of King Tom Blount had made peace with the English. King
Tom Blount had captured the main Tuscarora chieftain, King Hancock who had
started the war, and handed him over to the English to be executed. The North
Carolina assembly rewarded King Tom Blunt by allowing the 1000 remaining
Tuscaroras loyal to the English to live on a 56,000 acre tract of land set
aside for them between the Roanoke River and Cashie River that was called
"Kesh-hsh-ungh" or “the River” in their language. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">King Tom Blount was recognized by the North Carolina Assembly
as king over all the remaining Tuscaroras but after 1713 few Native Americans
were to be found in the Albemarle region except for the Meherrin in Chowan
Precinct and the Tuscarora in Bertie Precinct. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The west side of the Cashie River between the
Roquist Creek and the Roanoke River was the home of the northern Tuscarora
Indians reservation whose villages were largest communities in the region at
the first quarter of the 18th Century. More than a 1000 Tuscaroras, led by King
Tom Blount, greatly outnumbered the English settlers until the mid 1730’s. The
early English settlers and these Tuscarora people coexisted peacefully with the
English for the most part and lived on trade, especially in deerskin, and
farming.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As settlers began to enter lands on the west of the
Cashie River, North Carolina’s colonial assembly in 1717 established a nearly
60,000 acre “reservation” for the northern Tuscaroras. This was a reward for
helping the English in the previous war with the southern branch of the Nation
and to try and keep the peace between the Tuscarora and the English. This
reservation was not to keep the Nation contained but rather to keep the
settlers out. It was located west of Roquist Creek about five miles from the
Cashie River and east of Roanoke River. The early settlers called the
reservation “Indian Town” because of the large Tuscarora Town of “Resootikeh”
[Rehorsesky] that was located there. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When John Williams the Younger settled along the
tributaries of Cashie River in 1714, he was living among this Tuscarora Nation
and next to their villages. Some of his descendants even married Tuscarora
women and have Tuscarora bloodlines. </span><br />
<span style="color: #009000; font-family: "arial";"></span><br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1715 the settlers in South Carolina were attacked by
the Yamasee Indians, who had become resentful of exploitation by the Carolina
traders. The uprising was finally quelled in 1716 after much loss of life and
property. These attacks further revealed the lack of protection afforded by the
Lords Proprietors to the colonists of the Carolinas and they rebelled and asked
for royal protection. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Pirate Troubles</span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The lack of a strong British naval presence made North
Carolina very attractive to pirates and buccaneers in the 17<sup>th</sup> and
18th Century. It is doubtful that John Williams the younger would not have
known of the exploits of these pirates as they were the subject of newspapers
and gossip. Edward Teach, known as Captain Blackbeard, was probably the most
infamous pirate of his day and a contemporary of John Williams the Younger.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">North Carolina’s Outer Bank was a good place to lay low
when not in the act of piracy. In deed the Island of Ocracoke was a safe haven
for some of the most notorious pirates of the period. Captain Kidd, Captain
Calico Jack, Captain Bonnet “The Gentleman Pirate” and Captain Blackbeard all
used the Outer Banks of North Carolina as hideouts. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1718, Captain Blackbeard met with Governor Charles
Eden at the town of Bath who agreed to pardon Blackbeard in exchange for a
share of his sizable booty. At the request of outraged North Carolina planters,
Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia however dispatched a British naval
force to deal with Blackbeard who was then killed in battle at Ocracoke. The
pirate era generally concluded with the death of Captain Blackbeard.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1719 South Carolina, as a more important colony, was
taken back by King George I and became a royal colony. Ten years later in 1729,
North Carolina was taken over by the King George II when seven of the eight
Lords Proprietors agreed to sell their shares of North Carolina to the crown
and North Carolina, too, became a royal colony. One proprietor, though, held
out: John Carteret, the descendant of Sir George Carteret, one of the original
Lords Proprietors. Carteret continued to own one-eighth of the colony’s land,
though he had no say in its government. Carteret would later inherit the title
Earl Granville, and the management of his land, known as the Granville
District, would cause problems for colonists later on. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></b>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Virginia Migration to North Carolina</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The migration into North Carolina by Virginians was
partly spurred in 1710 by the Governor’s Council’s resolution prohibiting
settlement between the Nottaway and Meherrin Rivers in the Isle of Wight County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However some settlers had moved into the area
anyway. Those who wanted clear title to their property moved southward along
the Blackwater and Nottaway Rivers where they joined to form the Chowan River
that flowed into the Albemarle Sound. </span></div>
<span style="color: #009000; font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the 17th and early 18th Century, the boundary between the
Virginia and the Carolina colonies was so fluid that Carolina was granting land
as far north as the west side of the Nottaway River, which today is entirely in
Virginia and Virginia was claiming it had legal jurisdiction over lands to the
sound. It would take nearly fifty years for the disputed border between
Virginia and North Carolina to be resolved. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The earliest English settlers to the Chowan Precinct of
Albemarle County made their claims to Meherrin Indian lands along the Chowan
River. On the west side of the Chowan are other rivers that flowed
northeasterly into the Albemarle Sound whose mouths were just south of the
mouth of the Chowan. These Rivers were Salmon Creek, Cashie River, and the Mattatock
which was known as the Roanoke in Virginia. The area where these rivers
converge into the Albemarle Sound was the approximate location of the 16th
Century Lost Colony of Roanoke. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Cashie River is a major waterway in Bertie County that
the Tuscarora Indians named in their language “the River”. The English
anglicized the word the best they could and the earliest spelling of the
watercourse was “Kesiah”. Over the years a variety of spellings found their way
into deed records including Cashoate, Cashy, Casia, Casshi. Today the name of
the river is officially printed on state maps as the Cashie River. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Cashie River and its tributaries divide what is now
Bertie County in half from north to south. The total length of the Cashie River
is about 55 miles, all within Bertie County. However only approximately 25
miles are navigable. The river empties into the Albemarle Sound next to the
Roanoke River Delta. The upper reaches of the Cashie were not deep enough to be
navigated so colonial boats could make it as far as a place called "Will’s
Quarters Landing" near the lands of William Byrd. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There are five streams that join the Cashie Waterway
before it flows into the Albemarle Sound Bay. However the most important for
our study is Roquist Creek which joins the Cashie on the westside just below a
place called "Sans Sauci Ferry Landing". This narrow body of water
starts near the modern town of Woodard and flows through the Indian Woods
community before ending near the Roquist Pocosin. Much of the Williams land holdings
were along this Creek. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This area is
where people began to settle at the end of the Tuscarora and English War.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When the early Virginia settlers moved into the region
west of the Chowan River, they establish Salmon Creek as their principle
residence including Governor Thomas Pollock. The entrance of Salmon Creek was a
couple of miles east of the old Eden House Landing where it empties into the
Albemarle Sound. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The area attracted families of some importance, wealth,
and education, who came primarily from Southside Virginia counties. Most were
land speculators, such as Governor Thomas Pollock and his son in law Colonel
Robert West, William Duckingfield Esq. and his nephew Charles Barber, Thomas
Jones, an attorney of Queen Anne Town [Edenton], the county seat of Chowan
Precinct, and his brother William Jones. Many others were equally well known
men, many related to the wealthier families of Isle of Wight who filed for
large proprietary grants west of the Chowan River. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One of the most influential men in the colony was Colonel
Thomas Pollack who fought on the side of the Anglicans against Thomas Cary in
1711 and briefly served as an interim governor when Governor Edward Hyde died
from Yellow Fever in 1712. Pollack’s plantation was called “Bal Gra” and was
located on Salmon creek on the west side of the Chowan River. Pollack’s lands
were extensive and reached into the Cashie River region. He received a
proprietary grant of 640 acres “on Casiah” river 26 February 1711 [1712]. Many
of the early deeds of John Williams the Younger showed that his bordered Thomas
Pollack’s lands.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One of the wealthiest men in the colony of Northern
Carolina was William Duckinfield, “of Cheshire, England” a justice in the
General Assembly of North Carolina and he was also one of the first vestrymen
of the Anglican Church in Albemarle County in 1701. His brother was Sir Robert “Dukinfield”,
(1642–1729), 1st Baronet Dukinfield of Dukinfield, Cheshire and thus was well
connected to powerful men. In Duckingfield will of 17 May 1720, he mentions
Charles Barbour [Barber] as his “cousin”, an old fashion term for nephew.
Charles Barber’s mother was also a sibling of Sir Robert Dukinfield. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles Barber owned extensive properties in
the Horse Spring Branch of the Cashie River.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Virginia settlers began to filter into the area west of
the Chowan River and east of the Cashie River even before the Tuscarora War had
ended in 1713. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Land speculator and
middling planters filed for proprietary grants for rich bottom lands next to
its creeks and waterways. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Several land speculators were already in the area of
known as Horse Spring Branch, a tributary on the eastside of the Cashie River
prior to the arrival of the family of John Williams the Younger. These early
pioneers were Charles Barber and his wife Elizabeth, Samuel Edmunds, and wife
Mary, John Edwards and his wife Dorcus, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Martin
Gardner and his wife Ann Bryan, Thomas Jones and his wife Elizabeth Lewerton, William Jones and wife
Mary Lewerton, Ephraim Lewerton, and Robert West. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Horse Spring
Branch”, over time was known also as Horse Meadow and Horse Swamp and was located
on the eastside of Cashie River. On maps today Horse Spring Branch does not
exist but would have been located about two miles north of the present Windsor
county seat of Bertie County and northwest of the Greens Cross Baptist Church
that is located on US Hwy 17. Today “Horse Swamp” is located just on the left
of “Hoggard Mill - Greens Crossroad” about a half mile up Wakelon Road. This
area is now named Greens Crossroad for a 19th Century farmer named “Uncle
Billie Green”, who once lived there. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Jones and his brother Thomas had extensive land
holdings on both sides of the Cashie River where John Williams the Younger
would settle in 1714. They were the sons of John Jones Sr and his wife Elizabeth
according to a deed dated 3 October 1704. These brothers were early land
speculators on the Cashie River and Thomas was a successful lawyer who
practiced out of Queen Anne Town [Edenton]. The will of William Jones “of
Chowan” was dated January 9, 1722 [1723] and recorded 4 April 1723.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Jones was one of the earliest land speculators in
the Cashie River region. He was there as early as 1703 and was elected
Constable in 1709 “from Salmon Creek to Cashoke”. Cashoke Creek was an early
form of the spelling of Cashie. William Jones was married to Mary Lewerton the
sister of John and Ephraim Lewerton according to Ephraim’s will dated 10
October 1713. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Duckinfield Esq. sold to William Jones, 640 acres
of land “called Cashoke” on 1 Feb 1702 [1703]. Later in the fall, on 4 October
1703, William Jones and his wife Mary [Lewerton] sold to Thomas Arnold 100
acres on the north side “Cashoke Crick” adjoining lands of John Lewerton.
Thomas Arnold would move away but not until he sold to John Holbrook a 300 acre
farm on the south side of “Cashoke” on 2 October 1704. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following year on 27 March 1704, William Jones sold
to Robert West a “Plantation on Cashoke Crick” of 640 acres “less 200 acres
sold to John Lewerton and Thos. Arnold” The witnesses were Thomas Pollack,
Margaret Early, and John West. Robert West was the son-n-law of Col. Thomas
Pollack according to a deed dated 1 January 1704 [1705] in which Pollack deeded
to West a “tract of land on west side of Morratuck River [Roanoke] and Cashoke
Creek [Cashie River]. West’s plantation was located at a community called New
Market.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Jones had married Elizabeth Lewerton, the sister
of Mary Lewerton. He was the executive of the estate of Owen Daniel whose will
was dated March 7, 1700 [1701]. If there was a family relationship to Daniel
other than perhaps being his lawyer is unknown. As executor he was to take care
of two of the testator's children until they arrive at age. A son named Thomas
Daniels was placed in the care of Thomas Pollock and a daughter named Mary
Daniels was placed in the care of James Hires. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Duckingfield Esq. sold to Thomas Jones his
interest in a plantation called “Casshoke” in February, 1712 [1713]. Thomas
Jones acquired the land that would border John Williams the Younger’s property
line on 5 March 1711 [1712]. On that date he received two proprietary grants of
422 acres and 423 acres. The 422 acre parcel was on the “Casay” River at a
corner of Charles Barber’s place. The 423 acre parcel was located near Bear
Swamp by the “widow Lewerton’s line.” The Lewertons lived in the vicinity of
Bear Swamp as shown in a 21 April 1713 deed between Ephraim Lewerton, and John
Lewerton, son of John, deceased where he transferred 100 acres at Bear Swamp. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Jones, and wife Elizabeth sold to John Edwards 200
acres of land that adjoined Charles Barber's line, at Horse Spring Branch. This
deed was recorded November, 1712 in Chowan Precinct and was witnessed by Martin
Gardner and William Jones.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The grants for Thomas Jones and Charles Barber gave
geographical names of waterways called Turkey Swamp, Bear Swamp, and Horse
Spring Branch, all of which were clues for the area in which John Williams the
younger would live after coming to North Carolina in 1714. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Charles Barber, the nephew of William Duckingfield Esquire,
received four proprietary grants in April 1712; three of which recorded on the
18<sup>th</sup>. They were for 640 acres, another for 250 acres on a “branch of
Turkey Swamp” and one of 120 acres on the “Casia” [Cashie] River. The following
day, 19 April 1712, Barber received the 160 acres on Horse Spring Branch,
joining Thomas Jones' line. This property was sold to <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Williams the Younger in April 1714. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Other early deeds pertaining to Charles Barber were the
following. On 20 July 1713 Charles Barber and wife Elizabeth sold to John
Plowman 680 acres on the “Casay River”. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On
the same date Barber bought from his brother in Law Ephraim Lewerton, 132 acres
on the “Casiah River.” </span><br />
<span style="color: #009000; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Jones and Charles Barber witnessed a deed dated 16
April 1716 between Samuel Edmunds, and wife Mary and John Edwards. Edmunds sold
300 acres on the west side of Turkey Swamp, which was part of patent for 640
acres on “Kesiah River”. The following day on 17 April 1716 Charles Barber and
wife Elizabeth sold to John Edwards. 80 acres also on the west side Turkey
Creek, and part of patent for 640 acres. The witnesses were Samuel Edmunds and
William Jones. Charles Barber received still another grant of 204 acres along
the “Casia” River on 1 March 1719 [1720]. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A probably kinsman of John Williams the Younger, Thomas
Williams was also in Chowan Precinct in 1712. The exact determination of who
this man was is unknown. He was located at Rockyhock Creek about 2 miles north
of Queen Anne Creek Town where William Duckinfield, Daniel Halsey, William
Fallow were prominent land owners. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Williams showed up in Chowan Precinct land deeds
as early as 7 April 1712. On this date William Tanner and his wife Ann of
Chowan Precinct sold to Thomas Williams of Chowan Precinct 100 acres north side
of Morgan Swamp to Machacomack Creek “land I bought of John Jones” who was the
father of William and Thomas Jones. The witnesses to the transaction were
Daniel Halsey and John Ward. Morgan Swamp is a tributary of the Chowan River south
of Salmon Creek. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Machacomack Creek has not been located but the Will of
Nicholas Tyner, a Quaker originally from Isle of Wight, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>left plantations to a daughter at the head of
Machacomack Creek. John Jones, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth had assigned land
from a patent of theirs to William Tanner on June 24, 1707 and Daniel Halsey
was also a witness to that deed. In addition to witnessing this deed Halsey also
witnessed deeds pertaining to Edward Williams and Lewis Williams the Anglican
Vestryman. Thomas Williams did not retain this property long for on 9 December
1712 a record shows “Thomas Williams of Albemarle County” assigned to Thomas
Jones the deed from William Tanner. The witnesses were John Jones Sr and Henry
Lysle [Lisle] and Elizabeth Lysle. This Williams may have returned to Virginia.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the beginning of 1713, Ann Moor Williams’ nephew,
Edward Moore bought some property from Tredle Keefe. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Moore who was living in Nansemond County,
Virginia at the time purchased 150 acres on the Meherrin River from Tredle
Keefe and his wife Elinor on 20 January 1712 [1713.] Edward Moore, by this
time, had married Margaret Bonner of Isle of Wight, Virginia. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The MOVE TO NORTH CAROLINA </span></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The gap in the records for John Williams the Younger from
1705 until 1713 makes it difficult to determine his location when he was in his
mid thirties and early forties. Apparently he had moved back to Isle of Wight
County and from there he moved his family to North Carolina about 1714. The
last known record of John Williams the Younger as having lands in Virginia is
recorded in Surry County dated from 19 September 1712. He or at least his
property is mentioned in a deed of Francis Regan who sold 100 acres to Robert
Booth of Southwark Parish. This tract was said to be bounded by Regan and John
Williams. It is doubtful that John was living on this land but was just the
owner of it.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It was during the second decade of the eighteenth century
that John the Younger at the age of 40 decided to uproot his family from his former
plantations in Virginia. As that he was approaching middle age this would have
been a major life move and more than likely done for his children’s future
rather than for himself. When and why John Williams the younger decided to move
his family from Virginia to the Albemarle Sound is unknown. John and Ann Moor
Williams may have simply seen their financial security slipping away and wanted
better opportunity for their children further south where free land was still
abundant. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s eldest sons John Williams the
Third and Theophilus were young men both, over 18 years old in 1712. His sons
James and Isaac were adolescents soon to become young men. No doubt John the
Younger was worried about the future for his children if he stayed in Virginia
where the soil was depleted from decades of growing tobacco. After two
generations and forty years or more, the lands in Surry and Isle of Wight
Counties were worn out and began to yield less and less profit. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another motivation for the move may have been that many
of John Williams the Younger’s relatives and neighbors had already settled in
the Albemarle County of North Carolina. In the first two decades of the 1700s
many of the children and grandchildren of his father John Williams the Emigrant
and his uncle Thomas had land settled in the Chowan Precinct of Albemarle
County. John Williams the Younger’s brother William Williams had already moved
his family into Chowen Precinct North Carolina as well as his niece Bridgett Browne
and her husband John Rasberry. Some of his former Surry County neighbors Thomas
Sessums and Cristopher Bly also were early residents of Chowan Precinct. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">No doubt John Williams interacted with relatives and
neighbors who traveled back and forth between the Blackwater and Chowan Rivers.
He may have even visited a few times, especially with the family of his
deceased brother William, which visits made him confident that his family’s
future laid to the south in the Carolinas. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Williams had already located in Chowan Precinct
North Carolina in the first decade of the eighteenth century. However he died
there in 1712 leaving a widow and young children behind. This may have delayed John
Williams the Younger’s decision to move south as news of yellow fever in the
area and an outbreak of an Indian War with the Tuscaroras filtered north. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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</span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">William Williams "of the County
of Arbarmale in Chowan Gentleman” made out his will on 9 December 1711. He was
only about 35 years old and his death could have been brought about by a number
of diseases, yellow fever. Many reliable sources listed William
Williams as making out his will in 1704 instead of 1711 but this is extremely
doubtful. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was definitely alive in
1709 when he had a land transaction recorded in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
Additionally one the witnesses to his will, Robert Lanier, only came to North
Carolina after 1710 which indicates that it was written in 1711 and not 1704. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span>
William Williams wrote in his will, “being very sick and week in body but of
perfect mind and memory" bequeathed to “wife, Mary Williams, 1/2 of
land where she now lives....son, Samuel Williams 1/2 land "whereon I now
live"...son, John Williams 175 acres and plantation on southside of Black
water commonly known as Litell town...son, Steven Williams 400 acres..
each of my daughters, [not named]. William’s wife Mary Moore Williams was the sole
Executrix. The witnesses to his will were Tredell Keefe, “Luis” Williams,
Robert Lanier. </span></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">This “Luis Williams” was the relative
of George Williams the Quaker. The fact that Lewis Williams was a witness to
his will shows that they were close neighbors and well
enough acquainted for William to ask Lewis to act as a witness. They
other witnesses were Tredell [Treddell] Keefe and Robert Lanier both prominent
land owners with ties to Lewis Williams and Edward Moore, his wife’s cousin.
The the location of these witnesses of William Williams' will indicated that
William Williams’s plantation was near Salmon Creek.</span></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">William Williams died in 1712 when
his will was recorded 15 April 1712 in Chowan Precinct, Albemarle County, North
Carolina. As that all of William Williams sons and daughters were minors, Mary
Moore Williams was the administrator of the will and being a wealthy young
widow with children she undoubtedly remarried. It would not be out of the
question that John Williams the Younger may have even ventured into Northern
Carolina to see about the welfare of his sister in law and his nephew and
nieces.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Edward Moore of Nansemond County, Virginia, a nephew
of John the Younger’s wife, moved to Chowan Precinct before 1711. On 20
January 1712 [1713] “Tredle” Keefe and his wife Elinor sold to Edward Moore,
150 acres land on the Meherrin River in Chowan County. This area would later be
part of Bertie County. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On 20 April 1713
Moore, now residing in Nansemond County, gave Lewis Williams his Power of
Attorney "to receive acknowledgment of the sale of 150
acres from Treddell Keefe to him. </span></span>. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s 1713
Proprietary Grant </span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">King Hancock’s southern Tuscarora Indians upraising was
defeated in March 1713, and that summer John Williams the Younger went to North
Carolina to claim a proprietary grant along the Cashie River in Albemarle
County. He would have been in his early 40’s and certainly would not have
traveled alone. His older sons John the Third and Theophilus were young men at
this time and surely they would have traveled with him. They more than likely
traveled down the Chowan river by skiff to the Albemarle Sound then from there
traveled by boat up the Cashie River. The Cashie is not navigable pass a
certain point and it is here that he looked for property to claim. They
certainly would have stayed in the homes of relatives and former neighbors as
they traveled Albemarle County as that there were no taverns or inns at the
early time.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Obtaining a proprietary grant in North Carolina involved
a process that could take several months if not years. First John Williams the Younger
had to have gone to Horse Spring Branch to select a tract of vacant land. This
would have involved meeting with the land owners of the area. Then he would
have gone to the county seat at Queen Anne Town [Edenton] to enter his claim
with the Lords Proprietary’s official entry recorders. The government official
then recorded John Williams’ name, a description of the land, the number of
acres, the name of adjacent land owners, and the date the entry was made. After
officials received all the necessary papers and fees, then John the Younger was
given a copy of the grant document that was his patent to the land. </span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s proprietary grant was for 360
acres “lying in Kesiah [Cashie] River from John Plowman’s corner to Charles
Barber’s line” and was dated 9 July 1713. John Plowman who was mentioned in the
grant had bought land from Charles Barber in 1713. This tract of land was
located at a spot called “Horse Spring Branch” on the east side of the Cashie
River. This property is about five miles north of the current Bertie county
seat of Windsor and near Hoggard's Mill which was first called Will's Quarter
Swamp. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is doubtful that John Williams the Younger
accomplished anything more in the summer of 1713 than file for his patent. It
would have been too late in the year to plant and before he could ever do that,
his land would have had to have been cleared. More than likely John came to
scout out what lands were available west of the Chowan River. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As that he did not live on the property of the 1713
patent, it was acquired to secure his land rights in North Carolina. Therefore
John and Ann Moore Williams and their children probably did not permanently
leave Virginia for the Cashie River area until early 1714. One of the last
record of John Williams in Isle of Wight County, is a deed dated 26 April 1714,
that he witnessed to a deed between Mathew Stricklin and Joseph Jackson. It is
fairly certain that the family’s moved to North Carolina after this date. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The family’s move in 1714 from Virginia would have been
arduous as that everything thing the family would need had to be transported
down the Chowan River. In the infancy of the settlement of Cashie River there
were few or no roads. The many streams, creeks, and rivers were the means by
which people traveled. In fact boats were more numerous than horses at the
beginning of the 18th Century and mostly riverboats and small schooners served
as a means of transportation and communication between settlements. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">All of John Williams the Younger’s household goods,
furniture, farming equipment, seeds, food stuff, and livestock all had to be
transported as there were little or none of these things in the area he was
taking his family. Along the Cashie River, where the Williams would settle, it
would take years before goods and cargo were shipped up and down the river to
supply the needs of farmers and planters. Horses, cattle, milk cows, hogs,
geese, hunting dogs all had to be packed in skiffs. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After transporting his family and property to the Town on
Queen Anne Creek [renamed Edenton in 1722], the only commercial village in the
Albemarle Sound, the family from there went up the Cashie River as far as was
navigational to a place known as “Horse Spring Branch”, a tributary on the
eastern side of the Cashie River near Bear Swamp. It was here he had acquired his
proprietary grant. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John and Ann Moor
Williams’ farm was at the end of navigable waters of the Cashie River at a
place that a turning basin allowed cargo ships to turn around for the trip back
down river. Later at wide area on the river below Horse Spring Branch, a
floating bridge was built across the Cashie to connect properties of land
owners on both sides of the river. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the younger, on 13 April 1714, purchased
from his neighbors Charles and Elizabeth Barber a tract of “improved land” at
the Horse Spring Branch next to his own 360 acre proprietary grant and lands of
Thomas Jones. The witnesses were local men, William Jones and John Holbrook.
The deed does specify the acreage of the property but it included a “dwelling
and livestock pens”. Most likely the land bought from Charles Barber was the
proprietary grant of 160 acres that he received 19 April 1712 at “Horse Spring
Branch” that joined Thomas Jones’ property. Within the two years from when it
was granted, Charles Barber on this 160 acres certainly could have cleared it
and constructed a house. John Williams would not have moved his family into a
simple frontier shanty or cabin. Without doubt this farm at Horse Spring Branch
was the first home of John Williams and his family in North Carolina. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Additionally John Williams received another proprietary
grant of 600 acres at Horse Spring Branch on 15 April 1714. The property
description stated it was from Thomas Jones’ corner to the east side of Horse
Spring Branch. Altogether John Williams the Younger owned 1,120 acres of land
in Chowen Precinct, Albemarle County by 1714. It is here at Horse Spring that
many of John and Ann Moor Williams’ children were married, some died, and where
John and Ann Moor Williams would live out the remainder of their lives long
lives. The location today is just a couple miles north of the town of Windsor,
northeast of the Cashie River at a community called “Greens Cross Roads”. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Cashie River weaves it way upstream westward from the
Albemarle Sound. Several miles upstream past the Horse Spring Branch the Cashie
River divides to the left and branches off where it continues as the Cashie
Swamp that originates near the Northampton County Line. About ten miles north
of John Williams the Younger’s grant, the Cashie River weaves it way upstream
westward from the Albemarle Sound. Several miles upstream past the Horse Spring
Branch the Cashie River divides to the left and branches off where it begins to
lose its identity as a river when it divides and becomes Cucklemaker Creek and
Flat Swamp near the Northampton County Line. Flat Swamp branches off to the
right from the Cashie and heads to an area first known as the "Pell
Mell" Pocosin Woods, also called Piney and Big Woods. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Much of the region where John Williams the Younger moved
his family had what was called “unhealthy air”. The many waterways and marshes
were “hung heavy with the smell of moisture and decay.” Additionally water
snakes, mosquitoes, and gnats would have plagued them living near the pocosins
with their periodic standing water. Illness due to these bodies of standing
water was prevalent in much of those early times. Many of the first generation
of settlers in Chowan Precinct died at a relatively young age including John
Williams the Younger’s brother William Williams and his own sons John and James
Williams. This area was the first home of John and Ann Williams outside of
Virginia.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Compared with the standard of living John Williams the
Younger's family had been accustomed to in Virginia, moving to North Carolina
must have seemed almost primitive. Besides the humid climate of summer,
clearing the land of forest was backbreaking work as well as building new homes
and livestock sheds. The planting of tobacco was labor intensive and John
Williams was not a young man at this time. Making a living for early settlers was
brutal, although without a doubt those in bondage fared far worst. The African slaves
did most of the arduous manual labor such as draining marshes and clearing land
for the planting of tobacco. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Most early settlers of Chowan Precinct fed generally upon
game fowl, venison, and salt pork, however more affluent families, such as John
Williams who raised cattle, had beef in their diet as well. Beans, squash,
turnips and corn bread generally made up the rest of their diet. Before the
mills were built, women like Ann Moor Williams and her daughters would have
ground their own Indian corn kernels so that, as one 18th century observer
commented, there was "little difference between the corn in the horse's
manger and the bread on their tables." </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A few miles to the west of Cashie River was the last home
of the Tuscarora Nation. The only large settlements in the region were two
Tuscarora Indian towns just within miles of John Willams’ Horse Spring Branch
plantation. In fact Native Americans outnumbered whites in the area in the
vicinity west of Cashie. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger had four sons, John,
Theophilus, James, and Isaac between the ages of 22 and 14 years who helped on
the new place. If he still had any laborers under contract to him, or any men
in bondage they would have come with the family also probably from Virginia.
Ann Moor Williams’ daughters Ann, Sarah, and Mary were between 18 and 14 and
the youngest child Arthur was about 6 years old. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From this first beginning, members of John Williams the
Younger’s family and other kinfolk would come to be well situated along the
Cashie, Roquist, and Roanoke Rivers. Over a period of three decades the family
of John Williams the Younger would come to own nearly six miles of property in
what today is the Windsor Township of Bertie County, North Carolina. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Queen Anne of Great Britain died 1 August 1714 and was
succeeded by her nephew George I of Hanover, Germany who was a great grandson
of King James I. During the reign of King George I, [1714-1727] the Williams family prospered in North Carolina, where John and Ann Moor Williams’ children would
marry and their first grandchildren would be born. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The home of John and Ann
Moore Williams in North Carolina was near a community that would develop in
the 1730’s on the Cashie River called “Cashy”. Through the influence of their
future son in law James Castellaw [Castellow], this community would become the
first official county seat of Bertie County for about three decades then
disappear.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams and Theophilus Williams, on 18 July 1715,
witnessed a record where William Jones gave his Power of Attorney to Phillip
Walston to acknowledge a transaction between Jones and Martin Gardner. The
significance of this record is that it shows that Theophilus Williams was of
legal age at least 21 years old [born prior July 1694] to have been a witness
to this document. The John Williams mentioned as the other witness may have
been the father or the son. It is impossible to tell. Martin Gardner had married Ann Bryan the daughter of Needham Bryan and Ann Rombeau.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The following day, 19 July 1715 John Williams the Younger
bought from the Anglican Vestryman Lawrence Sarson a 220 acre farm at a place
called Bear Swamp [Creek]. Bear Swamp was located between Horse Springs and
Salmon Creek and Thomas Jones owned property there as well. One of the witnesses
to this deed was John Rasberry the husband of Bridgett Browne
Rasberry, the daughter of John the Younger's sister. The other was Henry King the father of a son by the same name. The
father died in 1716 and the son Henry King would later married John Williams’
daughter-in-law Elizabeth Bryan Williams after the death of his son James
Williams. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> "Laurence Sarson to Jno Williams, Know all men by these presents yt [that] I Laurence Sarson of the Precinct of chowan of the Province afsd [aforesaid] for & in Consideration of the Same of twenty Barrels of Pitch to me in hand pd [paid] by Jno Williams of the sd Precinct of Chowan the receipt whereof I the sd Laurence Sarson do hereby acknowledge and thereof Acquitt & Discharge the sd Jno Williams his Heirs exn admrs forever by these presents Have Given granted bargained Sold Released& confirmed and by these presents do give grant Release & Confirm unto ye[the] sd Jno Williams his Heirs & Assignes forever One Tract of Land Lying & being in Chowan Precinct afsd & adjoyning upon Thomas Jones' Land in Bear Swamp then Runing up the Main Swamp to the Upper Beaver Dam there along a line of Mark’d trees to the sd Williams's own Line which appears mine at Large in the Patent & Conteyning [containing] Two hundred & twenty Acres more or Less wth [with] all woods ways waters Priviledges Profitts Comidities & appurtences to the Same belong or in any ways appertaining And ye Reversion & Reversions Remainder & Remainders therof. To have and hold all ye afsd tract of Land with all ye Singular appurtenances unto ye sd Jno Williams his Heirs & Assignes for ever to & for ye only use & hehoof of ye sd Jno Williams his Heirs & Assignes forever. And I ye sd Lau Sarson for my self my Heirs exrs & Admrs Do warrant promise & Grant to& with ye sd Jno Williams his Heirs & Assinges for ever yt I ye sd Laurence Sarson my Heirs Exrs Admrs ye before bargained premises with the appurtenances unto ye sd Jno Williams heirs & Assignes for ever against all manner of Persons whatsoever shall & will warrant & for ever by these presents defend.In Witness wherof I ye sd Laurence Sarson have hereunto sett my hand & Seal this 19th of July 1715. Seal’d & Del’d in presence of Lau. Sarson Henry King, Jno Rasberry. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This transaction between John Williams and Lawrence
Sarson is an example of a cashless society. It also shows that John’s farms
were not quite yet producing enough tobacco to use that commodity in trade.
Instead he traded for the property 20 barrels of “pitch” produced from the
abundant pine trees on his lands. Native Tuscaroras may have shown John
Williams’ laborers where the best sap trees were and how to turn the resin into
pitch. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Making pitch was a labor intensive process and John
Williams had to have had a lot of help gathering the pine resin deposits that
occur naturally in the forest. Resin or sap oozes out of the broken knots of
trees naturally from fractures to a limb or trunk caused by a storm, lightning,
or even animals scratching on the bark. The harvesting of resin was a fall and
winter time activity and would have been gathered in tar buckets hauled back to
the home place to be boiled and strained in great kettles. The women folk generally
tended to the cooking of the resin while the men gathered it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As it cooked “filler materials” such as dried livestock
dung, hardwood ash, ground bones, sawdust, animal hair, and even dried up stems
from corn stalks were “pitched” in the kettles to bind up the resin and help
further strengthen the pitch. The last Ingredient added to turn the resin into
tar was animal fat renderings, usually lard from hogs. This additive kept the
final product workable without getting too brittle when in its dry state. The
smell must have been horrendous. All the while fires under the kettles were
kept going and the mixture constantly stirred. After the resin turned into
black tar it was stored in barrels to be traded or sold. Pitch was valuable to
colonial ship builders for water proofing as well as keeping ship’s masts
timbers from rotting. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As the deed between Sarson and John the Younger was being recorded in the Chowan Precinct
Court records, minutes for the court meeting on the same day, 19 July 1715,
acknowledged a Thomas Browne’s deed of gift to Daniel McDaniel, an oath of John
Williams to the letter of Power of Attorney from William Jones to Phil
“Wallston”, and Marshal John Naires was ordered to take William Jones into
custody for “diver misdemeanors”. A deed of gift generally was property given to relatives so it is quite possible that Thomas Browne and Daniel McDaniel were related in some way. <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Browne was a near neighbor of John the Younger in the Cashie River region and possible an in-law as he appears on many of John Williams’ transactions. </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The offences of William Jones were not enumerated. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Additionally a
John Williams proved his head right for the importation of 11 persons “into the
government” [colony]. Whether this is our John Williams the Younger is undetermined however he was in court that day. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The only other document that may relate to John Williams
the Younger in 1715 was that he was ordered on 25 November 1715 by the Chowan Precinct Court to
appraise the estate of a deceased neighbor William Goodman. Goodman was a
Quaker from Surry County. Others also ordered to appraise the estate were Thomas Williams, Thomas Holliman and John Wombell. This
Thomas Williams could have his brother or even his cousin the son of his uncle
Thomas Williams. It is not clear.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1715 the Anglican faction had wrestled political power away from the Quaker Party that governed northern Carolina and in that year the North Carolina Assembly passed the “Biennial Act”. The act incorporated the North Carolina colonial legislature as being fundamental to the operation of the colony. The assembly then ignored the governor chosen by the Lords Proprietors and set themselves up as the main governing body of the colony. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Biennial Act of 1715 laid out who could vote and not vote in the colony. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“And It Is Hereby Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no person whatsoever Inhabitant of this Government born out of the allegiance of His Majesty and not made free; no Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees or Indians shall be capable of voting for Members of Assembly; and that no other person shall be allowed or admitted to vote for Members of Assembly in this Government unless he be of the Age of one and twenty years and has been one full year in the Government [colony] and has paid one year's levy [poll tax] preceding the Election.” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By 1716 the Cashie River region began to grow as more and
more settlers began to relocate there. The earlier settlers began to sell off
their extensive land holdings and acquired even more. Neighbors of John Williams
the younger who had transactions in the spring of that year were Samuel Edmunds
and his wife Mary and Charles Barber and his wife Elizabeth. The Edmunds sold
to John Edwards 300 acres, part of a 640 acre proprietary grant on the “west
side Turkey Swamp” on the “Kesiah” River. This deed dated 16 April 1716 was
witnessed by William Jones and Charles Barber. The following day on 17 April,
the Barbers sold to John Edwards 80 acres, part of their 640 acre grant located
also on the west side of “Turkey Creek”. Samuel Edmunds and William Jones were
the witnesses. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A county marshal was ordered to keep a list of those who were eligible to vote and had paid a poll tax. This ordinance will help place the ages of several of John Williams sons as they turned 21. <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 29 August 1716 “Proprietary Rent Fees” were assessed for the tracts of land that “lyes between Mr. John Duckenfield and John Williams’ line” in Chowan Precinct. This was an area between Salmon Creek and the Cashie River. This assessment must have been just up to John Williams the younger’s estates as he is not included in this record. However it included the names of Theophilus Williams, Samuel Herring, Edward Moore and John Plowman. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Although Theophilus Williams was included in this record it showed him owning no property. He may have paid what was essentially a poll
tax so he could vote in the colony. Accordingly Samuel Herring <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was listed as owning 150 acres, Edward Moore
owning 250 acres and John Plowman held 600 acres.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the fall, 15 October 1716, John Edwards and his wife
Dorcas “of Chowan Precinct” sold to Edward Moore for £ 10 “good and lawful
money” 150 acres on the west side of Kesiah River [Cashie] joining John Hardy
and the river. This is certainly the 150 acre proprietary grant Edwards
received 30 August 1714 that was located on the west side of the Kesiah River
next to the properties of John Hardy and William Jones. The witnesses to the
deed were William Jones and John Nairn, both local property owners. John
Edwards Sr was unable to travel to the court to record the deed for some reason
and he gave his power of attorney to Samuel Edmunds to acknowledge the sale of
the parcel of land to Edward Moore. John Williams the younger and Thomas Browne
were asked to witness the power of attorney letter between John Edwards Sr. and
Samuel Edmunds. dated 15 October 1716. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edward Moore, formerly of Nansemond County Virginia, was
most likely the nephew of John Williams’ wife Ann Moor Williams. This Thomas
Browne who along with John Williams witnessed the power of attorney, I
speculate he may have been a brother in law and husband of his sister Jane
Williams. The deed between Edwards and Moore was not registered until 27 November
1716. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Also i</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n the fall of 1716, probably October, John and Ann Moor
Williams’ eldest daughter, Ann Williams married Samuel Herring the son of
Anthony Herring and Rebecca West. The Herring family were neighbors of William
West, a prominent family in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. And while the West
family were Quakers, there is little evidence that Samuel Herring was of that
faith. The Herrings more than likely were attracted to North Carolina for all
the same reasons as John Williams the Younger, free land.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Samuel Herring was thought to have been born about 1685
which would have made him nearly 10 years older than Ann. This was not unusual,
for it was customary for established older men to take young brides. Ann’s
younger sister Sarah married a much older man also, James Castellow, who was
also born in 1685. What was unusual was that Ann was probably about 19 or 20
years old when she married when most young girls were marrying at 15 or 16. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In Colonial times once a girl had her menses she was
considered eligible for marriage. The move to North Carolina and setting up a
new household may have delayed Ann finding a suitable husband. Additionally as
the oldest girl she certainly helped with the housekeeping and tending of her
mother’s large family. Her older brothers had not married yet either and
probably were still included in the family. As well as being a helper to her
mother it may be that simply the economic stability of the family unit of John
Williams the younger afforded her the luxury of waiting for a suitable husband.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Samuel Herring had three brothers, John, Abraham, and
Joseph who also relocated to the Cashie River area. Samuel’s younger brother
Abraham Herring would later marry into the family of John and Ann Moore
Williams by marrying their youngest daughter Mary Williams in about 1720. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger recorded a Deed of Gift on 15
October 1716 to his daughter Ann Williams Herring of 150 acres “on which she now
livith”, most likely as a wedding gift. This farm may have been the original
land John Williams bought from Charles Barber in 1714. It was bounded by lands
of Thomas Jones. Again Thomas Browne is there to act as a witness along with
John Edwards. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“To all persons to whom these presents shall come I Jno.
Williams do send greeting know ye yt [that] the said Jno Williams in the county
of Albemarle in Chowan in ye Province of North Carolina, Weaver, for & in
Consideration of Love good will & affection which I have & do bear
towards my loving Daughter Ann Hearin of the Same County & Province have
given & granted by these presents do fully Clearly & absolutely give
and Grant unto the said Ann Hearin she & her Lawfull Heirs of her own body
Lawfully begotten forever one Hundred & fifty acres of Lands whereon the
new Giveth beginning in the fork of the Horse Spring branch Joining upon Thomas
Jones's Line so up ye Western part of sd branch unto a Maple by the run Side so
up a Crooked line to a Pine in the Side of the other branch so runing down the
branch to ye first Station. Now if she hath not her due She Shall take it on
the Eastern Side of the branch beginning at Thos. Jones's Corner tree in the
branch betwixt the branch & my Pattent Line which runeth partly betwixt me
& Thos. Jones afsd which Land I give freely to her & her Heirs for ever
as afsd. But her husband if he shall pretend to Sell & to Lease it or
Mortgage it or Sell any ways make away any timber of Lightwood shall forfeit ye
Land afsd as wittness my hand & Seal ye 15th Ober 1716. Jno Williams Test.
Thos Brown, Jno Edwards” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On the same day Ann “Hearin” [Herring] gave a Letter of
Attorney to John Edwards to acknowledge the deed in court. Witnesses to this
power of attorney from Ann Herring to Edwards were Thomas Brown and Edward
Moore.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Curiously John Williams the Younger put some unusual
stipulations on the Deed of Gift to his daughter Ann which may reflect on how
he viewed his new son-in-law. The deed, while listing Ann as a married woman,
did not mention Samuel Herring at all. John Williams stated that if his
daughter's husband “shall attempt in any way to sell or mortgage it”, the land
would be forfeited back to him. Perhaps John Williams simply wanted to make
certain that his oldest daughter had financial security if this much older man
ever coerced her into selling the property. There may have been a riff between
Samuel Herring and his father in Law. None of Ann Herring’s children were named
John or Ann after her parents. While Samuel Herring was a prosperous farmer and
seemed to be living near his brothers-in-law, he never achieved the wealth or
status of his father-in-law.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Five years after the Colony of Carolina was officially
split in two, South Carolina was considered the wealthier and more important
colony, and North Carolina was mostly neglected by the proprietors. However
taxes still were paid to the Lord Proprietors and in 1717 a tax was levied on
land owners. Not all of the men who were issued patents near the Cashie River
lived there. Some were simply land speculators whose lands were worked by
tenants until their sons moved into the region taking over ownership. But there
were enough early families between the Salmon Creek and the Cashie River who
were responsible for most of the initial land clearing of the forest and
draining swamps, that by the year 1717 the area had been well cleared from the
Cashie River to the Roanoke and broken up into plantations and farms.</span></span><br />
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25, the legal New Years under the old Calendar. This list can be viewed as an
informal census of the people who owned property in Chowan at this early date
or who paid a poll tax to be able to vote for officials. The wealthiest man in
Chowan Precinct at the time was Colonel Thomas Pollack who was taxed on 30,964
acres and 31 people. That is nearly 48 square miles. The next wealthiest man
was Frederick Jones with 21,095 acres and who had 6 taxable persons. He owned
nearly 33 square miles. After these two men, the number of acres owned by
individuals dropped dramatically. William Duckingfield owned 6800 acres and was
taxed for 17 people, Edward Moseley held 6,673 acres and taxed on 10 people,
Thomas Lee owned 6000 acres and was taxed for 18 people, William Maul also
owned 6000 acres and was taxed for 6 people, Robert West owned 4310 acres and
paid taxes for four people, Thomas Bray owned 4040 acres and taxed on six
people, and John Hardy owned 4000 acres and paid taxes for 4 people. These land
owners were the most influential in the precinct and also in much of all North
Carolina. </span></span></div>
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March 1718 as having lands of 640 acres that shared a border with Thomas Bray’s
land patent in Chowan Precinct. “March 9, 1717 [1718] Thomas Bray patented 640
acres in Chowan Precinct joining John Watson, Ralph Bosman, Robert Hicks, James
Farlaw, Charles Jordan and Isaac Williams.” This Isaac is actually Isaac
Wilson. These men mentioned in this patent lived east of the Chowan River along
a tributary named Indian Town Creek which was later renamed Catherine Creek.
"Capt." Thomas Bray as he was called in some of the early NC records
was also known as "Esquire" in at least one record. Thomas Bray was
appointed a Judge in 1716 in Chowan Precinct, NC, and was then called "the
Worshipful". He had married a daughter of Thomas Pollack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Tax record showed that 335 individuals paid taxes in
Chowan Precinct. The vast majority of the property owners listed in this tax
record, 158 people, owned less than 500 acres. That is 47 percent or nearly
half the residents taxed. 77 individuals or 23 percent owned no land at all but
paid a poll tax. Eighteen percent of landowners or 59 individuals owned farms
of 500 acres to 999 acres. Twenty-nine men owned between 1000 and 1,999 acres
or 9 percent of people enumerated. John Williams the younger was in this range.
Twelve men or 3 percent of those listed owned over 2000 acres. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From the tax numbers assigned to people it appears that
there were three distinct family units of Williamses lived within Chowan
Precinct at this date. The majority of these men all appear to be the
descendants of either Thomas Williams Senior and John Williams Senior of Isle
of Wight County or Lewis Williams, of Nansemond County, Virginia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger who lived by the Cashie River
at a branch called Horse Spring and was enumerated with his son Theophilus as
Tax number 272. He is shown as owning 1050 acres. Theophilus was also listed
but not as owning any property. He paid a poll Tax however so he would be
eligible to vote. He was at least 21 years old or older (before 1696).
Theophilus is the only son of John Williams listed in this 1717 Tax census.
John Williams III* was not enumerated and evidently did not own property and
chose not to pay a poll tax. Another explanation may be that perhaps he
remained in Virginia to care for property there. The other sons Isaac, James,
and Arthur were under 21 years and ineligible to pay a poll tax in order to
vote. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In another part of Chowan Precinct by Wiccacon River were
the sons and grandsons of Lewis Williams who had only recently died. The Lewis
Williams’ family settled on lands on the southwest side of the Chowan River at
the water ways of Deep Creek, Goose Creek, and Catawatskee [Catahiskey] Meadow.
Lewis Williams had settled at Catherine's Creek, in an area that was the
Chowanoke Indian Reservation the first one established in the United States
following the English colonists' defeat of the remaining Chowanoke in 1676. It
was established at the Chowanoke settlement between Bennett's Creek and
Catherine Creek in present day Gates County. Catherine Creek is the present
boundary between Gates County and Chowan Precinct. Catherine Creek settlements
on the Chowan River was about 20 miles or a day’s journey north of Edenton the
County seat in the seventeenth Century. The Tax record number for the Lewis
Williams clan was 277. Lewis Williams had died in 1716 prior to this tax census
but his sons were John Williams who had 370 acres and Anthony Williams who had
2200 acres one of the more wealthy planters in the precinct..</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Edward Williams the son of Ludowick Williams has his own
his own tax list number of 275 but he lived near members of the Lewis Williams
clan. While he owned no land he paid a poll tax so that he could vote in
elections. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Williams families who were the descendants of Thomas
Williams Senior, John the Younger's uncle were associated with lands situated along the water ways of
Kerby Creek, Turkey Creek, Meherrin River, and Morattuck River [Roanoke]. In
1717 these families lived in close proximity of the Lewis Williams’ Clan
as they are listed in the next sequential Tax Number 278. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Arthur Williams had
140 acres and lands on Turkey Creek and the Meherrin River. He is most likely
the Arthur Williams who left a will 8 August 1735. Samuel Williams owned 200
acres. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Samuel is probably the Samuel Williams who made a will 16 Apr 1736
naming as his heirs the children of his brother George Williams who is not
listed. George Williams in 1727 had lands in the "Northerly Woods of
Morattock [Roanoke]" where the sons of John Williams the younger would
also calim land. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A Thomas Williams is located here in this same area in 1723,
owning “200 acres in Bertie precinct in Maherrin woods on the South side of Kerby
Creek joining the mouth of Seacock branch, Gum Meadow and the said creek”. This
Thomas Williams is sometimes called “Williamson”. Williamson is a variation of
the name Williams and all the Williamsons in Bertie County are connected with
Williams family groups. There appears to be no distinct Williamson family in
18th Century Bertie County.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Two other Williams not identified with the others are
Pilgrim Williams who had 100 acres and “Mch” [maybe Michael] Williams who had
300 acres. Pilgrim Williams died in 1719 when on 22 Sept 1719 his wife
Elizabeth was granted administrix of his estate. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Other neighbors or family members of John Williams the
younger listed in the 1717 tax list are Edward Moore with 250 acres, Richard
Moore with 840 acres. Thomas Jones with 460 acres, John Plowman with 600 acres,
Charles Barber with 400 acres, John Edward Sr with 450 acres, Constable Phillip
Walston with 800 acres, William Jones with 900 acres, John Holbrook with 900
acres and Henry Lysle [Liles] with 1000 acres. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One of John Williams closest neighbor was Martin Gardner
[Garner] married to Ann Bryan. He was not included in this list although he is known to be a
neighbor of John Williams in 1717. He may have owned land at the time of
the tax or he chose not to pay a head poll tax in order to vote, to have been
left off the rolls. Another reason he may have not been included is that he was
not in the area when the tax roll was ordered in March as he may have been back in the Isle of Wight County . However by October
Martin Gardner was appointed “overseer” of a project to clear and lay out a passable
road over the “Cashy”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the fall of 1717, the Chowan Precinct General Court
met at William Branch’s House on 15 October and passed an "Act Creating
Road Over Cashy". </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Court officials ordered that a road be built
"from New Market", as Colonel Robert West's holdings were known, to a
place at the head waters of Cashie River then back down to Sandy Point at the
mouth of Salmon Creek. <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The community of Cashy was approximately 20 miles as the crow flies from the entrance </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">to Salmon Creek so the distance of this road may have been around 25 Miles. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">“Ordered that inhabitants on northside of Bare [Bear] Swamp Creek and those on the Westside of Rocquis [Roquist] Creek may choose a main road from New Market over the head of Kesiah [Cashie] River to Sandy Point at the mouth of Salmon Creek and that Robert West, Martin Gardner, William Jones, John Hardy, John Edwards, Thomas West, John Williams, Edward Moore, Richard Fryer, Thomas Williams, Charles Barber and Samuel Herring be a jury to lay out said road.” </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">T<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">he project and the rest of these men were responsible for hiring the laborers. Deed records show that Richard Fryer, John Edwards, Martin Garner, William Jones, and Charles Barber were John Williams the Younger’s neighbors close to Horse Spring Branch. The Kinfolk of John Williams who mentioned in the order were Edward Moore, Thomas Williams, and Samuel Herring</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">West's place was known as New Market as stated in a deed dated 8 April 1727 Ambrose White and Thomas Powell adjoining land formerly Col. Robert West's called "New Market" on Cashay swamp. This deed was witnessed by "Sam and Ann Herring". </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;">The </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Roquist Creek flows into the Cashie on the left side just below the Sans Sauci Ferry Landing. This
narrow body of water starts near Woodard through Indian Woods community before
ending near the Lewiston-Woodville area. Here it is known as Roquist Pocosin.
Many of my earlier ancestors developed home sites along the Roquist Creek and
Pocosin area. The headwaters of this branch of water passed near Benny and
Perry Wardsworth property. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This is the area where The Needham Bryan Family
developed Snowfield Plantation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The creation of the Cashy road greatly improved access to the
farms and plantations along the Cashie River. Trade and distribution of crops,
furs and hides, tar pitch, and smoked meats allowed the area farmers to begin
to prosper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s son John the Third added to his lands on
17 May 1718 when he bought 440 acres on the west side of the “Kesiah” River
from his neighbors Martin and Ann Gardner. Oddly the Gardners were not listed
in the 1717 Tax Record. Martin Gardner of Chowan Precinct to John Williams for
8 £ sold 440 acres on west side of Kasiah River joining William Wallston a
branch of Roquest and John Edwards. Witnesses were William Jones Matthew
Edwards and Theophilus Williams. Later that summer John Jones and his wife Mary
sold a tract of land on the “main swamp of Kesiah on 2 July 1718. Edward Moore
and his wife were the witnesses</span></span></div>
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John Edwards, and wife Dorca sold to Richard Fryer a tract of land consisting
of 240 acres adjoining Thomas Jones and John Holbrook's lands. Witnesses were
Martin Gardner and William Jones. Richard Fryer the next year bought 150 acres
from William Jones on 23 October 1719 for 15£. The property joined Martin
Gardner and Col. Thomas Pollack and therefore near John Williams. Fryer or a
son of the same name was one of the early families to move away from Bertie to
Onslow County, North Carolina. The will of Owen O’Daniel written March 12 1735
[1736] list Richard Fryer as his father-in-law.</span></span></div>
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Moore, Ann Moor Williams nephew, was made by Major Robert West. In the Chowan
Precinct Court Minutes West charged that Moore “has fallen a Great tree across
the Kasia [Cashie] River and stopped the same so that boats and canoes cannot
pass.” The court ordered Moore “to cut 10 feet so water crafts could pass.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the end of 1718, a Scotsman named James Castellow [aka
Castellaw] is found in the records of Chowan Precinct for the first time .
Castellow was the son of a Presbyterian minister and a lawyer in Scotland. James was also trained in Scotland as a lawyer and was the most
preeminent of all John Williams the Youngers’ sons and sons-in-law. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">29 December 1718 he witnessed the will
of Henry Woodnot of Chowan Precinct. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> In the name of God amen I
Henry Woodnot of Chowan precinct in the Government aforesaid, plantor, being
sick and weak in body but of perfect sense and sound judgment, and calling to
mind my mortality do make and ordain this my last will and testament. Imprimis.
I give and bequeath my soul unto God who gave it me to be cleansed from all the
pollutions contracted in the flesh and my body to be by my executors decently
interr’d in its mother Earth not at all doubting to receive it again at the
General Resurrection and as for what worldly estate it has pleased God to bless
me with I do give and bequeath in manner and form as follows with my debts and
funeral charges being first discharged. First I give and bequeath unto Robert
Ball and his heirs my negro man named Henry Groon (?) to serve him the said
Robert Ball of Chowan precinct in the government aforesaid, plantor, and his
heirs for ever Item. I give and bequeath unto Isabell Ferguson the daughter of
Anne Ferguson now the wife of Robert Ball all the remainder of my estate,
personal and real, all the lands which I now possess and enjoy in this country
and Virginia, my negro woman Betty and her children and all my other moveables
whatsoever to her the said Isabel and her heirs lawfully begotten on her body
for ever, but if the said Isabell dies without heirs or before she arrives to
the age of sixteen then all my estate both moveables and immovables shall fall
to Robert Ball and his children Item. I constitute and appoint my trusty and
well beloved friends Robert Ball and Isabell Ferguson my whole and sole
executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void
all former wills and bequests whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and eighteen. Signed sealed and delivered Henry
Woodnot [his mark] in the presence of Arthur Dugall, Thomas Rogers, and James
Castellaw. The next year James Castellaw was called upon to prove Woodnot’s
will. June 29th 1719 This day came before me James Castellaw proved upon oath
the aforesaid will. Charles Eden</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">James Castellaw and his future father-in-law John
Williams the Younger both received patents dated 11 November 1719 in Chowan
County. John Williams the Younger acquired a land patent of 640 acres (a square
mile) bounded by lands of his own lands, Charles Barber, Jonathan Standley, and
Phillip Walston. Jonathan Standley was the son in law of Martin Gardner and Ann Bryan. He married Ann Gardner. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This property was on the east side of the Cashie River near
Horse Spring Branch and Bear Swamp. His neighbors John Plowman and Philip Walston
were in the area as early as July 1713. This property was later deeded to John
Williams the Younger’s grandson, Ezekiel Williams, on 26 February 1757. Ezekiel
Williams had left Bertie County and moved to South Carolina by 1767 where he
was an assembly man. However he kept his ties with his folks in Bertie and his
will written 28 April 1796 was recorded the May Term in Bertie County, North
Carolina.</span></span></div>
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Precinct adjoining Philip Walston, Charles Barber, Jonathan Standley, and John
Williams. He probably filed after John Williams as that Johns’ patent does not
mention James Castellaw as adjoining his property. Nevertheless they were now
near neighbors and were soon to become related when Castellaw later married
Sarah Williams. </span></span></div>
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old and all his children except perhaps Mary and Arthur were grown. He had out
lived the age of his father at the time of his death and would continue to live
at least perhaps another 35 years. As one of the original land owners in the
Cashy area, between him and his sons and sons-in-law, the Williams Clan owned
over six miles of land on both sides of the Cashie River in the present day
Windsor Township of Bertie County. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A tax census dated 9 January 1719, in the old style
calendar but was actually taken in 1720, enumerated fifty-eight freeholders
[landowners] or family heads living west of the Chowan River between Salmon
Creek and the Cashie River in the Chowan Precinct. These men were generally
well educated men with strong economical, political, and social ties with the
county seat of government at Queen Anne [Edenton] on the northeast portion of
Albemarle Sound peninsula. Many of these families were related to one another by marriage
or other forms of kinship. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Among these 58 freeholders were John Williams the Younger,
Theophilus Williams, Samuel Herring, his brother John Herring and Thomas
Williamson [Williams]. Not enumerated were John Williams the Third nor James Castellaw. The census may not have included the west side of the Cashie River where John Williams the Third lands were located. Whether the John Williams mentioned here in the list is John the Younger or his son John Williams the Third is uncertain but as that John the Third owned land west of the Cashie, the man mentioned in this list is most likely the father. James Castellaw was most likely living still east of the Chowan
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Phillip Walston who was a near neighbor of John Williams the younger. While
Walston’s list contained the names of 58 men, there were many more men and
their families living in the area than that who were renters or indentured. The census only enumerated
property owners and those who paid a poll tax so as to be eligible to vote as did Theophilus Williams.
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger’s properties were located around Horse Spring Branch
and Bear Swamp and according to this census his nearest neighbors were Charles
Barber, Samuel Hearin [Herring], John Hearin [Herring], John Plowman, Jonathan
Standley, Thomas Williamson [Williams?], and Theophilus Williams, and John
Williams. The Thomas Williamson is probably a Williams as that the names were often interchangeable among those of Welsh decent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Three land deeds were recorded in Chowan Precinct on 5
April 1720 that mention kinfolk of John Williams the Younger. One was his son John
Williams the Third who obtained a land patent of 640 acres [a square mile] on the north
side of Roquist Swamp “joining ye said swamp” and therefore on the southwest
side of the Cashie River. This property was mentioned in the will of John
Williams the Third. Recorded at the same time was also the land patent of James Castellow who patented 340 acres joining John Watson, Ralph
Bosman, Robert Hicks, James Farlaw, Charles Jordan and Isaac Williams [Wilson].”
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Careful examination of other land deeds show that this Isaac “Williams” is
actually Isaac Wilson who is mentioned in deed records of the above neighbors
of Castellow at Indian Town Creek. The patent was on the east side of the
Chowan River and north of Queen Anne Creek. Indian Town Creek was later known
as Catherine Creek where Lewis Williams had settled some 15 years before. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The
3rd patent recorded that day was for a 640 acre patent granted to John Williams the
Younger’s cousin Arthur who was the son of his uncle Thomas Williams. Arthur
Williams’ lands were located south of the Morratuck [Roanoke] River and on
north west side of Kerby’s Creek. This land is in present Northampton County
near the town of Conway about 40 miles north of Cashy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the community of Cashy several land transactions in
1720 show which prominent land owners were neighbors or close associates in the area. James
Castellaw, Martin Garnder and Edward Moore all witnessed a deed of gift from a
farmer John Griffin and his wife Joyce to William Griffin, "for love...I
do bare my son” of 200 acres on “southwest side of Kesai [Cashie] Swamp
adjoining William Wilson”. </span></span></div>
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neighbor Charles Barber signed Power of Attorney to Samuel Herring
on July 11 to acknowledge a sale of 72 acres land between Barber and John
Lewerton. The POA was witnessed by John’s son Theophilus Williams and Owen
Daniel [O’Daniel who was the father in law of Richard Fryer. On the same day
Charles Barber’s wife Elizabeth gave her Power of Attorney to Owen O’Daniel.
This POA was then witnessed by Theophilus Williams and Samuel Herring. The land
sold to Lewerton was on the west side of Beaver Swamp but east of the Cashie
River. The three witnesses to the transaction were also Theophilus Williams,
Samuel Herring, and Owen O’Daniel. </span></span></div>
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Theophilus Williams and John Williams both witnessed property deeds between
John Bryan and Henry Bradley Jr. and Ralph Mason and John Tuberville.
Witnessing the deed of Ralph Mason along with John Williams was Benjamin
Foreman Senior who had various connections with the Williams Families of Surry
County, Virginia before relocating to North Carolina..</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This Benjamin Foreman Sr. was born circa 1681, the son of
William Foreman and probably Hester Brown of Southwark Parish Surry County
Virginia. He married Verity [or Verrily] thought to be a Williams and perhaps a
daughter of Roger Williams. He was a witness to the will of Roger Williams of Surry
County in 1706. He had at least three children William Foreman, Mary Foreman
and Benjamin Foreman Jr all born in Virginia and he in the Chowan Precinct of
Albemarle County by 1716 where he was shown in a Tax record as owning 370
acres. By 1722 a George Williams became Benjamin Foreman Senior’s son-in-law. This George Williams was likely a descendant of Thomas Williams, John Williams the Younger's uncle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Two deeds dated 10 August 1720 show that the sons and son
in law of John Williams the Younger began to acquire land on the south west
side of the Cashie River on both sides of Roquist Creek. Samuel Heron
[Herring], in his ’s own name as far as known, acquired at this time a patent
of 270 acres in “Chowan Precinct back of Theophilus Williams on south side
Cassia River [Cashie] joining west side of a swamp that makes into Rocquiss, a
branch and the said Williams.” The description of Roquist Swamp shows that this
property was on the Westside of the Cashie River and that it joined property of
his brother in law Theophilus Williams. “Samuel Heron 270 acres Chowan Precinct
back of Theophilus Williams on south side Cassia R., joining west side of a
swamp that makes into Rocquiss, a branch, and the said Williams.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Another deed dated 10 August 1720 of George Cockburne
shows that he also had lands on the southside of “Cassia” River joining the
northside of Rocquis Swamp, a pocosin, a branch and John Williams”. This John
Williams was certainly the eldest son of John and Ann Moor Williams who was
granted 640 acres on April 5.. </span></span></div>
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south side of Roquist Creek 1720 although a patent or deed for this land has
not been located. A deed of gift between Philip Wallston of Chowan Precinct, cooper, to Phillip
Wallston “my son” 450 acre plantation on southside of Rockquist swampt on
Kesiah River joining Coll. Thomas Pollack and James Castellaw as patent.”</span></span></div>
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November 1720; April Court, 1721. Witnesses to the will were John Williams,
Theophilus Williams, Edward Moore and George Eubanck [Eubank]. What
relationship Edmonds had to these men other than being neighbors is
undetermined. Edmonds named his legatees as Mary his wife, his son Henry to
whom he gave his plantation and three daughters Sarah Edmonds, Ann Smith, and Elizabeth
Moulton wife of Henry Moulton. John Edwards Sr was executor of the
estate. The will was proved in April Court 1721. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A deed, between John Plowman “Gentleman of Chowan
Precinct, and James Felham, was witnessed by James Castellaw and Mary White on 4
November 1720 the day after Samuel Edmonds wrote his will. John Plowman was a
near neighbor of John Williams the Younger in the area of Horse Spring Branch
and the Cashie River and Mary White was his daughter. </span></span></div>
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Albemarle County, planter, filed a deed giving to James Blount 10 acres “for
love and affection I bear my neighbor”. This John Williams was the son of John
Williams the younger. There is no known blood relationship between the two men
and the term “love and affection” is general reserved for kinship or very close
friends. Evidently John Williams had a special fondness for James Blount as
that he would deed 10 acres to him for “love and affection”. It is possible that John Williams the Third was cohabitating with James Blount's sister as that his youngest brother Arthur had a Tuscarora woman as his common law wife. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The deed was recorded 10 December 1720 and property
description stated it was on Reedy Branch [more commonly called Beaver Dam
Branch] located on the North side of the Morattuck [Roanoke] River. The ten
acres were part of a larger survey made by Col. William Maul. Witnesses to this
deed were John Naire, John Odom, Henry Emanson. Other land deeds of John
Williams the Third show that some of his lands joined those of James Blount. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A deed dated 3 July 1721 shows that James Blount was the son
of John Blount. “John Blount of Chowan Precinct transferred to James Blount “my
son” 640 acres on the north side of Moratuck River [Roanoke] joining “James
Blount and Thomas Busby”. Witnesses to this deed were William Jones and Edward
Wingate. The same day James Blount and his “now wife Catherine” sold this land
for 25£ to Francis Parker of “Nansemond County”. This land was adjoining
joining James Blount and Thomas Blount [King Tom Blount]. Francis Parker was
born circa 1695, in Nansemond County, Virginia and married Elizabeth Thomas in
Chowan. James Blount was a Tuscarora Indian and evidently a very close friend to John Williams. He was the son of John Blount and a grandson of King Tom Blount. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">After the death of old King Tom Blount in the 1730’s,
James Blount was elected King of the Tuscarora in June 1739 at the village of
“Rehorsesky,” on the Roquist reservation in Bertie County. James Blount was the
last king of the remaining Tuscarora people. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Many of the Tuscarora people who lived in Bertie County
had adopted English names such as Blount, Butler, Bunch, and Taylor, which made
them often indistinguishable from Europeans in land deeds. The close proximity
of Indians, blacks and whites living together in the South led to mixed race
children. Some of the John Williams the Younger’s descendants, including his
son Arthur, took as wives Tuscarora women. His grandchildren and great
grandchildren were referred to in records as mulattos which have confused some
researchers. The term Mulatto in this period meant someone having “white blood”
mixed with that of either American Indian or African. John Williams’
descendants by Tuscarora mothers were "half-breeds", a derogatory term
to describe Indian and European mixed race children. John Williams’ brother
William Williams however did have a grandson who had a common law marriage with
a slave of African ancestry. Another old racial term was “mustee” a corruption
of the Spanish word “Mestizo”. The term was used specifically to categorize a
mixed race people of Native American and African ancestry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Over time however the Tuscarora began to dwindle in
number during the 18th Century so that in the 1820’s, nearly 100 years after it
was granted the Tuscarora reservation was returned to the state of North
Carolina and the lands were sold to wealthy planters. Tuscarora bloodlines are
mostly mingled today among the descendants of the English who originally
settled next to the reservation. Today, while no longer a reservation, the area
is still called Indian Woods. </span></span></div>
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family of John Williams the Younger was one of the most prominent landowners in
the Cashy community. Records show that from John Williams earliest patent of
320 acres in 1713 until 1721, his family had accumulated 4,010 acres or nearly
6 ¼ square miles. </span></span><br />
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John Williams listed, one as John Williams Jr. As that most of the records
pertaining to John Williams the Younger also refer to him as John Wiliams Jr.,
it appears that the John Williams paying a tax of 1£: 7s: 4p on 1620 acres is
John Williams the Third. John Williams "Jr." is listed as paying a tax of 1£: 17shillings
and 9pence on 1065 acres. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">My guess is that the "John Williams" is the oldest son
of John and Ann Moor Williams and because his holdings were not as developed as
his father, his taxes were less even though he owned more property. John
Williams the Third would have been about 28 years old and probably unmarried. If he
did marry, his wife had to had died before 1722 without issue or another possibility is that he had an Indian common law wife which was not recognized by law. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">John the Younger's <span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Son</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Theophilus
Williams paid a taxed of 1£: 15shillings and 3 pence on 915 acres. His son James
Williams paid a tax of 1£: 6s: 10p on 410 acres. As that James Williams had
patented this land on March 30th this tax record which had no date had to be
taken after that time. John the Younger's son Isaac Williams isn't shown as having any land as was
his youngest son Arthur Williams. Possibly Isaac, who would have been about 20, years old and Arthur
was still a youth of about 15 years, were still living with their parents.</span></span><br />
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Others relations mentioned in the 1721 census were sons-in-law Samuel Herring
and James Castellow who owned 1700 acres. A near neighbor Jonathan Standley had
300 acres. H</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">e had acquired land or was renting prior to 28 January
1720 [1721] when a deed description of property being sold from Joseph Trowell
of “Kesiah” [Cashie] in Chowan Precinct to John Harrison showed that the
property was located at a “branch of reeds” and James Castellow.</span></span><br />
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Williams, and James Williams traveled to Queen Anne Town [Edenton] where on March
30th 1721 they registered several deeds for lands on the west side of the
Cashie River. John Williams the Third patented 640 acres “between Cassia [Cashie]
and Morattuck {Roanoke], joining James Blount, a reedy pocoson, and a great
swamp.” He also claimed 250 acres in “ye woods betwixt Cassia and Morattock
river, joining ye Village pond, James Blount, John Williams and a Great swamp.” A deed dated 7 November 1721 shows
that James Blount the Tuscarora lived near Theophilus Williams’ father-in-law Thomas
Busby. “James Blount to John Yelverton 20 shillings for 211 acres at Thomas
Busby headline.” Another deed dated 10 February 1723 [1724] between Francis
Parker and John Parker stated the property in the transaction was by lands of
James Blount and Thomas Busby.</span></span></span></div>
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Cassia River, joining Samuel Heron, ye Flag Branch, and ye west side of little
Rocquis Swamp [Roquist Creek]” Samuel Herring was of course his brother-in-law
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witness in many Williams’ property deeds. The Cashie River flows from a a
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direction. His near neighbor was Owen O’Daniels. James Williams received a
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #009000;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: black;"><br />At the same time also on</span></span><span style="color: #009000;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129;"> 17 April 1721 John the Younger father gave his son Theophilus two tracts of land most likely as a wedding gift. “John Williams of Albemarle County, planter, to Theophilus Williams of same for “love and affection I bear my son, 90 acres where on he now lives being part of land I live on and 120 acres all on Horse Spring Branch adjoining Samuel Hearing, Turkey Swamp and Thomas Jones of another which joins the tract I live on.” The witnesses were Benjamin Foreman and John Williams most likely Theophilus' brother. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the same time John Williams the Younger gave power of attorney to his neighbor John Edwards to acknowledge the Deed of Gift to “my son” Theophilus Williams in court. The distance from Cashy to Edenton to record the deed may have been too much for John Williams as he was now nearly 50 years old. Many of his deeds after this time are recorded by Powers of Attorney assigned to others. The 1721 Tax record shows that Theophilus Williams held 915 acres of land. The two deeds shown above account for 410 of them. There are no others records that show he acquired anymore land in 1721 so Theophilus must have acquired the remaining 505 prior to that time.</span></span></span><br />
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Theophilus Williams was born circa 1694 and would have been about 27 years old when he married Christian Busby [Busbee] the daughter of Thomas Busby and Catherine Bryan. Thomas Busby had relocated from Isle of Wight County were he was a farmer and Indian trader. His property in Bertie County was located next to the Tuscarora Nation Reservation and no doubt traded with them. Theophilus and Christian Williams’ first born son was named John Williams after his grandfather John Williams the Younger. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On this same day James Castellaw “of Chowan Precinct, planter” gave to John Edwards Jr. the Power of Attorney to acknowledge transactions to be recorded in Edenton between him and John Williams and William and Mary Jones . John Edward Jr might be the same as the John Edwards in John Williams’ above deed of gift to his son Theophilus. The witnesses were John Price and Benjamin Foreman. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 3 July 1721 John Blount of Chowan Precinct assigned a deed of gift to James Blount of Chowan Precinct to “my son” 640 acres on northside of Morratuck [Roanoke] River joining James Blount and Thomas Busby. The witnesses were William Jones and Edward Wingate. The same day James Blount and “now wife” Katherine sold to Francis Parker of Nansemond County for 25£ this 640 gift from his father. The witnesses to this transaction were John Blount and Thomas Busby.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">John the Younger's</span> <span style="color: black;">son Theophilus Williams was married and his ot</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">her children married in the 1720’s but dates of marriage are unknown. His daughters Mary Williams
married Abraham Herring and Sarah Williams married James Castellow. Abraham Herring was Samuel Herrings’ younger brother. His son Isaac Williams married Martha
Hodges a daughter of Robert Hodges and son James Williams married Elizabeth Bryan the daughter of Needham Bryan. Elizabeth Bryan was the daughter of Needham Bryan and Charlotte Moore and a cousin to
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John and Ann Moore Williams’s son John, probably his eldest, made his will out on 26 Jan 1721 [1722] and died some time after that. It was recorded in Chowan County on 18 May 1722 and he died unmarried probably in his late 20’s. His will left his considerable estates to his brothers, Theophilus Williams, James Williams, Isaac Williams, and Arthur Williams but nothing to his parents. However John and Ann Moore Williams were listed as witnesses of their son’s will along with Mary Edmonds so there probably was no acrimony among them. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Third also specified the lands to be given to Arthur his youngest brother who may have been as young as 12 years old. These lands were at “Runaroy” [also known as Runaroy Marsh]. Here there are a number of choices, none of which fit Runaroy exactly, but you can take your choice. The name Runaroy Path was used in a land patent of 1721 and other deeds referred to Flag Run as being on Runaroy Meadow or Swamp. Runiroi was probably a Tuscarora village on the west side of the Cashie. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wayne Modlin from Indian Woods suggests that Runaroy Path referred to what is now Indian Woods Road, including the road that goes through Woodville to Flag Run. Runaroy Path would have been an Indian Trail when early white settlers started taking out land grants. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the summer of 1722 on July 13, Theophilus Williams’s father-in-law Thomas Busby of “Albemarle County and Catherine my wife” sold to John Page of Albemarle County 320 acres on the northside of Morratuck on Jumping Run joining James Blount and John Williams part of a 640 acre patent granted “to me” for 16 £. The witnesses were George Williams and Thomas Browne. George Williams likely a second cousin from Theophilus great uncle Thomas Williams who died in 1693. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas Browne may be been John Williams the Younger's uncle who married Ann Williams his aunt or the son of John Browne. </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jumping Run is in the Woodville area and sometimes referred to as Flag Run Gut. On the north end of Jumping Run Creek is Dempsey Bridge (not actually a bridge, but a flat path that the water from Jumping Run ran across that had a hard bottom and would hold a horse and cart from sinking) It empties into Griffin's Mill Pond and into Flag Run Gut/Wharf. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The origin of the name is said to be due to impassable swampland for which poles were cut to lay across to provide a road bed. Only a "good" mule could make it across and then only if the driver would "jump and run along" beside him. "Jump and Run" became, over time, Jumping Run.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In September 1722, John Williams the Younger, his son-in-law James Castellow and his cousin Arthur Williams traveled to the courthouse at Edenton, in Chowan Precinct to register two deeds. Arthur Williams on 8 Sep 1722 patented 300 acres in Potacosey woods joining the hunting quarter swamp and Potacasey (Potecasi) Creek. This creek flows in the Meherrin River. This land was nearly 40 miles north of Cashy in what became Northhampton County in 1741.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Although the Williams family may have been Anglican, it was very difficult to find Anglican ministers willing to serve in early Colonial Bertie due to the low salaries and the early pioneer life style. When Gabriel Johnston became governor of North Carolina in 1734 he sent a plea to the bishop of London for a minister for Bertie County: "We are a most heathenish part of American and have no sect amongst us but Quakers who daily increase.” </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">P</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">robably in response, the Rev. John Boyd was the first Anglican missionary to come to the Society Parish. The Rev. Boyd had a reputation for drunkenness however and died by the early 1740's. Rev. John Holmes replaced him and served for a brief time. But he was as unsuccessful a pastor as Boyd and Bertie County became dependent on neighboring counties for their clergy until 1767. The American Revolution brought about a disregard for the Church of England by the Patriots, and no doubt affected the Cashy Chapel. The demise of the community of Cashy led to the chapel to fall into disrepair and ruins. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: #b00000;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="color: #b00000;"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">By the Mid 1720’s a community called Cashy, at the end of navigable waters of the Cashie River began to develop to support local planters. Here a bridge was built in 1712 that later become known as Hoggard Mill Bridge and Greens Cross Bridge in the 19th Century. The wide area below the bridge was a turning basin that was used to turn cargo ships coming from the Sound around for the trip back down river. At one time the Cashie River was a very important waterway for transporting cargo such as tobacco, animal pelts, cotton, and passengers to and from the Albemarle Sound in the Atlantic Ocean.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: #b00000;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A later deed, dated 13 April 1723, showed that Nicholas Sessums and his wife Elizabeth, sold 80 acres to James Page that was located on the main branch of Wickacome [Wiccacom] Creek to small branch dividing the land where John Williams now lives. This Nicholas Sessums was the grandson of the Nicholas Sessums the Emigrant of Surrey County, Virginia. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The deed was witnessed by John Naire and Needham Bryan. As that John Naire and Needham Bryan are associated with John Williams the Younger the John Williams mentioned in the was of Cashy. Needham Bryan became the father-in-law to John’s son James Williams by 1730.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b00000;">I<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n November 1723 John Williams the Younger and his cousin Arthur Williams son of his uncle Thomas Williams filed two land deeds. Arthur Williams on 7 November 1723 patented 200 acres in Potacasey Woods joining “Potacasey Creek”. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Three days later John Williams recorded on 10 Nov 1723 534 acres on the north side of Morattock, joining the lands of the Tuscarora Indian chieftain James Blount and Jumping Run [near Roquist Swamp]. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b00000;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jumping Run is a small stream that empties into Griffin's Mill Pond, and into Flag [Flaggy] Run by the Indian Woods and near present day Woodville. This 534 acres eventually was owned by a Robert Hicks who in 1755 sold it to David Mead. That deed stated the land on Jumping Run, formerly of James Blounts", was chained to John Williams then Jethro Butler and Thomas Page. The 1755 deed was mistaken and saying that the land was patented to John Williams on 16 November 1723 “who dying intestate it descended to his son James Williams who conveyed it to said Robert Hicks 16 Oct 1739.” John Williams the Younger did not die without a will. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams was still alive in 1757 when he deeded some lands to his grandson Ezekiel Williams the son of James Williams. Also James Williams was dead by 1737 when his will was recorded. Either the deed was fraudulent or just really wrong on the dates and the chain of title. A Mr. Barker, John Gilchrist, and Darwin Elwick witnessed the deed which was recorded 5 May 1756.</span></span></span></span></div>
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their interest in 150 acres on the south side of the Cashie River to George
Pollock. The following month o</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n 28 February 1723 [1724] James Castellaw sold to Thomas
Williamson [Williams] 550 acres located at Arthur Dugall’s corner on Kesiah [Cashie] River
to Florence Bourn's lines. The witnesses were Peter Stancell and Jonathan
Ridings. This deed was signed by both James Castellaw and his wife Sarah. These
documents show that the pair were married by 1724 but more than likely many
years before this date. On 8 November 1724 Sarah Castellaw gave to Edward More [Moore] her Power of Attorney to acknowledge the sale to Thomas Williams "as my right of dower and power of thirds to land in Kesiah Neck.” Edward Moore was Sarah Castellaw’s cousin on her mother Ann Moor’s side of her family. He was Ann Moor Williams’s nephew. </span></span></span></div>
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perhaps a cousin, 35 acres on Little “Roquess Swamp” lands adjoining Samuel
Herring’s corner for 20 shillings. The deed was witnessed by John Hart and Needham
Bryan who would become James’ father-in-law. </span></span></span><br />
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law to James' brother Isaac Williams when he married a daughter of Robert Hodges. Joseph
Moore's will was written 15 Feb 1753 and recorded in Edgecombe County. His wife Anne Hodges Moore's will was dated 22
Feb 1774 and probated in Jan 1776 in Martin County. Martin County was formed from Halifax County which was form in in 1758 from
Edgecombe so evidently the family lived in all <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>three counties without ever moving. Joseph Moore "Jr" was the sheriff of Edgecombe County.</span></span></span></div>
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I, John Williams and Ann my wife, Send Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting, Know
ye that I Jn Williams of Bertie Precinct in the County of Albermarle and
province of No. Carolina with the free consent of Ann my wife for divers good
cause and considerations is thereunto moving, but more especially for the
Valuable consideration of twelve pounds to us in hand paid by Hen. Overstreet
of the province and precinct aforesaid is secured to be paid the Receipt
whereof we do by these presents Acknowledge ourselves fully contented satisfied
and paid do therefore bargain and sell alienate and forever make over and
confirm unto the aforesaid Hen. Overstreet to him his heirs Exe and Assigns
forever a certain Tract or piece of Land containing two hundred and thirty five
acres in Bertie precinct lying back of a Survey of Martin Gardners the So. side
of Casiah Swamp Beginning at a Red Oak in a marsh on the No. Et. side of a
swamp that makes out of Rockquist Running then No. 38 Et. 240 pole to a hickory
then No. 60 Wt. 220 pole to three hiccorys then So. 30 Wt. 118 pole to three
pines on a branch side that makes into the swamp then the windings of the
branch and the swamp that makes into Rockquist to the first station together
with all Houses gardens orchards timber and timber trees thereon standing lying
or growing with all Easements profits and appurtenances unto the same belonging
or any ways appertaining To Have and to Hold all and Singular the aforesaid
devised and every part and parcel thereof to all intents and purposes unto him
the said Hen Overstreet his heirs Exe Adm and assigns from hereinafter and
forever in as full and ample manner as any land is holden in this Goverment
warranting the same to be free and clear of and from all manner of Rent or
Rents dew to our Sovereign Ld. the King or the absolute Lds proprietors of the
Goverment, and the above said Saile do warrant and maintain in every article
and clause as is above Expressed and to defend the same from all manner of
person or persons claiming by from or under us or either of us our heirs Exe or
Adm or any ways whatsoever as also to acknowledge the same in Bertie precinct
__ when thereunto reasonably bequested we bind ourselves our heirs Exe and Adm
in the penal sum of Twenty four pounds Fr money of Great Britain, In witness
whereof we have set our hands and seals 2nd day of August 1724 Jn Williams Ann
A Williams Isaac Williams, Wm Jones Ann A Herring </span></span></span><br />
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Blackwater ajoining Sarah Branch Davis. A witness to this deed was John the Younger's brother Nicholas Williams who was also a Quaker. Robert Hodges may have been selling off his property in Virginia to relocate to Bertie Precinct in North Carolina. Robert Hodges was in Bertie County by October when he acted as a witness to a deed from John Williams the Younger to his brother Nicholas.</span></span></span></div>
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"<span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This Indenture made this twenty first day of October ye tenth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord George & in ye year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & twenty five between John Williams of North Carolina of ye one part and Nicholas Williams of the Isle of Wight County in Virginia of ye other part Witnesseth that ye said John Williams for & in consideration of ye sum of one schilling to him in hand paid by ye said Nicholas Williams ye receipt whereof he Doth hereby acknowledged & himself to be there with fully satisfied contented & paid & by these presents Doth acquit & Discharge the said Nicholas Williams his heirs & hath devised Bargained Lett leased and to farm letter and by these presents doth devise bargain Lett lease & to farm Lett unto ye said Nicholas Williams his heirs & assigns all that messuage plantation or parcel of situated lying & being in ye Isle of Wight County in Virginia bounded as followeth, Viz, Beginning at a marked corner tree of John Barnes being a Gum standing by ye Bun side of Nottaway Swamp thence up the Dividing Line to a pine standing by ye side of a branch thence up the Branch to a pine tree standing in Ye said Branch being a Corner tree so up a line of marked trees to ye patent Line & according to Pattent to a marked Red Oak being made a corner tree of the Dividing Line between John Williams & Nicholas Williams from thence down a line of marked trees to Gum standing standing in the Run of a branch so down the branch to a Gum & down a line of marked trees to Gum standing in Nottaway Swamp by the run side being a corner tree from thence down this Run run to a Gum being a Corner Tree standing in the side of ye Run being a Corner tree between John Barnes and John Williams by Estimation one hundred & twenty five acres being ye same more or less which said Land being a part of a tract in a pattent Granted to Wm Williams bearing date ye twenty forth day of April one thousand seven hundred & three & said land together with all houses Orchards Gardens roadways waters water courses & all other profits & advantages to ye same belonging or in any wise appertaining To Have & To Hold the said Devised premises & every part thereof unto ye said Nicholas Williams his heirs & for and during the full term & time of three years fully to be completed & ended yielding & paying for ye same yearly on ye tenth Day of December ye fee rent one ear of Indian Corn if ye same shall be Lawfully Demanded unto Ye said John Williams his heirs & to ye intent & purpose that by virtue of these presents & of ye Statue for Transferring Uses into possessions that ye said Nicholas Williams may be in actual & peaceable possession of ye heretofore granted premises & hereby may be the better enabled to accept of a grant or Conveyance of ye Reversion & Inheritance there of to him & his heirs for ever in Witness where of the said John Williams hath hereunto set his hand & Seal ye Day & year above written."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black;">On 25 October 1725, John Williams the Younger and Robert Hodges appeared before the Bertie court and</span> <span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">presented & acknowledged this his [Hodges] </span></span><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">mark deed unto Nicholas Williams & admitted to record."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black;">Another deed by John Williams the Younger to his younger brother Nicholas was dated 23 October 1725. John Williams sold to his brother for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">£18 125 acres located in the Isle of Wight County that had been purchased from their brother William Williams.</span></span><span style="color: #009000;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"This Indenture made ye twenty third day of October ye tenth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George & in ye yeare of our Lord one thousand seven hundred twenty five Between John Williams of North Carolina of ye one part & Nicholas Williams of the Isle of Wight County in Virginia of the other part Witnesseth that ye said John Williams for & in consideration of ye sum of Eighteen pounds currant money to him in hand paid by ye said Nicholas Williams whereof he doth acquit & discharge the said Nicholas Williams his heirs Exe & assigns & hath Remised Released & forever Quit Claim unto ye said Nicholas Williams & by these presents for himself & his heirs doth fully & clearly & absolutely Remise Release & forever Quit Claim unto ye said Nicholas Williams & his heirs forever all such Right in the Interest & Demands whatsoever as ye said Jon Williams had or ought to have of in or to one hundred & twenty five acres of Land be ye same more or less now in ye quiet & peaceable possession of ye said Nicholas Williams may more Largely appear by interest of one Lease bearing Date to Days before ye Date of these presents to him ye said Nicholas Williams granted by ye John Williams situate lying & being in ye Isle of Wight County in Virginia & bounded as Followeth (viz) Beginning at a marked corner tree of John Barnes being a Gum standing by ye run side of Nottaway Swamp thence up ye dividing Line to a pine standing by ye side of a branch thence up ye said branch to a pine tree standing in ye said Branch being a Corner tree so up a line of marked trees to ye pattent Line so according to ye pattent to a marked Red Oak being made a Corner tree of ye Dividing Line between John Williams & Nicholas Williams from thence down a line of marked trees to a Gum standing in ye Run of a branch so down ye branch to a gum so down a Line of marked trees to a Gum standing in Nottaway Swamp by ye run Line being a Corner tree from thence down ye Run to a Gum being a Corner tree standing in ye side of ye Run being a Corner tree betwixt John Barnes & John Williams by Estimation one hundred and twenty five Acres be ye more or Less which said Land being part of a tract in a pattent granted to Wm Williams bearing date ye twenty fourth Day of April one thousand seven hundred & three which said Land together with all appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the Said Nicholas Williams & his heirs forever To Have and to Hold all & singular ye aforesaid Land & premises so that neither ye said John Williams nor his heirs nor any person or persons whatsoever by from or under him or them shall or will by any means hereafter have Claim Challenge or Demand Estate Right Title or Interest of in or to the aforesaid premises or to any part or parcel thereof by he & they & every of them shall be utterly excluded & Debared for ever by these presents & also ye said John Williams & his heirs doe warrant ye aforesaid Land to the said Nicholas Williams & his heirs for ever with a general warranty against all persons whatsoever In Witness ye said John Williams hath here unto set his hand & Seal ye Day & year first above written </span></span><span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Signed Sealed & Delivered John Williams Seal</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 5 February 1725 [1726], an African “wench named Rose…and her increase…” was sold by Richard Webb of Nansemond
County, Virginia to James Wood for 32 pounds 15 shillings. The witnesses were John Moore, James Moore,
and John Sutton. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anne Bird and husband Barnabee Bird to Benjamin Foreman
10 Mch 1725/6 20 pds for 625 ac on south side Kahukee Swamp adj Richard
Melton,Ann Milton. Benjamin to clear and plant an acre of land and build a
house by ye last March next coming. Wit. John Williams, Jacob Lewis. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">These two transactions about a month apart show that that the value of this African woman was worth more than a square mile of land.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In 1726 James Williams sold to Robert Hog (Hodges) 380
acres on Rocquis Creek and the Flagg [Flaggy] branch lands adjoin Henry
Overstreet. The witness to this deed was his brother Theophilus Williams and
Richard Washington.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">7 May 1726 John Williams and wife Anne sold to John Moore
150 acres adjoining Jonathan Standley for 24£. This deed was witnessed by
Theophilus Williams and Samuel Williams. John and Ann Moor Williams gave power
of Attorney to Stephen Wlliams to acknowledge the sale of the 150 acres to John
Moore. Both Theophilus and his brother James Williams were witnesses and called
“jurats” which just meant they swore to the validity of the deed. John Moore
could have been John Williams’ brother in law or his wife’s nephew. Stephen
Williams was John Williams the Younger’s nephew son of his brother Williams.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On May 7, 1726 a Deed between Sarah Rose and Robert Bell
was witnessed by Theophilus Williams and his brother James Williams who
testified at the May Court of 1726. In a Deed dated the same time Sarah Rose
gave Power of Attorney to Stephen Williams to handle the sale of the 640 acres
to “Robert Bell, Planter”. This deed was also witnessed by Theophilus Williams
and James Williams. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Anne Bird & husband Barnabee Bird to Benj Foreman 10 Mar 1725/6 20 pds for 625 A on SS Kohukee/Kehikee Swamp land adj Rich Milton, Ann Milton, Benj to & plant an acre of land, build a house by "ye last of Mar next coming". Witnesses: John Williams, Jacob Lewis</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">7 May 1726 - John Williams and wife Ann to Stephen Williams most likely his nephew and son of William Williams.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">10 May 1726 James and Sarah Castellaw assigned rights to
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 1 August 1726 William Williams, James Williams, and
James Castellow recorded land transaction in the Bertie Court House deeds.
James Castellow and William Williams patented a shared border for 640 acres “on
the Easterly side of “Cushie Swamp” in “Guy Hall Woods” adjoining Ambrose Ares(?),
and William Williams. Guye's Hall Swamp in the 1700's was a tributary of Cashie
River now called White Oak Swamp. It joined Red-Bud Swamp at Hoggard Mill Creek
(Will's Quarter Swamp) a few miles north of the present town of Windsor and
just south of the community of Buena Vista crosSenioroads The name goes back as
far as 1726 when James Castellow received a royal grant of 640 acres on the
"East side of Cashy Swamp in Guys Hall Woods". Guys Hall the swamp, a
tributary of Cashie River, was so named by many generations until recent times
when it somehow became White Oak Swamp. (I am one of the few left who still
call it Guys Hall) It is crossed by U.S. 13 just south of Beuna Vista
crossroads, a name that goes back as far as the 1850s but is of unknown origin.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">James Williams filed two land patents at the same time.
He registered a patent of 640 acres “On the Easterly side of Cashy river in
Guyshall in Bertie precinct joining his own former corner.” He registered an
additional 416 acres on the “Easterly side of Cushy river in Guyshall wood in
Bertie precinct, joining David Stewart, a branch and Guyshall Swamp.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is unclear who this William Williams is however he
must of have been a near kinsman for James Castellow to file a shared deed with
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the age of about 40 years Samuel Herring filed a deed
on 3 August 1726 for 640 acres on the east side Cashy River “on Bucklesbury
Pocoson joining Laurence Searson [Sarson].” His lands now extended on bothsides
of the Cashie River. Buckleberry Pocosin SW Merry Hill E of Windsor, on the
south side of Highway 17 just N of intersection Hwy 45 toward Edenton.
Bucklesberry is the name of an area, and a swamp, near where the Capehart's
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">James Castellaw was business partner with Henry Guston and James Millikin in a warehouse at Cashy. He sold his interest in the property on 16 August 1726. "We the subscribers do assign all our
Right Title and Interest of the within mentioned Deed of Sale unto Henry Guston
and James Millikin..." signed by James Castellaw and his wife Sarah
Castellaw. The witnesses were Thomas Smith, and James Black. The deed was recorded on 28 Oct. 1726. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 7 March 1726 [1727] Robert Hodges "planter" bought from William Gray for 80£ 480 acres located at northeast side of Little Rocquis Swamp at James
Williams’ corner to Richard Milton. The witnesses were Joseph Moore, John Gray and Elias
Hodges. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b01400; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John the Younger and Ann Williams on 2 August 1727 sold an additional 135 acres on Casiah Swamp [Cashie River] and Roquist to their neighbor Henry
Overstreet. The deed was
witnessed by their son Isaac Williams, their daughter Anne
Herring and neighbor William Jones. They gave power of attorney to their son Isaac to acknowledge the sale.</span></span></span></div>
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80 £ 7 shillings. The witnesses were
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 3 November 1727 John the Younger and his wife gave power of attorney to the son Isaac which in the court record was called "our Trusty and well beloved Friend Isaac Williams" which seems unusual. However the Power of Attorney from John Williams to Isaac Williams was proved in Open Court in "due form of Law by the Oath of Isaac Williams one of the Evidences thereto which on motion is ordered to be Registered."</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Know all men by these presents that we
ye subscribers doth firmly by these presents Constitute and ordain and appoint
in our names and stead to be
our true and Lawful Attorney to acknowledge a certain Tract or parcel of land
unto Henry Overstreet or his order in Bertie precinct Court, what our Attorney
shall Lawfully do shall stand in as full force and Power as if we were
personally in place, as witness our hands and seals this thirteenth day of
November 1727. Isaac Williams Jurist Witnesses were John Williams Seal, William Jones and Ann Williams Seal Bertie precinct May Court 1728 </span><br />
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Tuscarora Indian landowner named Jonathan Taylor in 1728 whose son William
Taylor married into collateral family lines of the Williams-Castellow-Barfield
families. William Taylor was named as a Tuscarora Indian in a lease of 8,000
acres to a William Williams and Thomas Pugh and Willie Jones of Duplin County
North Carolina in 1766. He was a wealthy planter and son of the Tuscarora
Jonathan Taylor. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger's granddaughter Sarah Castellaw became related to these Tuscarora Taylors. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"></span>I<span style="color: black;">n 1729</span> <span style="color: black;">the Lord</span> <span style="color: #1d2129;">proprietors surrendered their claims to the Carolinas all except John Carteret 2nd Earl of Granville. <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Although most of the proprietors sold their interest back to the Crown, Granville held out and kept title to a sixty mile wide strip of land along the Virginia and North Carolina border. He </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129;">agreed to give up any participation in government in order to keep ownership of his share known as the Granville District. By doing so he claimed the quit rent property tax from settlers of Chowan Precinct in Albemarle County.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger sold to his son in law James Castellaw for his grandson Thomas Castellaw, 250 acres of land near the Runaroy March on a plantation John Glisson now lives" on 14 August 1729 for<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">£ </span></span><span style="color: black;">10. Thomas Castellaw was a minor so the property was sold to his father James. The deed was signed by John and his wife Ann. The witnesses were Edmund Davis and John Mathews. Others mentioned in the deed description were James Blount and Anthony Herring. , </span></span><br />
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men by these presents that I John Williams of Bertie Precinct planter for an in
consideration of the sum of Ten pounds to me in hand paid before the signing
& sealing of these presents well and truly paid by James Castellaw of ye
said precinct planter the receipt I do acknowledge and of every part and parcel
thereof do exonerate acquit and discharge the said James Castellaw his heirs or
Executors have given granted bargained & sold aliened conveyed and
confirmed and doth by these freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell
alien Convey and confirm unto Thomas the son of the said James Castellaw one
Tract of Land lying on the north side of ____ river near to Runaroy Marsh being
the plantation whereon John Glisson now lives containing by estimation two
hundred and fifty acres be it more or less butted and bounded thus viz
Beginning at a white oak by the Indian Village pond James Blounts corner tree
turning along his line South eighty two degrees East one hundred and forty pole
to the center of three white oaks in James Blounts line Anthony Herrings corner
thence along his line South four degrees west three hundred pole to a gum in a
great Swamp thence the winding of the said Swamp and by the Indian Village
Meadow and Village pond to the first station To Have and to Hold the said
granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and
commodities to the same belong or in any way appertaining to him the said Thos.
Castellaw his heirs and assigns forever to his and their own proper use benefit
and behoof forever and I the said John Williams for me my heirs Exe Adm do
covenant promise and grant to and with the said Thomas Castellaw his heirs and
assigns that before the Ensealing hereof I am the true sole and lawful owner of
the above bargained premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same
in my own proper right as a perfect Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple and
have in my self good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain
sell convey and confirm the said bargained premises in manner as abovesaid and
that the said Thomas Castellaw his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to
time and at all times forever hereafter by Virtue of these presents lawfully
peaceably and quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the said devised
and bargained premises with the appurtenances free and clear and freely and
clearly acquitted exonerated and discharged of and from all manner of former
and other gifts grants bargains Sales leases mortgages wills intails joynters
dowries judgments executions encumbrances and extents Furthermore I the said
John Williams for myself my heirs Exe Adm do covenant and engage the above
devised premises to him the said Thomas Castellaw his heirs and assigns against
the lawful claims or demands of any person whatsoever forever hereafter to warrant
secure and defend, and Ann the wife of me the said John Williams doth by these
presents freely and willingly surrender all her Right of Dower and power of
thirds unto the above devised premises unto him the said Thomas Castellaw his
heirs and assigns, In Witness whereof we have herein unto sett our hands this
14th day of Aug 1729 John Williams Seal Ann Williams Seal Signed Sealed and
delivered in presence of Edm (E) Davis his mark John (R) Mathews mark Bertie
Precinct August Court 1729 John Williams came into Court and acknowledged the
above Deed of Land to James Castellaw ordered to be Registered</span></div>
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chattel by this time had grown to make him a comfortable country squire. His
children were married and raising families of their own and they were spreading out on both
sides of the Cashie River. John Williams would have been a well known figure in the community of Cashy. He probably enjoyed the recreational activities of people of his station such as gambling on horse races and cockfighting, fishing and hunting, breeding varieties of livestock and certainly breeding hound dogs which was considered in the purvey of a country gentleman.</span></div>
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youngest son Arthur Williams was elected thre</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">e times to the colonial assembly
more times than any other representative from the county which indictates how
well admired the family was in their community. His son-in-law James Castellaw
served twice as a representative but was also elected county treasurer and appointed a county
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<span style="color: black;">On 10 August 1730 Theophilus Williams sold to his youngest brother Arthur 200 acres on the east side of Horse Swamp and Turkey Swamp lands adjoining Samuel Herring. Horse Swamp was just on the left of the communities of Hoggard Mill and Greens Crossroad the original home of John and Ann Moore Williams. He sold this property for 100 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">£. The deed was </span>itnessed by their brother Isaac Williams, William Daniel and William Eason.</span><span style="color: #009000;"> </span><br />
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</span>"<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">To all people to whom these presents shall come Greeting be known ye that I John Williams of the County of Bertie in the Province aforesaid for and in Consideration of the Sum of forty Pounds Current money of Virginia to me in hand before the Ensealing hereof Well and truly paid by Thomas Whitmell of the Province and County aforesaid the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and myself therewith fully satisfied and Contented and thereof and of every Part and parcel thereof do Exonerate acquit and Discharge the said Thomas Whitmell his heirs Executors & Adm forever by these Presents to have given granted bargained sold aligned conveyed and confirmed and by these presents to freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien Convey and confirm unto him the said Thomas Whitmell His heirs and assigns forever one Messuage or tract of Land Situate lying and being in the Province and County aforesaid containing by estimation four Hundred and forty Acres be it more or less Butted and Bounded beginning at a Spanish Oak Thomas Turners Corner tree on a Branch of Recquiss then South eighty five East one hundred and sixty poles to the Center of a Sweet Gum a Black Gum and Red Oak then North sixty five Degrees East Sixty poles to a pine then North fifty five West one hundred and twenty four pole to a Red Oak formerly John Edward’s corner tree then along his Line North Twenty Degrees East five Hundred and twenty pole to a pine then West three hundred and five poles to a poplar in a Branch of Recquiss Thence the Meanders of the Branch to the first station To Have and to Hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges Commodities to the same belonging as in any wise appertaining to him the said Thomas Whitmell his heirs and assigns forever to his and their only proper use benefit and Ecru of forever and I the said John Williams for me my heirs Executors and Administrator do Covenant promise and grant to and with the said Thomas Whitmell his heirs and assigns forever that before the Ensealing hereof I am the true sole and Lawful owner of the above Bargained promises and am Lawfully Seized and Reposed of the same in mine own proper right as a good perfect and absolute Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple and Have in my self a good Right full proven and Lawful Authority to grant bargain Sell Convey and Confirm said bargained premisses in manner as above said and that the said Thomas Whitmell his heirs and assigns shall and May from time to time forever hereafter by force and Virtue of these Presents Lawfully Peaceably & quietly have Hold use Occupy possess & enjoy the said Demised & Bargained Premises with the appurtenances free and Clear and freely and clearly acquitted Exonerated& discharged from all and all manner of former or other gift gifts grants bargains Sales Leases mortgages Wills Intacts Joynters Dowers Judgements Executions Encumbrances and Extents further more I the said John Williams for my self my heirs Executors and administrators do Covenant and Engage the above Demised premises to Him the said Thomas Whitmell his heirs and assigns against the Lawful Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons Whatsoever forever hereafter to Warrant Secure and Defend And Ann Williams the wife of me the said John Williams doth by these Presents freely willingly give yield up and Surrender all her Right of Dowry and power of Thirds of in and unto the above Demised Premisses unto Him the said Thomas Whitmell his heirs and assigns In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed my Seal this Twenty first day of January 1730 Signed Sealed & Delivered John Williams seal Ann (A)Williams seal in the Presence of us Samuel (SH) Herring his mark Arthur Williams Isaac Williams Bertie County Court 1730 The within Deed of Sale was duly Proved in open Court by the Oath of Arthur Williams one of the Subscribing Witnesses thereto which motion is ordered to be Registered</span></div>
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County, sold to Samuel Herring 160 acres for 160 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">£ </span></span>pounds. This was a huge amount
of money so the land must have been very productive with a series of
improvements on it. The property was located on the northside of “Roquiss
Pocoson, at the neck where the great branch falls into the pocoson, part of
track containing 260 acres” This land would have been next to the lands
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<span style="color: black;">In 1736 James Williams became ill and wrote out his Last Will and Testament on 21 August 1736. He died probably in 1737 when the will was recorded in the February Court of Bertie County. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> James Williams had married Elizabeth
Bryan the daughter of Needham Bryan, probably about 1729. She was made
executrix of his will in which he named his three children. They were his son Ezekiel
Williams and daughters, Feribe [Ferebee] Williams and Jerusha Williams who were all minors. At the
time of his death his wife, Elizabeth Bryan Williams, was pregnant and would have another daughter she named Barbara. who was not mentioned in her father’s will.
Ezekiel Williams was born circa 1730, Feribe born circa 1732, Jerusha born
circa 1734, and Barbara born circa 1737. In his will James also appointed his
brother Theophilus Williams to be an executor along with his wife Elizabeth.James also mentions his brother Theophilus
Williams. The witnesses of the will were Robert Hines, William Standley and George Price. In his will James Williams left two African American slaves to his daughter Jerusha.</span><br />
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most populous county in the colony. Historians estimated from tax records that the average family in Bertie had about 9
persons per family unit. The over population of Bertie was one of the
contributing factors that many of his children and grandchildren began selling
lands in Bertie and moving to the New Bern region of central of North Carolina. By the end of the 1730’s many large land owners began to divide their lands into several plantations creating an influx of new people, less educated and smaller landowners. By the end of the 1730’s many large land owners began to divide their lands into several plantations creating an influx of new people who were less educated and were smaller landowners.</span><br />
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slaves owned by the wealthy that threatened the status of middling farmers. This was one of originally reason that John Williams the Younger himself had left Virginia. The rapid increase of slaves began in the 1720's when North Carolina opened the colony
to the slave trade directly from Africa. By the 1740’s one fourth of the
population of Bertie County was made up of people of color who were in bondage. by the beginning of the 1750's seventeen </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">percent of the population of Bertie County owned slaves and yet the
population that owned less than four slaves was declining. The same economic
forces of slavery, that forced John Williams the Younger’s relocation from
Virginia, was now having the same affect on his children and grandchildren.
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enough for the Colonial Government to decide that "Cashy" should become the county seat. About this time </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">the children and grandchildren of John Williams the Younger started another migration from the northern counties to the central
regions of Craven and New Hanover Counties. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The town of New Bern was the capital of the North Carolina colony and
the first state capital until 1794. From 1740 forward branches of the Williams
family began to sell off old holdings in Bertie and were found on lands patented
between the Neuse and Trent Rivers. Left behind were legion of cousins in
Southampton County Virginia and Bertie and Northampton Counties, North
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<span style="color: #b01400;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Much of the effort behind this act must be credited to James Castellaw, one of the first Treasurers of Bertie, and at this time, respected member of the General Assembly, and owner of the land on which the Court was to be placed. </span></span><br />
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The town of Cashy was a crossroad community with the bulk of the land on which the town loosely sprawled belonging to James Castellaw. The road into the town area has been referred to as the "Eden House-Murfresboro Post Road," and mail traveled by horse back from the Edenton Ferrys to the Court House and on into Hertford and Northampton counties. It was the main county road crossing over the Chowan River then north to Will’s Quarter Swamp then South across the Cashie River through Thomas Whitmel's Plantation and on to the Roanoke River. <br />
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<span style="color: #b01400;"><span style="color: #009000;"><span style="color: black;">, Abraham Herring remained near John the Younger. His </span></span></span><span style="color: black;">grandson Abraham Herring Jr on 27 December 1742 bought from John Aires 380 acres on the southside of Bear Swamp . He must not have had any currency as that he traded it for 3000 pounds of fresh pork and 20 days of labor. The witnesses were John Sallis and Abraham Gordon. </span> <span style="color: black;">Abraham Herring the son in law of John the Younger on 10 August 1743 bought from John Hill 500 acres on the northside of <span style="color: #1d2129;">Kesia River [Cashie River] at Bucklesberry Swamp for 50</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">£. The witnesses were Abraham's brothers in law Arthur Williams and James Castellaw.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>1747 THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN WILLIAMS THE YOUNGER</b></span></div>
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Carolina and signed it on 13 March 1746 [1747]. He would have been near 75 years old at the time. The will was witnessed by William Byrd, Thomas
Castellaw, and John Moore. His wife Ann Williams and his eldest and youngest sons Theophilus and Arthur Williams were named as sole executors even though Theophilus had removed to Onslow County. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the name of God Amen: the Thirteenth Day of March 1746,
I, John Williams of the County of Bertie Planter being Very Sick and weak in
Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God: Therefore Calling
unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing it is appointed all men once to
Dye [die] do Make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say
principally and first of all I give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God
that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in desent
Christian Burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the
General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the mighty power of God
and as touching Such worldly Estate where with it has pleased God to bless me
to this Life I give dismiss and dispose of the same in the following
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I give and bequeath to Anne my dearly beloved wife her
Choice of my Bed and one Rug and a pair of blankits [blankets] and a pair of Sheets, and six
Cows & Calves and four Sheep one ewe, one two year old, one three year old one four year old, twenty-four Sows & pigs, twelve burrows [barrows-castrated male intended for slaughter],Six two year old and
six one year old, four Cows, and Lambs, one iron pot & a frying pan. two Puter [pewter]dishes and one puter bason [pewter basin] three puter [pewter] plates and Six puter [pewter]spoons </span><br />
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Negro fellow Jack only reserving his labour to my well beloved wife During her
Widerhood [widowhood] then to him and his heirs for ever.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Item I give to my well beloved Daughter Anne Herring my
Negro fellow Primus only reserving his labour to my well beloved wife During
her widerwhood, Jack, Primus, slave, Jane [Jene] Grace</span><br />
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heirs or or asigns my maner [manor] plantation with all my other Lands joining there to
him his heirs and or asigns only reserving the half of it with timbers and all
conveniences fencing & firewood to my well Beloved wife during her during
her life and after her deseas to him and his heirs</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Item I give to my well beloved Son Arthur Williams one
Negro Wench Jene [Jane] and all her increase only reserving the use of one
Negro wench Named Grace for my well beloved wife During her widerhood</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Item I give to my son Arthur one Still [for making whiskey] and one large iron
pot Reserving the use of them for her [his wife Ann] own Nessary [necessary] use during her widerhood then
to my son Arthur, I give all my Books, one Cass [case] and bottels [bottles] and my My Grist [sharpening stone].</span><br />
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iron pot & one grist that was my fathers. [Son of Theophilus Williams father of Britton Williams of South Carolina] </span><br />
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Williams Ezekell Williams Jerusha Williams Barbera Williams twenty five pounds
Virgene [Virginia] Currance [currency] to be equally divided among the four when they reach the age
of eighteen. [Children of James Williams and Elizabeth Bryan]</span><br />
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pecosen [pocossin] to be Sold to the best advantage at the Discration [discretion] of my Executors and
the money to be Refund in to the Estate and after all my debts being paid and
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Chatels [chattel] to be Equilly [equally] Divided amongst my Children </span><br />
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and order Arthur Williams and Theophilus Williams & Anne Williams my wife
my Sole Executors of this my last will and testament, all and Singular and doo [do] here by utterly disallow Revoke and Disannual [disallow] all and every other former
testaments Wills Legacess [legacies] and Bequests and Executors by me in any wise before
Named willed and bequeathed ____ confirming this and none other to be my last
Will and Testament in witness where of I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal
this Day and Year Above Written. </span><br />
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Pronounced & Declared by the said John Williams as his last Will and
Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers William Byrd, John Moore, Thomas
Castellaw Jurant Bertie County </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">James Castellaw was listed as present as a Justice of the Bertie County Court on 14 Feb 1748 [1749]. However he was not listed as present in the May 1749 Court records. He may have been too sick to assume his duties or more likely he died <span style="color: black;">suddenly and unexpectedly between February and May. He would have been 64 at the time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">In his son, William Castellaw's will, dated 18 Jun 1749, his son left his plantation to his mother, Sarah, "during her widowhood". This indicates that he was deceased by this date. His son, Thomas Castellaw, applied for administration of his father's estate on 8 Aug 1749 in the Bertie Court at Cashy. Why he waited so long after his father's death to ask permission to administer the estate may be simply his family may have been grieving with the death of two of its members.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b00000;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">John the Younger's grandson, William Castellow's last Will and Testament was written 18 June 1749. He made his mother Sarah Williams Castellow his executrix and named his brothers John, James and Thomas Castellow and his sisters Bathiah, Sarah, and Katherine Castellaw. Thomas Whitmell was also named executor in the will. The Witnesses were Sarah Sanderson and Hardy Moore. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 8 August1749 the “Will of Mr. Castellow" was proven by the oath of Sarah "Sanderlin" and Thomas. Whitmell recorded in the August Court Session of Bertie County.. </span><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b></span>
<span style="color: #b00000;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">James Castellaw's estate sale was administered by his son Thomas Castellaw in 1749 and 1750. <span style="color: #1d2129;">At the Court held at the Court House at Cashy Bridge, on Tuesday, 14 November 1749 and inventory of the estate of James Castellaw was "exhibited by his son Thomas. Castellaw, Administrator and a sale was ordered. · At the same time an Inventory of the estate of William Castellaw was "exhibited by Thomas. Whitmell, and a sale was ordered. James Castellaw's</span></span><span style="color: black;"> son sold off what appeared to be all of his worldly goods. It seems that if a will had been in place, it would have passed many of the articles and possessions directly to his heirs.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><br />James Castellaw's final resting place is a mystery as well. It seems such a man would have been buried in a prominent location and certainly would have had a tombstone. However, there is no such grave in any of the county's surviving church cemeteries. It is not in the large cemetery in Edenton. There is a small cemetery near the mill site in Cashy, which is where he is thought to have been living at the time. However, the cemetery there has no visible tombstones and may have been put to use much later than the time of James Castellaw's death. More than likely he was buried in a family plot on his estate.</span></div>
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Carolina on 22 October 1750. Johnston County County had just recently been formed from Onslow County where Theophilus Williams had relocated. Ann Herring is a legatee in the will which indicates that she died
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the name of God Amen I, Sam'l Herring of the County of Johnston and Province of North Carolina being sick but of perfect mind. . . do constitute and ordainth is my last will and testament as follows. First of all I desire all my debts to be paid Charges and Discharges.<br />Item. I give to my well beloved son Anthony Herring my grey horse.<br />Item. I give to my well beloved son Stephen Herring two young negroes a boy and a girl Cesar and Cate.<br />Item. I give to my well beloved son Michael Herring two young negroes a boy and a girl named Cain and Fillis.<br />Item. I give to my well beloved daughter Barthena Herring one young negro girl named Ginney.<br />Item. I give unto my well beloved son Michael Herring the plantation where on I now live, my wife to have her life's time in it.<br />Item. I give the rest of my negroes, household goods, and chattels to be equally divided among all my children after my wife's decease or widowhood, one grey mare only excepted. She I give and bequeath to my son-in-law Jn'o Connerly. I do also constitute and appoint my well beloved son Anthony Herring to be the whole and sole executor of this my last will and testament . . . in witness whereof I have afore unto set my hand and fixed my seal this 22d day of October . . .Signed and sealed in presence of us Anthony Herring Sam'll Herring "his mark" Joseph Herring . October 22, 1750. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Samuel's will was recorded in the December Court, 1750. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">John Williams the Younger and a Samuel Herring are mentioned in a land transaction between Michael King and Nathan Miers on 18 January 1753. As that Samuel Herring his son in law had died in 1750 this Samuel Herring may have been a son of Abraham Herring orjust referred to the land that Samuel Herring's estate may have still held. The land description stated the property was on Broad Branch adjoining "John Williams Jr." and Samuel Herring. The witnesses were William King, Charles King, and Henry Rhodes. As that </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The last known deed by John Williams the Younger was dated</span> <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">26 February 1757. In it he gave a deed of gift to his grandson Ezekiel Williams a 640 acre patent that he had acquired in 1719 and some sundry household goods he specifically wanted Ezekiel to have. "To all People to whom these presents
shall come I John Williams of the Province of North Carolina and County of
Bertie Planter do and greeting, Know ye that I the said John Williams of the
said Province and County aforesaid for and in consideration of the love
goodwill and affection which I have and do bear to my loving grandson Ezekiel
Williams of the County aforesaid, have given and granted and by these presents
do freely clearly and absolutely give and grant unto the said Ezekiel Williams
his heirs Exe Adm or assigns all and singular that parcel of land containing by
estimation 640 acres, Beginning at the center of two white oaks and a red oak
Phillip Walston’s corner in Charles Barber’s Line then along Walston’s bounds
to a black oak Jonathan Standly’s corner then along Standley’s bounds to a gum
Phillip Walston’s corner then along his bounds to a white oak John Williams
corner then along his line to a white oak then So. 18 Wt. to the first station
which said land was formerly granted by Patent bearing date the eleventh day of
November 1719.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">l</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">so after my decease the bed and furniture whereon I now lie, my
chest and my trunk and a case of bottles to him to be by him the said Ezekiel
Williams to be possessed after my decease but it is to be observed that the
land and stock of what kind so ever to be now found, I give and dispose to the
said Ezekiel Williams to be by him possessed immediately and to his discretion
without any condition only he, the said Ezekiel Williams, paying its quit rents
now due or to become due. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 26th day of February 1757 John Williams Seal Signed sealed and
delivered in the presence of Thomas Whitmell, Priscilla Vanpelt, and Nathaniel
Cooper. Bertie County July Court 1757. </span><br />
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Court duly proved by the oath of Thomas Whitmell an evidence thereto, and in
motion was ordered to be registered. The within Deed of Gift was in open Court
duly proved by the oath of Thomas Whitmell an evidence thereto, and in motion
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Abraham Herring sold to Arnold Hopkins for 20</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">£ 380 acres on the southside of Bear Swamp on 9 January 1748 [1749] filed in February Court records. Later a deed dated 28 May 1749 also showed that Abraham Herring and John Williams the Younger had adjoining property lines with Michael Hill on Buckleberry Swamp. Hill sold 100 acres that adjoined John Williams' line to James McDowell. Witnesses were Arnold Hopkins and John Sallis, near neighbors. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In a sheriff sale dated 26 January 1757 the one of the last mention of John Williams the Younger is recorded. John Brickell, Sheriff of Bertie County sold the 100 acres that James McDowell, now deceased, had bought from Michael Hill to Thomas Whitmell for 2 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">£ </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">5 </span>shillings. The Sheriff Sale was to pay for debts occurred by McDowell before his death. The property was in the hands of John Smith who was the executor of last will and testament of
McDowell. The property was within Bucklesberry Swamp adjoining John Williams and Abraham Herring.<br />
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This document shows that John Williams the Younger was living at Buckleberry Swamp the year of his death, near his son in law Abraham Herring. As that John Williams was nearly 85 years old and probably very infirmed, his youngest daughter Mary Herring was probably his caretaker. Ezekiel Williams, his grandson, may have very well been living on the estate also to manage John Williams' affairs as that he appears to have been living in Bertie County in 1757. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams the Younger lived ten years after he wrote his 1747 Last Will and Testament. It is unknown how many of the provisions of the will were still in affect as that many of the African Americans mentioned in his will might not have still been living. John Williams was quite elderly when he died sometime in
or before October 1757 at his farm in Bertie County, North Carolina. He was circa 85 years old. He out lived his sons John Williams the Third and James Williams. He also outlived two of his sons in law Samuel Herring and James Castellaw. It seems that he probably outlived his wife Ann Moore Williams as that she was not mentioned in the probate of John's estate. How many of his daughters and daughters in law he out lived can not be determined. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Of his sons who were alive in 1757, Theophilus Williams and Isaac Williams had left Bertie County and were in the Neuse River area. Only his youngest son Arthur Williams and his son in law Abraham Herring still resided in Bertie County . Most of his Castellaw and Herring grandchildren had already migrated to the Onslow, Duplin, and Johnston County area.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">In the October Court 1757 Will was of John Williams the Younger was exhibited by Arthur Williams "one of the Executor therefore and Proved by the oath of William Byrd one of the Suscribing Witness's hereto and at the same time the same Excutor Quallifyed according to Law which was ordered to be Certifye" The document was entered into court records by Benjamin Wynn the Clerk of Court Bertie County January Court, 1758.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Arthur Williams was the Executor along with his brother Theophilus. However T<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">heophilus Williams, was nearly 12 years or more older than Arthur Williams and was in Duplin County, North Carolina at the time of his father's death. He would have been circa 63 years old and may not have been well enough to journey back to Bertie County to act as executor. </span>William Byrd and Thomas Castellow, John the Younger's grandson, testified that they were witnesses to the will. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">John Williams born circa 1692 died unmarried in 1722 and had no issue. Although the first born son,
John Williams was not officially named the Third, in this study as not to confuse
him with his father, that appellation is useful. No record indicates that he
was ever known as the third. Even then it is hard to distinguish documents in
Chowan Precinct Records to differentiate him from his father. The first born
son of John the Younger was born after March of 1692 in Surry County Virginia.
As that he is not mentioned in his grandfather’s will it is fairly certain that
this boy was if he had been born before the making of the will he would have
been left a legacy by his grandfather. It was a common practice in colonial
times to name a first born son after the father or mother’s father in hopes of
a legacy from a grandfather. As that both John and Ann Moor Williams' fathers
were named John this child could have been named for one of three persons,
either the father or the two grandfathers. John Williams would come to
accumulate more property than his father after the family moved to Chowan
Precinct in North Carolina. However he never married and was in 1722 cut down
in the prime of his life nearly 30 years old. Thirty was not an unreasonable
age to still not be married for a male in colonial times as that marriage was
often for status, family connections, and gaining property. There’s a
possibility his death was preceded by the death of a young wife leaving no
heirs other than his brothers. Nothing is completely certain in Genealogy
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theophilus Williams was born circa 1694 Isle of Wight County, Virginia died
unknown but possibly between 1765-1775 at Mill Creek, Duplin County, North
Carolina. He was married Christian Bryan Busby daughter of Thomas Busbee
(Busby) and Catheron Bryan. Theophilus Williams was John and Ann’s second son
and was born circa 1694 in Surry County. Without a doubt he was named after
John Williams’ baby brother who died between Spring 1692 and Spring 1694 as an
infant under the age of five years old. Perhaps to console his mother or even
to show the affection he had for his dead brother, or perhaps even other
unknown reasons, John Williams the Younger chose to name this son Theophilus.
Theophilus means “Friend of God” and was a frequent named used among the
Quakers of Southside Virginia which may hint at his mother’s religious
affiliation. This son became quite affluent after the move to North Carolina,
married Christian Bryan Busby, and died about 1760 in Onslow County. Any will
or probate record has since been lost. He was about 66 years old at the time of
his death. He was the father of several children several who settled in the
colonies of Georgia and South Carolina and is believed to be the grandfather of
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">A. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Williams</b>, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">was born circa 1722 near the Roquist River, Bertie, North Carolina
Colony and died 1789 on property along Coosahatchie River, Orangeburgh Distrist
[Allendale County], South Carolina. He married Abigail who died in 1802 when
her estate was probated 2 Nov 1802 in Barnwell District [Allendale County]
South Carolina. Her maiden name is thought to be Creech and a relative of
Richard Creech of Barnwell District. His children were thought to be Britton Williams and Joshua Williams</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">B. <b>Sheriff </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joseph Williams</b>, </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">was born circa 1724 near the Roquist
River, Bertie County, North Carolina Colony and died circa 1790 in Duplin County. He married Mary Hicks
on 8 August 1746 in Onslow County and later moved to Duplin County where he was
elected sheriff. 14 March 1745/6 Craven County, Joseph Williams bought land on
southside of Neuse River on Mill Creek from father Theophilus Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He executed a deed of gift in Duplin County on
10 May 1763 to his children: Daniel Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Theophilus Williams, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Frances Williams and Easther [sic: Hester]. On
1 October 1764 he bought land from Richard Bass west side of Great Coheary in Johnston
County and in 1769 he is listed in a Poll Tax List of Dobbs County. His children were </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Hester [Esther] Williams wife of William
Whitfield III, </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Mary Williams wife of William Dixon (Dickson), </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Daniel Williams husband ofSarah Nixon, </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Benjamin Williams, </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Theophilus Williams husband of Charity Barfield, </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Susannah Williams wife of Frederick Barfield. He
was born 14 December 1757 in Duplin County died after 1820 in Lauderdale, Tennesee, </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Frances Williams, </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Joseph Williams, and </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">. James Williams husband of Sarah Brice. </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">C.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><b>James Williams</b> was born circa 1726 near the Roquist
River, Bertie County, North Carolina Colony and lived in the Goshen Settlement, of Duplin
County. He married circa 1744 Alice McRae the daughter of William McRae and Margaret Creighton. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was born in 1725. On 9 November 1766 he acquired 501 acres on Grove Swamp, on the Marsh
Branch of Miller Swamp in Duplin County. James Williams and Alice
McRae had three children William Williams, Dorthea Williams, and Martha
Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">D.</span> <span style="color: black;"><b>Lewis WIlliams</b> was born 1728 in Bertie County and died 1783 in Onslow County. He married Mary “Ann” Wilkins</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"> probably daughter of John and Prudence Wilkins</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">. Some accounst say her maiden name was Norman. In his will he mentions daughter Serene Williams and son Bryan. Her will from 1792 mentions Boneta Williams and Benjamin Williams. They had the following children, Serene Williams wife of Daniel Hicks, Bryan Williams, Benjamin Williams husband of Sally Battle, Bonita Williams and Nathan Brice Williams.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">E<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"> <b>Ferriby Williams</b> was born 1730 Bertie County </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">F.</span><b> </b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Esther Williams</b> was born 1730 in Bertie
County and died circa 1773 in St. George Parish, Halifax County, Georgia. She
was wife of Samuel Royal of St. George Parish, Georgia. Samuel Royal was the
son of Charles and Sarah Powell Royal. On March 8, 1759 he married Esther
Williams in Old Ebenezer Church, at Springfield, Georgia. His brother John
Royal was one of the early arrivals in St. George's Parish, Georgia. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Samuel Royal and Esther Williams were the
parents of Mary Royal, Isaac Royal, Esther Royal, Nice Royal and John
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.75pt;">Anne Williams</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.75pt;"> born circa 1696 Southwar Parish, Surry, Virginia. She married by 1716 Samuel Herring the son of Anthony Herring and Rebecca West of Isle of Wight County. Ann Herring died after 1742. On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">15 Nov 1716 tJohn Williams the Younger deeded to daughter "Ann Hearin and her heirs 150 acres on which she now lives adjoiningTHomas Jones to be forfeited if she attempts in anyways to sell or mortgage." Ann</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Williams
was the first daughter born to this family and could have been named either
after her own mother or Anne Vasser Williams. The eldest daughter of colonial
families was often named for a grandmother or after the mother. Ann Moor’s
mother was named Elizabeth, however none of Ann Moore Williams’ surviving
children were named Elizabeth, a very common girl’s name. The lack of any
daughter named Elizabeth is curious and leads one to speculate that they lost a
daughter of that age, or perhaps Ann Moor and her mother Elizabeth were
estranged. Be that as it may, Ann Williams would have been born circa 1696 and
she married Samuel Herring son of Anthony Herring shortly after the family
relocated to the Cashie River area in Chowan Precinct. Herring was about 11
years older than Ann. She was the mother of a large family and is mentioned in
her husband’s 1750 will filed in Dobbs County, North Carolina. When she died is
unknown but in 1750 she would have been about 54 years old. She was the mother
of several children and has progeny all over central North Carolina. </span></div>
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the Neuse River area near his brother-in-law Theophilius Williams. He signed
his will in Dobbs County North Carolina on 22 October 1750. Ann Herring is a
legatee in the will and died sometime after her husband. The Will of Samuel
Herring was proved in the December Court 1750 and recorded at the Walnut Creek
Courthouse. Ann Williams Herring is not named but simply addressed as my wife.
Son-Anthony Herring-1 gray horse Son Stephen Herring-Negroes Caesar and Cate
Son-Michael Herring-Negroes Cain and Fillis Daughter- Barthenia Herring Negro
Ginney -wife to have a lifetime right. The remainder of the Negroes, household
goods to be divided among children after wife's decease or widowhood. Exec: Son
Anthony Herring. Wit: Anthony Herring, Joseph Herring. An inventory of Samuel
Herring’s estate was done on 14 June 1751.</span></div>
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born circa 1716 and died circa March 1784. He married Bridget last name unknown. He was a blacksmith by trade.</span></div>
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born circa 1718 and died circa October 1797 in Goshen Swamp, Duplin County. He married Sarah Bright and had at least eight children. They were Stephen Bright Herring husband of Eleanor Middleton, Alethia Herring wife Abner Harrell, Persis Herring wife of Abraham Glisson and James Ward, Ann "nancy" Herring wife of William New, Alexander Herring husband of Sally Hodges and Rebecca Thomas, Samue Herring husband of Mary "Polly", Catey [Katy] Herring wife of Elijah Croom and Sarah Herring wife of Daniel Glisson. They all lived at Goshen Swamp in Duplin County, North Carolina</span></div>
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born circa 1720 married 1738 John Connerly. Connerly received a patent in Duplin County 2 April 1751 on the southside of the Northeast Swamp in "the fork of Rattlesnake Branch. His son Cullen Connerly inherited the property and deed 121 acres of the original patent to his cousin Jesse Barfield who in turned sold it on 11 March 1775 to Constantine Whitfield husband of Kesiah's cousin Barbara Williams. Rattlesnake Branch is just a few miles southwest of Clinton which is where the Coharie Tribe is located. This land passed back and forth between several family members including Constantine Whitfield who owned part of the land. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">James Williams was born circa 1698 in Southwark Parish, Surry, Virginia. James Williams was the first to not have been born with a traditional family name. He was also the first in the family with that name. He was an adolescent when his parents left Surry to move to North Carolina. There he became a successful farmer and land speculator in Bertie Precinct which was formed from Chowan Precinct lands, west of the Chowan River. He married in circa 1728, Elizabeth Bryan the daughter of Needham Bryan and Elizabeth Hunter. Elizabeth was a cousin of Theophilus Williams’ wife Christian Bryan Busby. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">On 30 March 1721</span><span style="color: black;"> James was <span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">granted</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"> 410 acres on southside of Cassiah (kesiah) River adjoining Samuel Herring (brother-in-law), Owen O’Daniel , Flag Branch, and Westside of Rocquis Swamp in Bertie County. The next day he was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">granted 480 acres on southside of Cassiah Rver on northside of Rocquis Swamp, Col. Pollock, and John Smithwick in Bertie County On 26 March </span>1723 he had <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">lands adjoining Samuel Herring on northside of Rocquis Swamp and the Broad Branch that falls into Rocquis in Bertie County. On 4 August 1723 he had </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">lands adjoing Robert West in Bertie County on northside of Moratuck River adjoining Owen O’Daniel, and a branch of Flag Run. On 11 May 1724 James s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">old to Joseph Moore 35 acres on Little Rocquis Swamp adjoining Samuel Herring<b>. </b>On 1 August 1726 he was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">granted 640 acres on east side of Cassiah River in Guyshall Woods in Bertie County adjoining his former corner. On the same day he was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">granted 416 acres on east side of Casshia River in Guyshall Woods. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"> J</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">ames Williams signed his will on 21 August 1736 in Bertie County which was probated February 1737. The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">Executors of his estate were his brothers Theophilus Williams and Isaac Williams.</span>He was not very old when he died in Bertie County at about the age of 38 years.and his young wife Elizabeth was pregnant with their fourth child Barbara at the time of his death. She remarried Henry King but died in 1738. Henry King filed to be the administrator of James Williams’ estate but his brother Theophilus Williams objected in Court. His three other children, Ezekiel, Jerusha, and Farribee were listed as minors in 1740. <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> It is likely that James’ children were raised in the household of his father John Williams the Younger as that he seemed to have a special attachment to these grandchildren. In John Williams will he provided for them and also made a special deed of gift of a large plantation to his grandson Ezekiel. His son Ezekiel Williams moved south into Georgia and South Carolina where he was an assemblyman in the legislature. Ezekiel lived in Winston County [Barnwell District] South Carolina during the Revolutionary War about 20 miles north of where Britton Williams who was probably his cousin was located and was also an assemblyman. </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24pt;">A. <b>Ezekiel Williams</b> was born 1730 in Bertie County and died 1 June 1800 in Barnwell District South Carolina. He married Zilpha Bush the daughter of William Bush and Mary Hand. On 26 Feb 1757<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> he received a Deed of Gift from grandfather John Williams the Younger of 640 acres in Bertie County. By </span>1763 he was granted <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">100 acres above Steel Creek on Savannah River and on 30 August 1763 he </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">bought land from John Neelson near Point Comfort in Granville County SC which was surrounding lands vacant. The w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">itnesses were his cousin Barthenia Castellaw's husband Samuel Alexander, James Neelson and Alexander Neelson. On </span>16 May 1764<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> he granted another 100 acres in Granville County. on 27 April 1768 Ezekiel Williams</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> bought 100 acres of land from John Lee, a breeches maker, near the Savannah River in Granville County, SC. The witnesses were Samuel Alexander, -James Turner, and James Cayson. In 1769 He was the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">executor of his brother-in-law Edward Bush’ estate who died in Granville Co. SC. He was back in Johnston County in 1770 where he witnesses a deed between his brother in law </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">John Bush in Johnston County and his cousin Nathan Williams. By </span>1771<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> he had moved to St. George Parish in Halifax County, Georgia where in 1773 he had </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">lands on the Ogeechee River, "where Moses Powell first entered". At the time he listed 2 children age 3 and under. On 21 November 1774 Ezekiel had </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lands on Mr. Goode’s, Mr. Allen’s and Mr. Williams’ </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">branches of Turkey Creek and Log Creek in Granville County adjoining John Logan, Robert Melville, John Allen, William Coursey, Lionel Chambers and John Purvis. In 1775 he was the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">executor of the estate of John Turner Sr. of Granville County. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In </span>1778-1779<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Ezekiel Williams was a Grand Juror for area between The South Fork of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">the Edisto River and the Savannah River along with his cousin Thomas Castellaw. In </span>1781 he <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">served 294 days in the SC Militia and in </span>1783 he was a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Grand Juror of the Orangeburgh District. On </span>17 Oct 1783<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> U.S. Government paid him 25 British pounds for provisions he supplied for the public use during Revolutionary War.<b> </b>On </span>2 March 1784, the government <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">paid Ezekiel 2 British pounds for 18 bushels of corn. In the year </span>1785 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">was granted 1640 acres on Pen Waters of Savannah River in Winton County [Barnwell District]. He served as a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Petite Juror in 1786 and the </span>1787<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Tax List listed his lands near Stephen Smith and Daniel Philipot. On 1</span>0 April 1790<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Ezekiel bought items the from estate of his cousin Thomas Castellow. Ezekiel is listed in the </span>1790<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Census as owning 22 slaves. </span></span> The children of Ezekiel Williams were Ann Williams </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">wife of Richard Hankinson, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">Ezekiel Williams Jr husband of Miss Turner, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">Benjamin Williams husband of Sarah Boyett, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">John Williams, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">Isaac Williams husband of Lucretia Heath, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">Lewis Williams, S</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">arah Willaims wife of William Coker, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">William Williams, and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;">Wilson Williams</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">B<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -24pt;">.</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -24pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><b>Feribee Williams</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;">was born 1733 at Bertie, North Carolina.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;">C. <b>Jerusha Williams</b> born 1735 She was left to African slaves in her father's <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will. <span style="color: black;">
She married Jesse Jernigan who died in 1785 in Bertie County. She was mentioned in his will. "</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">In
he name of God Amen the day of October 1785 I Jesse Jernigan of the County of
Bartie being Very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks
be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this
my last will and Testament that is to say principallily and first of all I give
and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend
to the earth to be buried in decent burial at the discretion of my Executors
nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again
by the mighty power of God as touching such worldly Estate wherewith ithath
pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose ofthe same in
the following manner and form. </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Item
I give and bequeath my well beloved wife Jerusha Jernigan one balld horse and
saddle </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Item
I give and bequeath to my beloved son James Jernigan <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>two hundred acres of Land lying on the south
side of the Loochy swamp to him and his heirs forever and if he should dye
without he ir to be devided amongst the rest of my Children.</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Item I give and bequeath to
my beloved Son Jesse Jernigan ninety acres of land whereon I now live to him
and his heirs forever after my wife deth after my Debts is payd all the
remainder part of my Estate hoses cattle hogs sheep and household furniture to
be devided equally betwean my Wife Jerusha Jernigan <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and James Jernigan <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and Jesse Jernigan, and Farribee Jernigan and
Sara H Jernigan and Alice Jernigan and Elizabeth Carter and equal shear with
what she has had. I <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>likewise constitute
and ordain my trusty friends Thomas Bond and Benjamin Jernigan and Nathiel Vezey
my Executors of this my last will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow
revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies and
bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed
ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament in Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand an d seal the day and year above written
signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Jesse Jernigan. Their children were James Jernigan, Jesse Jernigan who was on the South Carolina roster of Revolutionary War soldiers, Jerusha Jernigan, Sarah Jernigan, Alexander Jernigan not mentioned in the will but a Revolutionary war soldier in South Carolina, Alice or Alie Jernigan and Elizabeth Jernigan wife of Mr. Carter. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -24pt;">D. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><b>Barbara Williams</b> married Constantine (Connie) Whitfield</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24px;"> son of William Whitfield Sr and Elizabeth Goodman of North Carolina. Constantine Whitfield was deceased by 16 Apr 1798 in Duplin County.<b> </b>By December 1769 Costantine was living on the southside of the Neuse River. <b></b>In November 1771 the Jurors in Duplin County were Richard Caswell, Francis McIlweane, Thos. Torrance, Simon Bright,
Stephen Blackman, Wm. Whitfield Jr., James Glasgow, Jesse Cobb,
Joseph Greene, Jesse Jernigan, Constantine Whitfield, and Benjamin Griffin. 23 Jan 1773 Dobbs Co, Crown Patents Constantine Whitfield 200 acres adjoining Aaron Wood, Christian Sargett, John Roberts, and Henry Roberts. 23 February 1779 Constantine Whitfield had 100 acres SS Neuse on a branch called the Horse Branch adjoining Samuel Thomas and Abraham Taylor. Barbara Williams Whitfield children were Winifred Whitfield wife of Stephen Miller, Elizabeth Whitfield wife of Edward Matchett Herring, John Whitfield husband of Jemima Heywood, Luke Whitfield husband of Teresa Fonivielle, James Whitfield husband of Rachel Heritage, Rachel Whitfield wife of Henry Goodman and Farquhard Campbell, Fereby Whitfield wife of James Pearsall and Barbara Whitfield wife of Mr. Tooley. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Isaac Williams was born circa 1700 Isle of Wight County, Virginia and died 1761 in Johnston County,
North Carolina. Isaac Williams was the third son of John Williams the Younger and was also not named after any other family member. He was a youth when he came to the North Carolina wilderness with his family in 1714. There are few land transactions involving Isaac Williams and he didn’t seem to marry until his mid 20’s when he married Martha Hodges the daughter of a farmer named Robert Hodges. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.75pt;">He married circa 1725. In 1736<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> he was an executor along with his brother Theophilus of their brother James Williams will. </span>In the early 1740’s he followed several of his siblings south to the Neuse River region where he had land holdings in Johnston County. In 1750 h<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">e was shown as paying Quit Rents in Dobbs County to the crown. ,</span></span></span></span><br />
<b> </b><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.75pt;">16 December 1758 Isaac Williams was a witness of a deed between Edward Ingram and Jethro Butler in Duplin County, North Carolina. He and Martha died about the same time in 1761 in Johnston County where his will was recorded. Isaac Williams was about 60 years old when he died. He was the father of several children some of who settled in Barnwell District, South Carolina.</span></span></span><br />
<b> </b><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.75pt;">Both Isaac Williams and his wife Martha made out their Last Will and Testaments on 30 August 1760 in Johnston County. They must have been ill as both Isaac and Martha Williams' wills were recorded in April Court 1761 in Johnston County. Martha left to her son Joel Williams a “negro Farrow [Pharoah] and $7.00”, to her son Nathan “negro Venus and $7.00” and to son Isaac Jr. “negroes Jane, Rachel, Jonas, Felix, Joshua” and the remaining estate. She appointed her son Isaac Williams Jr as her executor. An old neighbor from Bertie County now living in Johnston County, Jethro Butler witnessed her will as well as a neighbor Joseph Langston. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">A.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"> <b>Isaac Williams Jr.</b> He wrote out his will on 25 Jan 1768 in Johnston County and it was record February Court 1769. He was married to Rachel Smith the daughter of Alexander Smith and Elizabeth Whitfield. who was the niece of Elizabeth Bryan Williams the widow of his uncle James. Isaac Jr inherited the bulk of his mother's slaves and estate. In </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1762 along with old Bertie County neighbors John Butler and Francis Harrell, he witness a deed between Robert Lee and William Campbell. This property was on the south side of the Neuse River adjoining Mr. Rountree's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">line and Theophilus Williams' line.Theophilus was his uncle. On 13 October 1764 Isaac<b> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">witnessed a deed between John Williams and Thomas Gibbs land on Gum Marsh Coheary Swamp along with Timothy Williams. </span>On 21 October </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1765 Isaac Jr gave to daughter Elizabeth Pearce land on northside of Neuse River being half of a tract of land purchased from George Poole. On 29 March 1766 Isaac Jr </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">bought 150 acres from Robert Lee of Johnston County located on the southside of Nuese River on Marshes of Mill Creek from lands first patented to Theophilus WIlliams. Elizabeth Williams was the wife of Jesse Pearce and Arthur Peace. His son Alexander Williams was husband of Charity Whitfield, a cousin. </span></span></div>
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her son, William. Sarah Williams was a young girl of about 12 years when her family left Surry County Virginia. She married James Castellaw, [aka Castellow], one of the wealthiest and prominent man in Bertie County, in about 1722. He was an educated Scotsman man nearly 17 years her senior. Like her older sister Ann Williams Herring she was probably nearly 20 years old when she married. She had a very comfortable life style and died sometime after 1749 when her husband died unexpectedly. There are no probate records concerning her nor any information that she may have remarried as that she was only about 47 when she became a widow. She was the mother of several children of which a few settle in Barnwell District South Carolina and grandmother to several grandchildren of Tuscarora Indian heritage.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> James Castellaw was born 6 November 1685 in Scotland,
Renfrewshire, Paisley. He was baptized on 8 November 1685 and came to America when he was about 30 years old. James Castellaw died
in 1749 at the age of 64 in Bertie County North Carolina Colony however there
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distinguished early families in the Cashy area. James Castellaw was a
prosperous merchant having taken in partners at "Cashy" Henry Gustin,
James Milliken doing business at "Casia & Roanoke" in 1727. James became
active in politics. He was elected as a member of the Colonial Assembiy in the
Lower House in 1726, and in the Upper House in 1731, and served for 14 years
until 1745. In addition, he found time to serve as one of “His Majesty's
Justices" from 1739- 1746, and be elected again as Public Treasurer of
Bertie in 1739. A very active man in Colonial politics, there are records of
many Bills, Committees, and Acts attributed to him in the Colonial Records. He
was instrumental in the placing of the public buildings at Cashy, and the
actual construction of same. He started construction on the water mill that
operated for nearly 200 years.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">After James Castellaw' death, h<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">is</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> two sons, Thomas and John, sold part of the family
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part of the family lands there. John remained in Bertie County and was the ancestor of
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Castellaw</b> circa 1723 in Bertie Precinct and died 1805 in Hancock County, Georgia. She married Samuel Alexander 14 May 1752 in Duplin County, North Carolina. In June 1759 </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Samuel Alexander stated he'd lately come into province
(Georgia) to settle and asked for a grant of 100 acres on Savannah
River in St. George Parish, Halifax District. The petition was denied. In December 1762, Samuel Alexander
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province (Georgia) and had purchased and settled land. He then received a grant
of 60 acres opposite "his place in Carolina (South Carolina) called Point
Comfort". O</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">n <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">30 Aug 1763 Alexander witnessed a deed of Ezekiel Williams, his wife's cousin in Granville County South Carolina. Again on </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">27 April 1768 along with James Turner and James Cayson
Samuel Alexander witnessed a deed between John Lee and Ezekiel Williams in Granville County South Carolina. On 1 October 1784, Richmond County, Georgia; deed: Samuel Alexander (Sr.) of Richmond Co., Georgia, Planter, for love, goodwill and affection, to my loving daughter, Sarah Smith of Wilkes Co., Georgia, and absolute free and independent title in fee simple to all that tract of land where she now lives, 200 acres by survey, being granted to Samuel Alexander in 1784. Gift made 24 May 1787. Witnessed: Aaron Grier and Ezekiel Alexander. Gift proved in Wilkes Co., Georgia by Aaron Grier 22 Feb. 1797. Their children were Capt Samuel Alexander III husband of Olivia Wooten and Mrs. Sarah Bush, Capt James Alexander husband of Tabitha Wooten, Asa Castellaw Alexander husband of Faitha Wooten, Susan Goodge, and Nancy Davidson, John Listor Alexander, Ezekiel Alexander husband of MissNeal, Sarah Alexander wife of Capt. John Smith, Mary Alexander, Elizabeth Alexander, and Moses Alexander.</span></span></span></div>
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Castellaw</b> was born circa about 1723 died He died on 10 April 1790 in Barnwell
District South Carolina. He married Mrs. Sarah Hand Bush by May 1753. On <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">4 May 1747 he sold to Thomas Ryan 500 acres on northside of Rocquis Swamp commonly known as “Castellow Islands” in Bertie County. On <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">7 Oct 1751 Thomas witnessed a deed of 4 slaves from Isaac Bush of Johnston Co. to Isaac’s nephews and nieces children of William Bush. </span></span></span></span>Thomas Castellaw was in Duplin County on May 22, 1753. On <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">17 Feb 1755 Thomas of "Duplin County" sold to Thomas Rhodes 2 tracts of lands on Rocquis Island and Rocquis Swamp in Bertie County that was first granted to his father James Castellow and grandfather John Williams. Thomas Rhodes was the husband of Elizabeth Standley and daughter of Ann Gardner, granddaughter of Ann Bryan and great granddaughter of Needham Bryan and Anne Rombeau. </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The witnesses were Thomas Whetmell, Moses Hunter, and his uncle Arthur Williams. From Johnston County, North Carolina he moved to the Savannah River region of South Carolina, but by March 1767 he had moved to Briar Creek in St. George Parish. He is still listed there in November 1770 now with six slaves with lands near Arthur Wall. However on </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">10 April 1772 he witnessed a deed in New Hanover County, North Carolina between Harold Blackman and Samuel Rogers. On </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">17 Sept 1774 Thomas was granted 400 acres on a back Swamp on Savannah River bounded by Patrick Butler, John Turner, Joseph Perry, and Ralph Wilson in Granville County, South Carolina lands later sold to sold to Mr. Telfair. He is listed in a 1778-1779 Tax List were he was a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Grand Juror for an area between The South Fork of The Edisto River and the Savannah River. In what became Barnwell District. He was <span style="color: #1d2129;">a Revolutionary War soldier on the American side. Thomas Castellaw died in 1790 when his estate went up for sale. His administrator was Joseph Miller and buyers of items from his estate included, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Robert Ashley, Theophilus Baxter, Isaac Bush Sr., Isaac Bush Jr., Ann Castellow, Henry Castellow, Merrimon Cook, William Dunbar, John Green, William Green, Jonas Griffin, Sampson Griffin,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>James Jackson, Joseph Miller, Isaac Odam, Ezekiel Williams, Benjah Williamson, and Stephen Wroten . Ezekiel Williams was his cousin. Thomas Castellaw's known children were James Castellaw, Henry Castellaw of Upper Three Runs, Thomas Castellaw Jr, Sarah Castellaw, Penelope Castellow wife of Joseph Johnson, Edmond Bentley, and William Dicks.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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was born was born about 1727 in Bertie County. He appeared in the census in 1790 in USA, North
Carolina, Bertie Co., Edenten District.1388 no slaves. He signed a will on 11
December 1813 Bertie Co. Recorded May Term 1816. Common in law wife Martha
Butler a Tuscarora Indian. Married married Margaret DawsonJohn the Younger's grandson John Castellow Bastardy came before the Bertie County in 1754. He had as a common law wife Martha Butler, a Tuscarora woman by whom he had two sons, William and James Castellaw. McGaughon appeared as a bondsman for Castellaw. </span></div>
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born circa 1733 married Priscilla Barton.<span style="color: black;">1762<span style="margin: 0px;"> He had </span>lands near Three Run on Savannah River by George Foreman, Seigler Wilson, Thomas Newman in Granville County South Carolina. </span> In <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">1771 he was in St. George Parish Georgia. On 5 August 1777 he had lands </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Jacob Read in St. George Parish adjoining Davis, Jourdan, and Joel Walker. </span></span>He was a private in the Revolutionary
War. He joined the military on 14 February 1777 South Carolina and served with
General Francis Marion known as the Swamp Fox. He was mustered out 10 August
1785 and died 26 September 1785 Winston County [Barnwell District] South
Carolina. His son William Henry Castellaw was born circa 1769 and married Rhody Brewer. On <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">7 Sept
1797 owned 148 acres adjoining Priscilla Castellow. In 1837 his lands were on Wells Branch and Bay Branch adjoining John McMillan.
James' daughter Sarah Castellaw married Daniel Philpot.
His son James Castellaw in 1788 sold a slave to William Minor and on 8 October 1789 bought a slave in Barnwell District. He was the administer of the estate of William Castellaw 25 February 1830 who died in Washington County, Georgia. John Castellaw was born circa 1777 and in 1803 he witnessed the will of George Robinson and in 1822 he had lands on the Upper Three Runs in Barnwell District, South Carolina.</span></span></span></div>
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was born 21 Jan. 1738 and she died 11 June 1818 at her son Thomas Barefield's
home in Mulenburg Co., Kentucky age 89 yrs., 11 mo. & 20 days old. She married Jesse
Francis Barefield circa 1756. Jesse Barfield was the son of Richard Barfield and died circa 22 August 1780. Their children were <span style="color: black;">Frederick Barfield, Stephen Barfield, Charity Barfield, Louis Barfield, John Barfield, Solomon Barfield and Thomas Barfield. </span>Her daughter Charity Barfield was born 19 January 1755 in Duplin County and married her 2nd cousin Theophilus Williams son of Sheriff Joseph Williams and Mary <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hicks.<span style="color: black;"> They were the great grandchildren of John the Younger and Ann Moore. Son Frederick Barfield was born 14 December 1757 in Duplin County and </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> died after 1820 in Lauderdale, Tennessee. He also married his 2nd cousin Susannah Williams daughter of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sheriff Joseph Williams and Mary Hicks on 16 May 1779 Duplin County
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1722. He was born about 1684 in Isle of Wight County the son of Anthony Herring. Mary Herring was mentioned in her
father’s will in 1747. As of the 1740s, most of Abraham's
documented activities are in the Bucklesberry Swamp area, adjoining John
Williams. One Herring family researcher says that Abraham served as
sheriff of Bertie County at one time. Abraham had his stock mark, a Swallow fork
in the left ear and a nick in the right ear, registered at the Bertie County court in Nov
1740. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In an account supposedly dated 1744, "John Holbrook
was paid cash for going to Neuse after debt that was due there to acquaint the
heirs of his death...Note mentions, among others, Abraham Herring." </span></div>
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land to Arnold Hopkins, and continued to be listed in Bertie County deeds until
1757--sometimes as a witness. However this may have been his son Abraham Herring the
Younger. No doubt Mary Herring probably was a
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was born circa 1726 in Bertie Precinct, North Carolina. He died in July 1794 in Sampson County, North Carolina. He married Eunice Uzzell the daughter of Thomas Uzzell. She was born circa 1738 in Bertie County, North Carolina and died after her husband. They were married circa 1755 in Dobbs County, North Carolina. Joseph named wife "Unicy" in his will probated in Sampson County in July 1794. He bought land in 1771 in Duplin County. Joseph Herring gave to his son Joshua Herring by Deed of Gift 206 acres in Sampson County. A "Negro girl called Edah was given by Joseph Herring to his daughter, Briget Herring in a Deed of Gift. By a Deed of Gift he gave to daughter Eunice Herring, a "Negro girl called Amey" and to his married daughter Nancy Williams he gave a "Negro girl called Olive." On November 1, 1793 Joseph and Unicy give to their son Jacob an African girl named Cate [Kate], she being the child of slave woman who had been given by them to daughter their daughter "Unicy". This Joseph is listed on Sampson County census in 1790 with 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16 and 5 females and 3 slaves. Joseph Herring served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the North Carolina Militia and had six pay vouchers. His children were Uzzell Herring [1756-1806] Phenicy Herring [1758-1794], Jacob Herring [1759-1797], Rhoda Herring wife of Parrott Williams, Bridget Herring, Eunice Herring [1773-1860] wife of Hezekiah Williams, Nancy Herring Williams [1774-183], and Joshua Herring [1780-1811] </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Arthur Williams was a colorful character by all measures and went against conventions when he began cohabitating with a Tuscarora woman named Elizabeth Butler about 1750 when his father was still alive. She was the daughter of Margaret Butler and a white man and therefore was considered a "mulatto" or mixed race. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Two tax lists for Bertie County for the years 1767 and 1768 show that the legal status of Arthur's children by Elizabeth was complicated. In 1767, his sons Isaac Williams and Elisha Williams are taxed as “white servants” but in 1768 they are listed as “mulattoes”. <span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In this 1767 list Arthur is head of a taxable household and referred to as “Master” Arthur Williams. In this household were “White Servants”, Constant Reddit, Isaac Williams, John Sawkill, and Elisha Williams- The “Mulattoes” were William James, Elizabeth Butler, Elizabeth James, and Mary James. His "Male slaves” wereGye [Guy] Sezer [Cesar] Robin and Treser [Treasure]. His “Female Slaves” wereGrace Williams, Bess, and Joan. The slave Grace was probably the Grace mentioned in his father’s will.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Arthur Williams left a 28 January 1775 Bertie County will, proved May 1775, leaving slaves Guy, Cesar, Grace and Joan to Elizabeth Butler "now living with me" son Isaac, daughter Sarah [wife of Josiah Redditt], son Elisha, daughter Ann [wife of Joseph Simons], daughter Cathron, sons Joab, and Arthur, William Hardy [son of Lamb], Josiah Redditt, Elisha Williams and Joseph Simons Exrs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Bertie County January ye 28 th Day 1775 In the name of God Amen I Arthur Williams of Society [Parish] being weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God for it therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is Appointed for all men once to Die do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say Princapaly and first of all I recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it & my body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a Decent & Christian like manner at the Descresion of my Executors Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty power of God & as for touching such world Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise & dispose of the same in the following manner & form </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Imprimis I give & bequeath to Elizabeth Butler now living with me a Comfortable living out of my Estate. I Likewise lend her for the support of the Children my two Negro men Gye & Cesar & two Women Grace & Joan to remain on the Plantation likewise a Horse & Mare & Yoke of Oxen one bed & furniture & other Negros Soficient to keep house she behaving as a woman in her Surcimstance ought</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give and bequeath to my son Isaac son to Elizabeth Butler a Negro woman Named Beck she and all hir increase & one Negro Boy Named Buck to his & his heirs</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give & bequeath to my Daughter Sarah wife to Josiah Redditt a Negro woman Named Sara & all hir increase to hir & hir heirs they were will'd to her before her marriage with him. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item I give & bequeath to my son Elisah son to Elizabeth Butler all the Negroes now in his possession to him & his heirs</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give & bequeath to my Daughter Ann Daughter to Elizabeth Butler wife to Joseph Simons one Negro woman Named Clo she & all her increase to her and her heirs</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give & bequeath to my Daughter Catheran Daughter to Elizabeth Butler one Negro girl Named Rowhae [?] she and all her increase to her & her Lawfull heirs Likewise I give her one fether bed and furniture one lamb & thegeer belonging to it & four Ews which is now in her perssesion & two hundred Acres of Land lying at the head of gum pocoson & along Elisha Land & wolf fist Branch to her & her heirs</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give & bequeath to my Son Joab Son son to Elizabeth Butler my Plantation with two hundred Acres of Land whereon I now live Excepting fourty foot Square where my Parents weare Buried to him and his heirs for ever Likewise I give him three Negroes to wit Pennie a garl boys Court & young Gy Likewise. I give my Son Joab one feather Bed & furniture & ye first Colt ye my Mare Pidgin brings. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give to my Son Arthur son to Elizabeth Butler my Plantation where my Negro woman Grace now lives Joyning Turkey Swamp on ye west one Side & on the North Salmon Creek Road on ye East Joab Williams his line on the South Joseph Simons line Containing one hundred & Seventy Acres be ye Same more or less to him & his heirs Likewise I give my Son Arthur my Negro woman Joan after his mothers Decase but if ye sd Joan Should have two or more Children my will is _ his brother Joab Shall have one of them. I Likewise give my Son Arthur my Negro boy Tom & Garl Nancy & after his mothers Decase my Negro man Cesar. I Likewise give him one fether Bed & furniture. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give & bequeath to my Neighbor George Davis on hundred Acers of land bounded as follows bgining at west ___ at Sams Branch running sd Branch to Demeys line along his line to the mill Branch So down Sd Branch to ye Road & down ye Sd roat to the first Station to him & his heirs</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. I give and bequeath all the remander part of my Estate after Debts are paid both real & personal Except my Negro man Gyes oh I hear give to Joab after his mothers Decease to be Equally Divided between my Children Namely Ann Simons Catheran Williams Joab Williams & Arthur Williams when they are all Come of age & to remain on the Plantation till then……… </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Item. & Lastly I do Constitute Namemake & Appoint my trusty & well beloved frient William Hardy son of Lamb Josiah Redditt Elisha Williams & Joseph Simons Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I Doe hereby utterly revoke and Disanul all and every other Testaments Wills Legasies & bequeaths & Exrs by me in any ways before Named wills & Bequeath ratifying & Confirming this & no Other to be my lst Will & Testament & in Witness here of I have heareunto Set my hand & Seall the Day & and year above written. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">Personally Appeared in open Court Humphry Hardy Esqr. Joseph Reditt and Samuel Moore who all being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God Declared that they delivered the above last Will and Testament to be the Hand Writing of Arthur Williams Deceased and further they say not .</span></div>
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was born circa 1748 and died 1789. He married Nancy Bunch 7 December 1769 the daughter
of Jeremiah Bunch. Isaac's estate inventory was dated Feb 1789. Nancy remarried
Josiah Collins. Jeremiah Bunch's will made in 1797 lists “Nanny” Collins. Josiah Collins estate was probated in Lauren County, Georgia in 1809. His wife Wife Nancy was the administrix. Isaac Williams
children were Delilah Williams and Joel Williams. Deliah was born in 1780 in
Bertie County and married Henderson Frier in 1797 in Bertie County. They later
moved to Georgia. In Gates County North Carolina court records dated November 1791, list Joel Williams, "orphan of Isaac Williams of Bertie County" as 15 years old [1776]. He was bound as apprentice to Richard Baker, house carpenter. </span></div>
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was born circa 1750 and married Josiah Redditt 14 May 1767. She was the mother of a
large family; Cythina M Reddit, Aquilla Reddit. Theophilus Reddit, William
Reddit, Sarah Reddit, Asa Reddit, David Reddit, Ann Reddit, and Josiah Reddit.</span></div>
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was born circa 1752 and married Sarah Josey 24 March 1775. "Elisha Williams died
August 17, 1811 age 72 years,. He had six children, William Williams, Betsy Williams,
Joshua Williams, Elisha Williams, Josiah Willaims, and Martha Williams".Around 1804-1808 Elisha Williams moved his family to
Nashville, Tennessee where both Elisha and his son, William were big race horse
owners. The family owned slaves and plantations in both North Carolina and Tennessee. Elisha was one of the best read men in
North Carolina and of quite a literary turn. He was wealthy and gave all his
children finished educations. He could read Latin fluently and wrote a
beautiful fluent hand. ”He employed a private tutor for his boys, and when they
were sufficiently advanced in their studies, he sent the oldest, William to
Harvard University, Massachusetts, and Elisha & Josiah to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. All
three got their diplomas." In mathematics he (Elisha) was superior to any
of his boys. Joseph Philips was a close personal friend of his and finally induced
him to move out to Tennessee. He selling his real estate and giving part to his
daughter Elizabeth who married a wealthy man in North Carolina named Thomas
Alston in 1797. She married Second in 1818
to Lemuel James Alston. Josiah Williams and William Williams married
sisters, Sally and Margaretta Phillips. </span></div>
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Samuel Williams of Burke County, Georgia to Aquilla Redditt, from property of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Williams family, whose
branches are found in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia, originated in Wales and in the very distant past Ireland.<span style="margin: 0px;"> DNA show that descendants of Britton Williams are also the descendants of John Williams a Welsh Indentured servant who came to Surry County Virginia in 1666. </span>Sources indicate that he had brothers named Thomas and Lewis who also immigrated as indentured servants in the 17th Century. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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Williams clan followed the waters ways of Virginia,
which flowed southeasterly, into North
Carolina. The Second generations of Williamses in the
18th Century were found in the Counties of Nansemond, Southampton, and Isle of
Wight in Virginia Colony and in Chowan and Bertie
counties in North Carolina Colony.
These families in North Carolina obtained large grants along the Cashie, Meherrin, Roanoke and Chowan River
and their tributaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 3rd generation of American Williamses
began to migrate to central North Carolina,
locating on the Neuse
River and in the counties
of Onslow, New Hanover, Johnston, and Duplin. From here they and their
children spread out to the Pee Dee River Region of South Carolina and into the
Savannah River region on both sides of South Carolina and Georgia Colonies. There is no doubt that Britton Williams if married by 1768 was born in North Carolina in the 1740's most likely Onslow County or Duplin. </span></div>
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legal documents, from the 18th Century, show that the Williams clans were landowners serving as magistrates, sheriffs, Justices of the Peace,
and Colonial Assemblymen. There are, however, few ecclesiastical documents
found on the Williams Family since they were primarily Anglican then of the Baptist faith
where baptistery or marriage records were not kept.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Certainly the anniversaries of their births,
deaths, and marriages were kept in colonial era Bibles that have long since
turned to dust.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A notable exception is
Sheriff Joseph Williams of Johnston County North Carolina the son of Theophilus Williams, the presumed uncle of Britton Williams. He placed the dates
of the birth of his children in the courthouse records where they have been
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rest of the Williams Family, the preservation of records of their children has
not been as fortunate. Courthouses have burned down, family records lost, and
cemetery plots have disappeared.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Much of
what is recorded in many genealogies as fact is merely speculation.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not all Williams children are mentioned in
wills and probate records and deeds of gift and land records. What exists mostly at best suggest
relationships between people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With very few
documents existing in regards to Britton Williams, our Revolutionary War
ancestor it can be ascertained that he was man of some means,
owning extensive property along King Creek, a tributary of the Savannah River
in what today is Allendale County,
South Carolina, and was also a
slave owner. While he served in the South Carolina Colonial Assembly in Jacksboro,
little is known of him except that he married and fathered at least three known children, a son and two daughters and
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there are no known land records or probate records which absolutely connect
Britton Williams with any of the myriad of Williams who settled along the
Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina. However after his death in South Carolina, his two known daughters married men from Northampton County, North Carolina
but no records there connect Britton Williams absolutely with the Williamses who settled
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />T</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">he Proclamation of 1763 provided for cession by the Indians of more territory to the Crown and clarified the right to white settlements in all of St. George's Parish. The concentration of these settlers was located on lower Buckhead Creek and Upper Briar Creek. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">George Galphin, an Irishman, had Indian trading posts on the Savannah River and the Ogeechee River prior to 1763 and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t</span></span>he British built a fort there to guard against possible Indian attacks. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Inevitably, friction began between the settlers who coveted Indian lands and the Natve Americans who continued to travel the old trails to the post at Augusta. </span> </span></span><br />
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in 1764 with his father, perhaps John Williams, originally from Duplin County, North
Carolina. In 1768 he was granted lands vacated by
John Jasper Hirtschman in St. George Parish, Georgia on Briar Creek near this
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Petition of Britton Williams setting forth that he had been a year in the
Province, had had no land granted him and was desirous to obtain land for
cultivation having a wife and two Negroes.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Therefore praying for 200 acres in St. George Parish, Georgia being a
tract heretofore surveyed by John Jasper Hertshman (Hirtschman) and elapsed in
respect of time in which a grant ought to have passed. Resolved that on
Condition only that the petitioner doth take out a grant for said land within
seven months from date, that he doth also register the said grant in register’s
office of said province within six months from date thereof, that his Majesty
may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents, the prayer of said petitioner is
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was a German who had settled on lands in St. George Parish, Georgia along the Savannah River by 3 Dec 1760 with his brother in law Andrew Greiner. Andrew Greiner hand grants to the north of Hirtschman’s
grant which were adjoining John
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John Williams is the father of Britton Williams and the son of Theophilus
Williams of Duplin County North Carolina. One of the land grants of Hirtschman was never cultivated and was forfeited when Britton Williams applied for it in March of 1768.</span></div>
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is later intertwined with our Williams family. Roberts was married to Amy
Creech daughter of Richard Creech, who may possibly have been a brother-in-law
of John Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Circumstantial
evidence points to the fact that John Williams may have married Abigail Creech
of the Creech Family of North Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later Captain James Roberts, John Williams, and Britton
Williams all left Georgia at
the beginning of the Indian troubles there and settled in Granville
District, South Carolina along the
waters of the Savannah and Coosawhatchie River.
Additionally Britton Williams’ only known son, Wilson Williams, was married to
a granddaughter of James Roberts. They may have been maternal 2nd cousins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another link between the Williamses of St. George Parish, Georgia and Duplin County
North Carolina is that of John Royall. Royall, whose lands were adjacent to John Williams, had
a brother Samuel Royall who married 8 May 1759 at Ebenezer in St. George Parish,
Esther Williams. Esther Williams was the daughter of Theophilus Williams and
Christian Bryan Busby, and a sister of John Williams, presumably the father of
Britton. Samuel and Esther Royal would have been the uncle and aunt to Britton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Royall was a resident of both Georgia and North Carolina. A land record dated 10 July
1765 shows that he held lands at Beaverdam in Duplin County,
North Carolina and two years later he is shown
on 7 July 1767 as owning property adjoining John Williams and James Pierce in
St. George Parish, Georgia. Three years after that he is back in Duplin County, North Carolina buying land
from John Bush on the west side of the Great Coharie River. This land is now in
what is Sampson County, North Carolina.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>John Bush was the brother-in-law of Ezekiel
Williams a nephew of Theophilus Williams and Christian Bryan. John Williams and
Ezekiel Williams were first cousins. Ezekiel Williams also moved to Barnwell County in the northern section. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Britton
Williams’s connection with Duplin County North Carolina families remains only
circumstantial. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next known document regarding Britton Williams was dated 23
February 1770 when he was recorded as a witness to a deed between Martin
Weatherford and John Bedingfield of St. Paul Parish.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>St. Paul Parish was a community just north of
St. George Parish with Fort
Augusta its largest
settlement. Martin Weatherford and John Bedingfield were kinsmen according to
the document. John Bedingfield was from Duplin County North Carolina and was
also found in Johnston County North Carolina in 1789.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Martin and Jane Weatherford came to Georgia in 1758 and in 1769 was granted 200
acres adjoining Brown’s Creek in St. Paul Parish on the Savannah
River The grant stated that Weatherford was married with 4
children and 2 slaves. He later sold this grant to Bedingford. This deed that
Britton Williams witnessed is the last piece of evidence connecting him to Georgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>SOUTH CAROLINA COLONY THE BACK COUNTRY</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Britton Williams' probably fled Georgia
with his young family during the Indian uprising of 1773-1774. In December 1771
Indians murdered a settler named John Cary and the Treaty of 1763 was broken.
Between Christmas Day 1773 and January 1774 two parties of Lower Creek Indians
attacked St. George Parish, killing 13 settlers in the backcountry. The Georgia
militia who had set out in pursuit was repulsed by the Indians which killed 2
or 3 men on 23 Jan 1774. The frontier settlements were at once thrown into a
panic and the alarmed populace fled from Georgia
to the safety of South Carolina.
It was not until after the Revolutionary War, did settlers feel safe to return.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Britton Williams of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St. George Parish, Georgia settlers fled across the Savannah River to the safety of South Carolina during the Indian uprising and settled in a section of Granville County which eventually became a part of Allendale County today. There he bought a large tract of land, 3 miles long, between King and Briar Creeks tributaries of the Savannah River from William Brown. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brown was a Virginian, originally from Albemarle County. He and his brother Bartlett (Bartilott) Brown immigrated to St. George Parish Georgia by 1767. The Browns settled west of Isaac Copeland, who would also become a Barnwell District refugee, and also owned large tracts of land on both sides of the Savannah River.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tories, who were British Loyalists, later murdered William Brown during the Revolutionary War in 1780, and it was his son Col. Tarleton Brown who wrote in his famous “Memoirs of the Revolutionary War” which mentioned Britton Williams being hung by the British in 1781.<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">William Brown, from who Britton bought his estate, was murdered by the Tories and his house burned to the ground. </span> William Brown’s brother Bartlett Brown was killed by the Indians in 1784 and his son William Brown filed a suit against Britton Williams’ widow in 1788 over a land dispute.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether Britton Williams ever returned to Georgia after relocating to South Carolina is unknown. Land records, which might have shed light on his Georgia land holdings, were destroyed when the Burke County House burned down in 1854. However it is more likely he stayed in South Carolina since he was appointed a magistrate, a civil officer with certain judicial and executive powers, in 1774 of the Savannah River Section in the Orangeburgh District of South Carolina and later was elected to a two year term in 1776 as a member of the South Carolina Colonial Assembly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are no known land grants, title memorials, or land deeds recorded in South Carolina for Britton Williams although his lands were mentioned in many other people's records which gives an indication where his property was located. Many unrecorded deeds were destroyed during the Revolutionary War when Tory militia burned the homes of Whigs who supported Independence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The residents of what was then Granville County and today Allendale County, had no courthouse in which to record deeds. Many transactions were recorded in the county's parish which at the time was Prince William. The British burned that church in 1779 along with all the vestry and tax records recorded there. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When Britton Williams was hung as a traitor by the British and Tory forces and there is no reason not to believe that his home was burned perhaps with his deed records.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">What is known of Britton Williams' years in South Carolina was that he was a prominent land owner who held numerous African Americans as slaves from which he derived his wealth. He was involved in the politics of the time was elected to several regional offices including being a representative to the South Carolina Colonial Assembly in 1776.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>KINGS CREEK AND BRIAR CREEK ALONG THE REVOLUTIONARY TRAIL</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Other early land owners in the region where Britton owned lands between Kings Creek and Little Brier Creek were Absalom Best, Aaron Gillette, James Joice, George Kearse, James Lee, John Mixon, John Weekley and Asa Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 19 September 1770 Absalom Best was granted 100 acres on
Little Briar Creek on the Savannah River adjoining William Brown, James
Sumpsion, and Samuel Colding in Granville County, South Carolina. The children and grandchildren of Absalom Best intermarried with the descendants of Britton Williams and William Campbell. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George Kearse "of Granville County" on 8 March 1769 sold 100 acres at Boggy Gut a branch of Lower Three Runs waters of the Savannah to
Aaron Gillette and John Weekley lands. The deed however was not recorded until 3 April 1775. This is an example of deeds being kept at home until at a later date recorded. A deed recorded after the Revolutionary War show that George Kearse was a near neighbor of the widow of Britton Williams and as that he lived in close proximity most likely knew Britton. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 16 October 1784 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">George
Kearse Sr</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
sold to Cyntha Murdock 270 acres in "Orangeburg District" near the
mouth of King Creek of the Savannah River adjoining vacant land, and lands of
John Green and Britton Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is
the same George Kearse also had lands at Wells Branch near John Williams, a probable brother to Britton.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 3 November 1785 George Kearse sold to William Thomas 640 acres in <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Orangeburg District South Carolina at head if Little Swamp and waters of the Savannah River adjoining James Joice, William Thomas, and Elizabeth Williams’ lands "supposed to join Lee". On the same day </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thomas filed a plat for the 640 acres on “Little Swamp” on Savannah River<span style="margin: 0px;"> in the </span>Orangeburg District surveyed by William Green. His neighbors were James Joice [Joyce] and Elizabeth Williams. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In this area of Kings Creek, where Britton
Williams’ estate was located, also lived Asa Williams. Asa Williams is also thought to be a brother of Britton Williams due to his close proximity to him. Asa Williams, on 2 August 1774, had 150 acres adjoining Captain James Roberts on the north and east on Rocky Creek<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in St. George Parish, Georgia. An earlier 13 October 1773 land grant of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">William Campbell showed that he had 250 acres on Rocky Creek and Brier's Creek at “Lee’s Old Place waters of Savannah” in St. George Parish Halifax District. </span>These deeds suggests that both Asa Williams and William Campbell were near neighbors, pre Revolutionary War, of James Roberts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 30 November 1784 Aaron Gillett had two plats drawn up one for 92 acres on “Savannah River Swamp” in<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Orangeburgh District, surveyed by William Green. His neighbors were John Green and Asa Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The other plat was for 440 acres on Savannah River in Orangeburgh District also surveyed by William Green. The neighbors of this property were John Green, James Lee, Asa Williams, and lands of Britton Williams. <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 3 October 1785 Benjamin Green filed a plat for 270 acres on the swamp of Savannah River in Orangeburgh District surveyed by William Green. His neighbors were Aaron Gillett, John Green, and Asa Williams.<span style="margin: 0px;"> On 18 May 1786 Elijah Gillet filed for a mortgage from the Commisioners of the Loan office for two adjoining tracts on Savannah River in Orangeburg District, one for 300 acres granted to Aaron Gillett on 1 August 1786 and the other one for 440 acres granted to Aaron Gillett on 4 July 1785 His neighbors were John Brown, William Brown, Blanchard Colding, John Green, James Lee, Asa Williams and the lands of Britton Williams. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It would thus appear that the Widow of Britton Williams and Asa Williams were near neighbors on the “Little Swamp” at the Savannah River. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">On 27 November 1</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">799 Wilson Williams, the son of Britton Williams filed a plat for
116 acres on Brier Creek<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Orangeburgh
District, surveyed by Robert Shields on 29 September 1795. His neighbors n<span style="margin: 0px;">ames indexed "</span>Mr. Joyce, James Lee, and lands of Brittain Williams". Two years later Alexander Campbell the son of William Campbell on 23 June 1801 filed a plat for 131 acres </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">on "Little Briar Creek waters of Savannah adjoining James
Joyce, Wilson Williams and estate of Britton Williams."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last mention of Britton Williams in land deeds is from </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">26 November 1810 when Bartlet Brown filed a plat for 188 acres on
Briar Creek. The property was bounded by lands of Daniel Blake, William Campbell and "Britain Williams."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>THE WAR FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Revolutionary War began April
19, 1775 in Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts.
However the Southern colonies also supported the war against British rule.
Britton Williams as a representative to the Colonial Assembly between 1776 and
1778 was dealing with the weighty matters of Independence
from the United Kingdom.
Britton Williams represented a region called the Fork District, which were the
combined parishes of Orange
and St. Matthews.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He certainly helped
authorized the South Carolina delegation to the
Continental Congress to vote for Independence
in July of 1776.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After leaving state politics in
1778, Britton Williams returned to Kings Creek to manage his plantation along
the Savannah River. There he remained active
in his community serving as a Grand Juror for the region located between the
South Fork of the Edisto River and the Savannah River
in Orangeburg District. He also served as a magistrate again from 1778-1779.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 30 December 1778 the city of
Savannah, Georgia fell to the British Army and in 1779 all of Beaufort and
Granville Counties where Britton Williams farms were located were in peril with
only 6,000 patriots in the region to oppose the British, Tories and their
Indian allies.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The British began a sweep
of the area that was considered a hotbed of anti-British sentiment and they burned the Parish
Church of Prince William, which acted as the county seat, which served the region between the Coosawhatchie River
and the Salketchatchie
River where the lands of
Britton Williams were located.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 3 May 1779, the
patriots were defeated at the Battle of Coosawhatchie Bridge, and the low county of Beaufort fell in to the hands of the
enemy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Tories and Loyalists used
this opportunity to attack out lying homes of Patriots in the backcountry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We know that Britton Williams
fought in these skirmishes with the British for he received a colonial grant of
100 acres on Briar Creek in 1780 near his other lands on the Savannah for his service to the colony. The
1780 colonial grant of 100 acres on Briar Creek was recorded in Book C #6 Vol.
55 pg. 678 and Colonial Grants Book page 439 Vol. 35 C-6. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the region between Savannah, Georgia
and the county of Beaufort South Carolina
firmly in the hands of the British, on 12 May 1780 Charleston, South Carolina
fell and an American Army of 6,000 soldiers was captured. With the fall of Charleston, several
American commanders formed partisan rangers and began resistant fighting today
known as guerilla warfare. The American General Francis Marion, known as the
“Swamp Fox” for being able to attack the British and then disappear into the
swamps, became famous for out maneuvering the entrenched British. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">General
Marion also was the commander of Lt. Colonel William Harden of Prince William
Parish. Col. Harden was a native of Granville
District South Carolina and had a plantation in Prince William Parish near Whippy Swamp. He was elected in 1776 captain of the Artillery Company in Beaufort District and joined General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, after the fall of Charleston. and had been elected in 1776 as Captain of the Artillery Company in Beaufort
District as well as the leader of the Granville Militia. After the fall of
Charleston, Col. Harden formed troop of Partisan Rangers that included most of
the patriotic men of the Granville, Colleton, and Beaufort Districts including
Britton Williams, Nathan Williams, George Kirkland, Reuben Kirkland, George
Kearse and William Kearse, to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These Partisan Rangers did not move
with the regular troops but stayed in their home territories to defend and
protect the patriotic inhabitants from the outrages committed by the
Tories.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When the need arose they banded
together with or without the Revolutionary Troops, to harass or resist the
enemy. In 1780 Britton Williams must have fought with Harden at a skirmished
near his Kings Creek plantation some where between Brier Creek to the north, Kings Creek to the south, and Coosahatchie River to the east.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In December of 1780, Col. Daniel McGirt and his Georgia Loyalists crossed the Savannah River and rode down the South Carolina side. He had vowed to kill everyone who had not sworn allegiance to the king. At the Brier Creek Settlement, he kept his word. Seventeen citizens were murdered, among those was Henry Moore. The settlement was burned to the ground. The wife and daughters of Henry Moore ran into the woods to flee the destruction. McGirt's men tried to kill John Cave and left him for dead, but he recovered to tell the story. Because of this atrocity, Capt. James McKay [McCoy] of Georgia and Lt. Col. William Harden of South Carolina called out their militia and began looking for any signs of Loyalist raiders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>BATTLE OF WIGGINS HILL</b></span></div>
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C<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">olonel Thomas Browne, who commanded the British garrison at Augusta, had sent one of his under-officers to dislodge Captain Johnson and Captain McCoy from the swamps along the Savannah River in lower Granville County, South Carolina. The Whigs had been playing havoc with the communications between Augusta and Savannah. However <span style="font-family: "arial";">Col. Browne's detachment had been driven back, with the loss of its commander and a number of men, when the commandant at Augusta heard that Lt Colonel Harden's partisans were operating in the neighborhood of the Coosawhatchie River. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The following is an extract from A.S. Salley's book "The History of Orangeburg County".Page 507. " The British Col. Brown marched down from Augusta with an overwhelming force of Tories and Indians, and taking their stand at "Wiggins' Hill" commenced a slaughter of the inhabitants. The news of which reached the ears of those brave and dauntless officers, Cols. McCoy and Harden, who soon hastened to the defense of the terrified Whigs, and coming upon the enemy, charged upon them and killed and routed them to a man, Col. Brown escaping to the woods. Cols. McCoy and Harden, having accomplished all that was required of them, retired from the field of action, after which Brown returned with the residue of his force and retook the "hill", at which he remained until he hung five of our brave fellows -- Britton Williams, Charles Blunt, and Abraham Smith, the names of the other two not recollected -- then he decamped for Augusta. </span><br />
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T<span style="font-family: "arial";">he actually date of the skirmish at Wiggins Hill is muddled. Some historians place it in January 1781 and while others in April. It is possible that there were two engagements between the Tories and the Whigs. Elizabeth Williams stated at the time of applying for her annuity for her husbands service that her husband was killed 15 January 1781 which conflicts with other dates given for the Battle of Wiggins Hill. It is possible that she was mistaken on the actually date or he was killed prior to the actual Battle of Wiggins Hill. However her statement gives additional weight to the fact that this battle in which Britton Williams was hung took place in January.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Accordingly in January 1781 [January 23rd], at the James Wiggin's Plantation, a group of British, Loyalists, and Indians led by Lt. Col. Thomas Brown Commanding Officer of the King's Rangers made camp near the Coosawhatchie River east of the Savannah River. The King's Rangers was made up of nearly 200 men from the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants), 2nd Battalion (Young Royal Highlanders), and Light Company led by Capt. Ronald MacKinnon. The Tory Loyalist Militia was made up of nearly 100 men assisted by 30 or more Creek warriors. Other accounts claimed that the British had a company of regulars, 70 Indians and 400 Loyal Tory militia men, far outnumbering the men commanded by Col. Harden. Still others claimed Col. Browne had a force of 170 men and 500 Indians. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Patriot force was made up of 76 partisan rangers under the commanded of Lt. Col. William Harden. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />When the Whigs </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">learned of the British's encampment at the Wiggin's Plantation, they made plans to attack them there. On January 24th, shortly after midnight, the Patriots made their move. They rode into the camp, terrifying the Tory militia. The British Rangers however did not panic. They quickly formed into a battle line, fired at the Patriots, driving them out of the camp. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">At 8:00 a.m., the Patriots attacked the camp again. They dismounted their horses and opened fire on the Loyalists. The Tory militia once again fled the camp, with some of them joining the Patriots. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">In April 1781 Col. Harden’s Partisan Rangers skirmished with a force of 160 British regulars near Parker’s Ferry in Granville District<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and then retreated southward.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Col. William Harden with about a 100 men crossed the Edisto River at Givhan’s Ferry and established a post at Godfreys Savannah near the Ashepoo River in Colleton District South Carolina. Here he severed British communications between Charleston and Fort Balfour and reported to General Marion on April 7 that he had stopped several supply vessels on the Salkehatchie and Combahee River. He also stated that he was able to keep the road from Purrysburg to Pon Pon clear.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Col. Harden hoped to join one or two hundred more volunteers from the Edisto region in Orangeburgh District but unknown to him, their Colonel Isaac Hayne, who had surrendered to the British, balked at breaking his parole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Col. Harden had to proceed alone with his small force into Granville District. On April 7, 1781 a detachment of Harden’s men under Major Cooper captured Barton’s Post in Colleton County along with a Tory captain and six men after a sharp fight. However Colonel Thomas Browne surprised the rest of the rangers.</span><br />
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Col. Harden then took his men across the Salkehatchie Bridge into the Beaufort District where he attacked the British garrison at Fort Balfour which had sent Col. Fenwick and a corps of mounted dragoons up the Pocotaligo Road to stop Harden’s approach. On April 8th Harden laid an ambush along the road for the dragoons and his partisans opened fire on the horsemen and sent them scattering through the woods.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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Col. William Harden then retreated into Beaufort District along the Coosawatchie River and escaped to fight another skirmish with the British at Four Holes in neighboring Colleton District on 11 April 1781. Nathan Williams was at the battle at Four Holes under the command of Lt. Reuben House. Col. Harden then fought the British again on 13 April 1781 at Ft. Balfour in Beaufort District capturing the fort. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Battle of Wiggins Hill lasted less than an half hour when Commander Harden retreated due to the superior number of the British forces under the command of Col. Brown. Seven Americans were killed and eleven wounded. Twelve was said to have been captured. For months, the Partisan Rangers were too weak to be much help in the war effort of the low country. The Whigs were </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">compelled to retreat to an island in Coosawhatchie swamp, which Col. Harden made his headquarters. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">There the wounded were taken and cared for by the soldiers and their Whig friends. Colonel Harden and Captain McCoy continued their forays in the low country of the southwest, creating another potent source of uneasiness for the British forces of occupation in South Carolina. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After the Battle of Eutaw Springs in Orangeburgh County, South Carolina in September 1781, the British Army began to withdraw from the colony. On 19 October 1781 General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown, securing American Independence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The prisoners taken by Col. Thomas Browne met the most atrocious death, several of them being first hanged by the British and then mutilated by the Indians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Elizabeth Williams, Britton's widow along with other grieving relatives and neighbors brought Britton Williams body back to his plantation on Brier Creek where he was thought to be buried near present day Highway 301, a modern highway that runs across his former plantation. On 8 December 1785 Elizabeth Williams received as an annuity for being a widow 8 pounds and 15 shillings. An annuity is a fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life. She stated at the time of applying for her annuity that her husband was killed 15 January 1781 which conflicts with the dates given for the Battle of Wiggins Hill. </span></span></span><br />
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I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n the 29 March 1847 Issue of “The
Southern Baptist”, Britton Williams’ grandson, Wilson Roberts Williams’ eulogy
was recorded. Williams had been a Lieutenent in the U.S. army who also was killed in
the line of duty. This eulogy which was written some 65 years after the death of Britton
Williams, still remarked on the bravery his grandfather Britton William<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Many years have passed away since the citizens of South Carolina poured
out their blood on their own soil, in support of a common cause and country.
But, though the soil of our State has been free from invasion since the period
of the Revolution, our country has not unfrequently been engaged in wars with
savage and noble tribes of Indians, and foreign nations, formidable in arms and
resources. History will bear witness that whenever and wherever the flag of the
Republic has been unfurled, on land or ocean, that there have stood the sons of
the Palmetto -- and that many, in the noble performance of duty, have met a
soldier’s death, far distant from the green graves of their sires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the great struggles for Independence, no State acted a more conspicuous part than South Carolina. Her
numerous battle-grounds attest to the determined spirit with which her sons
sustained the desperate conflict. At that trying period in the history of our
country, this particular portion of the State which now constitutes the large
and populous District of which we are citizens, was almost a wilderness,
occupied only by a few scattered settlers. But those hard sons of the forest,
though few in number, cherished all indomitable spirit of resistance to British
control, and some of them sealed with their life’s blood their attachment to
principles which they held dearer than their life. History has handed down to
us some of the names and daring deeds of these devoted men; and the deeply
solemn and interesting occasion which has brought us together carries me back
to the contemplation of events long ago enacted, but the memory of which should
be gratefully cherished by us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">McCoy, in his history of the
campaigns in South Carolina and Georgia, has preserved the incidents of the
fight at Wiggin’s Hill, which is located in the lower part of this District,
and near the Savannah river. In this fight,
the small American force, under the command of the gallant Col. Harden,
sustained a loss of seven men killed and eleven wounded; and I will here remark
on other, but unquestionable authority that during the war, and within a few
miles of the same place, two of the Browns were also killed, the grandfather
and uncle of the two brothers of that name, who, on several occasions have
represented this District in the State Legislature, and one of which has
himself given a son to the wars of this country –</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the victims of Wiggin’s Hill --
their mournful story is not all told. In addition to the loss which the
Americans sustained in killed and wounded, five of their number were made
prisoners: Britton Williams, George Reid, Renals McKay, George Smith, and a
Frenchman, whose name is not known; and on the morning after the fight they were
all hung upon the gallows -- that terrible instrument of death, which at that
memorable period, selected most of its victims from the purest and boldest
spirits of the land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seventy years, in their silent
progress have rolled away since these stirring scenes were enacted on our soil.
Time has wrought vast changes in the condition of our whole country. We have
grown to be a mighty people in arms and resources. But let us endeavor to go
back, in imagination, to that period, now far distant, where a few bold and
determined spirits were struggling for liberty, against a nation the most
powerful on the globe, in all the monuments of war. Let us go back and ponder
on that stern devotion to principles, which defied the blandishment and threats
of power, and preferred the rugged track of duty, even though it should lead to
death upon the scaffold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let us go back to Britton Williams and his companions
in misfortune, on that gloomy morning which was to be their last on earth.
There stood the brave men, bound for the sacrifice. Before their eyes the
gallows reared its hideous form, and in the deep solitude of the waving pines,
the enemy would be the only witnesses of how bravely they could die. It must
have been a solemn spectacle, and calculated to soften even the steeled and
rugged heart of the foe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yet these gallant men might have saved their
lives, and no doubt many were the temptations held out to them. The whole State
was overrun with British forces, and for aught they knew, disasters might
everywhere else have attended our arms. Doubtless they were told they were
warring against their righteous sovereign -- that their countrymen were few and
unable to maintain their resistance, much longer -- that as to rational
independence, it was out of the question -- that England would never part with
so bright a gem from her crown, and that now was the time to enroll themselves
under the standard of their sovereign, and that pardon and promotion would be
extended to them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But no -- far more glorious to
Britton Williams and his comrades was death upon the gallows, no life, or fame,
or fortune, in the ranks of the country’s enemies. They died as they had lived
-- true to the noblest impulses of duty. They died martyrs to the cause of
liberty. For nearly three quarters of a century the remains of these men have
reposed in the soil of your District without a stone to tell where they lie or
how they fell; and, perhaps, many have heard today, for the first time, a brief
statement of their history. Let this no longer be a reproach to us. Let some
memorial, however humble, mark the spot at Wiggin’s Hill where the heroes
sleep. Let them not be neglected because they breathed not their last amid the
roar of cannon and the shout of charging legions. They fell in the same great
cause, with Campbell
and DeKalb. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If more
populous portions of the State contributed more largely to the struggles of our
Independence,
ours contributed its share; and, since that period, Barnwell, true to the
spirit of the warrior’s name she bears, has been eager to sustain her part in
all that concerns the honor and glory of the country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In Lot 533, Section K of the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia contains a marker which was placed by Jacquelin Williams Cruthchfield, a descendant of Britton Williams through his grandson John Wilson Williams. He is not buried there however.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She just wanted a marker to commemorate his Revolutionary War service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Britton Williams’ death in
1781 probably around the age of 35 years, his wife "Elizabeth A. Williams" continued to dwell south of Brier Creek and west of the Coosawhatchie River and remained there a widow, for as long as is known, the rest of her life. Certainly Britton died intestate without a will and just as certain Elizabeth was given letters of Administration but any of these probate records, if they existed are long gone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Cornwallis surrendered in October 1781 a Peace Treaty between Great Britain and the United States was not signed until 1783. Records from South Carolina show the Elizabeth Williams continued to support the Whig cause after the death of her husband. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8 March 1782 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Elizabeth Williams sold a hog<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and a steer to scouts in Col. William Davies Regiment commanded<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>by Captains William Creech and Richard Creech. As that Britton Williams mother may have been Abigail Creech Williams, these men may have been Britton's relatives. Later that year on July 1, E</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">lizabeth Williams widow sold beef cattle to Continental Army. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">"Mrs. Elizabeth Williams" was paid for "provisions and forage" used by the Whig militia in 1781 and 1782 on 8 December 1784. The next year she was granted a pension in the form of a land grant on Briar Creek adjoining John Weekley on 17 July 1785. Later that year on 5 September 1785 the "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">widow Williams" was paid for livestock that was used by Continental Army. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth Williams nor her son Wilson Williams are listed in the 1787 Tax List which would indicate that Wilson Williams was still a minor and did not own land in his own name. Two neighbors of Elizabeth Williams were listed. They were </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">James Joyce and Lionel Leigh and according to a Tax List they had lands on Briar Creek by the "estate of Britton Williams". </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1788 Elizabeth Williams was involved in two law suits with her neighbors. On 18 January 1788, she was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">sued by William Brown, however the suit was dismissed by the Winton Court with Brown paying cost. On 8 May 1788, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Eliza Myrick was sued by Elizabeth Williams over some livestock that Elizabeth had in her possession. The Winton County Courted ruled "By default the hogs & cattle under execution in Eliza Williams vs. Eliza Myrick ordered returned to John Myrick son of Eliza Myrick and cattle returned to Sarah Southwell.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth Williams</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">is not listed in the 1790 U.S. Census of the Southern Part of Orangeburgh District but probably was enumerated as in the household of her son Wilson Williams who is listed as head of a household containing 13 slaves. On Page 14, of the Southern Portion of Orangeburgh District, at the end of the census, were listed the families in the Brier Creek and Kings Creek area on the Savannah River. They were the families of Henry McMillan, William Grimes, John Mixon, James Joice [Joyce], Mary Best, Sarah Best, Henry Best, Abraham Mixon, and Wilson Williams. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wilson Williams may have been 21 years of age at the time of the census and therefore listed as head of a household. Other slave owning farmers near him were Tarleton Brown who had 5 slaves and Sarah and Henry Best who each had three slaves. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilson Williams was listed between the families of John Hicks and James Lee [Leigh]. Others near him were William Bryant, Rauley [Rowley] Williams, Tarleton Brown and John Cave. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">The 1790 census s<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hows that Wilson Williams was the head of a family of five females and a young male. The 13 enslaved African Americans listed in this household showed that they were extremely wealthy compare to their neighbors. The make up of the household opens itself to speculation. As he was only about 21 years old he could not have accumulated that many slaves on his own and mostly likely they belonged to his widowed mother. There is no way from the census itself to determine if he was married and raising a family at that time or whether he was simply living with his mother and siblings. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span> T<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he five females within his household were most likely his widowed mother Elizabeth Williams, his two sisters Sarah and Martha, and perhaps another sister Rebecca. The young boy under 16 was certainly John Williams who was born in 1780. No other scenarios seem plausible.<b> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Although Britton Williams had ancestors who were from originally from this area, he would have had more recent family ties in Onslow and Duplin Counties, North Carolina. Therefore it is more plausible that Elizabeth Williams was the one who had more recent family connections in Southern Virginia and Northern North Carolina. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">It is entirely possible that after the death of her husband she sent her daughters there for safety from the struggle ensuing in the Back Country. There her children could be educated and perhaps protected during the Revolutionary War. As i</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t is, it is hardly plausible to accept that there was no connection between Elizabeth Williams and these families from these two counties. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A speculated daughter of Britton and Elizabeth was Rebecca Williams born 1776. She was said to have married Major James "Jim" William McMillan born circa 1755 in Antrim, Ireland, the son of Hugh McMillan. Major Macmillan died in August or September 1847 in Barnwell District. James William McMillan, was a major in the Revolutionary War and known as "Major Jim" but in legal documents as "William". He was a sporting character, especially fond of horse racing, and for this purpose kept a number of fine horses. He took horses to Charleston for racing events. Major McMillan was a man of influence and good social standing and was a member of the State Legislature in 1826. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth the widow of Britton Williams appears to have dropped from the public records after a September 1795 deed to her son Wilson Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last known record of Elizabeth Williams is from </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 1795 when she deeded a 116-acre tract of land that she had received as a pension for Britton’s war service. The land was on Briar Creek in Winton County, Orangeburgh District adjoining the estates of James Joyce, James Lee, and his late father, Britton. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 27 November 1799 Wilson Williams filed a plat for the 116 acres on Briar Creek Orangeburgh District, which surveyed by Robert Shields which had been surveyed on 29 September 1795. His neighbors listed in the plat were Mr. [James] Joyce, James Lee, Mr. McAfuce; and the lands of "Brittain" Williams. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">When Elizabeth Williams died is unknown. She is not listed in the 1800 census of Barnwell District South Carolina but she may have gone with her son Wilson Williams when he removed to Washington County, Georgia. That census for Georgia was destroyed. If she died in 1807 when her deed of gift to her children was finally recorded then she most likely died in Barnwell District, South Carolina perhaps at her son's home west of the Coosawhatchie River just a few miles southwest of present day Allendale. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She outlived her husband by a quarter of a century, raising her children on the frontier of South Carolina's back country. She must have been a formidable individual to support the American Revolution after the British killed her husband leaving her vulnerable living among Tories and scalping Creek Indians. She still supported Independence by providing her livestock for the subsistence of American Troops for which later she was compensated for her patriotism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth Williams spent the majority of her life as a widow and relied on the labor of her enslaved African Americans and her tenant farmers to sustain a prosperous life carved out of the swamps and piney woods of early Allendale County. It is a shame we know so little about her. </span></div>
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vacated by John Jasper Hirtschman on Briar Creek. He was about 22 years old with a wife and 2 slaves </span></span></div>
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Weatherford of Wilkes Co. Georgia. He was about 24 years old </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1776</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> Rebecca Williams born 1776 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1778-1779</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> Grand Juror for area between The South Fork of The Edisto River and the Savannah River. He was about 32 and 33 years old. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1780</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> son John Williams born</span></span></span></div>
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Colonial Grants Book page 439 Vol. 35 C-6 . He was about 34 years old</span></span></div>
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a partisan ranger with William Harden’s Troops Britton Williams was captured by
the Tories following a skirmish at Wiggins Hill , an island in the
Coosiewatchie Swamp and hanged. He was about 35 years old. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1782- <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>March 8</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;">, Elizabeth Williams sold 1 hog<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and steer to scouts
in Col William Davies Regiment commanded<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1782- July 1</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;">,Elizabeth Williams widow sold beef cattle to Continental Army </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1785-July 17,</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>widow
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1787</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> James Joyce and Lionel Leigh according to a Tax List have lands on
Briar Creek by estate of Britton Williams;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1788- January 18</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;">, Elizabeth Williams sued by William Brown-
Suit dismissed with Brown paying cost</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1788- May 8,</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> Eliza Myrick sued by Elizabeth Williams
widow of Britton Williams judgment. By default the hogs & cattle under
execution in Eliza Williams (widow of Britton Williams) vs. Eliza Myrick
ordered returned to John Myrick son of Eliza Myrick and cattle returned to
Sarah Southwell.</span></span></div>
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Bowen for 4 shillings four Negroes names Cudjoc, Isaac, Sylvia and Stephen.
Witness: Lionel Leigh and Israel
Campbell 7 July 1807 Deed of Gift Recorded </span></span></div>
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Williams, James Lee and lands of Britton Williams;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1799- February 18</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> William Campbell bought from Wilson Williams
his father Britton Williams’ lands on King Creek first granted to William Brown
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1799- April 1,</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Joshua Campbell bought 116 acres on Briar
Creek adjoining James Joyce, James Lee, and property of Britton Williams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1800- February 28</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> Joshua Campbell bought 118 a. from Wilson
Williams for $8 Book A page 122 near Britton Williams’ lands</span></span></div>
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Little Briar Creek waters of Savannah
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1807- <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>December 7,</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"> Deed of Gift Elizabeth Williams deed of gift to three children
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Briar Creeks waters of Savannah
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilson Williams</b> (1768-1835) married Elizabeth Kirkland daughter of George
Kirkland, and Esther Roberts daughter of Stephen Roberts. He became a
prosperous farmer in Barnwell
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Allendale and had at least 10 children by his wives.See Wilson Williams section for more details.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sarah Sally Williams Vasser</b> (1770-after 1826)
married<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>before 1795 Josiah Vasser son of
Joseph Vasser and Tabitha<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Vick of
Northampton Co. NC. The Vassers were Baptists. She remarried Mills Barnes Feb
13, 1826. Josiah and Sally Vassers children grew to maturity in Northampton County,
and Hertford County, North Carolina where they married and raised
families in turn. The 1800 Census of Hertford County which was formed from
Bertie and Northampton
showed that she was born between 1755 and 1774<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>and still had two daughters living at home. Her husband had died by 1800
and she was the owner of nine slaves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A.</span> <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Joseph Vasser</b> married Nancy Hicks March 30, 1813 and Tabitha Johnson
May 20, 1824.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">B. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>James Vasser</b> married Mary “Polly” Hart in March 3, 1817</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">C. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Elijah Vasser</b> married Fanny Barrett Jan 16, 1816</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">D. <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tabitha Vasser</b> married George Kea July 25, 1815</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">E. <span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lemuel Vasser</b> married Rebecca Massey July 26, 1831</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Martha Patsy Williams Bowen</b> born 1774 died
1820 Clinton, Jones, GA married before 1795 Charles Butts Bowen (1765-1827) son
of Jonathan Bowen and Martha Calthrope of Southampton Co. Va. later Greene Co.
Ga. His grandparents were Charles Bowen and Eleanor Calthorpe. Martha Bowen
died in Jones County GA.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles Bowen will was probated July 2, 1827
in Jones County, Ga. Bowen’s aunt Bethia Bowen married into
the Vasser family forming another family connection between the Bowens and
Vassers. After Martha’s death Charles married Susan Pratt Gardner and had a
child Mary Anna Buford Butts Bowen.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Desdamona Bowen</b> married Rufus K. George</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">B. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edward Bowen born 1796 Georgia
died Butler County AL
married cousin in 1822<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Abi E. Bowen
(Bowin)...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">C. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Martha Calthorpe Bowen</b> married Jarrett Carter Aug 30, 1818 Jones County
GA. Later moved to Madison
County MS</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">D. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Elizabeth Williams Bowen</b> born 8 March 1807 died Nov 22, 1825, Clinton,
Jones, GA, married Rev. Charles
Baynes June 28, 1823. They were the parents of </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lt. Col. Thomas Levington Bayne CSA born 4 Aug 1824 Clinton, Ga died 10 Dec
1891 New Orleans, La.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rebecca Williams McMillan</b> born 1776 married <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">before 1836 </span>Major James William McMillan born 1755 Antrim, Ireland<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>d. August 1847 son of Hugh McMillian. James
William McMillan, was a major in the Revolutionary War and known as "Major
Jim," He was born 1760 and died September 1847.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was a sporting character, especially fond
of horse racing, and for this purpose kept a number of fine horses.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He took horses to Charleston for racing events.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Major McMillan was of Scottish descent and a
man of influence and good social standing.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He owned considerable property.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He was a member of the State Legislature 1826-7-8. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Elizabeth Rebecca McMillan</b> was born ca 1799 and married her 1st husband William
Kearse and married second Joseph Brabham, Jr. All her children were by 1st husband, none by 2nd husband. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She lived to be very old and was
affectionately known as "Aunt Betsey."<span style="margin: 0px;"> Aunt Betsy was step mother to Hattie Kearse and Sally Kearse who married grandsons of Britton Williams.</span>Her first husband William Kearse was born circa 1766 and died 1837 He
was of German ancestry. In the will of her father,
Major McMillan, left her 8 slaves. Their children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William McMillan Kearse husband of Suzan Massa Brabham, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oliver Perry Kearse husband of Martha Dickerson, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Miles Jackson Kearse, H</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enry Jacob Kearse husband of Alice McMillan, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Lawrence Kearse,</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Caroline (Carrie) H. Kearse wife of John Moye Brabham, and</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Frank Kearse.</span></span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Henry McMillan</b> was born 29 Aug 1801 and died 21 Apr 1835. He died at age 34 with T.B.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is buried in the Moye
Cemetery, at Buford's Bridge, South Carolina, married Gatsey Ann Moye and they had three daughters, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Suzannah Elizabeth McMillan wife of Joseph Josiah Brabham, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mary Rebecca McMillan wife of Robert and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Henrietta McMillan</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">C. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jane Caroline McMillan</b> was born in 1805 married. and married Josiah Dickerson from North Carolina.
Her inheritance in her father's will was "7 slaves". Josiah Dickinson was a merchant and had a
store at Buford's Bridge. Their children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Caroline Dickerson wife of
George Isaac Priester, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William H. J. Dickerson husband of Miss Ferriby, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jane Dickerson, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Francis “Frank” H. Dickerson husband of Sallie Moye, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josiah Dickerson Jr. husband of Eugenia Moye, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Henry C. Dickerson husband of Sophia F. Hay, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Olive “Amanda” Dickerson wife of Washington Rodgers and Rev. Wesley Pegues, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martha A Dickerson<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>wife of Oliver P. Kearse</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">D. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>James (Jimpsey) R. McMillan</b> born about 1807 and died 1856 (Will-book E) He married Nancy Sanders first and then 2d Esther A.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>His inheritance' was 6 slaves and 1/6 share in estate sale. They moved
to Florida.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">E. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Richard Cornelius McMillan</b> was born 1812<span style="margin: 0px;">
and </span>died after 1870. He married Elizabeth Moody.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His inheritance was 7 slaves and 1/6 of
estate sale.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">F. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>John McMillan</b> was born circa 1815
and married Milly Roberts.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His inheritance was 3
slaves and 1/6 of estate sale, plus $100.00. He was executor in his father's
will. Their Children were </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Duffie McMillan m.___Ayer, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah McMillan wife of Mr. Furman, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary McMillan wife of Mr. Boatwright, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oswald McMillan, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stephen McMillan, </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Henry McMillan, and </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Jasper McMillan.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">F. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>William Lawrence McMillan</b> was born Feb 19, 1818 and died before 1883. He married his cousin
Mary Priscilla Bradley. They had no children. She remarried to a Mr. Riley -
they also had no children His inheritance was 8 slaves and 1/6 of estate sale. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">G. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Williams McMillan</b> was born circa 1819 and died December 1843.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was given his mother's maiden name.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He married in 1842 Mrs. Mary Brabham Jeter.
Williams McMillan drank a lot, one night he was drunk and was just racing his
horse which hit a tree and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>killed him. T</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here was one daughter, Elizabeth Alice McMillan who married her
cousin, Henry Jacob Kearse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In her grandfather's
will (J. William McMillan) she receives$600.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>She was age 4 years at the time. </span></span></div>
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Major Jim McMillan. 19 Feb 1833 Columbia Telescope listed him as a Barnwell Veteran age
56. No known off spring</span></span></div>
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of Wilson Williams’s family may actually be a son of Britton Williams and a
baby brother to Wilson.
Some of John Williams records says he was born in 1780 which would make him
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">John Williams, of
Surry and Isle of Wight Counties in the Colony of Virginia </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">1645-1692<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The Williamses settled between James River </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and the </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It can only be guess at why John Williams or
any of the other Williamses mentioned in this report traveled in foul smelling, rat infested
ships from the port of Bristol, England to face the perilous hardships that they
knew they would encounter in the New World. Like other young men of the 17<sup>th</sup>
Century, they would have been anxious to accept their fate in America in order
to escape the poverty and conflicts of the old world. While John Williams may
not have been escaping poverty, we know he was seeking new opportunities in
Virginia that were not afforded to him at home. In the new world he managed in his
life time to acquire more than a fifteen hundred acres of land along the tributaries of the Blackwater River in Isle of Wight and Surry Counties of Virginia Colony. Something he never could
have achieved in Wales or England.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Isle of Wight County was one of the original eight counties in the colony of Virginia and was originally named "Warrasquoyocke", for the Native Americans who lived there. The county was renamed the Isle of Wight in 1637 which became bounded by the counties of Surry which was formed from James City County and Nansemond which was formed from Lower Norfolk County. The boundaries of James River fronts Surry and Isle of Wight counties separated by the Lawnes River. Lawnes and Pagan Creek were the most important water ways within Isle of Wight which could be navigated by ships for several miles up river. Both river ways flowed into the James River and were the main transportation routes in the early 17<sup>th</sup> Century to sell exports to England. Many of the earliest settlers were located at the Pagan River which splits into two branches further up river. The southernly branch is called Cypress Creek and the northerly one, now called Smithfield Creek, was called Warrasquoyocke. The Native Americans knew this area as Warascoyak, meaning “point of land.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he modern county seat of Isle of Wight town of Smithfield in colonial time was considered a “seaport” even though it is about 45 miles from Jamestown the original capital of Virginia Colony. Thirty miles further to the west of Smithfield is the area of the Blackwater River, originally called Indian River. By the latter half of the 17th Century, our the colonial ancestors settle here and acquired huge tracks of lands. The Blackwater and Nottoway Rivers flowed into neighboring Nansemond County then out of Virginia Colony via the Chowan River into the Albermarle Sound. This area was in dispute between Virginia and North Carolina for several decades and even into the 18th Century. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It is this area that our Williams ancestors first came to America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We know from DNA evidence data that John
Williams Sr. as he was described in his will was descended from the powerful
medieval Griffith and Williams families of northern Wales. His kinsmen had been
high sheriffs of the area and some were even lords of large estates. Younger
sons of these powerful families, removed from inheritance by the law of
Primogeniture over many generations became the Welsh squires of the gentry
class. In old England,a gentleman was defined as
someone who did not have to work but earned his income from the labor of
others. John Williams Sr. was no gentleman by this definition but probably a
younger son of a younger son of this old Welsh family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams had to earn his way in life
without the benefit of inherited wealth. By English law only the eldest son of
a family could inherit lands and titles from his father. This law was enacted
to keep large estates intact from which the family wealth was derived. Serfs
and later tenant farmers worked these land and paid the “land lord” rent. While
this law may have provided for the eldest son in a family, younger sons were pretty
much left to their own devices. Their
only inheritance was usually family connections that afforded them careers in
the military, the Anglican church, in business or as adventurers known as Gentlemen of
Fortune. Those taking the last of these as careers would have seen the British
oversea colonies as an opportunity where they could make their fortune. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While DNA evidence show that John Williams
descended from a prominent northern Welsh family connected to the Williams of Cochwillem, there is no evidence that at the time of his
immigration to America that he was connected to this wealthy family or had the means to pay for his transportation to the British colonies. He would have to sell his
labor for his passage across the Atlantic Ocean where eventually he became a
successful farmer and land speculator in the counties south of the James River in
an area collectively known as Southside Virginia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams was born circa 1645 in either
Gloustershire, England or perhaps even Northern Wales, parentage unknown. While his
paternity has not been determined yet we know that he had a kinsmen named
Thomas Williams and perhaps another named Lewis Williams as well as others. His father's name was probably either William or Thomas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the time of John Williams' birth the English and Welsh were in the middle of a great Civil War
between the commoners of Parliament and the aristocratic supporters of King Charles
I. Many people were leaving England for Virginia because of the conflict. It is certainly </span>plausible<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> that John Williams had knowledge of relatives in Virginia and that could have been one of the reasons he chose Virginia rather than wealthier colonies in the British West Indies like the islands of </span>Barbados or Nevis<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Britain near the city of Bristol that was severely religiously divided. Dissenters from the Church of England, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">like Puritans, Separatists, and Quakers, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">brought harsh consequences upon themselves. As that the King of England was also the head of the Anglican Church, dissenters were viewed as disloyal to the crown. However the theological revolution, embodied in the philosophy that free men ought
to have right to follow the dictates of their own conscience, allowed for dissent as a matter of faith. The largest dissenting sect, the Puritans, was embraced by the growing wealthy middle class. The Puritans wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church,
of much of its Catholicism rituals and symbols.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Separatists like the Mayflower Pilgrims wanted to be rid of the Anglican Church all together. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The religious movement known as Quakers carried the
protestant concept further and believed there was no need for a religious
institution at all to mediate between them and diety.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">King Charles I, who succeeded his father King James I for whom Jamestown
Colony was named and the version of the English Bible that was brought to America, actively persecuted the nonconforming churches. His actions drove nearly 3000 Puritans out of England</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to
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Charles I of tyranny. The king ordered Parliament closed and Parliament declared the king of being a tyrant. The majority of the people
in Wales and in western England's Severn River Valley, where John Williams grew to maturity, were strong supporters of the king. The eastern part of England
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A Puritan named
Oliver Cromwell, whose ancestors were from the Williams family of Glamorgan
Wales, established the “New Model Army” to fight for Parliament and eventually defeated the Royalist Cavaliers.
King Charles I then tried on charges of treason and beheaded in 1649. The English monarchy
was abolished and his heir the Prince of Wales Charles Stuart fled to France to live in exile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the next ten years England was without a king. Until John Williams was about 15, he lived first under a republican form of government known as the </span>Commonwealth<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> only to be
replaced by Cromwell's protectorate, a form of dictatorship. We know that </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">John Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sr. received some form of schooling in England as he could sign his own signature however, as was common </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">for younger sons, he probably was apprenticed out</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">to learn a trade. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">His eldest son John Williams Jr was a weaver by trade and perhaps that was the same skill John Williams Sr was taught. Most boys were apprenticed to a master until they reached the age of 18 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">During this period of John Williams' life many
of the defeated supporters of the Royalist </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Cavaliers fled to Virginia rather than live under
Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Nevertheless </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the Virginia Colony was firmly control of its own governing known as the House of Burgess came under the control of
the Puritans who sent the Royalist governor Sir William Berkeley packing. The Virginia House of Burgess was the first legislative assembly in America. Berkeley was forced to surrender the colony over to the
government of Oliver Cromwell in 1652.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For nearly a decade until 1660, England had
little governing control over the Virginia colony with Oliver Cromwell’s military
campaigns against the Irish Catholics. The House of Burgesses was left to govern the colony pretty much by themselves. Many of the Burgesses during this period were Puritans who took advantage of the absence of a royal
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By the time Oliver Cromwell, died in 1658, England had grown tired of Puritanism and the constant
warfare against Catholic Ireland. They wanted a return to a Monarchy and a contrite Parliament invited Charles Stuart to
return to England from France to rule as king Charles II. This period of English history
is known as “The Restoration” and Charles II was known as the "Merry Monarch".</span></div>
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Civil War and was a youth under Oliver Cromwell’s governance. He was probably no more than an adolescent when the English Monarchy was restored in 1660. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Virginia Colonial records indicate that the
majority of the families who settled in Surry and Isle of Wight Counties were
from the southwestern English counties that surround Bristol as well as from
the principality of Wales. In the 1666, Bristol had a population of 30,000 and
was the 2<sup>nd</sup> largest city in Great Britain only after London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Great Britain itself was an overpopulated nation of
more than 5 million people trying to recover from a weak economy that had been nearly crippled by a devastating Civil War.
It’s cities and towns were teeming with the chronically unemployed who
often had to resort to begging and thievery to survive. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sanitation conditions were deplorable in London and Bristol. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gangs of homeless youth roamed the
countryside in search of work making travel between towns dangerous. Many
desperate young men became highwaymen or took to the sea to become pirates. The
gallows were filled with desperadoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By the time John Williams was a young man of 18 [1663] and
ready to set out on his own prospects of financial success was dim. In England and Wales all the best lands had long
ago been taken by the upper classes. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Commerce and owning land were the avenues for achieving wealth and John was neither a merchant or a landowner.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> As
a result, the chance that an ordinary commoner like John Williams could rise above
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps another motivation for John Williams to
leave England when he did was the deadly outbreak of Bubonic Plague in 1665
followed by the Great London Fire of 1666. The Bubonic Plague first ravaged the
city of London with nearly 100,000 deaths. Even King Charles II and his court
fled the city. The plague also spread to the rest of Great Britain but nowhere did
it strike as hard as it did in London. Still no one was allowed to enter the
City of Bristol from London without a certificate of heath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Great London fire broke out in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In September 1666</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> burning </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">80% of the city to the ground to the Thames River. An estimated 13,000
houses, 89 churches, and 52 Guild Halls within the city walls were burned down. If John Williams was a religious youth he might have seen
these </span>catastrophes<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> as a result of divine displeasure with England. In less than six
weeks after the Great Fire of London, John Williams was headed for America </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">for economic opportunities
afforded in Virginia. John </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Williams may have also simply left the Old World due to
the political and religious upheaval that had been going on in England and Wales for
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The City of Bristol is located at the mouth of the Bristol Channel separating Cornwall from Wales. Facing west towards the Irish Sea, Bristol was the jumping off point for tens of thousands emigrants heading to the
British West Indies and the colonies in North America, specifically Virginia. John Williams was only one of tens of thousands of English and Welsh folks leaving the port of Bristol to cross Atlantic for the colonies of New England, Virginia and the British West Indies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1666, the port city of Bristol would have
been teeming with brokers signing people to contracts who were willing to exchange several
years of servitude to leave Great Britain for opportunities in the British West
Indies and British America. This contract was called an Indenture. Thus were these laborers were known as
"indentured servants" and became the property of their owners for the
term of the contract John Williams certainly would have known about the risks
and opportunities afforded in the New World. He may even have had contact with
relatives who had already immigrated to Virginia. The Atlantic was being crisscrossed
with ships coming to Bristol loaded with cargo of tobacco from Virginia and
sugar from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Barbados</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> as well as passengers returning to England for business
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Virginia Colony just for the crossing. The Virginia Colonial Assembly had passed a law giving each
new immigrant a “headright” grant of fifty acres, the only requirement being that one had get there and stay there three years. But getting
there was the difficult part. Unless one was wealthy, the cost of going to
Virginia was prohibitive. At £6 the fare to Virginia that was more than most
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in need of laborers to clear the land, to plant the cash crop of tobacco and to help fend off the Indigenous people. The headright system encouraged wealthy individuals to pay the passage fare
for those who did not have the means in exchange for
their labor and for land. These folks who signed a contract, or
"indenture," were legally bound to work for a set period of time, usually
from four to seven years, to the individual who had agreed to pay their
passage. The people who owned the indenture often sold them to other people. Wealthy Bristol merchants </span>themselves<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> would often pay for transport and sell their contract for land and tobacco.</span></span></div>
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to relinquish their right to the free grant of 50 acres of land. That land was then offered to those who held the contract for importing the transported persons. Thus colonial
landholders not only received the immigrant's labor for several years, additionally he received fifty acres for every person he brought over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On 3 November 1666, John Fitzherbert, a
wealthy Bristol merchant wrote to Sir
Joseph Williamson, a royal government official, “There are at Bristol
30 sail for Virginia, and 15 for Barbados and Nevis; at the latter place they
are in great fear of the enemy, they want ammunition, and their turn comes
about to be upon duty every third night ; the King might send them upon this
fleet a good quantity of soldiers to reinforce those Plantations and gain
others with much ease.” On one of those
30 ships in the fleet in Bristol port that John Fitzherbert was writing about, was John Williams excited and anxious to
begin a new life in a New World. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> John Williams no doubt was a young man,
probably in his early 20’s when he made the decision to sign a
contract of indenture to Captain William Butler of Surry County, Virginia. He
may have after finishing his apprenticeship and finding no work to be had in
England. It is doubtful that John Williams even knew Captain Butler but
probably went through a broker. As to why he chose Virginia over Barbados we
can only speculate but that he had relatives or acquaintances there
already is a strong possibility. Even at that John Williams did
not travel alone to the New World. Two other young men, John Moor [Moore] and
Rowland Pitt, also signed an indenture to Captain Butler who agreed to pay their passage to America in
return for an indentureship of four years each.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The relationship of John Williams to John
Moore and Rowland Pitt, if any, is unknown. They may have been childhood
friends, or belonged to the same faith, or even been kinsmen of some kind. These three men, once freed from their indenture, continued to be friends i Virginia. Once the terms of their indenture was over to
Captain Butler, they settled as near neighbors in Surry County and in Isle of
Wight. John Williams and John Moor acquired estates next to each in Isle of Wight
and two of their children John Williams Jr. and Ann Moore even married whereby
the two men eventually became fathers-in-law to their children and shared
grandchildren. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Its doubtful that the bonds they had in the New World were simply forged from crossing the Atlantic together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As for Rowland Pitt records are much harder to
find. Documents in Isle of Wight County do not show any land transactions for
Rowland Pitt although there is a very wealthy Pitt family represented by Colonel Robert Pitt. Col. Pitt was a
very wealthy land owner who acquired nearly 10,000 acres between 1650 and 1665.
Although Rowland Pitt documentation is elusive, evidently he continued to
remain close to both Moore and Williams as he signed his name next to theirs in
the 1677 petition of grievances to King Charles II during the Bacon Rebellion.
There’s no evidence that Rowland Pitt married or acquired enough of an estate
to warrant even a probate inventory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that he is called “a shoemaker”. This
indicates that he had a trade as well as being a farmer, a trade he probably
learned in England as an apprentice. There is another more prominent Moore family
in Surry and Isle of Wight represented by Thomas Moore and his brother George
Moore. This family also included a John Moore who was acquiring land in Surry
County in 1662 near estates that John Williams would acquire in 1678. These estates were near the
present community of Windsor which were approximately 2 miles north of where John
Williams and John Moor settled in the Kinsale Swamp area a few miles west of the town of Franklin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Immigration records still kept in Bristol,
England show that John Williams, John Moor, and Rowland Pitt sailed from that
port on 3 November 1666 to be transported to Virginia indentured to Captain
William Butler. It may seem strange that John Williams who became a successful
planter, agreed to be a laborer for passage to America but certainly it was not
at all that uncommon. Notably, Nicholas Sessums likewise made his fortune after
serving an indenture to Arthur Allen of Surry County. In fact Nicholas Sessums w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">as listed as leaving
Bristol on 2 November 1666, and was indentured to Thomas Jarvis for 4 years.
However, Jarvis must have sold his contract to Arthur Allen upon arrival as that Allen received
land for Sessums’ transportation. Additionally Sessums testified in court that he worked
for Allen. It is not clear whether Sessums had contact with John Williams, John
Moor, or Lewis Williams prior to Virginia but the possibility is there. Once he
served out his contract Sessums became a wealthy land owner. Nicholas Sessums' daughter Ann married Lewis Williams
son William Williams. Nicholas Sessums would share grandchildren with indenture servant Lewis
Williams. Some of Sessums descendants even followed the Williams to the Cashia River area
of North Carolina.</span></div>
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that he was born about 1646 and thus would
have been about 20 or 21 years old when he left England. Probably John Williams and John Moor were of
similar age. In a Surry County record he
gave an oath stating that he had been in the county 40 years [1670] which was
probably when he was freed from his contract to Arthur Allen. He stated that he was transported to Virginia
by Arthur Allen [who was 60 years old in 1667 by oath] which is not correct
according to Bristol immigration records. However this indicates that Allen
must have bought his contract from Thomas Jarvis soon after arriving. Mrs.
Alice Allen, widow of Arthur stated in a
document dated 9 March 1671 that she
discharged Nicholas Sessoms of all claims of debts, which meant that Sessums
had fulfilled his contract of four years of labor. As that John Williams came
to America at the same time it is a reasonable assumption to that he had
fulfilled his obligations to Captain Butler about the same tme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A couple of weeks before John Williams and John Moor's crossing, Lewis Williams left Bristol for America on the 16<sup>th</sup> of
October. He was indentured to a Quaker named Edward Jones of Surry County for 4 years. Edward
Jones who had been arrested along with William Yarrett in
1663 for attending Quaker Meetings in Surry County, Virginia in violation of the Parliament's Quaker Act of 1662. This act forbade Quakers from attending their Monthly Worship meetings. Virginia also passed their own laws forbidding the importation of Quakers to the colony however these laws were rarely enforced as the colony needed all the settlers in could get. Surry County had a large population of Quakers and even old settlers converted in the 1680's when Quaker founder George Fox came to south side Virginia. Edward Jones did signed the 1677 Loyalty Oath to King Charles II
after the Bacon Rebellion. Whether Lewis Williams was a Quaker or just was
transported by one is unclear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the 17<sup>th</sup>
century was a perilous endeavor for all travelers, regardless of wealth or
seamanship thus those who made the voyage were brave and hardy men and women. Crossing the
Atlantic would have taken approximately seven to nine weeks depending on the
weather and luck. Crossing in November and
December as John Williams did also meant there might be a chance of a hurricane or a winter squall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams and his companions' ship would have been crowded with poor living quarters which were usually cold and damp. He would have experienced unsanitary conditions coupled with poor hygiene of the passengers. Poor food rations caused most immigrants
to suffer from hunger, thirst, boredom, depression, anxiety, fear, seasickness
and, all too common, death. Sometimes epidemic diseases even broke out aboard the
ships. Measles, small pox, yellow fever and other contagious diseases were all brought to America on these English ships. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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English and Dutch were at war. A fleet of four Dutch men-of-war came up the James River in 1667 and
destroyed 20 English trading vessels. The English Monarchy and the Dutch Republic had been at war since 1664 and did not settle their difference for over ten years during which time England took over the colony of New Netherlands and renamed it New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lewis Williams probably arrived in Virginia
in mid Dece</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">mber 1666, but John Williams, John Moor, Rowland Pitt, and Nicholas
Sessums probably did not Jamestown until after Christmas and maybe not until mid-January 1667. Upon reaching Virginia, these
emigrants would have been transport probably up either Pagan Creek or Lawnes
Creek to their master’s estates in Surry County. </span></div>
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there were only 216 white males over the age of 16 in the County with an
estimated total population, counting Indians and Negro slaves, women and children,
of about 1,700. This population, except the Indians who were pushed west of Blackwater River, was mostly concentrated on a few
plantations widely scattered over a vest area of woods, swamps and streams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some twenty years before John Williams came to Virginia, Lawnes Creek became the dividing line between Surry and Isle of Wight Counties. In the western settlements of Surry, the Blackwater River became the dividing line between English settlers to the north and Indians to the south. The Blackwater River was a fairly </span>navigational water way and<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> was originally called Indian River. </span>The upper Blackwater River is also called Blackwater Swamp and in this region many of its tributary streams are called "swamps" as in "Cypress Swamp" and "Mill Swamp" but actually function as streams. The Blackwater </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">flows from its source zigzagging through Surry and Isle of wight counties until it joins the Nottoway River to form the Chowan River. That river crosses into North Carolina and empties into Albemarle Sound. It is along the waterways of the Blackwater that most of the early Williamses in Virginia lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The early Surry settlers afraid of Indian reprisals wanted no Indians to live in their area but they needed information that only the Indians could provide about marauding tribes coming into the area to attack. They also needed the fur and skin trade with the Indians that had been established. After an Indian War ended in 1646, the southside Virginians made a treaty with the Indians living within English settlements that the Blackwater River would be a boundary between them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The tribes agreed to the treaty because they were relatively weak with few warriors to protect themselves. The treaty provided the friendly Indians help from the settlers should other marauding tribes of Indians attack them. Thus, Indians were banned north of the Blackwater and the settlers felt safe to increase their numbers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eventually settlers would move down the Blackwater River which had became a transportation route in the 17th century connecting the Chesapeake Bay settlements with the Albemarle Settlements. At this time the Albemarle Sound was considered part of Virginia although now belongs to North Carolina. The Blackwater was unique in that it was one of the few rivers of colonial Virginia that did not empty into Chesapeake Bay yet lay close to the colony's oldest settlements on the James River. Thus the Blackwater River became one of the early migration routes southward into North Carolina during the 18th century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams became part of the large yeomanry class of independent farmer or "planter" which constituted the middle class. These farmers worked farms and plantations that ranged between an average of 50 to 500 acres. Some planters owned up to 1,500 acres or more but much of the land was was held as "speculation" to be sold off or divided among heirs. The Virginia yeoman farmer was comparable to a wealthy squire of England, however this group lacked the political and economic power of the Tidewater Aristocracy and rarely governed. Instead they were the sheriffs, judges, the jurists, clerks and other local county officials. As land owners they were entitled to vote in elections and they were required to pay tithing or a tax to support their local Parish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Along with being farmers, these men often held a vocation as well, such as a “hatter”, a “shoemaker”, a “tailor” or a "weaver". Many of this group had been merchants or craftsmen in Bristol and had simply carried on the same trade in Virginia. However the main economic support for the middle class was still by agriculture and from the labor of those they imported to work the land. The earliest Yeoman Farmers owned but few African slaves but relied mostly on indentured white servants. The second generation were the ones who acquired African slaves to compete with the wealthy landowners but rarely had more than a few. While the children of the middle class of Colonial Virginia were often educated rarely did could they afford a higher education as could the children of the Tidewater Aristocrats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Captain Butler, a military title, was probably born about 1605 and was in Virginia as early as 1630, when he witnessed a property deed in Isle of Wight. He was associated with a wealthy landowner named Anthony Barham who in his will dated 1641, made Butler an executor and also called Butler his “gossip”. In the 17<sup>th</sup> century parlance gossip meant a close friend often a childhood friend. On 29 Aug 1643, Captain Butler was patented 700 acres “upon southside of James RIver at the head of Lawnes Creek" adjacent to William Pierce’s lands "for transporting himself and his family”. As a successful planter Captain Butler, was elected a Burgess [representative] for James City County in 1641</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. After Surry County was formed Butler served as a Burgess from that county in 1653 and 1658. Butler probably had Puritan sentiments to have served in the House of Burgess during the rule of Cromwell’s Protectorate. In 1657 and 1658 he once more served with other Surry land owners, Lt Col. Thomas Swann, and Captain Caufield as well as again with William Edwards. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Captain William Butler's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">700 acre plantation was bounded by Captain William
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the indentured servant upon his or her arrival in Virginia “was but the beginning of his
struggles. Before he could grasp the riches of the New World, he must pay the
price of his passage, must work out through arduous years the indenture to
which he had affixed his signature. And these years were filled not only with
toil, perhaps with hardship, but with the greatest peril. He might account
himself fortunate indeed if during the first twelve months he escaped the
so-called Virginia sickness. Tidewater Virginia for the English settlers was a
pest-ridden place. The low and marshy ground, the swarming mosquitoes, the hot
sun, the unwholesome drinking water combined to produce an unending epidemic of
dysentery and malaria. And at frequent intervals, especially in the early
years, yellow fever, scurvy and plague swept over the infant colony, leaving
behind a ghastly train of suffering and death.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">John Williams would have found this new land “laden with hardships and dangers.” Winters were severe compared to England yet he still would have hoped that he might better himself. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who ever John Williams ended up serving, his master at the end of the contract </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">was expected to furnish each one of the transported with a small tract of land and the necessities of life. It is unknown whether any of these single young men labored together but if they did no doubt they shared the same living quarters and the same garden spot and livestock pens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams, John Moor, and Rowland Pitt went to work for Captain Butler or someone else from 1667 to 1671 and would have lived there on those farms planting, harvesting, and curing tobacco. Huge profits made from tobacco and required manpower. These plantations were like small communities and it is doubtful that Captain Butler or any other planter had only these three men as servants. They would have had blacksmiths for tool making, herders for livestock, young apprentices and certainly would have had some female servants to do domestic chores like cooking, and laundry, and to help a wife and children. Some</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> masters saw to it that their children and servants learned reading, writing, and sometimes arithmetic however John Williams probably was literate when he came to America. Sexual activity was part of plantation life also as many </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">of those in and out of servitude engaged in sexual intercourse, resulting in "natural born children" as well as "mulatto" children who were offspring of whites and blacks as well as whites and Indians. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Life for John Williams was probably not complete drudgery as an indentured servant although it was strenuous and may have contributed to his early death. He had his friends, Rowland Pitt and John Moor as well as probably his brothers Lewis Williams and Thomas Williams who served other masters only a few miles away. Recorded leisure time activities from this period involved gambling on horse races and pig runs, swimming and fishing, and attending county dances. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The servants of Captain Butler and of other masters would have been required attend worship in the Upper Parish and often participated in religious clubs that met to teach one another religious principles by question and answer. They would have been required </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">to participate in funeral services. </span></div>
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Pitt, and Lewis Williams after four years of toiling for others would have ended their terms about the same time as
Nicholas Sessums did in the spring of 1671, which raises the question of when
did John Williams marry. One of the negative aspects of servitude, of which there were
many, was that the master retained the right to prohibit their servants from
marrying and could sell them at any time without their consent as was Nicholas
Sessums to Arthur Allen. The timing of the birth of John Williams' offsprings suggest that he had to have been
married no later than early 1671. If he was married prior to that it had to have been with Master's permission. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">As he would have been well known in the Lawnes Creek Community, he probably was married right away.</span></div>
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community of settlers in Surry County and certainly were well
known and mingled with more established families. Upon gaining his freedom, probably
one of John Williams’ first acts was to marry being as he was a young man about 25 years
old . Upon freed from his contract by law he would have been given probably 50 acres
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Moore from the established families of John, Thomas and George Moore of Surry County. There’s
no evidence of this that I have found in the resources available to me. I believe
they confuse this wife with his son, wife Ann Moor, daughter of his
friend John Moor. More troubling is that many more confuse her with Anne Whitley the
wife of Quaker John Williams. </span></div>
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and from where he served his indenture, she had to have been one of the daughters of settlers on or near Lawnes Creek. It is highly
unlikely that she was a single indentured woman herself as generally these women were
mostly “convicts, rogues, prostitutes, and cheats” and "sent to the colonies to
empty Britain of desperate women". Women who voluntarily emigrated from to
America did so to leave the unemployment, homelessness, and hunger and they would
have offered little to a young man who wanted to rise in station in his
community where esteem was based on land ownership and marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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administrations leaves no clue to Anne’s family before she married and there are
very few women who would fit the age range and who also lived in the community of known
as the head waters of Lawnes Creek. Purely speculative at this point and due to
circumstances of later family connections, I believe Ann may have been the orphaned
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Of these daughter's John Vasser's eldest daughter Elizabeth married the Quaker Daniel Boucher by 1652 so she had to have been at least 15 years older than the youngest daughter Anne. John Vasser's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">granddaughter</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Elizabeth Boucher married another Quaker named George Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">As that eldest sister Elizabeth was betrothed to marry Daniel Boucher she was given two cows named Brown Bess and Naous and a gold ring. </span><br />
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that would leave only Anne unaccounted for in records. We know that John Williams Sr's descendants married into this Vasser family and Southern families, particularly families of wealth and social </span>prominence<span style="font-size: 12pt;">, often married their cousins and other kinfolk. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">John Vasser Sr. left his entire estate to his wife Elizabeth Dowe when he died in 1651 and there doesn’t seem to be probate records showing when she died or an inventory of her estate. All her children were minors in 1651. Ann Vasser did not receive land from her father but simply livestock when she came of age. As a younger daughter a match with John Williams would have seem suitable especially if she was a widow with a daughter or even if she was approaching “old maid status.” The Vassers were a poor but well connected family and marriage into the Vassers would have opened opportunities with the in-laws of the family.</span><br />
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the birth order of their children as mentioned in John’s Last Will and Testament.
Generally children are mention in wills by their birth order, even if listings
sons before daughters. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fact that two of John and Anne’s oldest
daughters are not mentioned in their father's Last Will and Testament complicates the matter however. One married daughter was
deceased by 1692 but her children were mentioned as legatees. Daughter Elizabeth Wright was certainly
married and probably living away from household as she is not mentioned nor
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The mystery daughter who was deceased prior to her
father making his will was the wife of John Browne. She had three girls born prior to March 1692 which would suggest this unknown daughter
was married at least six years prior to their grandfathers death. This also indicates that this daughter was
married circa 1685 or 1686 and thus she could not have been born much later
than 1671. She had to have been the
oldest daughter as she would have been about 14 or 15 at the time of her
marriage. Her young age as a mother may have contributed to an early death. Deed
records show that John Williams and his son-in-law John Browne shared a land
patent in April 1685 which would indicate that this </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> daughter was married to
John Browne near this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For decades genealogists have suggested that this
daughter was named "Bridgett" but there is no real proof of this. Her husband,
John Browne, was the son of John Browne. Sr., and his wife Bridgett. The mixup I feel comes from a land
record that showed that John Browne Jr selling land in the early years of the 18th century. He and a wife named Bridgett sold this land long after the daughter of John Williams Sr. had died. I suggest
that John Browne’s second daughter, Bridgett Browne, was not named after his first wife but rather
his mother Bridgett Browne. I think its more likely that John Browne's first wife was named Anne Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">None of John Williams other daughters were named
Anne for their mother which would have been very unusually if no daughter was named for the mother. I suggest that this
eldest daughter was named Anne for this reason. Indeed the oldest daughter of John Browne
Jr is Anne Brown more and likely named for her mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It also seem reasonable that Anne Williams Browne was the eldest child of John and Anne Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If John Williams Sr. ended his indenture in the
Spring of 1671 and married Anne [Vasser] shortly thereafter then their daughter Anne would have been about 14 years old when she married in 1685. This is a young age but certainly would have allowed her to have three children born circa 1687, 1689, 1691 before she died
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams Sr named in his will his “eldest son” John Williams Jr. As of March 1692 John Williams Jr was living away from his father’s family and managing a plantation in Surry County. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">t would be logical to assume he was born between 1672 and 1674. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Presumably he was already married to Ann Moor the daughter of his friend John Moor the shoemaker. His eldest son John Williams would have been at least 18 to be managing a plantation and married. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The reason for this speculation is due to the enigma of Elizabeth Wright. She is mentioned as Anne Williams’ daughter in a 1693 deed of gift but she is not mentioned among the children of John Williams when he made out his will in March 1692. If Anne was previously married prior to her marriage to John Williams Sr. there should be a probate record from a first husband. None have been found to confirm that Anne Williams was a widow nor are there any land transactions to confirm it. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">However there is the thought that Elizabeth was had already received her inheritance at the time John made out his will or that she may have been disinherited for marrying without her father’s approval. In that case instead of being a step daughter Elizabeth would have been a second daughter in order to make sense in the birth order. Elizabeth Wright’s widowed mother named her in a deed of gift before daughters Mary and Jane suggesting she is older than the two youngest daughters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The rest of John Williams’ children birth order and years can be reasonably
assumed. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The children, who followed the three eldest Anne Williams, John Williams Jr., and Elizabeth Williams were William Williams born circa 1677, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Mary Williams born circa 1679,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas
Williams born circa 1681, Nicholas
Williams born circa 1683, Richard Williams born circa 1685, Jane Williams born
circa 1687, and Theophilus Williams born circa 1689 who was named as the “youngest son”. This chronology does not take </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">in to consideration any children who may have died prior to making of the will in 1692. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One in ten infants died before they were a
year old, and four in ten children died before the age of six in Colonial Virginia. Childbirth was
the leading cause of death for women in colonial America. Sometimes a woman
would die due to complications from the birth, or a few weeks afterwards from
an infection. This certainly is what happened with John and Anne Williams' oldest daughter Anne Brown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">William Williams, the second son of John and
Ann Williams, may have been named for John’s father because according to
Colonial tradition, the second son was named after the father of the husband. In
the late 17th century, the great majority of eldest sons in Virginia were named
for their fathers. A similar pattern
existed for daughters. Roughly 80% of
all eldest daughters were named for either their mother or a grandmother
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">s John and Ann Williams family grew so did
his prosperity. He probably was a tenant farmer until seven years after his release from his indenture when he became a land owner in Isle of Wight County. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The lands John Williams Sr. and his wife Anne </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">cultivated had “loblolly pine trees” that needed to be cleared for tobacco raising. The trees provided lumber, shingles, turpentine, pitch, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">and barrel staves for domestic use. After the trees were removed and fields plowed, the tobb</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">aco was planted. W</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">hen the plants matured they were dried and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">cured then packed in huge hogshead barrels for shipping over seas.</span></span><br />
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colonial farmers like John Williams raised horses, milk cows, cattle, sheep,
hogs </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">and
geese for feathers and their eggs. They also cultivated beans, Indian corn and squash,
as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">well as
tended apple and peach orchards. Isle of Wight became famous for their cured hams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many families often operated homemade </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">stills
for the manufacture of cider and brandy, especially brandy for it was a major
cash </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">earning
export as well as tobacco. </span></div>
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one John Williams left to his wife and other cabins were mostly single story
structures of plain and simple construction much like one would find in rural England. The wives of our forefathers made
these homes more pleasing by colorful patches of flowers and herbal
gardens. When not working in kitchen
gardens, women spun and carded wool to weave into clothes as well as cooked and
wash clothes. when men were finished in the fields and taking care of livestock
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strong rural odors of the cow and sheep pastures, pig sties, horse stables and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">of the family privies</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Most homes also had working dogs for hunting or guarding the
family at night. Wild animal life
abounded on these colonial land grants along the
Blackwater River and its tributaries. The waters teemed with fish, great snapping
turtles, quickly slithering water moccasins, hovering dragonflies, and
jitterbugs which skittered across the water's surface. The piney forests and
swamps were alive with bear, deer, squirrels, rabbits, beavers, and possums and
birds of every description. John Williams Sr. owned a musket as well as a sword but his musket may have been used more for hunting then in defense from Indians.</span></div>
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Virginia. However the
Virginians who had grown accustomed to governing themselves in absence of a Royal Governor and in the mid 1670's there was growing widespread discontent. As the pioneers began to encroach on Indian lands, more and more attacks on frontier settlements oc</span>curred<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and with the governors indifference to colonists complaints led to frustration. Landless settlers saw the governors's preoccupation in
making himself and his cronies wealthy at the expense of the colony led to
widespread discontent that would eventually break out in rebellion against his
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When John Williams was about 30 years old, he was married with three small children when in
1675, war erupted between the Virginia settlers and an Iroquoian-speaking native Americans. Farmers like John Williams would have been especially vulnerable as they were generally </span>isolated<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> miles from their nearest neighbors. The conflict escalated as native chiefs who tried to
negotiate for peace between the warring parties were murdered. Hit-and-run raids killed
families on dispersed and vulnerable frontier farms. Frightened and infuriated settlers demanded permission from Governor William
Berkeley to exterminate all the Indians making no distinction between friendly
tribes and warlike ones. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Governor Berkeley opposed the proposal because he profited from the deerskin
trade with the more peaceable Algonquian Indians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By 1676, 1000 Virginians marched against the government at Jamestown. They were led ny Nathaniel Bacon, a landowner from the Isle
of Wight County. Many of the men who made up the rebellion had been recently
freed indentured servants and some were even African Slaves. The rebels marched to the
capital at Jamestown where Bacon's men drove Governor Berkeley and his supporter out
of the city before burning it to the ground. A month later in October 1676
Nathaniel Bacon died of dysentery leaving his movement leaderless and by
January 1677 it collapsed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The rebels mostly from Southside Virginia's counties of Surry, Isle of Wight, and Nansemond. The main leaders were hung and others sent into exile and slavery in the British West Indies. Charles II's government did not agree with Berkeley's handling of the crisis and f</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ollowing
the put down of the rebellion, he was called back to England. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Afterwards a flurry of petitions were sent
to the Crown either begging for forgiveness or asking the king to address the
colonists' concerns. Among these was one asking for the pardon of William West. It was signed
by many of the Isle of Wight land owners including John Williams Sr and John
Moor. Another petition from Isle of Wight residents asking for forgiveness
from the crown was signed by John Williams Sr, John Moore, and Rowland Pitt.</span></div>
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90 British soldiers because of their previous insurrection. The inhabitants
were supposed to have been paid 2 shillings a week for housing the soldiers but never were. By January 1678 the governor recalled the </span>troupes<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to
Jamestown. It is not known but is possible that John Williams may have had to house a soldier during this time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>John Williams manor plantation 1678 border Henry Applewhaite. The 400 acre plantation granted to George Peirce in 1681 was the land bought by John Williams and his brother Thomas Williams. John Moore the shoemaker's 300 acre plantation to the west, The John Moore plantation granted 1662 was not the same</b> <b>man</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After the turmoil of Bacon’s Rebellion had
settled down, John Williams Sr. had
become affluent enough to receive a land patent of 925 acres recorded 30 May 1678 in Isle of Wight County. This grant is located just north of the town of Windsor today. John Williams Sr. land shared a border with Henry Applewhaite who also received a 925 acre patent at the same time. The Applewhaite lands were directly north of John Williams' lands which were located at the headwaters of Antioch Swamp also at the time known as Burghs' Swamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Over the next four years John Williams Sr purchased with his brother Thomas Williams a 400 acre tract of land on Jenkin's Swamp about 2 miles south of his 1678 patent. The land was on the
north side of Currowaugh Swamp and had been part of a patent from land speculator George Peirce. This deed is the first evidence that John Williams had a
kinsman in Virginia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We know from DNA results that John Williams Sr. had kin in Southside Virginia. A man named Thomas Williams who was in
the Virginia Colony had </span>descendants<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> who DNA matched those of John Williams Sr. There may have been more as well quite possibly Lewis Williams of Surry County. The
descendants of Thomas Williams’ DNA sequence is the same as the descendants of John’s
and they were at the minimum cousins, or perhaps even an uncle or nephew. The
more likely scenario is that they were brothers due to
the fact they purchased a 400 acre tract of land together. Whatever the actual
relationship both John and Thomas Williams share, they have the same paternal family tree from Wales.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The exact date of Thomas Williams
transportation to Virginia is unknown as of yet. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There is also mention of a Thomas Williams who
was on the head right list of George Moore when he patented land at Blackwater
in 1669. George Moore became the father-in-law of John Williams Sr.'s son William Williams. This record may pertain to a man named Thomas Williams found in a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">nother record dated from 4 March 1672 [1673]. If Thomas Williams was imported in 1669 he would still have been indentured in 1672. This record deals with a Thomas Williams of Surry County who was indentured to Colonel Thomas Swann, a neighbor of George Moore. Swann could have bought the indenture from Moore. In March 1673 Swann went to court to have three and a half years added to this Thomas Williams' indenture for instigating, being "chief actor", the running
away from their master another indentured servant and a slave named "Negro George" in May 1672. Swann said he spent over 3,000 pounds of tobacco recovering Thomas Williams with “Negro George” and wanted Williams indenture lengthened for time an money spent. In November 1673 Thomas Williams was ordered by the court to continue his indenture and would have not been freed until 1677. A Thomas Williams was listed in the 1675 tithing
list for Lawnes Creek Parish in Surry County as indentured to Captain Samuel Swann. They were neighbors of Lewis Williams who had sailed from Bristol in October 1666. On 9 November 1687 Samuel Swann was granted 550 acres in Surry County for importing 11 persons including Thomas Williams and a John Brown. Headright patents were often filed years after the actual transportation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">THOMAS PARNELL SENIOR
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trying to reconstruct relationships, unless a
specific relationship is stated or implied, from seventeenth Century documents
is extremely difficult. For much of the process circumstantial evidence must be
taken into consideration. It helps to remember that there really weren’t that
many people living in Isle of Wight County in the latter half of the
seventeenth Century. It’s is estimated that less than 2500 people lived in the
County in 1680. Additionally there is
seems to be more than an incidental connection between the Williamses, the
Moors, the Vassers and the Parnells. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The daughter of John Moor and the son of
Thomas Parnell married after the death of their fathers connecting these two
families. Another daughter of John Moor married John Williams the Younger the
son of John Williams Senior the Welsh emigrant. From John Moor’s will, it is
known that Thomas Parnell had a parcel of land that bordered the property of
that of him but the exact legal description is unknown. John Moor also had land
whose property line joined brothers John and Thomas Williams at Jenkins Pond
and not too far from Currawaugh Swamp where Thomas Parnell had his estates in
Isle of Wight County, Virginia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Parnell Senior signed his will on 10 October
1687 nearly seven months after his neighbor John Moor Senior made his but the
wills were recorded in the court house on the same date 9 June 1688. This
indicates that the two men died aound the same time in the spring of 1688. The
Inventory of Thomas Parnell’s estate revealed that he was a wealthy man even
owning a “negro” worth 4000 lbs of tobacco. His last will and testament showed
that besides being tobacco planter he was
a “cooper” or a barrel maker.
Barrel making was an apprenticed trade so Thomas Parnell probably learned it as
a child in England. In Colonial America, there were more coopers in the South
than any other profession according to historians. The coopers who worked on
Southern plantations produced the many hogsheads needed to ship tobacco from
Virginia to Great Britain. They also made butter churns, tubs, buckets, pails,
and other containers to store dry goods used on a farm. Everything grown or
used on the estates was stored in wooden vessels especially flour, corn, grain,
wine, whiskey, rum, molasses, cider, fish, gunpowder, nails and many other
commodities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From the amount of land Thomas Parnell willed
each of his sons, he must have owned about 1500 acres in Isle of Wight, the
majority of it being at Currawaugh Swamp, a tributary of the Blackwater River
between Kingsale Swamp and Duck Swamp. In 1675 Parnell bought 250 acres for
6000 lbs of tobacco from Francis Ayres, another cooper, who had married the
widow of John Clark, a Quaker. John Clark will showed that the John Williams who
had married Ann Whitley was his indentured servant. Ayres
died in 1680 and an inventory of his estate taken 10 March 1679 [1680] showed that Thomas
Parnell had in his possession bedroom furnishings that belonged to the Ayres’
estate. A feather bed along with a feather bolster, a pillow, a rug and a pair
of old blankets belong to the bed at Parnell’s place was valued at 770 pounds
of tobacco. How they came into Parnell’s possession is unknown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1677 Thomas Parnell he had bought 150
acres lands adjoining “Henry West, Anthony Mathews and [Arthur] Smith from
Edmond Palmer, whose occupation was given as a carpenter, In the same year 1677
this Edmond Palmer had also sold to John Williams Senior 100 acres adjoining “John
Williams’ lands” for 1500 lbs of Tobacco. These lands were part of a much
larger grant of a 2,800 patent given to </span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Palmer on 5 February 1672 [1673] for transporting 56
people to Virginia. The original grant stated this property was bordered by Anthony
Mathews, John Portis, “Sheeres [John Sherer] & [John] Clarke”, Francis “Aires”
[Ayres], Arthur Smith, Mr [William] Bresses [Bressie] and Mr [William] Bodies [Boddie].
Many of these men were of the Quaker faith. John Sherer was one of those who
inventoried the estate of Parnell. acted as <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Parnell received a patent of 150 acres adjoining
“John Richardson and Peter Hayes” on 21 January 1679 [1680]. “Situate in a
Forke between the second and third swamp of the main Blackwater”. As that
patents of 50 acres were given for transporting people into the colony, Parnell
must have imported 3 people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Parnell’s largest land grant was given
20 April 1680 which contained 1100 acres located on the southside of Currawaugh
Swamp. “ “To all &c. Whereas &c. Now know ye that I ye sd. Pr. Henry
Chichiley Kn.t his maj.ty depty Govern.r &c give & grant unto Thomas
Parnell eleven hundred acres of land situate on ye south side Currawaugh Swamp
in ye lower parish of ye Isle of Wight County bounded (viz) begining at a red
oake a corner tree of land by him and - linscott formerly taken up then south
west by west sixty three chaines or one - hundred twenty sixe pole & south
by west two hundred & eighty pole along their former line to a red oake
Robert Lawrence Jun. his corner tree thence east north east three hundred
eighty fouer poles to a pine thence East by South one hundred & six pole to
a pine thence south East Eighty fouer pole to a pine in Hodges Councills line
thence East by South along ye sd Councills line two hundred fouerty eight pole
to a red oak thence north north east one hundred pole to a pine south East 50
pole to a pine thence northeast one hundred & twenty pole to a red oake in
Col Jos. Bridgers line & soe by Col. Bridgers line very near ye first station containing 1100 acres of
land. The said land being due by &
for ye transp.n ofi twenty two p.sons &c
To have & to hold &c to be held &c yeilding & paying
&c. provided &c dated ye twentieth - Day of Aprill one thousand sixe
hundred eighty ~”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This estate adjoined land formerly taken up
by “Parnell & [Giles] Limscott, Robert Lawrence, Jr., Hodges Councill's
line; & Col. Joseph. Bridger's line”. The patent was for transporting 22
people namely, William Howell, Phillip Sergant, William Phillips, John Driver,
Nicholas Sergant, Ann Bedford, Elizabeth Sergant, John Francis, James Watro,
John Hatton, Hubert Pettys, Ann Baylie, John
Crowder, Ann Pilgrim, Elizabeth Weston, Lucy Hold, John Corbit,
Elizabeth Brogen, Morris Williams, John Sneath, George Turner and 1 Negro. Perhaps
this last was the slave he owned at the time of his death. Thomas Parnell left
this 1100 acres to his second son, which was rather unusual as that first born
sons usually received the largest inheritance unless there was a family
issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Parnell stated in his will stated that he
also bought a tract of land in the Curawaugh Swamp area from “Col. Arthur Smith.”
A record of this deed has not been located but this tract must have been near
his huge grant dated 20 April 1680. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not much is known regarding the immediate family
of Thomas Parnell except for the information found in his Last Will and
Testament which opens wide the door for speculation. Thomas Parnell is married
with several living children. He names a “beloved wife” but not by name anywhere in the
document. She is not given a legacy until after Parnell names his two sons
Thomas and Joseph, and a daughter Susanna. Parnell divides his moveable
property into seven shares and gave this “beloved wife” two shares of it; “unto
my beloved wife two shares of all moveable estate excepting all legacies that
shall be given.” The other five shares were to go his two sons and three
daughters; “five shares to be divided equally between my two sons and three
daughters which five shares with their
mother’s two make seven shares.” The wording “their mother” would suggest that
she was the mother of five of Thomas Parnell’s children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some genealogist suggests that Thomas Parnell
was married twice based on the vague wording “wives” when bequeathing clothing
to his married sisters. These items of clothing were described as “my wives
best suit of apparel” and “my wives second best suit of apparel. Although the word “wives” is certainly an
antiquated form of a possessive noun it is unlikely that he would give “the
best and second best suit of clothing” of a living “beloved wife” away to her
sisters in law. A more likely explanation is that these items of clothing had
belonged to a former wife and were unwanted by a second wife. Few second wives
would want to wear the clothes of a former dead wife. Parnell also bequeath the “best suit of
apparel of serge” of his daughter Jane to his niece Sarah Williams which would
indicate also indicate this daughter was deceased. It would not seem plausible
to give the best item of clothing away if the daughter was alive. As that
Parnell had three unnamed daughters who were minors to whom he could have given
Jane’s best suit it makes it all the more likely that these wearing apparel
were clothing of dead members of a first family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some suggest that Thomas Parnell’s wives may
have been daughters of John Vasser and John Portis. However there is no
explicit evidence for this conjecture. Many family groupings for Thomas Parnell
has his widow as being Susanna Portis however the name Susanna may have been
misreading of the nearly 350 year old document where a daughter Susanna was
named twice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Its speculated that Thomas Parnell’s was
married to a daughter of the immigrant John Vasser who died in 1651. Much of
this is based on the fact that Vasser’s son Peter was called upon to inventory
Parnell’s estate, that there are several generation connections between the
children of Thomas Parnell and Peter Vasser, and John Williams who married Anne
Vasser was called “beloved friend” the term he used for his brother-in-law
Thomas Williams. The Parnell estate was ordered inventoried 17 August 1688 when
Peter Vasser, John Sherrer, and John Sojernor were appointed as
appraisers. Peter Vasser was not a near
neighbor of Thomas Parnell as was John Sherrer so his choice as an appraiser is
interesting. He may have been chosen because Vasser was an uncle to some of
Thomas Parnell’s children and would of have had an interest in the estate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This John Vasser and his wife Elizabeth Dowe
came to Virginia Colony in the 1630’s and settled on Pagan Creek. There they
had two sons John and Peter and three daughters, Elizabeth, Mildred, and Anne.
Shortly after the death of Vasser, his eldest daughter Elizabeth married Daniel
Boucher, a prominent Quaker. Boucher had the means to raise these Vasser siblings
who were minors and was more than likely eager to marry them off to men who
could provide for them. The youngest daughter Anne Vasser certainly married
John Williams Senior circa 1671; therefore if Thomas Parnell married a Vasser,
she would had to have been the middle daughter Mildred. If this Vasser connection is correct then
Thomas Parnell would have been a brother in law to Daniel Boucher, John
Williams Senior and Peter Vasser. Daniel Boucher died long before Parnell in
April 1668. Daniel Boucher was unusual in that he took an inventory of his own
estate in March 1668 prior to his will being recorded in May 1668. In the
margin of the inventory he mentions a “dowlas tablecloth and wrought napkins
given to Mildred.” Certainly this was his sister-in-law Mildred Vasser and
perhaps were party of a wedding gift or dowry. She certainly would have been of
the age to marry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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natural life and he put the estate of his minor children in her hands until
they came of age. “my will and desire is that my wife if in case it so happen
that it please God to spare her life for to enjoy the plantation and manor
house for life and is to have my whole estate in keeping with my sons and
daughters come of years except Susanna part and legacies.” It appears that this
wife might have been ill at the time of the writing of this will or there was a
contagious illness inflicting the settlers. It may be the reason why so many
young and middle aged men were writing wills during this period. In fact six
men in Thomas Parnell’s area had their wills record on 9 June 1688, the same
date as his. They were Daniel Miles, John Marshall, Francis Hobbs, William
Watson, Thomas Atchinson, and John Moor Senior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Moor Senior, the Shoemaker, specifically
mentioned in his will that he owned property next to some of Parnell’s
property; “son Thomas Moor and my daughter Elizabeth Moor and my daughter Anne
Moor each of them 100 acres of land joining Thomas Parnells line.” Moor also shared a boundary line with the
brothers John and Thomas Williams. Although John Moor Senior’s will was written
nearly six months prior to Parnell’s will, evidently they both died in the
spring of 1688 as that their wills were recorded on the same day 9 June
1688. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After the death of both Thomas Parnell Senior
and John Moor Senior the two families became permanently connected with the
marriage of their children Joseph Parnell and Elizabeth Moor. As that John
Williams Senior’s son John the Younger married Elizabeth’s sister Ann these
three families even became more connected after the deaths of these immigrant
patriarchs. John Williams the Younger, Joseph Parnell, and John Moor, Thomas
Moor, and William Moor were all brothers-in-law. Additionally Thomas Williams,
brother of John married Mary, Thomas Parnell’s sister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Moore [Moor] and his brother William
Moore [Moor] were witnesses to a deed of their brother-in-law Joseph Parnell on
7 October 1707. Parnell sold off 284 acres of his inheritance from his father
Thomas Parnell Senior to a John Thomas.
This John Thomas along with John Williams the Younger and William Moore
were witnesses a land deed dated 20 October 1719 between John Britt “of North
Carolina in Meherring” and Hugh Brecy [Bressie] Jr. Although John Williams the
Younger was residing in Chowan Precinct at Horse Spring Branch at this date
other records show that he was going back and forth between North Carolina and
Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> In
1723 John Moor Senior’s son, William Moore, was a witness to the Last Will and
Testament of William Vasser, Senior, the
son of Peter Vasser. William Vasser
Senior would have been a nephew of Thomas Parnell Senior if his father had
indeed married Mildred the sister Peter Vasser.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When Joseph Parnell signed his Last Will and
Testament 10 March 1736 [1737] his witnesses were were William Vasser, Jr.,
grandson of Peter Vasser, Jacob Moore, and Arthur Moore, grandsons of John Moor
Senior. If Joseph Parnell’s uncle was Peter Vasser then William Vasser Jr.
would have been the son of Joseph’s first cousin, William Vasser Senior. Joseph Parnell’s will was recorded 28
November 1737 and his heirs were his eldest son, Thomas Parnell, executor, wife Elizabeth Moor Parnell, around
56 years old at the time, and his other children William Parnell, Elizabeth
Parnell, Joseph Parnell [Jr.] , and “youngest son” John Parnell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vasser’s daughter Mildred Vasser and John Williams Senior had married her
younger sister Anne Vasser, it would explain a lot of these close family
connections. It would also have made John Williams the Younger and Joseph
Parnell first cousins as well as sons in law of the deceased John Moor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Parnell does not specifically name
this wife an executrix of his will which is generally the case involving a
widow with minor children. Instead he appoints John Fulgham, John Williams, and
Thomas Williams to assist her in the carrying out the provisions of the will; “and
with all I do appoint my before named friends and overseers [John Fulgham. John
Williams, and Thomas Williams] to be assisting in the performance of this my
Last Will and Testament.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Parnell had five children who were
minors “to have my whole estate in keeping with my sons and daughters come of
years.” However there were three other daughters, Anne Parnell Fulgham, Jane Parnell and Susanna
Parnell. Anne Parnell certainly would not have been considered a minor as that
she was a married woman. Jane Parnell was probably deceased and Susanna was
probably old enough to be given a horse, a silver spoon, and her “spinning
gear.” The three unnamed daughters are certainty the children of whom Parnell
entrusted his “beloved friends” for their education; “doe ordaine that my
Children Shal be brought up in the feare of the lord and to learne to wright
and reade and all accordinge to the discretion of my overseers". Thomas Parnell Junior and Joseph Parnell could
have been children of either a first or second wife although Thomas Parnell
refers to his “beloved wife” as their mother but she certainly could have been
a stepmother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shares, two of which went to the unnamed wife and five shares to his two sons
and three unnamed daughters. “unto my beloved wife two shares of al moveable
estate excepting all legacies which shall be given five shares to be divided
equally between my two sons and three daughters which five shares with their
mother’s two make seven shares.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The legacies that were given that were not to
be part of the seven shares were given to sons Thomas and Joseph Parnell,
daughter Susanna, sisters Mary Williams and Jemima Drake, cousins a nephew John
Williams and a niece Sarah Williams, “beloved friends” John Fulgham, John
Williams, and Thomas Williams, John Drake, Joane Johnson, Boaz Gwinn and “my
man” an indentured servant Thomas Williams. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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estate to his two sons Thomas and Joseph who were minors. As that any male
under 21 years was a minor these sons would have been born after 1668 and were probably
youth at the time of his father’s demise. While Thomas Parnell Senior evidently
left no real estate to his beloved wife he did allow that she would live at the
manor house and dwelling plantation for her natural life. Thomas Parnell
bequeathed to his eldest son Thomas Parnell the “dwelling plantation’” which
included about 400 acres. His legacy included the 250 acre plantations
purchased from Francis Ayres and the 150 Acre patent “Situate in a Forke
between the second and third swamp of the main Blackwater”, adjoining John
Richardson and Peter Hayes”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joseph” over 1100 acres, “land bought of Edmond Palmer, adjoining upon Henry
West, Anthony Mathews and Col. [Arthur] Smith, also tract Curawaugh bought of
Col. Arthur Smith.” That Joseph received
nearly 3 times as much land as his eldest son leads to some speculation that
the 400 acres was improved land and the 1100 acres was not. Additionally he
left to his sons “moveable estate” to be
“shared equally” that included “all working tools both for cooper, carpenter,
and turner. A turner was someone who did lathe wood work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Parnell’s will was his daughter
“Susanna”. She inherited “one gray horse that George Williamson hath and one
silver spoon and all her spinning gear.” That she is mentioned separate and
apart from his beloved wife and three daughters implies that she was a daughter
from another marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams, his brother Thomas Williams,
and John Fulgham were mentioned as “beloved friends” by Thomas Parnell and
received personal items from Parnell “in remembrance of me.” The use of the
term “friends” may possibly indicate also that they were all Quakers as that
was the greeting they used among themselves and even today the official name of
the Quaker Church is the Society of Friends. This is not an unlikely scenario
as that religion and family connections generally determined marriage
possibilities, especially when property was at stake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Fulgham and John Williams were
bequeathed by Parnell expensive personal items of clothing with Fulgham having
first pick. Fulgham was given his choice “as he pleases” of a “cloth coate or
hayre camlett coat.” These items were waistcoats and the one Fulgham did not
choose “the refusal” was to go to John Williams
with “two drest [dressed] buck skins.” A camlet coat was usually a very
expensive waistcoat made of silk and some other material in this case hare fur
and often had expensive silver or gold buttons. A waistcoat was generally the
most elaborate article of a man's wardrobe in the seventeenth century. The deer
buck skins would have been made into hardy trousers or jackets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Parnell then bequeathed to Thomas
Williams, “my second best suit of apparill [Apparel] and coastinge [coasting]
coalind which legacy I give unto my best friend and overseer in remembrance of
me.” The term “coasting coalind” is an archaic term for an item of clothing
that is unfamiliar today. Coastinge is certainly a 17<sup>th</sup> century
spelling of Coasting but the word coalind is an enigma. <span style="background: white;">By the late seventeenth century, a man's
formal suit consisted of a coat, waistcoat, and breeches, or pants.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the case of ”beloved friend” John Fulgham,
he was a sea captain as well as a Virginian planter who had married Parnell’s
daughter Anne prior to the writing of the will. John Fulgham was born 15 October
1639 in Pitminster, Somersetshire, England, the son of Anthony Fulgham and
would have been considerably older than Anne who was born circa 1669 mostly
likely the daughter of Mildred Vasser. If
John Fulgham, a son in law, was referred to as a “beloved friend” it is
certainly plausible and probable that both Thomas Williams Senior and John
Williams Senior were also in-laws to Parnell. In fact John Fulgham had
witnessed the 400 acre parcel transaction between brothers John and Thomas
Williams Senior and George Pierce in 1681. This property was the one next to
John Moor Senior. This deed document emphatically tied John Fulgham as an
acquaintance of Thomas and John Williams making it more than likely that these
three were the “beloved friends”. Fulgham
was nearly fifty years old when Thomas Parnell died and certainly a peer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The only possible explanation for John
Williams to have been named a “beloved friend” is that he and Thomas Parnell
were brothers in law. John Williams was brother of Thomas Williams another “beloved
friend.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An examination of the wills of both Thomas
Parnell Senior and Thomas Williams Senior show that the mark for Thomas
Williams signature on both documents are identical “<u>Ŧ</u>”. The Thomas Williams who was a witness to
Parnell’s will made his mark that was the same as when Thomas Williams signed
his own Last Will and Testament some five years later. While this mark was not unique to Thomas
Williams it is very strong evidence that they were made by the same man when
taken in consideration that Parnell mentions a sister named Mary Williams and
Thomas Williams names his wife as Mary. If Thomas Williams’ wife Mary mentioned
in his will was also the sister named in the will of Parnell then the two men would have been brothers-in-law. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Additional evidence that Parnell and Williams
were in-laws is that not only did Parnell bequeathed personal items to Thomas
Williams, he also asked Williams to be guardian of Parnell’s children and
executor of his estate. Williams was at Parnells side at the signing of Parnell’s
will as a witness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas
Parnell requested that these three men become the “overseers” [executors and
guardians] of his estate and children. He stated that the 7 shares of his
estate was to be left “unto the care of
my beloved friends Mr. John Ffulgham, John Williams; and Thomas Williams whom I
appoint as overseers over my children and estate and with all I doe ordain.” He
also placed these friends in charge of the education of his children; “doe
ordaine that my Children Shal be brought up in the feare of the lord and to
learne to wright and reade and all accordinge to the discretion of my
overseers". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Towards
the end of his will Parnell reiterated his wish that these trusted men be
authorized to take care of his affairs. “Now the performance of this Will and
Testament my desire and will is that my wife if in case it so happen that it
please God to spare her life for to enjoy the planation and manor house for
life and to have my whole estate in keepinge [keeping] which my sonns and
daughters come of years Except Susannas part and legacies and with all I doe
appoint my before named friends and overseers to be assistinge [assisting] in
the performance of this my last will and testament.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another male legatee mentioned after the “beloved
friends” was John Drake who certainly was the husband of Thomas Parnell’s
sister Jemima. Drake was the son of Richard who was a English serge maker in
England. Serge is a type of twill fabric that has diagonal lines or ridges on
both sides, made with a two-up, two-down weave. John Drake’s family was from
South Petherton Parish </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in county Somerset, England where
John was baptized 3 May 1647. Sometime after 1650 his family moved to Bristol where
on 6 September 1658 his father Richard Drake indentured himself, his mother Thomazine and his siblings Thomas, and Mary to
a ship captain Andrew Ball. John Drake was indentured for ten years in return
for his transportation to the New World. As that Richard, his wife and daughter
Mary have been located past 1658 it is assume they died during the crossing.
John Drake and his younger brother Thomas arrived in Virginia as orphans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Drake was sold to Hodges Council and Colonel Arthur Smith who both claimed head
rights to the boy. His younger brother Thomas was sold to Edward and Elizabeth
Gibbs a couple from Bristol, England also. When he turned 21 years old John
Drake’s indentureship was up about 1668 and shortly afterwards married Jemima Parnell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Drake was no doubt a poor relation to Thomas Parnell
and probably worked as a tenant farmer for Parnell. He owned no lands until 22
September 1682 he received a patent of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 100 acres of land “on the south west side of
Currawaugh Swamp in Isle of Wight County, beginning at the mouth of a Branch
that dividing it from Thomas Mann to “Hogges Councills” line then by his line
north west to [Thomas] Parnells corner and by Parnells lines north north left
at mark free of Col. Bridgers land and for by Col. Bridgers said swamp for the
transportation of two persons Richard Foote and Thomas Wiltshire.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
that Drake was never financially successful the money to import two people may
have been fronted to him or borrowed. Various inventories of estates in Isle of
Wight showed that John Drake as in debt to several planters. Evidently the 100
acres of land that he received as a patent was never cultivated for it was forfeited
by 1690 when the tract was regranted to one William Fowler. Drakes’ default
might be attributed to his death, perhaps from the same illnesses that swept away
many Isle of Wight settlers from 1687 to 1693. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Drake left no will, indicating that he died probably suddenly. His widow Jemima
Parnell Drake appeared in two records from 1694, including a deposition in
which she gives her age and implies her widowhood. 11 Dec 1694: Deposition of
Jemima Drake, aged 43, [1651] “states that last July she heard Samuel Cahoon
say that Thomas Norsworthy had sex with Frances Meacom.” After thus date she has
not been tracked and may have died or remarried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
the basis of ages, property locations, and colonial naming patterns, John and
Jemima Drakes off springs where probably Thomas Drake, Richard Drake, and John
Drake although there are no legal documents to substantiate. As Jemima Parnell
married probably about 1670 there must have been more children in the twenty
year interim before John’s death in 1690. A few would have been daughters who
married and other offspring who did not live to maturity. The children of John and Jemima Parnell Drake would
have been first cousins to Thomas Parnell and Thomas Williams’ children. A
daughter of Thomas Drake and Anne Griffith named Mary was born in 1712 and
married William Williams a son of Nicholas Williams and Anne Lewis. William
Williams was the grandson of John Williams Senior and grand nephew of Thomas
and Mary Parnell Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Drake probably did not have the financial security of his brother-in-law Thomas
Williams and thus was not asked to care for Thomas Parnell’s children and
estate. Parnell did two legacies. and
John Drake to whom he left “my best leather breeches and waistcoat and hatt
which I commonly wear.” Drake was no
doubt a brother-in-law married to Parnell’s sister Jemima however he must not
have shared in Parnell’s affections as he was not called a “beloved friend.” He
did also give Drake one “ozenberry coate and a pair of dimetty or lininge
[linen] drawers.” The word ozenberry is a variant form or simply a misspelling
for the term “Osnaburg” or “ozenbrig” It’s a type of weave that originated in
Germany and was highly durable. Ozenbrig was perhaps the most widely used
imported cloth in Virginia which was “a tough, coarse linen woven in Osnabruck,
Westphalia. This cloth made into nearly everything “from breeches and entire
suits to sheets, table covers, and carpetbags”. As that Colonials did not wear
underwear in the modern sense, the term drawers referred to knee length shirts
that were worn under waistcoats and at night as nightshirts. A shirt made from
dimity would have been lightweight but as durable as linen cloth. The items of clothing given to John Drake would
have been work clothes more than dress clothe which indicates his status as a
laborer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Williams and her sister Jemima Drake
were left personal items that had belonged to Thomas Parnell’s wife most likely
a deceased first wife. “I give and bequeath unto my sister Mary Williams my
wives best suit of apparrell. I give and bequeath unto my sister Jemima my
wives second best sute of apparel.” Mary
Parnell Williams was probably the older of the two sisters and by her marriage
to a landowner probably had a higher status in the community. If Jemima was born in 1651, Mary was probably
born several years before that. Mary
Parnell Williams signed the inventory of her husband Thomas Williams with her
own mark of “</span><span style="font-family: "mongolian baiti"; font-size: 12.0pt;">M</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">”. Evidently Thomas
Williams and Mary was married in 1670 or earlier as to have a son old enough to
have learned the trade of shoemaker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another legatee of Thomas Parnell was a
female named Joane Johnson. Her relationship to Thomas Parnell is an enigma. No
kinship nor servile relationship is mention. A planter named Robert Johnson
lived in the same proximity as Thomas Parnell to whom Joane may have been
related as his kin. She would not have been an indentured servant or she would
have been listed in the inventory of the estate. However she could have been a
faithful employed servant. Whatever may have been her relationship to Parnell he
gave her “ three els of the best dowlas I have in my custody.” These words were
archaic textile terms. An ell was a measurement from the elbow to the tip of
the forefinger and was standardize to be about 40 inches. So Johnson inherited
about 10 feet of plain cloth chiefly used for aprons or kitchen cloth but the
finer dowlas cloth were sometimes made into shirts for workmen. If the dowlas
cloth was the finest Thomas Parnell had it was probably used for shirts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The next legatees were a nephew and niece for
whom Thomas Parnell uses the archaic term “cousin” to state his relationship to
them which could be used to describe any relative outside the immediate family
but was generally used for the children of one’s siblings. Parnell must have
had a special fondness for these relatives and they were probably mature enough
to receive a legacy on their own. These two
individuals were John Williams and Sarah Williams who were most likely
offspring of Mary and Thomas Williams. However this is problematic as that
Thomas Williams while mentioning a son named John in his will there was no
mention of a daughter named Sarah. As
that there were six years between the writing of the two wills 1687 and 1693 it
is certainly possible that Sarah may have died within that period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I give unto my cozen John Williams all the
hydes [hides] that hee had of myne in taninge [tanning] being seventeen in
number with tubs and implements only the said John Williams my cozen is to make
two pairs of shoos [shoes] a piece for my family that remains and one pair of
shooes for my man Thomas Williams against he is free and in performance of all
accounts to be cleare between us
likewise I doe appoint my man Thomas for his freedom, clothes of shooes and
stockings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This item in Thomas Parnell suggests that
John Williams was a shoemaker and that he was old enough to incur debt probably
the cost of the hides which could have been cow hides or deer hides. If so,
John Williams would have been born at least before 1667 if he was not a minor
under 21 years. This would have had Thomas Williams and Mary Williams marrying
before that time. It appears that this suggests that Thomas was an older
brother of John Williams Senior who came to Virginia in 1666 along with John
Moor Senior from Bristol, England. Having a relative already in Virginia may
have even persuaded John to throw his lot and fortune in with the settlers of
Virginia Colony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I give ad bequeath unto my cousin Sarah
Williams my daughter Janes best suet [suit] of apparel of serge.” Sarah would
have been an adolescent to have been given a suit of clothing. Sarah is not
mentioned in her father’s will that he made before he died in 1693. As in the
case of Anne Parnell wife of John Fulgham, Sarah may have been married by then
and simply not mentioned. She also certainly could have died during this time
from the disease that was ravening the
planters living along the swamps and waterways of Southside Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Parnell Williams recorded the estate of
her late husband on 9 October 1693. No price was attached to his personal
property and his moveable estate which evidently the family was keeping and not
selling. Thomas Williams estate consisted of “14 heads of cattle young and old,
1 horse, 3 beds one of them a feather bed and the other two flock beds and
covering to them, one gun, one brass kettle about 12 gallons, 5 pewter dishes,
a pewter tankard about 3 pints, and a dozen spoons pewter, a spice mortar
brass, and 3 iron pots one of them about 8 gallons and the others 2 and 4
gallons, One long table and form, one great chest, one case of bottles and one
box of linen and three spinning wheels one of them is a woolen wheel and the
other two is linen wheels and one
hackle.” A hackle was a tool like comb for dressing flax, raw silk</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To separate, as the
coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a
hackle or hatchel. From the inventory it appears that Thomas Williams was a
weaver or cloth maker. Mary Williams turned in the inventory to the court recorder
Hugh Davis which was required by law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps in payment for witnessing the will or
maybe just as a close neighbor, Boaz Gwin received a legacy of a pig certainly
to be butchered for its meat. “I give and bequeath unto Boaz Gwin one barrow of
hogg of two years old due next fall.” A barrow is a young castrated pig used
for food and not for breeding. Gwin was a witness for many land owners in Isle
of Wight all though he did not seem to be an especially affluent man. He was
also called upon as well to witness the wills of Anne Vasser’s two husbands, John
Williams Senior and Arnold Shumacke.
Boaz Gwin began witnesses land and probate records in Isle of Wight as
early as 1679 and he witnessed over 10 legal documents before he died in 1698
when his wife Sarah gave an inventory of his estate. Boaz and Sarah Gwin’s daughter
Sarah Gwin married Thomas Summerell, son of John Summerell who owned 420 acres
on the east side of the Blackwater in the Kingsale area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The other witnesses to Thomas Parnell’s will
were Robert Littleboy and Boaz Gwin’. Robert Littleboy had property in Isle of Wight
and in Surry County near the land grant of
John Williams Senior and John Brown. In 1684 Littleboy owed tobacco to the
estate of Thomas Pitt as did John Drake as well as many others. His will was
made in 1721 but not probated until 1730 so he must have been a young man when
he witnessed this will of Parnell. On 9 June 1688, Thomas Williams and Robert
Littleboy recorded and swore before the court that they had witnessed Thomas
Parnell sign his Last Will and Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An appraisal of Thomas Parnell’s estate was
made 17 August 1688 which was valued at 7,915 pounds of Tobacco. The estate of
Thomas Parnell included “one negro man” who was valued at 4000 pounds of
tobacco. Although he was Thomas Parnell’s most valuable asset this person of
color was not bequeathed to anyone. As he was part of the estate’s appraisal he
may have been listed to be valued for taxes. As that the entire moveable estate
was valued at 7,915 pounds of tobacco, this slave was worth half of Thomas
Parnell’s estate. It possibly may well have been that this man was the Thomas
Williams who was to be given his freedom and called by Thomas Parnell as my
man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another inventory dated 26 February 1688
[1689] showed that Parnell’s plantation contained 24 heads of cattle and milk
cows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a testimony to the hardship these early
Virginians endured that John Moor Senior, Thomas Parnell Senior, John Williams
Senior, Thomas Williams Senior, and probably John Drake all died relatively
young in their 40’s and all within about five years of each other. The strenuous
labor of being indentured servants before become land owners and the diseases
that arose from the swamp lands wore these men out in the prime of their lives
most never living to see any grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So far no other Williams has been so
genetically identified as a kinsman to John Williams other than Thomas Williams but circumstantial
evidence suggest that Lewis Williams who died 1678 in Surry County, Virginia
was another brother or close kin.
However, so far no known descendant of Lewis Williams DNA has been tested
for confirmation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Indeed it would have been strange for
relatives not to have relocate together so as to depend on each other. In fact
it would have been more odd to have traveled alone without family. In the 17<sup>th</sup> Century, more so than today family bonds were
strong and family members generally traveled together when making a major
upheaval. It may have been likely that as soon as Thomas Williams was freed from his indenture he went and lived with John Williams Sr. small family to help on the farm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams Sr. and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Williams on 9 September 1681 together bought a 400 acre tract of land part of a patent granted to George Pierce who had
acquired the land from a headright patent dated 23 April 1681. Pierce transported 8 persons “John Williams, Edward Wilkson, Anthony Ward, Mary Walker, Edward
Acly, Thomas Moore, Tuley Smith, Thomas Paine.”
This leads one to speculate whether John Williams had returned to
England on some business and came back with means to purchase land from Pierce. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The purchased land was just south of George Peirce’s
larger patent of 2,500 acres in the Corrowaugh Swamp and Kingsale Swamp area
east of the Blackwater River. Other huge estates were the 3000 acres plantation owned jointly by Colonel
Robert Pitt, Colonel Joseph Bridger and William Burgh near Duck Swamp. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This 400 acre tract of land shared a common
border on the northwest with John Williams Sr. old friend John Moor the shoemaker. John Moor acquired his 300 acre farm 23 April
1681 as a headright for transporting 6 people so he must have been a successful farmer in the ten years he was freed from his indenture. His farm shared a northwesterly border with Phillip Raiford [Wrayford and Rayford] whose 350 acre farmed adjoined John
and Thomas Williams land along a southwesterly border. John Moore may have been
the very reason John Williams acquired this tract because of its proximity to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Isle of Wight deed between George Pierce and John and Thomas Williams is as follows: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Know
all men by these present that I George Peirce of the Isle of Wight County do assign
all my right Title & Claim of the wherein mentioned four hundred Acres of
Land & warrant the assignment Just & lawful, unto John & Thomas Williams
of the aforesaid County their heirs & Assignees as Witness whereof my hand & seal this 9th
of September 1681. Recorded October 10</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1681.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Witnesses John Hale and Thomas T Jones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Williams brothers Plantation was watered by Jenkins Swamp that flowed across their land and across Phillip Rayford’s farm where it joined the Duck Swamp before becoming tributaries to the Blackwater River. A dam was constructed on the Rayford land which created a 1500 foot long pond known as Jenkins Pond that was primarily on the Willliams property until it became a swamp again into George Pierce’s land grant. Today this land would be roughly bordered by Knoxville Road Rt 609 on the East, Route 651 in the Northwest and on the south by Walter’s Highway Rt 258. This area is also known as the Kinsale and Carrowaugh area and is about two miles west of the farming community of Windsor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Williams and John Williams Sr. each owned 200 acres of the grant but probably worked together. Thomas Williams was probably married a few years after he was freed from his indenture. His wife's name was Mary, last name unknown but perhaps Parnell the sister of Thomas Parnell, and he had six children before his death in 1693. His children were </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams circa 1680, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard Williams circa 1682, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Williams circa 1684, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arthur Williams circa1686, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Williams circa 1688 and Ann Williams circa 1690</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. The exact birth order of his children is an estimate. They were all minors at the time of their father's death and his widow would have certainly remarried. John Williams Sr. and Thomas Williams children may have all known each other growing up on their father's plantation. Although it appears that John Williams Sr's manor house was on the 1678 purchased land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Within a year John Williams Sr. purchased another tract of land from Quaker William Boddie of Lower Parish, in the Isle of Wight in 11 November 1682. The land </span>description<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> was that it was at Parson's Swamp on the eastside of lower Cypress Swamp but it had an undisclosed </span>amount of land<span style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of the witnesses to the deed was John Jones who would later witnessed the will of John’s
brother Thomas Williams. William Boddie had sold to John Jones, “Cooper”,
also parcel of land where he now lives of 10 or 12 acres. In a 1691 deed transaction </span>description<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Parson Branch was said to be on the east side of Cypress Swamp and listed John Williams, John Higgs, William Hooker, Christopher Bly, Joseph Wall and George Foster as all having lands in that vicinity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This William Boddie was a Quaker as were William Bressie, Daniel Boucher, Humphrey Clarke. Surry
and Isle of Wight Counties were home to most of the Quakers in Virginia. In the 1650s and 1660 the a new religious movement
arose in England. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ridiculed as “quakers” because they trembled only before God and not magistrates, the adherents of the teachings of George Fox became known as Quakers. They know themselves as the Society of Friends.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This new religious expression took hold in especially in southwestern England, around Bristol and in Wales.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The proponents of this new movement saw themselves restoring
primitive Christianity with core values of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pacifism, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">social equality and brotherhood. As the Quaker social movement of equality gained momentum among
the poor and middle classes, new levels of persecution was directed against
the followers of George Fox as disturbers of the social order. </span></div>
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Puritan theocratic colonies of New England, many Quakers settled in Southside
Virginia, Maryland, and Rhode Island. However In
1660 an Act of the Virginia Assembly decreed that captains of any ship
bringing Quakers into the colony would be was fined 100 pounds. Additionally all
Quakers who did enter were to be expelled. This measure was largely ignored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Three years after buying a tract of land from William Boddie, John Williams Sr. was wealthy enough to join his son-in-law John Browne in transporting 24 people to the colony. For this effort, John Williams Sr and John Browne Jr received a headright patent of 1200 acres on 20 April 1685. This land grant adjoined lands of Nicholas Sessums and Robert
Savage in Surry County. This almost two mile tract
of land was located probably near Pigeon Swamp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The 20 April 1685 grant of 1200 acre patent was located in Surry County but it gave no
geographical information such as rivers or creeks to define the area where it was located However the plat gave the names the people whose lands bordered the grant. Roughly John Williams the
younger’s farm was located in an area east of Cypress Swamp and west of Green
Swamp. To the south was the Blackwater
River and to the north Gray Creek. Pigeon Creek probably ran through some of the 1200 acre parcel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The plat's starting point was a pine tree at the corner of Nicholas Sessums lands on the southeast side of Pigeon Swamp. From there it went 1732.5 feet southwest to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a small red oake in Robert Savages line. Robert Savage's lands joined Charles Savages lands. From there it went west northwest 1221 feet to a red oak then south 4554 feet to a hickory tree then east southeast 1122 feet. From that hickory tree the line went southwest 1171.5 feet to a red oak tree and from this tree west south west 495 feet to a small red oak tree on Charles Savages line.</span></div>
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branch of the Blackwater and from here the line went north north west 2673 feet to a pine tree. The line then went southeast by south 439 feet to a stooping white oak then south 3960 feet to a red oak sapling. From here the plat line went southeast 4356 feet to a white oak tree on Richard Lane's line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard Lane's lands were located near Sunken Marsh and Mill Creek. From here the line went southwest 1848 feet to a red oak on Robert Caudfield's line at Sunken Marsh. This plat line bordered Caudfield's line northwest 12,210 feet to a persimmon tree. The line continued 1023 feet to a pine tree at Joseph Walls corner tree then from there northeast by north 4686 feet to a pine tree on the south side the said branch near the head. Joseph Wall's lands </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">were on the side of William Thompson's land on the northeast side of Cypress Swamp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">From that pine the line with northeast 1023 feet to a small black oak, then north another 6006 feet to a small red oak, a corner tree between Joseph Wall and Richard Smith line. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Richard Smith’s lands were on the south side of Pigeon Creek. From this point 660 feet to a pine in a branch then northwest down a branch 4356 feet to a gum tree in the mouth of a small branch to Richard Blows corner tree. From there up a small branch and a line of trees 2739 feet to a white oak by a branch side being a corner tree between Richard Blow and Nicolas Sessums. Richard Blows lands were on the south side of Pigeon Creek as were Sessum. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> From the corner tree up the said branch southwest 924 feet tp a great pine at the head of said branch and after the same course 429 feet further to a red oak then southeast 660 feet to another red oak then south east 1551 feet to the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The patent described the land as adjoining
Nicholas Sessions, to Robert Savage, to Charles Savage, to Richard Lane, to Robert
Caufield, to Joseph Wall, to Richard Smith and to Richard Blow. All these men had lands
in this general area of Pigeon Swamp, Sunken Marsh, and Mill Swamp in Surry County. This 1200 acre property
is probably near the present community of Elberon on Virginia State HWY 31 about 10 miles north of Franklin Virginia. Six hundred acres of this tract of land was bequeathed by John Williams Sr to his sons according to his Last Will and Testament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Williams Sr. lived only another 7 years and died within five months of making
out his will. He wrote out his Last Will and Testament on March 9, 1692 although dated old calendar style as 1691. Prior to the middle of the 18th Century the legal new year began on March 25. His will was recorded in 9 August 1692 but a Surry County tithing record dated 10 June 1692 shows a John Williams living there although this could have been the son John Williams Jr. He probably died in July 1692 in Lower Parish, Isle of Wight as wills were recorded at the earliest </span>conveyance<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of County Court. He was probably close to 47 years old when he died.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">By the time of John Williams Sr.'s death in 1692, he had acquired 975 acres near Antioch Swamp, 150 acres of land on Parson's Branch, 200 acres of land on the eastside of Blackwater River near Jenkins Swamp and 600 acres on Mill Swamp in Surry County. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is clear from John Williams’ will that he raised and bred horses, cattle and milch cows on his place as well as grew tobacco. He willed five young cows to granddaughters, and his workers. He willed two mares and their foals to legatees. While he had laborers such as “my boy William Hickman” and Daniel Long Jr, it is doubtful that John used African Americans as bondage servants or they would have been mentioned in his will. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">He may have also made cloth or blankets on his place since his oldest son’s occupation, as well as being a planter, was that of a weaver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams Sr. mentioned in his Last Will and Testament his wife
Ann sons, John “the eldest”, William, Thomas, Nicholas, Richard and
Theophilus “the youngest son” and two daughters. Other legatees were three granddaughters
with the surname Browne, William Hickman, Daniel Long Jr and Thomas Wright. . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the name of God Amen I John Williams Senr
of the lower parish of the Isle of Wight County in Virginia: being very sick
and weak but of perfect mind and memory do give and bequeath all my wordly
goods as followeth. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Imprimus I give and bequeath my Soul to
almighty God my maker hoping through the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour to
obtain remission for my sins through his death and passion and my body to the
earth from whence I came to be decently buried by my beloved wife Ann Williams
and my children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Secondly I give my now dwelling &
plantation unto my beloved wife Ann Williams during her life with all edifices
and buildings thereunto belonging and after her decease the manor plantation be
returned unto my eldest sonn John Williams and to the hyers [heirs] of his body and in
case he the said John Williams had rather stay in Surrey County on the
plantation that he is now seated or then to take the manor plantation then the
said manor plantation is to descend to my youngest sonn Theophilus Williams and
the hyres of his body truely begotten and in case John Williams wishes to take
manor plantation then Theophilus to enjoy the plantation in Surry County that
John Williams is now seated containing one hundred and fifty acres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thirdly I give and bequeath unto my son William
one parcel of land lying and being in Newport parish which parcel of land
contains two hundred acres lying near Meadows which parcel of land my foursaid
Sonn William Williams is to enjoy with all appurtenances thereunto belonging to
him and the hyers of his body truly begotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4th I give and bequeath unto my next Sonn
Thomas Williams and the heyrs of his body truly begotten one hundred and fifty
acres of the aforesaid land lying and being in Surry County and part of the
same tract where my sonn John William now liveth and he the sayd Thomas
Williams and his heirs to enjoy the same with all benefits and appurtenances
there unto belonging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5th I give and bequeath unto my next Sonn
Nicholas Williams and the heyrs of his body truly begotten one parcel of one
hundred and fifty acres of the aforesaid land lying and being in Surry County
and part of the same tract of land where my Sonn John Williams now liveth to
his heyrs truly begotten with all appurtenances and benefits there unto
belonging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6th I give and bequeath unto my Sonn Richard
Williams and the heirs of his body truly begotten one parcel of land lying and
being in Surry County containing one hundred and fifty acres being part of the
same tract of land which my aforesaid Sonn John Williams liveth and to him the
sayd Richard Williams and the heirs of his body truly begotten with all
benefits and appurtenances there unto belonging and after the possession of the
same. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I and in this my last Will and Testament I do bind charge and command all
an every of my Sonns from the eldest to the youngest neither to sell lease or
morgage any part or parcell of any of the aforesaid tracts of land by any means
but to remain unto them and the heirs of their bodys truly begotten and in case
that any of these my Sonns decease without Issue that then that parcell of land
to whom it belongs shall be bound to the next surviving heir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary
one feather Bed and boulster [stufed pillow] one Rugg one blanket one sheet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jane Williams one feather bed boulster Rugg one blankett one sheet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grand daughter one yearling heifer [cow]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bridgett Brown one yearling heifer, </span><br />
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William Hickman one yearling heifer, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">likewise there is belonging unto Mary
Brown one cow and yearling which I order to be delivered to her according to
the direction of my wife, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">likewise I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid grand
daughter Mary Brown one feather bed and boulster, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">likewise I give unto my Sonn
Thomas Williams the marr [mare] foal which goes with the marr likewise I give all the
future increase of my mare among my children and this increase be provided as
they fall in course beginning at the eldest and for as they fall to the
youngest whether heifer or mare as it happens and after my children and should
then my grandchildren to have a part of the increase and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">likewise the mare at
Thomas Wrights the first foal that she bring I give and bequeath it unto Daniel
Long Junior and after Daniell hath his foal the mare and her after issue to be
bound to Thomas Wright and the heyrs of his body lawfully begotten and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">after
all these ligaties [legatees] in this my Will and for the performance of the same I do
constitute and appoint my most beloved wife Ann Williams my whole Executrix of
this my last Will and Testament to for and endeavour to perform all these many
ligaties as they shall be demanded in Course of my children come to age and my
aforesaid Wife Ann Williams to enjoy all my proper estate and plantation which
is not here exprest as long as they live and for acknowledgement this is my
last Will and Testament as Witness my hand this ninth day of March in the year
of our lord god 1692 John (F) Williams Senior </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Seal Signed sealed and delivered
in the presence of us, Boaz Gwine [Gyne
Gwin], Thomas (T) Gwynie, Alexander (T) Matthew’s mark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The witness Boaz Gwin began witnessing land and probate
records in Isle of Wight as early as 1679. He witnessed 10 legal documents
including the two husbands of Anne Williams and that of Thomas Parnell who was
married to a Vasser. There are no records of him owning any property in the
county. He died in 1697 and his daughter Sarah married Thomas Summerell son of
John Summerell who owned 420 acres on the east side of the Blackwater in the
Kingsale area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alexander Matthews was the son of Elizabeth Boddie Matthew and grandson
of William Boddie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams’s will was proved in open Court for the Isle of Wight County on August the 9th 1692 by the Witness of the
will and was ordered to be recorded
which was done by 20 weeks of the death of the deceased at the next County Court
session. Therefore it is pretty reliable that John Williams died in late July 1692
or very early August perhaps at the age of 47 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Vasser Williams as widow was the Executrix of
the will of her husband John Williams Sr. She was given the plantation and
“Manor” house in Lower Parish of Isle of Wight. This land was to go to his oldest
John upon her death. Her sons Thomas, Nicholas, Richard and Theophilus were
given the 600 acres in Surry County that their father had received as a
headright in 1685 to be divided equally among them. John Williams, being the
eldest son had already established a home on 150 acres there in Surry and was
given the choice of staying in Surry and his inheritance in Isle of Wight would
revert to Theophilus. Son William Williams was given the 200 acre plantation
that his father had bought from George Pierce in 1681 so neither of these
tracts of land were the property called “the manor plantation.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of beneficiaries named in John Williams
Sr. will was his son in law Thomas Wright who had married daughter Elizabeth Williams
prior to his will being drawn in March 1692. The daughters of his son-in-law John Browne, Ann, Bridgett, and Mary were </span>legatees<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> as was William Hickman who married daughter Mary
Williams after 1692. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not much is known of the legatee Daniel Long Jr. except that his father of
Daniel Long was a farmer of a small tract of land of 60 acres which he patent
in 1682 probably as his own headright. He added 30 acres to it when he bought
from Walter Rutter and his wife Martha Bagnall daughter of James Bagnall. This deed between Long and Rutter dated 29
October 1688 and the witnesses to it were John Browne and William West Jr. In April
1690 Daniel Long served on a jury along with William West, Walter Rutter, John
Moore James Benn, Jacob Durden, Will Godwin, James Tullaugh, Wm. Bradshaw, Wm. Powell, John Bathurst, and Richard Hutchins to settle a dispute
between John Nevill and Richard Reynold. Not much more is known of this family. I would not be surprised if Jane Williams, the
one unaccounted for daughter, was married by Daniel Long Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As noted before daughter</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Elizabeth was not mentioned in John Williams Sr. will. Some have speculated she was a step child to John Williams Sr. and not his daughter. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Being a step child is pure speculation and there are other reasons why she was left out of her father's will. T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">here appears to have been some family conflict with this daughter. Beside not being mentioned in her John Williams Sr.'s will, none of her brothers or sisters </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">seemed to have much interaction with the Wright family. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">None of John Williams Sr's sons or family members acted as witnesses to any legal dealings of this family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Wright Jr. was a much older than Elizabeth Williams, at least 20 years older if not 25. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Gibbs and he married Elizabeth Williams before 1693 and even more likely before March 1692. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">He would have been in his forties and she in her teens.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Wrights were not of the same social class as most of the landowners of Isle of Wight and perhaps John did not think him a suitable husband. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Wright is a legatee of sorts. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Williams bequeathed to Thomas Wright a foal from one of his mares. "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the mare at Thomas Wrights the first foal that she bring I give and bequeath it unto Daniel Long Junior and after Daniell hath his foal the mare and her after issue to be bound to Thomas Wright."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The average gestation of a foal takes 340 days but a mare can be bred every year so that earliest Thomas Wright could claim the mare was probably 1693. The fact that Thomas Wright was named in the will after John Williams servants indicates that John Williams was not all that fond of Thomas Wright. If Elizabeth and Thomas Wright had any children before John Williams made his will, they are not mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Thomas Wright made out his own Last will and Testament dated Oct 23 1700, he named his wife Elizabeth Williams Wright as his executrix. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas and Elizabeth Williams Wright probably did not have children until after March 1692. They were sons John Wright, James Wright, Thomas Wright, Joseph Wright and a daughter Mary Wright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Williams Sr. would have been buried at his manor plantation. If he had a marker it had long vanished. He is probably buried at the head waters of Burgh's Swamp [Antioch] as that his grandson Arthur Williams sold off 340 acres of John Williams Sr.'s manor to John Sellaway except for three acres of "burying places." Arthur Williams was the youngest son of John Williams Jr. and sold this land the 16 August 1730. Certainly this was burial grounds for his grandparents and Theophilus Williams the youngest child of John Williams Sr and his wife Ann Williams and possibly others. This deed was witnessed by Quakers Richard Pope and Thomas Gale. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tobacco Farm near Windsor Virginia similar to where John Williams Sr is buried</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The previous year 6 September 1729, Arthur Williams "of Bertie County North Carolina" sold to Elizabeth Brassee [Bracey] 300 acres on Burghs' Swamp in Newport Parish. This land was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">described</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> as being adjacent to Henry Applewhaite "deceased" and Broad Ridge part of 925 acres granted to John Williams 30 May 1678.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Within a year of John Williams Sr.'s death, his
brother Thomas Williams and his youngest son Theophilus died. Theophilus died under the
age of 5, perhaps in 1693 from measles. On 29 April 1693 Virginia Governor
Edmund Andros issued a proclamation for a “day of Humiliation and Prayer” due
to a measles outbreak in the colony. It must have been a wide spread epidemic
for the Governor to issue a Proclamation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Theophilus Williams was mentioned in his father’s
will on 9 March 1692 but is absence from his mother’s Deed of Gift to her
children as she was preparing to remarry. Therefore it’s safe to assume that he
died after 9 March 1692 and before 9 April 1694 and was probably buried next to
his father on the family manor plantation. Theophilus’ oldest brother John Williams Jr.
is the only member of the family to name a son after this lost brother, presumably
for the affection he had for this boy. John Williams Jr.'s own son was probably born
close to the time of his young uncle’s death in 1693.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When John Williams Sr. died Anne Williams had
seven minor children to care for. William Williams, the second son was probably 15 years old followed by Thomas
about 13 Years old and Mary about 11 years old. The remaining children would
have been under 10 years old. However with the help of William Hickman and
Daniel Long Jr. she was able to provide for her young family by herself until
she decided to remarry in 1694 probably at the age of 45. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Williams second husband was Arnold
Shumacke, a middle aged man with grown children of his own. He was not a man of
much means or property He was not a near neighbor according to deeds. So the marriage is hard to explain unless they
were of the same of religious persuasion or even perhaps friends before her
marriage to John Williams in 1671. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arnold Shumake [Shoemake, Shumacke] was of
French descent as were the Vassers. The
surname name was derived from de la Chaumette which was Anglicized as "Shoomach" and later as Shumacke.
Records show him as living on Pagan Creek in Isle of Wight County, Virginia for
some years prior to 1668. John Vasser original headright grant was also on
Pagan Creek and Shumacke may have been a family friend since both families were
once French Huguenot Protestants. If so,
this may explain why he and Anne Williams married as he was much older than her and
brought little or anything into the marriage. He had grown 6 children, a son
and five daughters from a first wife who were living on their own. The children of John Williams may not have
been close to their step father or step brother and sisters for there is no
record of any interaction between the two families except for their mother’s
marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Williams and Arnold Shumacke were
married between 9 April 1694 and 21 May 1694 when her second husband recorded "I do give my free and voluntary consent to the within deed, made by my
now wife when she was in her widowhood."
The deed referred to was a deed of gift made out 9 April 1694 to her children of personal property and
possessions of her late husband John Williams. This probably was done to
assuage hard feelings and to make sure property of their father did not become
property of the new stepfather. In colonial Virginia a married woman could not
make out a will, so this was Anne Williams’s
way of insuring personal property went to her own children by means of this deed
of gift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Williams, widow of John Williams Sr, by
deed of gift has given to her loving children; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Son John Williams my great chest, he to have
it at my death if he is ye longest liver, If not to my next eldest son yet is alive and
further </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I give unto my second son and his heirs one ewe and lamb and ye
increase to have delivered next spring. I doe give unto my son William Williams
and his heirs 2 cows and their increase, one steer above 5 years old and a
pewter Dish, dish to have yet delivered nexy spring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do give to my son Thomas
Williams and his heir one feather bed and “boulster” [a large cylinder shape
pillow], one blanket, one sheet, one steer, one pewter dish, two cows and their increase, a ewe
and a lamb and the increase to be delivered next spring, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do give until Mary
Williams my daughter and her heirs one cow and calfe or with calfes and
increase, a ewe and lamb, a pewter dish, my great table and form and one iron
pott to be delivered unto her when she comes of age 18 years or marryed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do
give unto my son Nicholas Williams and his heirs 2 cows and calves or with
calfes, one ewe and lamb and increase, steare about 5 years old, one feather
bed and boulster, one blanket, one sheate, one pewter dish and his father
musket. Nicholas cannot be above seven years old , to be delivered unto him
when he is 18 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do give unto
my son Richard and his heirs 2 cows and calves or with calves with calve about
7 years old, one ewe and lamb and the increase, one steer about 5 years old
etc and his father’s sword to be
delivered unto him when he is 18 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do give unto my daughter Jane two
cows about 7 years old with calf or calves, ewe and lamb and the increase there
of, one feather bed and boulster that her father gave her to be her ticken [Ticking
is a strong, tightly woven fabric of cotton or linen used to make pillow and
mattress coverings. Evidently Anne wanted the feather bed relined.], a pewter
dish, a iron pot, a stear about 6 years old to be delivered to her when she
comes to age 18 years old and true and faithful delivery of the afore things to
my four children or their heirs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do these presents deed oblige myself and my
heirs executives and administrators to ye afore delivery of the things at the
times appointed in testimony of all which I have here unto sett my hand and
seal ye 9 April 1694 and I farther give my daughters Elizabeth Right, Mary Williams,
and Jane Williams all my wearing clothes, both linen and wollen that I shall at
my death to be equally divided among them or any of them that be living- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Witness
Arthur Smith, Arthur Smith Jr. and John Craine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anne Williams owned no real property of her
own, John Williams Sr. having devised his estate to his children in his will.
However Anne was given use of the manor plantation until her death. Her oldest son John Williams Jr. was given his mother's "great chest", which seems
odd until one realizes that a chest was a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> furniture mainstay for the early colonists and were</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> valuable. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They were used for storage as it was still the custom to fold your clothes and put them away in
chests. Hooks were
just for hanging up your hat or cloak because they might be too wet to put
away. Anne Williams valued this piece of furniture so much that she devised it to her second son if John the younger died to keep it in the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Williams and Elizabeth Wright are only mentioned once in the deed of gift of Anne Williams so it appears that she was providing for her younger unmarried children as that once she remarried all of her property would become her new husband. She gave to each of her unmarried children, a ewe [female sheep] and lamb.To her sons she gave each two cows while to her daughters she gave only one but also any calf they may be carrying or nursing. Additionally each son got a steer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All of her younger children </span>except Richard received a pewter dish. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In Colonial America, a collection of polished pewter was used and proudly displayed as a symbol of prosperity. While the very wealthy landowners ate from silver and imported china and the very poor ate with dishes made out with wooden trenchers and pottery mugs. The middle class in colonials day valued their pewter which was kept brightly polished. The down side of pewter is that sometimes it had lead mixed in with the tin which caused lead poisoning among wealthier Virginians.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thomas, Nicholas, and Jane each received </span>feather<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> beds and a cylinder pillow called a bolster but the boys also got a blanket and sheet each. Daughter Mary a</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">s furniture "</span>my great table and form." Both daughters Mary and Jane received iron pots for cooking. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A pot generally had a cover and were imported from England. Not until 1735 did the first pots began to be manufactured in the colonies therefore pots were extremely
valuable and would be passed on in wills or deeds of gifts as Anne Williams did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The boys Nicholas Williams and Richard Williams were given their father's musket and sword but as they were under 7 years old they had to wait until they were 18 before they were to receive them. Almost as an after thought, Anne Williams gave to her daughters </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elizabeth Wright, Mary and Jane Williams, her wearing apparel after her death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The deed of gift stated that Anne Williams most likely named her children in chronological order. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From this deed record one could assume that
Mary was born after 1676, before her her sister Ann who was not 18 years old, and her brother Nicholas Williams who was born in 1684. This would indicate that Richard Williams, Jane Williams, and Theophilus Williams were born between 1685 and 1692. Her children Sons John Williams, William Williams,
and Thomas Williams who there are no stipulations when they could receive their gifts
however Nicholas and Richard were not to receive their gifts until they reach
the age of 18 years. Two children not
mentioned in the deed of gift are the deceased wife of John Browne nor Anne Williams infant
son Theophilus Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This deed of gift then does raise questions
about how old and young were John and Anne Williams’ children and how many
children are unaccounted for. The birth order certainly was Mrs. John Browne,
John Williams. Elizabeth Wright, William Williams, Thomas Williams, Mary
Hickman, Jane Williams, Nicholas Williams, Richard Williams, and Theophilus
Williams. The oldest three children Anne Browne, John Williams, and Elizabeth
Wright had to have been born between 1671 and 1675 to have been married by
March 1692. If William, Thomas and Mary Williams were of age by April 1694
according to the deed of gift they would
have had to been born before 1676. If Nicholas was born in 1687 followed by Richard,
and Theophilus then there would have been an 11 year gap. Of course Jane
Williams could fill in the gap but that would leave a lot of years unaccounted
for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some genealogists contend that the scribe for
the deed of gift made an error in naming Nicholas only 7 years old. While
certainly he was a minor under 18 years for his mother to give him his father’s musket and son. If Mary Williams
was betrothed to William Hickman in 1694 that could move her birth year between
1679 and 1680 when would kind of close the age gap. Also if indeed John
Williams Sr. made several trips back and forth from England that could also
explain some of the gaps. In an age before birth control large families were
generally the rule for people who had been married at least 20 years as were
John Williams Sr and his wife Anne. They had ten children during
that span which indicated that for much of Anne’s married life she as pregnant.
There’s no indication that any of these ten children were twins either. Still
it’s a bit of a stretch to have had three children born in 3 years and two
months. Three births would have taken 27
months and between 1687 and March 9 1692 there are only 38 months. That left Anne with less than 4
months between nursing and becoming pregnant again. It would also have meant
that Theophilus Williams was an infant perhaps under 1 year old when his father
died. If Ann Williams is indeed Ann Vasser, daughter of John Vasser, she would
have been around 41 or 42 at the time of her husband’s death and in her late
30’s having children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne and Arnold Shumake were not married very
long. In less than four years after their marriage, he made out his own will in 1697 which
was witnessed by Boaz Gwin, one of the witnesses to John Williams’ earlier
will. This would suggest that Arnold and Anne were living on the “manor
plantation.” In this will he is called "Arnell Shewmake"" which
he made out on 9 December 1697. This will only mentions “beloved wife” and not
Anne by name. His legatees were his son Moses, daughter Alice; granddaughter
Dorothy Davis; daughter Jane; daughter Sarah; daughter Margery and daughter Frances.
The will was recorded 9 February 1698 [old style 1697] however I have not been
able to determine who was the executor of his will. It is usually the widow
unless other stipulations were made. None of his Williams step-children are
mentioned in the will. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By the time Anne Williams Shumacke was nearly
50 years, she had out lived two husbands
and she may have lived another 6 years if the Anne Williams who appears in the
1704 Rent Rolls of Isle of Wight is indeed her. During colonial times
landowners in Virginia were required to pay a tax of one shilling to the king
for every 50 acres they owned. The 1704 Rent Roll List of Isle of Wight County Virginia only record six
Williams as having to pay a tax. An Anne Williams paid taxes on 150 acres with
neighbors being Anthony Fulgham, Edward Harris, and Thomas Joyner. If this is
indeed Anne Williams Shumacke it seems odd that the land is not listed under
her name by the second marriage. But she may have reverted back to Williams
after Arnold Shumacke death in deference to her Williams children. Ten
households from Anne Williams is John Browne who had 100 acres of land. Thirty-seven landowners from John Browne was
William Williams who also paid a tax on 100 acres. Thirty-six landowners from
William Williams was Thomas Williams. Thomas Williams was taxed on 100 acres
and there’s no indication that this is John Williams Sr.’s son or his brother
Thomas Williams's son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thirty-six more landowners further down the
list was a John Williams who paid taxes on 971 acres of land near Henry Pope. He
is certainly the son of John Williams and Anne Vasser Twenty–eight
landowners from this John Williams is William Williams who is taxed on a 1000
acres. This is certainly William Williams son of John Williams Sr. who married
the daughter of George Moore. He was given a 600 acre land grant two years
earlier in 1702 and with his other properties he would have had this amount in
1704. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams Jr. was listed in the county owning a considerable
amount of land. As well as the 971 acres, he paid taxes on 600 acres of land next to Peter Vasser who was
taxed on 230 acres. Peter Vassers lands
were just south of the Surry County line on Mill Creek Swamp and west of
Pouches Swamp. Anne Williams property was 34 landowners away from this John
Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Vasser Williams Shumake died some time after </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">21
September</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1719 when she is mentioned in an Isle of Wight deed between John Body [Boddie] and Alexander Mathews Jr. The land </span>description<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> stated that the 325 acres sold adjoined "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hezekiel
[Ezekiel] Fuller, William Bacon, Ann Shumach and the Cypress Swamp." From this record it</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> is believed she lived at least 27 years after her husband John Williams Sr died in Isle of Wight County. There are no wills recorded
for Anne under the names Williams or Shumake. She died about 70 years old in Isle of Wight and while she could have made her own will or even and a Nuncupative will (oral
wills made on a deathbed) none were recorded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams Sr.'s will stated that his eldest son
John Williams the younger was to inherit the lands his mother lived on after she was
deceased. In 1704 John had moved away from Surry County and was living near Peter Vasser, John Williams Sr.
original manor plantation may have been near the Mill Creek Swamp . <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Upon her death the terms of her husbands will went in affect leaving the manor plantation to John Williams the younger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's clear from the various land patents and
deeds involving John Williams Sr. and his brother Thomas Williams that most of
their children resided around the area of Franklin Virginia on both sides of the Blackwater
river. Between 1695 and 1705 many of these children drifted west of the Blackwater and owed farms between the Blackwater and the Nottoway Rivers. Between 1705 and 1715 many of John and Thomas Williams’ descendants moved on into North Carolina and then on further south and west as time went by. However many of
their descendants stayed in what became Southampton County. In 1831 some of the </span>descendants<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of these families of their descendants,
Jacob Williams, his nephew William Williams, and John “Choctaw” Williams, were
among those killed during the historic Nate Turner slave revolt. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>CHILDREN OF JOHN WILLIAMS Sr and ANNE VASSER WILLIAMS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Anne Williams Browne 1671-1691 died at the age of 20</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Williams born circa 1671 Surry County, Virginia died before March
1692 Isle of Wight County, Virginia. She married John Browne Jr son of John Browne and
Bridgett about 1685. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Browne will was recorded 24 July 1721. In this will
Browne named the three granddaughters of John Williams Sr, Anne Browne, Bridgett Browne, and Mary Browne. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately </span>genealogist<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> John Bennett Boddie, in his
Historical Southern Families Volume VI, listed John Williams Sr. daughter as a “Bridget” without any proof. Thereby John Browne’s wife has been
identified as “Bridget” Browne by many genealogists with no evidence to support
this view. The name “Bridget” does not appear among any of the naming patterns
of John Williams Sr’s. descendants nor in those of Thomas Williams Sr. The name
is unlikely to have been a family name on the Williams side of the family tree. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is however a Bridget Browne listed as widow of a John Browne which may have been John
Browne’s parents. This </span>parentage<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> lends some credence to assumption that this daughter Bridgett being the named for John Browne’s mother and not after his first wife. Then to add to further confusion,
there is a deed in Isle of Wight that
lists John Browne and “wife Bridgett” but long after the daughter of John Williams
Sr. had died.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As that a daughter named “ANNE” has not been
identified in John Williams Sr’s family, it is more likely that the first
daughter of John and Anne Williams was named after her mother and that her
daughter Bridget was named for a paternal grandmother. yet there are no records
indicating what this eldest daughter of John Williams Sr’s “Christian” name was but colonial naming
patterns strongly suggest that it was Anne not Bridget. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This daughter is not named in the will of John Williams Sr nor is she mentioned in
the Deed of Gift by her mother, Anne Williams. As that Anne Browne’s three
daughters were mentioned in John Williams Sr will, it is logical to assume that
he would have made provisions for grandchildren of a deceased oldest daughter
and perhaps the only grandchildren he knew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John and Anne Vasser Williams could not have been married earlier than Spring 1671 due to terms of his indenture. Their first
child, who I will now call Anne, would then had to have been born in late 1671. We
know that Anne was the mother of three daughters at the time of the death of
her father. They were daughters Anne, Bridgett and Mary, all who were named in
the will of their grandfather John Williams Sr.
The eldest granddaughter was named Anne Brown presumably named for her
mother Anne Williams Browne but could have been just for the grandmother Anne
Vasser Williams. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These three daughters were born prior to
March 1692, and taking into account gestation and weaning, this meant that the
latest Anne Williams and John Browne could have been married was in 1686 when
Anne Williams was 15 and the earliest would have been 1685 when she was 14
years. This is the time that John
Williams and John Browne received their 1200 acre land grant. The daughters of
Anne Browne would presumably been born in this order; Anne Browne circa 1687,
Bridget Browne circa 1689, and Mary Browne circa 1690. Anne Williams Brown may have even died from
complications from childbirth being that she was a such a young mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The daughters of John Browne would not have
known their mother well, as the oldest would have only been around 5 years old.
They might even have been living within the Williams’ household until their
father John Browne remarried about 1693.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Genealogists have tried to link this man to
the son in law of William Broddie and also to an Indian Trader named John
Browne who owned property on the Blackwater River at Kinsale Swamp. Circumstantial evidence shows that John Browne most likely was the son of a John Browne who died intestate. His his was estate
probated 26 March 1666 with his "relict" [widow] administering the estate. John Browne Jr then would have been born circa 1650.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Browne: Dying intestate, administration requested by Bridgett Browne, his
relict, on 9 February 1665 [1666] and recorded 26 March 1666. , R, March 26,
1666. Arthur Smith and Edward Gibb acted as Security for Bridgett Browne’s
bond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Browne's age is a mystery but seems to based
on two records that contradict. An Isle of Wight County Virginia Court record
dated 1693 says that a John Browne gave oath in court that he was “25 years old". This age meant this John
Browne was born in 1668. In 1685 John
Williams Sr. along with a John Browne received a patent for a tract of land
containing 1200 acres for the transportation of 24 people to the colony. As
that it was about £144, this was a considerable investment. Most of which would
have been paid in tobacco to English Merchants who financed much of the
transportation of people to Virginia. The man who said he was 25 years old in
1693 would have been only 17 years old at the time at the time of the patent
and therefore it seems very unlikely that they were the same individual. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Generally in colonial times daughters married
at age 15 and then usually to a much older men who could provide financial
stability for these girls. If Anne
Williams was married to John Browne in 1685 it is doubtful that John Williams
Sr. would have allowed a marriage between a 17 year old boy and his daughter,
especially to a boy who would have been considered a minor. It’s is also
extremely doubtful also that John Williams Sr would have been granted the 1200
acre land patent with a youth. It is more logical that John Browne was closer
in age to John Williams Sr. than to his daughter Anne. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Browne husband of Anne Williams </span>cannot postitively<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> be connected to the John Browne who died in 1668 in testate but the deceased certainly
could have had a grown son. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some genealogist have connected John Williams
Sr. son-in-law with the Quaker William Boddie.
The Quaker had a son-in-law named John Browne who married Boddie’s
daughter Mary. This Browne was a shipwright who could have more than afford to
pay for transportation of emigrants in exchange for land and in 1682 John
Williams Sr after patenting the 1200 acres in Surry County had purchased a
tract of land from William Boddie. However this wife of John Browne the shipwright
lived long after Anne Williams Browne had died. John Browne and Mary Broddie
were married about 1676 and could not possibly be parents of John Browne the
son in law of John Williams Sr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is a John Browne also who received a
600 acre tract of land patent recorded in 1688 for transportation of emigrants
in the 1660’s. This land was located at the mouth of Kinsale Swamp on the east
side of Blackwater only a few miles from
lands that John Williams Sr and Thomas Williams Sr bought together in
1681. It is not clear which John Browne
this land was granted to. Some believe it was an </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Indian Trader also named
John Browne who accumulated land near the Cypress Swamp and Blackwater before
eventually moving to North Carolina and dying there. Other say it was for the son in law of William Boddie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are scant records to go by on John
Williams Sr. former son in law. His is not mentioned in John Williams will of
March 1692 but deed records show that John Browne was patented 220 acres in
Kinsale Swamp on 29 April 1692. His father-in-law may still have been alive at
this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In December 1693 John Browne and his former
brother-in-law John Williams Jr and his wife were involved in a lawsuit by
Phillip Raiford whose land adjoined John Williams Sr. tract on Jenkins Swamp.
It is not clear what the dispute was about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isle of Wight Co., Virginia 9 Dec 1693
Phillip Reyford (Raiford) to John Giles Power of Attorney Know all men by
theise p'sents, yt [that] I Phillip Reyford of ye Isle of Wight County, doe
ordaine, & appoint for me and in my stead John Giles of ye aforesd my true
and Lawfull attorney to appear for me in ye Isle of Wight County Court, their
to prosecute on my behalfe John Brown and John Williams & his wife untill
both ye businesses are brought to Judgem't as wittnesse my hand this 9th day of
Decemb'r 1693 Phill: Rayford witnesses; Rich: Stoner his m'ke Tho: Moore <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If John Browne had been a married man in
December 1693 it seems logical that Phillip Raiford suit would have named a
wife as it did with John Williams. John
Browne did marry again by 1695 and had three more children, James Browne,
Thomas Browne, and Elizabeth Browne by his second wife probably a woman named
Bridget perhaps Lewis. A deed dated 1706 has John Browne and wife Bridget selling the 220
acres he patented in 1692 at Kinsale Swamp. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Browne was still living in Surry County in May 1698 and was one of the appraisers of the estate of Robert Savage along with Timothy Walker and Robert Lancaster. His brother-in-law John Williams Jr was a witness to the Last Will and Testament of Robert savage. This would have been in the Southwark Parish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The 1704 Quit Rent Rolls of Isle of Wight
show that John Browne was pay land tax to the British Crown for 100 acres.
However in Surry County he still retained his 600 acres which shows that he was
the man who patented with John Williams Sr. in 1685 1200 acres of which his share
was 600.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Browne continued to live on his Southwark Parish plantation probably marrying between 1693 and 1706 Mrs. Bridget Lewis as his second wife who had a son Isaac Lewis. He had at least three children by her, sons James and Thomas Browne as a daughter named Elizabeth. He lived there from 1685 until 1721 when he died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The will of John Browne was dated January 1721
and recorded on 24 July 1721 in Isle of Wight. In the document he mention the 3
granddaughters of John Williams Sr, two who were now married plus three
additional children who were from a second marriage. He does not name a wife
although some genealogists speculate it may have been the Bridget of the 1706 deed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1721: Browne, John. Leg. son James, my land
on Timothy Walker's road in Surry
County; son Thomas land on the same road; daughter Elizabeth; daughter Mary;
daughter Anne Camerine [Cameron], daughter Bridgett Wresbury [Rasbury]. Exs. sons
James and Thomas Browne, Dated. January 1720/21 Recorded July 24, 1721. Witnesses:
Thomas Nickson, George Goodson, Peter Green <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He gave to his two sons James and
Thomas Browne, probably born in the late 1690’s, his 600 acre tract of
land in Surry County that was described as being on “Timothy Walker's road” A John Browne and Timothy Walker were both
mentioned in the 1668 Tithing List of Surry. If this is the same John Browne he
would have had to have been at least 16 years old [1652] Timothy Walker had
lands near Robert and Charles Savage as did John Williams Sr.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two of John Browne's daughters from both marriages, Mary Browne and Elizabeth Brown were both unmarried in 1721 according to their father's will. It is possible that Elizabeth Browne
was a minor but not Mary. She was born circa 1690 and would have been about 31
years old when her father died. Both Anne and Bridgett were listed as married
women and they were living with their husbands Daniel Cameron and John Rasberry
in Chowen Precinct, North Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams Sr.'s Grandchildren by Anne Williams Brown</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I) Anne
Browne</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(ca. 1686-after 1747). She married Daniel Cameron (1679-1752). Daniel Cameron
was in Bertie County North Carolina in 1728 He witnessed a deed to his wife’s
brother-in-law John Rasberry. Cameron
signed his will in Northampton County, North Carolina on 7 January 1747;
probated May 1752. Anne Browne was her
husband's Executrix and Witnesses were: William Whitley and Joshua Williams.
Joshua Williams was Anne Browne Cameron’s 2<sup>nd</sup> cousin and a grandson
of Thomas Williams, Anne’s great uncle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">II) Bridgett
Browne</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(ca. 1688-after 1749). She married John
Rasberry (ca. 1680/85-1749/50) a "hatter" about 1705. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The hatmaking industry was so </span>successful<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in
the Colonies that in 1723 the Hat Act was passed by England's Parliament. This
act prohibited intercolonial trade in hats, restricted their manufacture, and
only permitted the hat makers two apprentices. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">John Rasberry on 4 Oct 1707 bought 75 acres
from Thomas Boon adjacent Thomas Kirby, part of the patent 1702 of Bridget Rasberry's uncle
William Williams. This land was on the west side of Blackwater River just north
of Franklin in Southampton County today, The Boon-Rasberry deed was witnessed
by her uncle Richard Williams, who was about a year older than Bridgett Browne
Rasberry, and Daniel Cameron, her brother-in-law. John Rasberry later sold this tract of land to
Joseph Godwin on 28 September 1713 as he and Bridgett Rasberry had moved a
short distance south on the Meherrin River into North Carolina where he bought
200 acres from John Early on 16 April 1711. The deed referred to John Rasberry as of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Chowan Precinct of Albermarle
County at this time. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">20 October 1713 John Rasberry and Bridget
sold 635 acres on Meherrin Creek in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chowan for 2,000
pounds of tobacco. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since there seems to be no record of John acquiring this 635 acres and
the fact that Bridget had also "signed" the deed indicates that the
land had previously belonged to Bridget. O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">n 19 July 1715 John Rasberry was a witness to a deed between his wife's uncle John Williams Jr and Lawrence Sarson for land in the Bear Swamp area that became Bertie County. in 1719 John Rasberry bought land from from Charles Jones and became neighbors. On 23 April </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1725</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Jones deed to Briget [Bridgett Rasberry] Rasbeary 100 acres at Horse Swamp adjacent to James Howard, Peter West [son in law of Lewis Williams] </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"For love I do bare Briget Rasbeary the
daughter of John Rasbeary and Bridget his wife." Witnesses were Thomas Bird and Stephen
Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On 14 August 1734, "John Rasberry,
hatmaker", purchased 220 acres on Cashy Swamp for 30 pounds near his wife's uncle and cousins. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 14 May 1735 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John
Rasberry, hatmaker" purchased an additional 450 acres in Cashy Swamp for 45 pounds. J</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ohn sold 250 acres on White Oak Swamp for 7 pounds on 26
July 1736. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Rasberry and wife Bridget sold 470 acres on Conritsy [</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Connarista] </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Swamp and Buck
Branch for 30 pounds; </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">in May 1737, John sold 100 acres on Conaritsis [Connarista] Swamp
and ES Rattlesnake Branch at Buck Branch for 50 pounds; </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">on 8 November 1737,
John sold 300 acres on SWS of a branch of Cashie River for 15 pounds; o</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">n 17
February 1738/39 John purchased 150 acres at Main Swamp for 30 pounds, and one
of the witnesses was William Rasberry; </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">on 5 May 1743, John sold 150 acres
on White Oak Swamp for 60 pounds; and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">on 10 May 1743, John sold 400 acres
at Colt Branch for 15 pounds. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John
left a will dated 11 September 1749, in which he named his wife
"Bredgit" and son William as executors. He named his children, 2
son-in-laws, 2 grandchildren, and bequethed to them land, slaves, and
Bibles. The 5 tracts of land, 2
plantations, and a number of slaves bequeathed to his family, as well as the
numerous land transactions, shows that John had accumulated a sizeable amount
of property during his life. He
"signed" his will by a mark in the presence of Isaac Hill and Edward
Williams, indicating he could not write. "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">North Carolina know ye that I John Rasbuary
being sick and weake in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to
God for the same Do make this my Last Will in manner and form following
Revokeing all former wills made by me first of all I Commit my Soul to the Lord
and my Body to the Earth from whence it was to be Desently Buried at the
Descresion of my Executors here after named Secondly my will is that all my
Just Debts and funeral Charges be fully paid and Contented. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I give and bequeth unto my son
William Rasbuary the Land and Plantation where he now lives being all Ready
Laid of to his and his heirs forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I also give and bequeth unto my son
Thomas Yaets a piece of land beginning at Pine Standing in the White Oak Meddow
/ Running a Long a Line of marked trees to the Spring Branch / Down the Sd
Branch to the White Oak / Down the White Oak to Wm. Hoseas Line / Up the line
to the first Station to him and his heirs forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I also give and bequeth unto my son
Arthur Pinner the Land and Plantation where he now lives on beginning at Wm.
Rasbuary's Line Running up the Sypres to the head from thence to Charles Jones
Line / a Long the Sd Line to the Main Swamp / a Long the main Swamp to Wm.
Rasbuarys Line to the first Station to him and his heirs forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I give and bequeth unto my Granson
John Rasbuary the Land of Wm. Rasbuary the Plantation where Arthur Pinner did
Live called the quarter and all the Land Belonging to it to him and his heirs
forever excepting my wife to have the use of it during her life and then to
return to him as before the said John Rasbuary. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">tem: I give and bequeth unto my Daughter
Rebekah Pinner one Negro woman called Judah to her and the heirs of her body
lawfuly begotin excepting my wife to have the service of her during her life
and then to return to her as before said. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Item: I give and bequeth unto my daughter
Bridgit Yaits one Negro child called (Nancy?) to her and her heirs forever
lawfully begotin of her body ecepting my wife to have the use of it during her
life and then to return to her as before said. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I give and bequeth unto my daughter
Elizabeth Williams all the rights and title I have onto a Negro girl called
Cait excepting my gran daughter Mary Nicholes Rasbuary the daughter of
Christian Rasbuary to have the first live (born?) child that she the sd. Negro
Cait shall bring and to be well looked after till it (grows?) two years old to
her and her heirs forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I give and bequeth unto my three
daughters Ann Beveler, Mary Unkers, and Christian Loid a Bible a Peace. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: I give and bequeth unto my Son John Rasbuary the Plantation where I now live and all the Land there unto
belonging. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item: My Will is that all my (Negros?)
good Chetils [chattel] and Credits my well beloved wife shall have the use of it during
her life and after her Deseas to be Equally devided betwixt William Rasbuary,
Elizabeth Williams, Bredgit Yaits and Rebeckah Pinner and John Rasbuary and my
Will is that any one of my Children that shall go to make my will void in law
shall be cut off from all their former gifts and have only a Bible. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I do appoint and ordain my well beloved wife
Bredgit Rasbuary, William Hosea and William Rasbuary my whole and Soul Exectrs
of this my Last Will and Testament and my estate to be devided by my exectrs
signed sealed and delivered in the presents of us. September 11, 1749 I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">saac Hill, Edward Williams, John Rasbuary.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">III) Mary
Browne</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
born circa 1690 and died after 1721. She
may have never married.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">IV) Half
brother James Browne</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(died after 1721) remains an enigma. He inherited from his father John Browne
part of the land patented by his father in 1685.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">V) Half
Sister Elizabeth Browne</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> remains an enigma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">VI) Half
Brother Thomas Browne</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(circa 1698 died 1765) married Tabitha, maiden name unknown. He inherited land from his father land
in the Surry and Isle of Wight borderlands. On 14 July 1735 he sold this
property “on the north side of Timothy Walker’s Road” to Nicholas Valentine.
This is the only reference to him in the Surry deed books. He was probably
remained seated in Nansemond County until he moved into the Nottoway Basin by
26 May 1744 when William West “of North Carolina” conveyed to him 247 acres
adjacent Thomas Stevenson,Francis Williamson, and John Joyner. He signed his
will in Southampton County, Virginia on 28 November 1764;probated 11 January
1765. He did not mention his wife Tabitha whom his son Jesse Browne identified
when he signed her inventory of his father’s estate, as recorded on 14 January
1767.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Williams Jr. 1673-1758 age 85</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><b>2) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">See section on John Williams and Anne Moore
of Cashy, Bertie County, North Carolina. Their children were John Williams, Theophilus Williams, James Williams, Sarah Castellaw,, Anne Herring, James Williams, Mary Herring </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Isaac Williams and Arthur Williams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Elizabeth Williams Wright 1675 - after 1701 age at time of death unknown</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>3)</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Elizabeth</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Williams was born circa 1675 probably in Surry County, Virginia and died after 1701. She is not mentioned in the will
of her father John Williams Sr, but is mentioned in the deed of gift made by
her mother in 1694. Some speculate that she was a child of Anne Vasser Williams' by a
former marriage. However her omission from the will of John Williams can be explained simply that she was married at the time and perhaps her inheritance was already provided for her. It also could be that her
father disapproved of the marriage. John Bennett Boddie states that Elizabeth Williams was married to Thomas Wright Jr which is almost certainly so as John Williams
mentions a Thomas Wright as a legatee in his will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elizabeth Williams may have been named for
Elizabeth Vasser, possibly her grandmother. If she was married in 1690 or 1691 Elizabeth would have been about 15 years old at the time of her marriage of about nine to ten years. Thomas Wright was
considerably older than Elizabeth more than triple her age. The age factor may
not have been enough of a reason for her father to disapprove of the marriage, however it seems
that the Wrights were not of the same social standing. It may be that Elizabeth became a Quaker as certainly Thomas Wright's family had strong Quaker ties. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">He evidently only shared a 100 acre grant with his brother George Wright.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Wright Jr. was the son of
Thomas Wright Sr. and Elizabeth Gibbs. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thomas Wright Sr. had a will where he appointed his “relict” Elizabeth the executor of his estate. But the will has not been located. It was recorded 18 February 1663 [1664] and probated 25 March 1664. He may have only left an oral will. All of his children would have been minors under 18 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Wright Jr was born circa 1645 the oldest of four siblings. His two sisters married into Quaker families. His oldest sister Ann Wright was married four times and had children by all her marriages. She married first Thomas Griffen Sr who died about 1670. She remarried John Edwards who died circa 1677. Her last two husbands were William Relison and James Tullagh. James Tullagh estate was divided 1700 by Charles Durham who married Ann Whitley widow of Quaker John Williams. Thomas Wrights Jr.'s sister Elizabeth Wright married William Godwin. William Godwin had been indentured to Quaker Humphrey Clarke along with John Williams who married Anne Whitley. The brother of Thomas Wright Jr was George Wright who married a woman named Violet. The Wrights may have been Quakers which could have been an objection of John Williams Sr although she would have had to have her father’s consent being a minor. Quakers marraiges were performed outside of church simply by the witnessing of the marriage by other Quakers. Perhaps John Williams Sr did not approve and left her out of his will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On 13 May 1674
Michaell Fulgham, Nicholas Fulgham, Anthony Fulgham, John Garner, Thomas Poole, Daniell Long,
Thomas Gross, Arthur Smith, Richard Jordan, Ambrose Bennett, John Viccars [Vasser], and Richard Reynolds served on an escheat jury regarding
100 acres belonging to John Upton, deceased. The property was sold by his relict Mrs.
Margaret Lucas to Thomas Wright. The legal term "escheat" simply meant that if a grantee died and had no heirs, his land
was "escheated" or reverted
back to the control of the land office. Then it was allotted to the next individual who applied for it. The parcel in question was considered escheat
and Thomas Wright lost title to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In John Williams Sr. will, he left
Thomas Wright a foal and a mare but only after Daniel Long Jr received a foal from the mare first. Horses were valuable in colonial Virginia as that they had to be imported from England if not bred in Virginia. Anne Williams upon her second marriage left Elizabeth Wright some wearing
apparel but no household goods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On 5 January 1696 [1697] Thomas Wright was one of the witness to the will of
Daniel Long Sr., the father of Daniel Long Jr. Daniel Long Jr and Thomas Wright had foals from the same mare according to legacies from John Williams Sr. Thomas Wright and Stephen Smith were called
Daniel Long’s friends in the will and were asked to divide Long’s estate between his wife
and children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elizabeth Wright had at least five children
before her husband Thomas Wright died in 1701 leaving her a young widow about
26 years old. Her children were John Wright Sr. [probably named for John
Williams Sr.] born circa 1692, James Wright, born circa 1694, Thomas Wright
born circa 1696, Joseph Wright circa 1698, and Mary Wright born circa 1700.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Wright made out his will on 23 October
1700 when he was nearly 55 years old and he died before 9 September 1701 when his will was recorded. Elizabeth Williams Wright was listed as
the Executrix of the will of her husband, Thomas Wright, Jr. The witnesses to
the testament were Richard Wilkinson, Jr., George Wright, and his wife Violet. The presence of Richard Wilkinson,
Jr. shows a connection between the Wrights and Epaphroditus Williams. Richard Wilkinson's sister Rachel Wilkinson married Epaphroditus Williams. This Epaphroditus Williams died in 1731 and
may have been connected to the family of descendants of George Williams the
Quaker who died in 1672. His sister </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Juliana Williams married John Wright, and was Elizabeth Williams Wright daughter-in-law. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As that Elizabeth Williams Wright was a young widow of 26 years old with five children under the age of ten when Thomas Wright died it
would seem more than likely that she remarried. That is unless she died young. There is no Elizabeth Williams
in the 1704 Quit Rent rolls of Isle of Wright or Surry. She was probably a Quaker and may have married another in Surry County. It is speculated that she may have married
John Daniel who estate was appraised 24 February 1728 [1729] at the house of
Elizabeth Daniel by John Chapman and Christopher Dickinson. In any case t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">his branch of the family tree seems to have
the least to do with other members of the family of John Williams Sr.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams Sr's Grandchildren by Elizabeth Williams Wright<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I<b>) John
Wright Sr</b>. circa 1690- 1757 married Juliana Williams sister of Epaphroditus Williams. Their parents are unknown but seem to be Quakers. In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1709 he appraised the estate of William West Jr. along with Edward Long. If
he was 18 years old he would have been born in 1691 if 21 years old about 1688. </span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
1719 he is mentioned as living on the land of Robert Bagnall. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
1726 Michael Fulgham, John Wright and Joseph Wright appraised the estate of
Richard Williams which was at the request of John Hurst. Richard Williams was not his uncle but most like a relative of his wife Juliana Williams Wright. </span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">John Wright witnessed the will of Michael Fulgham dated 12 January 1727 [1728]
along with James Benn. In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1728 John Wright's brother-in-law Epaphroditus Williams died and left in his will property to family family members and friends. Evidently he had no issue. His legatees were his wife
Rachele, sister Julianna Wright, sister and Mary Hale. Other legatees were Mary daughter
of Nathan and Ann Bagnall, Rachele daughter of Thomas and Rachele Parker,
Susanna and Priscilla Marshall daughter of Humphrey Marshall, Sarah Pilkington
Jr. Humphrey Marshall had witnessed property records of William Williams and his wife Susannah in Chowan county North Carolina in 1706 when they conveyed land bought from Lewis Williams to Peter Parker. This may be a hint that Lewis Williams is related to Epahroditus Williams. John Wright </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">was one of the appraisers of the estate of Christopher Dickenson in 1731
along with John Chapman. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">John Chapman was one of the appraisers of the estate of Epaphroditus Williams. This is why its speculated that Elizabeth Williams Wright was remarried to John Daniels. In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1741 John Wright's sister-in-law Rachel Williams of Newport Parish, wife of Epaphroditus Williams, died. Her Legatees were numerous including her nephew John Wright Jr. the son of John and Juliana Wright. Others were Ann the daughter Rev. James Peden and his wife
Mary, Mary, Easter, and Charity daughters of Anthony Holladay and his wife
Easter, Mary and Mary wife and daughter of Samuel Scutchins, Sabra, William,
and Thomas Parker, Elizabeth Pilkington,
Ann Chapman wife of Charles Chapman, Mary Chapman relict of John Chapman, Ann
Bagnall relict of Nathan Bagnall [died 1735] kinswoman [unnamed] eldest
daughter of Joseph Turner and his first wife, Rev. John Gemmell, Hugh Giles. J</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ohn Wright Sr. made out his own will 1 September 1753 which was recorded 3 November 1757. His legatees were son John
Wright, daughter Ann Green, daughter Sarah Butler, daughter Elizabeth West,
daughter Julianna Driver granddaughter Julianna Green, to Sarah Alderson.
Witnesses Richard Reynold, Martha Wright [sister-in-law] William Brantley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">II) <b>James
Wright</b> circa 1693 died 1762. He married Martha last name unknown. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">James Wright to son Joseph Wright in deed dated
11 Mar 1756 100 acres on the south side of Blackwater adjacent William Jones and Deep
Branch. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">25 December 1761 made will in Southampton
County, Virginia. Legatees wife Martha, son John Wright and daughter Mary
Wright. Recorded 12 August 1762.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>III) </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas
Wright III</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> circa 1695. In 1718 John Prime [born 1666] made out a will
leaving a legacy to “my nephew Thomas Wight” and nephew Robert Ruffin. He may have married Hannah Pinner daughter of Thomas Pinner who in his will of 1764 mentions grandsons Joseph and Henry
Right [Wright]1741.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>IV)</b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joseph
Wright</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> circa 1697-1745 Isle of Wight wife Martha. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
1722 he requested the appraisal of the estate of John Watts which was done by
John Hurst, Thomas Uzzell and John Wright. </span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1728
He witnessed the will of John Hurst
dated 1 January 1727 [1728] with Robert Brown and John Anthonyrue. Hurst
estate was appraised by John Wright and Joseph Wright 25 March 1728. Joseph Wright's e</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">state
appraised 25 November 1745 by Joseph Weston,Joseph Norsworthy, Richard
Reynolds. Signed Martha Wrig</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">ht</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>V) </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mary
Wright</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> circa 1699 married William Rutter son of Walter Rutter and
Martha Bagnall. The Rutters were Quakers and lived near John Williams Sr. lands at Jenkins Pond. After the death of Walter Rutter, Martha Bagnall Rutter married
Thomas Allen. </span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-stretch: normal;">On </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">20
Febru</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ary 1710 [1711] Thomas Allen made out his will. His legatees were sons Roger Allen, Thomas Allen
the elder, Nicholas Allen, Thomas Allen the younger, William Rutter, wife
Martha, and daughter Ann. The will was recorded 25 May 1711. On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">5
November 1718, Mary Wright Rutter's mother in law Martha Allen made out her will. Her Legatees were Martha Long, Patience Keally,
Nicholas Allen, Thomas Allen jr., Thomas Allen ye Elder, Roger Allen and son
William Rutter who was the executor. The will was Recorded 22 June 17</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">19. <span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"> On </span></span>27</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
January 1728 [1729] Mary's husband William Rutter made a nuncupative will [a deathbed testament] which was proved by Arthur
Brown and Joshua Hunter. He desired that William Wootten to have what was his, and the remainder of estate should belong to his wife. The statement was signed Mary Rutter. The same day </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27
January 1728 [1729] Mary's brother's John Wright, Joseph Wright and William Noyall were
appointed to appraise William Rutter estate. The </span>Appraisal<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> was recorded nearly a year later on 22 December 1729 and two months later on </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">22
February 1731 the estate of William Rutter final appraisal was "at the house of Mary Rutter
presented by John Wright, Joseph Wright, and William Noyall." No further knowledge on Mary Wright Rutter whether she remarried or whether she had children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Williams was the second born son of
John and Anne Williams. He was born circa 1677 and died about 1712 in Chowan County, North Carolina age about 35 years old. He married Mary Moore the daughter of George Moore Esq, and Mary Barcroft. He was about 15 years old when his father died in
1692 and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and his father bequeath him the 200 acres Jenkins Pond Plantation that he had bought in 1681 from George Peirce a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">djacent to Thomas Mandue [Mandew], Phillip Raiford, John Moor, and his uncle
Thomas Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Williams seemed to have inherited more land from
his father then his other sons and in 1694 his
mother Anne Williams left him two cows in her deed of gift to
her children. After his uncle Thomas Williams died in 1693 his cousin John Williams inherited Thomas Williams portion of the 400 acres. This land stayed within the family as John Williams Sr wished until it was sold </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">by William Williams’ son John Williams, to Ralph
Vickers. On 14 May 1718 “John Williams of ye County of Albemarle in
North Carolina of ye one part and Ralph Vickers of Newport parish in ye County
of Isle of Wight on ye other part” “in consideration of ye sum of forty Barrels
of Tarr to him in hand payed by ye said Ralph Vickers” sold “one certain tract …in ye Isle of Wight County…
beginning near ye plantation whereon William Williams did formerly dwell on ye
north end of that survey” … “being the
full half of a patent of four hundred acres of Land granted to George Pierce by
Sir Henry Chickley Knt deputy Governor and Lord General of Virginia bearing
Date of ye twenty third of April 1681 and himself ye said Pierce sold to John
and Thomas Williams and record made October ye 10th 1681.” “Signed sealed & delivered John Williams
the 20th day of May 1718. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nearly 25 years later Ralph Vickers sold to Samuel Wilkins this 200 acres plantation with an additional 175 acres, The deed </span>description was that the 200 acres was part of a 400 acre patent to George Pierce<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> granted 23 April 1681 which was transferred to John and Thomas Williams in October 1681. This deed was witnessed by Thomas "Williamson" who was certainly a Thomas Williams. Often in colonial records the name Williams was transcribed in documents as "Williamson". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a landed property owner, William Williams married
into the prominent family of Judge George Moore of Surry County, Virginia. Moore may even have imported William Williams' uncle in 1669. However t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">here is no evident connecting George Moore and John Moore the shoemaker, father of John Williams Jr's wife. As that many of the Williamses of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties were not related probably the same can be said of the Moores. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">George
Moore made out his will on 30 November 1710 in Isle of Wight County and he stated
that he was “aged about Seventy Eight [1632]”. His daughter Mary Moore was born circa 1680 and must have
been the youngest child of George Moore and Ann Barcroft Moore. William Williams and Mary Moore married most likely about 1698. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With William Williams' marriage to Mary Moore, he then became a brother-in-law to Thomas White, Thomas Carter, and Richard Piland. [Thomas Carter was an ancestor to President Jimmy Carter]. As
that William Williams probably did not marry younger than 21 years
old, probably his children would have been born between 1698 and 1711, most likely on the plantation at Jenkins Pond. William and Mary Williams had at least three sons, John, Samuel, and Stephen some times recorded as "Steve". It seems strange that no son was named George after Mary's father unless he died as an infant. William and Mary Williams had a number of daughters who unfortunately were not named in William's will by name. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">He and Mary Williams had at least two daughters by 1712. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The couple were only married about 11 years before William died and thus it is extremely unlikely they had more than six children at the most. The oldest son was probably Samuel Williams who is mentioned first in his father's will and in that of his grandfather George Moore. John Williams in
1718 sold lands inherited from his father thus he had to have been at least
18 years old. Stephen Williams sold land in 1720 which would indicate that he had to have been born circa 1702. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Williams' father in law George Moore left a legacy to only two of William Williams
sons, Samuel Williams and John Williams in 1710. However John Williams was only to inherit if Samuel Williams died. George Moore left Samuel Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">£</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1000 which was a small fortune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Williams as a young married man soon added to his lands in
Isle of Wight by becoming one of the early patentees in the Nottoway Basin
between the west side of the Main Blackwater and the east side of the Nottoway
River in an area that eventually became Nottoway Parish. These lands today are located in Southampton
County when it was created from Isle of Wight lands west of Black water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On 28 October 1702, William Williams recieved a patent of 600 acres from by
Governor Francis Nichols on the Westside of Blackwater on lands that are just
north of where the town of Franklin is today. Other patentees on the same day were James
Bryan, Thomas Joyner (whose daughter married Thomas Williams, brother of
William Williams), and Thomas Mandue [Mandew]. Williams recieved the land for transporting 12 people to the colony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The following year on 24 April
1703, William Williams added an additional 400 acres of land located in the Nottoway Basin. William
Williams is listed on the Quit Rent list of 1704 as owning 1000 acres of land
in Isle of Wight County however with his inherited 200 acres, the 600 acre
patent and 1703 patent he should have been listed as owning 1200 acres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In April 1704, William and Mary Williams began
to sell much of this land in Isle of Wight County, in smaller tracts, to Thomas
Kirby, John Barnes, Thomas Boone, and to his brothers John Williams, Nicholas
Williams, and Richard Williams. Evidently
by April 1704 William Williams began divesting his lands in Isle of Wight perhaps in
reparation of a move south into Albermarle County in the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A series of land deeds made in April </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1704 and recorded April 10</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> were filed in Isle of Wight’s deed
records from William and Mary Williams to the following:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">sold to Thomas Boone “in consideration of the sum of Six thousand pounds 150 acres on the Southside of the Blackwater Swamp it being part of a pattent of Six hundred acres of land bearing date the 20th day of October 1702. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">sold to Thomas Kirby 250 acres part of the
600 acre grant. Witnesses John Williams Nicholas Williams and John Barnes. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">old to John Barnes 100 acres for five
thousand pounds of good sound merchantable lot & cash witnesses John
Williams Mary Williams Richard Williams John Underwood</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">sold to his younger brother Nicholas Williams
110 acres for in consideration of ye
just quantity of five Thousand pounds of good sound merchantable Lot & cash
to me in hand paid on ye Southside of ye Blackwater Swamp. Witnesses: Thomas
Kirby, Richard Williams, Mary Williams.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">sold to older brother John Williams 125 acres in
consideration of ye just quantity of nine thousand pounds of good sound
merchantable lot & cash to me in hand parcell of land containing one
hundred & twenty five acres of being on ye South side of Blackwater Swamp
beginning upon the upper side of Notaway Swamp witnesses John Barnes, Mary
Williams, Richard Williams, Nicholas Williams </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">sold to younger brother Richard Williams in
consideration of ye such quantity of five thousand dollars of good sound merchantable
Tobacco & cash to me in hand paid or otherwise will & sufficiently
secured to be paid</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Unfortunately for researchers there happens to be two or more William Williamses living in Chowan County during this time period of the first decade of the 18th Century. One is the son of John Williams Sr. of the Isle of Wight and the other is married to a woman named Susannah. There is also a William Williams who died in1725 who named a wife named Mary and three sons one named Stephen also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">It is difficult, without a wife name or a family member, to identify which deeds belong to whom. For example </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On 25 October 1706 William Williams "of Lower
Parish Isle of Wight" sold to Peter Parker of Upper Parish of Nansemond 240 acres on
eastside of Chowan River part of a
patent of 640 acres granted to Lewis Williams May 1697. Witnessed John Parker,
Robert Scott, and Humphrey Marshall. Humphrey Marshall's daughters are mention as a legatees in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1728 will of Epaphroditus Williams. While Epaphroditus Williams was the brother in law of our William Williams' nephew, John Wright, and grandson of John Williams Sr., this deed did not involve him. Because the deed also says "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">with free consent of Susannah Williams", this William Williams is linked to the Quakers of Surry County and Lewis Williams, pioneer of Chowan Precinct.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">William and Susannah Williams "his wife" were in Chowan County by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10 Oct 1704 or had dealings there when they gave Power of Attorney to Dennis Macclendon which was proved by the Oath of
Thomas Snoden. A Deed of Sale acknowledged from Dennis Macclendon Attorney of
William William̄s & Susannah his wife to Thomas Norcom and ordered to be recorded. An
assignmentt of a Deed of Sale from Thomas Norcom to Thomas Snoden acknowledged in
Court was ordered to be recorded. This land was evidently near Yawpin Creek in Perquimans County. </span><br />
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Williams on 1 April 1707 300 acres on northwest branch of where Sarah Sowell alias Thomas lives. Tyner was a Quaker from Surry County Virginia but it is impossible to know if this is our William Williams. However its probably William Williams husband of Susannah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The following year on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6 April 1708 Lewis Williams deeded to James and
Elizabeth Rutland, "son in law and daughter", 100 acres on Katherine Creek a tributary on the eastern side of the Chowan River. On the same day </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> William Williams of Chowan Precinct "with the consent of Susannah my wife" sold to
Thomas Ashley "of ye aforesaid Precinct. Blacksmith, 100 acres more or
less as by a survey. Witness were Henry Lisle and Thomas Ward. There appears to more than a casual relationship between Lewis Williams and this William Williams who married Susannah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Albermarle County was settled mostly by Quakers before 1720. The Colony of Carolina which had not yet been divided North and South had a more tolerant position on religion and the region was mainly controlled by Quakers. There had even been a Quaker Governor in the 1690's. Certainly Carolina was more inviting to Southside Virginia's Quakers than Virginia where Quakers had to pay taxes to support the Anglican Church and could not hold office unless they swore an oath which Quakers would not do as part of their religious beliefs. In Carolina they could "affirm" instead of swear and thus politically they controlled Albemarle County for about 25 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the Isle of Wight, on <span style="font-size: 12pt;">6</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> February 1708 [1709] William Williams and his wife Mary were still selling off land when they sold 70 acres of land lying on the southside of Blackwater Swamp, part of a patent of 400 acres granted on April 24, 1703. When the family actually relocated to Chowan County in the Albemarle Princinct is unknown but it was between February 1709 and December 1711 when William Williams made out his will there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1705 Thomas Cary was appointed Governor of Carolina and he supported the Anglican Church and the colonists that supported the church. A delegation of Quakers went to England to complain and secured from the Colony's Proprietors orders to remove Cary. However returning to Carolina they found that William Glover who was head of the Colony's council was an even stronger supporter of the Anglicans. The Quakers withheld the orders to remove Cary and the Governor ousted Glover and switched </span>allegiance<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to the Quakers. The Anglicans fled to Virginia and from1708 until 1710 the Quakers dominated the political life of the colony. It was during this time that William Williams may have moved to Chowan Precinct as Albemarle Precinct was the center of Quaker life in North Carolina.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1710 the boundary between Virginia and Carolina was so undefined that many settlers in Albemarle County thought they were in Virginia. A survey to determine the boundary was ordered and Phillip Ludwell and Nathaniel Harrison were </span>commissioned<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to interview the inhabitants in Albemarle County and to survey a </span>boundary<span style="font-size: 12pt;">. The kept a journal and had visited the home of Lewis Williams in late September 1710 and on 2 October 1710 </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">they stopped at the home of a William Williams. Whether this is William and Maru or William and Susannah is unknown. However since the latter lived near Lewis Williams it would not have taken them days to reach their home as it would have William and Mary Williams. "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 2nd -The Maherine [Meherrin] Indians not being at home we proceeded to the Nansemond Indian Town, in order to take the latitude at Nottoway Rivers mouth, & to examine those Indians; but when we came there, most of the Indians were gone abroad to get Chincopens & it being a rainy day we could take no observation. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I (Philip Ludwell) came up Chowan River almost from Wicocon Creek by water with Mr Beverley & set the Courses of the River as we came up, & guessed the distances, by whch we might be enabled to compute how near our observations at the two places agreed, & we found them to agree very near. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the Nansemond Town the Interpreter told us that when he went down to Wicocon Creek with a Nansemond Indian called Robin Tucker who was sent by the Indians to shew us the Creek on which the Wyanoakes formerly lived, he called at one William Williams's house, where he met with one Mr [William] Maul (who is ye same person appointed by Mr Lawson to supply his place at our taking the Latitude) and that being sometime in the House and the Indian left without, as soon as he (the Interpreter) came out, the Indian told him, That man (meaning Mr Maul) was not good for he had been (persuading) him to deny that the Weyanoakes had lived on Wicocon Creek, & promised him two bottles of powder and a thousand shott to do it. Upon which we examined the Indian charging him not to tell a lye of the Gentleman, & he assured us it was very true. This Mr Maul is Mr Lawson's Deputy Surveyor."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Whether the William Williams who is mentioned in this journal is the son of John Williams Sr can not be certain, however a little more than 14 months later William Williams made out his last will and testament. Within those 14 months a civil war broke out in the Carolinas over a dispute regarding who was to be governor of Carolina. In January 1711 Edward Hyde arrived in Chowan County claiming he was given the appointment to be governor over Thomas Cary. Hyde supported the Anglican faction. Cary was supported by followers around the capital at Bath on the Pamlico River. Hyde declared Cary in rebellion and in March 1711 Hyde led a two day march of 70 men from Chowan County to Bath but Cary was too well fortified to dislodge him. In early summer 1711 Cary with a six cannon </span>brigantine<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and several small ships began an attack on Hyde and his Col. Thomas Pollack at his home on the Chowan River. One of Hyde's two cannons had a lucky shot and broke one of the masts of the Brigantine and Cary's forces retreated. When the governor of Virginia dispatched a company of the Royal Marines forces loyal to Cary refused to take up arms against the king's forces and by the end of July Edward Hyde triumphed however would died the following year of Yellow Fever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whether or not William Williams was involved in any of the conflict involving </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cary's
Rebellion, from 1708 until July 1711, the courts and government in North Carolina general ceased to
function. On every side one could hear "the complaints
of the poor men & families, who have been so long in arms that they have
lost their crops & will want bread." Where crops had been planted and
tended, a severe drought during the summer of 1711 had severely damaged their
yield. Additionally yellow
fever raged through the colony, during the summers of 1711 and 1712 bringing death to many early settlers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 9 December 1711 William Williams "of
the County of Arbarmale in Chowan Gentleman” made out his will. He was only about 35 years old and his death could have been brought about my a number of diseases even weakened by yellow fever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> reliable sources list William Williams as making out his will in 1704 instead of 1711. However it is extremely doubtful that he would have made out a will in December 1704 only to have it recorded in 1712. He was definitely alive in 1709 when had a land transaction recorded in Isle of Wight Additionally the witnesses to his will indicate that it was written in 1711 and not 1704 as that one of the witnesses, Robert Lanier, only came to North Carolina after 1710. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Williams wrote in his will, “being very
sick and week in body but of perfect mind and memory" bequeathed to “wife, Mary Williams,” 1/2 of land where
he now lives....son, Samuel Williams 1/2 land "whereon I now
live"...son, John Williams 175 acres and plantation on southside of Black
water commonly known as Litell town...son, Steven Williams 400 acres.. each of my daughters, [not named]. Wife Mary
sole Executrix. Witnesses: Tredell Keefe, Luis Williams, Robert Lanier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">William Williams will was recorded 15 April 1712 in Chowan Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina. As that the will was recorded in Albemarle County certainly the land left to his wife and son Samuel were in Chowan Precinct. His son John Williams was given a 175 acre plantation in Isle of Wight Virginia, and his son Stephen was given a 400 acre plantation location not determined. As that all of William Williams sons and daughters were minors Mary Moore Williams the administrator of the will and being a wealthy young widow with children she undoubtedly remarried. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The witnesses of William Williams' will indicate that William Williams plantation was near Salmon Creek but they als add to mystery to what was the relationship between William Williams and Lewis Williams if any. The fact that Lewis Williams was a witness to his will shows that they were close neighbors and well enough acquainted for William to ask Lewis to act as a witness. They other witnesses were Tredell [Treddell] Keefe and Robert Lanier both prominent land owners with ties to Lewis Williams and Edward Moore. On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">20 January 1712 [1713] Tredle Keefe and his wife Elinor sold to Edward Moore, of Nansemond, County, Virginia 150 acres land on the Meherrin River in Chowan County. Edward Moore may have been the brother-in-law of John Williams Jr. On 20 April 1713 Moore, still in Nansemond County, gave Lewis Williams his Power of Attorney "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to receive </span>acknowledgment<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of the sale of 150 acres from Treddell Keefe to him. The other witness, Robert Lanier bought land on 21 July 1713 from Ant</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">hony Williams, son of Lewis
Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Evidently William Williams had no close relatives in Chowan County to witness his will. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This Lewis Williams was originally from Nansemond County, Virginia but probably is not connected to the immigrant Lewis Williams who came to Surry County from Bristol England in 1666. That Lewis Williams who died in 1679 only had two children William and Mary Williams. William Williams son of Lewis Williams married Ann Sessions and way two young to be a father of Lewis Williams who died in 1717 in Chowan Precinct. DNA from the Chowan County pioneer Lewis Williams' descendants show clearly that he did not carry the same genetic markers as John Williams Sr., there for our William Williams could not have been a rellative. The difference in markers are highlighted in bold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">However, Lewis Williams's DNA sample is identical to Blaney Williams of Dublin County, North Carolina who was a direct descendant of George Williams the Quaker who married Elizabeth Boucher, the granddaughter of John Vasser Sr. This George Williams was the son of Walter Williams of Bristol, England. If John Williams Sr. married Anne Vasser then John Vasser Sr. would have been his father-in-law and Elizabeth Vasser Williams would have been aunt to Elizabeth Broucher Williams. This means that Lewis Williams bloodline was closely related George Williams the Quaker and could have easily known the family of John Williams Sr. whose many sons were Quakers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A bequest of Lewis Williams to John Williams has long puzzled family genealogist and is the basis for suggesting that John Williams Sr. and Lewis Williams were brothers. Lewis Williams states that John Williams is the son of William Williams, b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ut which William Williams? The William Williams who married Susannah, or the William Williams who married Mary Moore? This John Williams evidently was not a grandson as that Lewis Williams named his other legatees as "grandsons" but not John Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Circumstantial evidence suggests that William and Susannah Williams were related to the Quakers of Surry County due to their association with Humphrey Marshall and were probably relatives of Epaphoritus Williams. If Lewis Williams left anything thing to John Williams Sr. grandson John Williams, it was because they were neighbors and friends rather than relatives. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When William Williams died in Chowan County he evidently developed a close relationship with Lewis Williams who witnessed to his will. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I) </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Samuel Williams (</b>1698-1754) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel Williams was named in the will of his grandfather, George Moore.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Next I do give unto my grandson Saml. Williams One Thousand pounds when he shall come to the age of Eighteen and if should die before he shall come to age I give his Brother John Williams shall have Next”. Samuel Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">married Elizabeth Alston (ca. 1712-after
1767), the daughter of Colonel John Alston (ca. 1673-1755) of Chowan County,
North Carolina. He made out his will on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">24 October 1753 in Edgecombe
County, North Carolina. "In the name of God Amen. The twenty-fourth day of
October One thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, I, Samuel Williams of the
county of Edgecomb in the province aforesaid being sick of body...do make
&c. this my last will and testament in manner and form following, First I
give and bequeath to my son William Williams 20 shillings, Second, to my son Solomon
Williams 20 shillings and the first negro child born on the plantation, Third,
to my Grandson Samuel Williams negro Patt Fourth, to my son Samuel Williams 100
acres in Mush Island I bought of Robert Lang and 100 pounds,Fifth, to my loving
wife, Elizabeth Williams, negroes Mingo, Coob, Priss, and Lucey, Sixth, to son
Joseph John Williams, the plantation where I now live, also the plantation I
bought of John Burt, 150 acres bought of John Egerton, 100 acres adjoining the
mill and 290 acres adjoining Yancey’s line and the Reedy branch.To my sons Samuel
and Joseph John negroes Brister, Tom, London, Easop, Diner, Hashey, Hannah,
Cloye, Molly, Essex, Rachel, Broomfield and Penny, with the remaining estate to
be divided between my wife and sons Samuel and Joseph John. Lastly, Executors:
my son William Williams and my Son Solomon Williams and my trusty and well
beloved friends Philip Alston and Benjamin Wynn." Samuel Williams was about 56 years old. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His widow Elizabeth Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She married later Richard Burt (1724-1805), as proved by a court
reference of July 1765 to their marriage agreement and by her deed of gift in
December 1767 to her sons William, Solomon, and Joseph John Williams. Children William Williams married Elizabeth Whitmell, Solomon Williams married </span>Temperance Boddie, Samuel Williams Common Law wife Creese a slave, Joseph John Williams married Rosanna Conner and Elizabeth Alston, Elizabeth Williams died young.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">II) </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (1700-1737) married Anne maiden name unknown. He was mentioned in two and possibly three wills. He was mentioned in his grandfather George Moore's will of 1710, his father’s will of 1711 and he may have been the John Williams mentioned as the “son of William Williams, deceased” in the aforementioned will (1716/17) of Lewis Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams “of Albemarle County in North Carolina” in 1718 deeded to Ralph Vickers of Isle of Wight 200 acres of land that had belonged to his grandfather. How John Williams came to acquire this property is unknown as it was not left to him in his father's will. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Williams and his brother Stephen Williams “of Albemarle County, North Carolina” also sold to their uncle Richard Williams of Isle of Wight 170 acres adjacent his property in the Nottoway Basin which was part of a patent for 600 acres granted to their father, William Williams on 28 October 1702. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 21 October 1725, John Williams of North Carolina deeded to his uncle Nicholas Williams of Isle of Wight 125 acres at Nottoway Swamp—part of a patent of William Williams on 21 April 1703. John Williams was in the part of Bertie County that became Edgecombe County. Here the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">will of John Williams was received by the court in August 1737. He named his wife Anne executrix and left legacies to sons John Williams and Joshua Williams and daughter Mary Williams. He would have been about 37 years old.</span></div>
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[Stephen] Williams </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(born 1702 ) remains something of an enigma. He deeded the property he inherited from his father to William Byrd
on 17 July 1720 for 45 pound. This deed was witnessed by his brothers Samuel
and John. No will or estate papers for him have surfaced. He probably lived in
Chowan County. May have died without heirs.</span><br />
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daughter</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> born before 1711</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Thomas Williams was born circa 1679 and died circa 1727 about 48 years old. He married Miss [Joyce?] Joyner and secondly Mrs. Susannah Blunt Davis. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This Thomas Williams the son of John Williams
Sr is very elusive and hard to actually document. The sheer number of Thomas
Williamses coming out of the Isle of Wight without any definitive connection to any one family is daunting. Besides the son of John Williams Sr. there are
Thomas Williamses connected to Thomas Williams Sr., the Quaker John
Williams, and a grandson of Rowland Williams
all living near each other and contemporaries with each other. This Thomas Williams however, I believe is the ancestor of men, who my Britton Williams' daughters will marry in the 1790's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Williams the son of John Williams Sr was about 13 years old when his father died in 1692.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John
Williams Sr. </span>bequeathed<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> "unto my next Sonn Thomas Williams and the heyrs of his body truly begotten one hundred and fifty acres
of the aforesaid land lying and being in Surry County and part of the same
tract where my sonn John William now liveth and he the sayd Thomas Williams and
his heirs to enjoy the same with all benefits and appurtenances there unto
belonging.” Additionally John Williams Sr. gave this son "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the marr [mare] foal which goes with the marr.” </span><br />
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years later in 1694 when his mother remarried Anne Williams deeded to her son Thomas “cattle”. How much is
unknown but at least two. These were not milk cows but beef cows. He was a youth of about 15 when his mother remarried and would
have been a step son of Arnold Shumacke. Thomas would have turned 18 years old in 1697 and of full age at 21 in
1700. Sometime during this period he married the daughter of Thomas Joyner. By the
time his step father died in 1698, Thomas Williams was about 19 and while under
age still, could marry with Ann’s consent and take over the duties of his own
plantation in Surry County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tracking Thomas Williams as an adult is
difficult for the reasons stated. However for all the Thomas Williamses
in the region, the 1704 Quit Rent Rolls only shows one</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in
Isle of Wight and none in Surry County where the lands he inherited from his
father was located. He may have lost much of his land by that time as he is shown owing debt in Surry County. He was by 1704 married and living on Seacock Swamp a branch of the Blackwater on the west side. Thomas Williams on the most part is not involved in any of the many land transactions
that his older brother William Williams was involved in during 1704 with every one of his other brothers, John, Nicholas, and Richard. The only exception was on 22 August 1719 when Thomas Williams, Christopher Reynolds, and Joseph Godwin, witnessed a deed of his deceased brother's sons. Both Christoher Reynolds and Joseph Godwin were Quakers. Thomas Williams' nephews John and
Stephen Williams sold to their uncle, Thomas' brother, Richard Williams land that once was part of a patent granted to William Williams from 28 October 1702, lands just above Franklin on the west side of Blackwater River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Williams married Miss Joyner the daughter of
Thomas Joyner Jr and Elizabeth by 1702. In the Isle of Wight Deed Book volume 2 page 4, Thomas Joyner
called Thomas Williams his “son-in-law”. "9 August 1704, Thomas Joyner, Sr. of
Lower Parish, to his son-in-law Thomas Williams 150 acres on the south side of
Blackwater Swamp , (being part of a patent of 300 acres granted said Joyner on
23 October 1702,) bounded by Seacock Swamp and Terrapin Swamp. Signed Thomas
Joyner Wit: George Green and John Watts. The deed was later acknowledged as a deed of
gift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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most of their legal transactions involved known Quaker families in the Isle of
Wight. As that his brother Nicholas Williams married into a Quaker family and perhaps sister Elizabeth Wright its not
unreasonable to assume he might have also. Whether Thomas Williams became a Quaker or not, circumstantial evidence show that his son John Williams was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When Thomas Williams' father-in-law Thomas Joyner Jr. made out his will on 21 April 1708 he named wife Elizabeth, son Thomas Joyner [married Patience], eldest daughter Christian [married William Thomas], son Benjamin Joyner, son James Joyner, youngest daughter Martha [married Thomas Turner], son John, son Nemiah, grandson Thomas Joyner, cousin [neice] Lucy Joyner daughters Elizabeth and Deborah, and Thomas Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Elizabeth, my
plantation where she now lives, after her death to son Thomas Joyner [married Patience].
To eldest daughter Christian, plantation where she lives;
to son Benjamin land between William Kinchen and Arthur Purcell, to son James land where Charles Berkett lives, to youngest daughter Martha Joyner land
where the widow Lother [Luther] lives, to son John plantation where he lives, to son
Nemiah land; to son Thomas where he lives not given to Thomas Williams, to
grandson Thomas Joyner, a horse; to cousin (niece) Lucy Joyner, a heifer, to daughters Christian, Elizabeth, Deborah five shillings apiece, James, Nemiah, Benjamin
and Martha to have their parts at age 16. Witnesses:
William West, Jenkins Dorman, and James Barnes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The wife of Thomas Williams is not listed in
Thomas Joyner’s will. The eldest daughter Christian Joyner was married to William Thomas by 1723. A land patent dated 5
September 1723 show that William Thomas and wife Christian patented 290 acres
of land on the eastside of Seacock Swamp next to lands of James Barnes and
Thomas </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Williams. They would eventually move to North
Carolina by 1725 and Arthur Smith the son of Virgus Smith took over the land.</span></div>
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his brother Bridgeman Joyner deed to Thomas Williams land on 26 February 1710
witnessed by Quaker Richard Reynolds and husband of Elizabeth Williams daughter of George Williams. Thomas Williams later sold this land to John Council.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When her father died the court ordered the sale of Blunt’s estate and his brother-in-law John Screws assigned his rights to his niece Susannah Blunt. She probably married around age 15 years [1700] to John Davis who died intestate in 1721. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Davis was the son of John Davis and Mary Green and had appraised the estate of Peter Deberry in 1712. Deberry was the father-in-law of John Warren and John was the brother of Thomas Warren. Thomas Warren's widow would marry Thomas Williams son Thomas Williams Jr. Peter Deberry left to his son-in-law John Warren property that adjacent was adjacent to William Thomas and there fore not to far from Thomas Williams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">On 9 July 1724, Thomas Williams patented 140 acres on the eastside of Seacock Swamp. The grant shared a northern line with William Thomas’s property. About a mile further up the river was the former 440 acre grant of Thomas Joyner, Thomas Williams and William Thomas’ father-in-law. Other Joyner relatives had land parcels all in the same general area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Williams made out his Last W</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ill and Testament on March 5 1726 [1727]. He must have been ill as that the will w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">as probated a few months later on 22 May 1727 in the Isle of Wright County, Virginia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thomas Williams of Upper Parish, Planter, Legatees wife Susannah, "if she should remarry then reversion bequests left her to [go to] sons John and Thomas," "daughter Joyce, son Joseph". "I desire that my wife’s son, Thomas Davis be paid what his father left him. Wife executor." The witnesses to Thomas Williams will were Joseph Quantock and Michael Deloach. This choice of witnesses indicates that Thomas Williams was distant from his other siblings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Joseph Quantock is kind of a mysterious person although he is a witness, along with Thomas Williams oldest boy John Williams, the will of Michael Deloach who had written his 20 April 1727 shortly after Thomas Williams. Quantock also was a witness to the will of Thomas Ward in April 1727. These wills are the only reference to a Joseph Quantock in any other record that I can locate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">While Thomas Williams died probably in May 1727 his estate was not appraised until that August. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 28 August 1727 John Mangum, William Bell, and Thomas Ward were appointed to appraise the estate of Thomas Williams. Thomas Ward had made out his will 15 April 1727, witnessed by John Williams, Joseph Quantock, and Susannah Williams. Thomas Williams may have been dead or too ill to witness Ward's will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>I)</b> John Williams born circa 1702 died 1754. He married Rebecca. He witnessed the will of Thomas Gay in 1750 along with his son in law Richard
Pope and Mary Coggan in which Gay left his minor children in the care of the
Quaker Monthly Meeting for their placement in homes. John Williams made his own
will 22 September 1754 and it was recorded 7 November 1754. He named two sons
Joseph Williams and John Williams and three married daughters but only Ann by
name the wife of Nathan Pope. His other daughters were the wives of Richard
Pope and Joseph Holloway. For some reason John Williams did not mention his
wife Rebecca in this will. On 2 January 1755 several men probably Quakers
recorded a document to assign Rebecca Williams her dower rights as John
Williams’ widow. The men who recorded the document were John Scott, John
Penner, Thomas Gay [son of Thomas Gay who died in 1750], Thomas Gale, James
Hough, John Marshall Jr and John Williams [probably son]. The document was
signed in the presene of William Eley, William Pass, and John Baldwin. Thomas
Gale, John Marshall Jr and William Pass were then assigned to appraise John
Williams estate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">II) </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Williams Jr. born circa 1704 and died unknown. He married about 1740 Sarah the relict of Thomas Warren Jr. Sarah may have been the daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Branch. On 5 May 1739 Elizabeth Branch deed to daughter Sarah Williams for love and affection a "negro girl Agney." Witnesses to this deed of gift were John and Catherine Dunkley. John Dunkley was the son in law of Thomas Williams uncle Thomas Joyner. The girl Agney may have been a wedding gift.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As husband of Mrs. Sarah Branch Warren, Thomas Williams Jr. gave an account of Thomas Warren which
was recorded 24 August 1742 and examined by John Davis and Edmund Godwin. Some
genealogists have Thomas and Sarah married in 1750 but as that he was already in charge of Warrens estate by 1742 that is highly
unlikely. Sarah Warren Williams was the
mother of four daughters and a son by 1735. Therefore she was married first
to her first husband Thomas Warren Jr about 1725. He was the son of Thomas Warren Sr and Elizabeth
Plaw and was born before 1684 as he was listed in the tithing List of Surry County
in 1699. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Warren Jr. made out his will
9 Sept 1735 which was recorded 24 May 1736 in Isle of Wight County. Sarah
Warren was made executrix as all her children were minors. He named
in his will son Thomas Warren, [born circa 1725] and daughters Mary Warren
[born circa 1727], Jane Warren [born circa 1729], Martha Warren [born circa
1731, and Patience Warren [born circa 1733]. Witnesses to the will of Thomas
Warren was John Dunkley and John Warren. Dunkley was the son in law of Thomas Joyner, the uncle of Thomas Williams Jr. John
Warren was Thomas Warren's brother. An inventory of Thomas Warren's estate was signed by Mary Warren and recorded 25 October 1736.
The inventory was taken by Thomas
Williams Jr.’s cousin John Vasser, Thomas Williams Jr's step brother John Davis and and James Norwood. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas Williams Jr and Sarah married between 1736 and 1742 probably in 1739 as widows with children and property did not remain widows long. Thomas Williams Jr. became the stepfather for Thomas Warren's children. Sarah Branch Warren Williams'only son Thomas Warren died some time before 1750.</span><br />
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had moved to North Carolina along with his married step daughters. Thomas and Sarah and the Step daughters sold to
John Holding 180 acres in Southampton County Virginia that had been left to
them by their father Thomas Warren. Strangely this deed transaction was not recorded
however until 8 Nov 1759. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Williams and his wife, Sarah,of the Province of North Carolina, sell to John Bowen, Jr.
and Mary, his wife, Hardy Hart and Jane, his wife, Arthur Hart and Martha, his
wife, all of North Carolina of the second part, and John Holding of the County of
Southampton in VA of the third part, for £36 a certain tract of land containing
180 acres in Southampton County, on the southside of Lithwood Swamp, being part of
a patent granted Bartholomew Andros for 320 acres by date of 16 June 1714 and by
said Andros conveyed to Robert Warren, Jr., Thomas Warren and John Warren, 26 October 1719...deceased, by the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Warren to his
wife, Sarah Warren, and after her death to his son, Thomas Warren and his
heirs;but the said Thomas Warren, Jr., dying an infant [under 21] with no
heirs, the said land was devolved to his four sisters, Mary, Jane, Martha and
Patience Warren, and whereas, the said Sarah Warren, relict of Thomas Warren,
hath intermarried with the said Thomas Williams and they being willing to sell
their right, being the first part, etc., and whereas, the said Mary, Jane and
Martha hath intermarried with the said John Bowen, Hardy Hart and Arthur Hart.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Hart brothers and John Bowen married Thomas Williams step daughters Mary, Jane, and Martha between July 1745 and April 1750 and youngest step daughter Patience married George Jordan between 1750 and 1755. A deed Between George Jordan and wife Patience of Northampton County, North Carolina and George Wood dated 11 Dec 1755 shows George and Patience Jordan selling their 46 acres part of a patent to Mary Warren, Jane Warren, Martha Warren and Patience for 185 acres on 4 Jul 1745.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">While Thomas and Sarah Williams remained in North Carolina as did their sons in law Hardy Hart, Arthur Hart and George Jordan, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bowen and wife Mary Warren to return to Southampton
County where John Bowen made out his will 19 January 1762. It was recorded 9 September
1762. In his will he named wife Mary, and children Jonathan Bowen, Bethia
Vasser, Mary Bowen, Rebecca Bowen, and
Arthur Bowen. Their eldest son Jonathan Bowen married Ann Calthorpe the daughter of Charles annd Eleanor Butts Calthorpe. Their eldest daughter Bethia had married by 1762 there she would have been born before 1747. She married a Vasser but which one is presently unknown. This stepdaughter of Thomas Williams had a grandson, Charles Butts
Bowen, who married Martha Williams the
daughter of Britton and Elizabeth Williams of Granville County [Barnwell] South
Carolina. Britton Williams' other
daughter Sarah Williams married Josiah Vasser son of Joseph Vasser. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Calthorpe and Eleanor Butts Calthorpe had lands in Southampton adjacent to
Arthur Joyner and Nicholas Williams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas and Sarah Williams remained in Northampton County North Carolina as did step
daughters Jane Hart, Martha Hart and Patience Jordan however Mary Bowen returned
to Southampton County. A </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Northampton
County North Carolina deeds of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Edmond Lewis dated 26 May 1757 and 23 Feb 1758 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> shows that Hardy Hart and his brothers-in-law Francis Boykin and George Jordan as well as Arthur Wall had lands adjoining the Lewis family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is no proof that Thomas and Sarah Williams had offspring of their own but as Thomas was in his late 30's when he married the widow Mrs. Sarah Warren who was in her early 30's there's no reason to believe that they didn't have children of their own. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One such child may have been Jesse Williams who was born circa1745 and died 1782 in Georgia. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jesse Williams Last Will and Testament was dated 22 November 1782 and was
recorded December 1782 in both Northampton County, North Carolina and Greene
County, Georgia. His will named his wife Martha, thought to be Martha Hart, and
his father and mother Thomas and Sarah Williams. There is a deed dated 3 May 1773 in Northampton County from Thomas
Williams to son Jesse Williams. If this is the same Thomas and Sarah Williams then they died sometime after November 1782. Jesse Williams was the father of a son named Brittain Williams born 1770.</span></div>
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in 1756. He married Mary and was probably a Quaker. The witnesses of his were Thomas Gale, John Gay [son of Thomas Gay who died 1750] and John
Richards. His will only mentioned two children John Williams and Rebecca
Williams. The executors of his will was his wife Mary and Jethro Gale who was
the son of Thomas Gale. His estate was appraised by John Baldwin, John
Richards, John Marshall.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Mary Williams Hickman 1681- After 1716 Age at time of death unknown </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Williams was born about 1681 and was about 10 years old when her
father died. He bequeath to his daughter “one feather Bed and boulster [stuffed pillow], one Rugg ,one
blanket, one sheet.' These were household items suitable for a dowry. John Williams Sr. left the
identical items to his other daughter Jane Williams except that Mary got a rug and
Jane did not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two years after her father died her mother Anne Williams left her
some personal property in a deed of gift dated 9 April 1694. She gave her
daughters some kitchen "pewter" [dishes] and wearing apparel. Perhaps Mary
Williams was betrothed that the same stipulation was not placed on her as was her
sister Jane, that she wait until she was 18 years of age before she could
receive these items.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Williams married William Hickman in
probably 1696 with her mother’s consent as that she was only 15 or 14 years
old at the time. William Hickman was working for
John Williams Sr. at the time of Mary’s father’s death and probably was an apprentice and not an indentured servant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Some genealogist claim was William Hickman was the son of an Edward Hickman while others claim a Nathaniel Hickman. As that one of his sons was named Nathaniel Hickman that may be the more accurate. Also some family histories, that are often just copied and not researched, state that he was born about 1664. If so he would have been 28 years old when John Williams called him “my boy”. I suggest that he was a minor more like a youth under 18 years [1675]. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">William was born in Isle of Wight so he was not imported by John Williams Sr. He would have been about 20 years old with Mary Williams between 14 and 15 years old when they married. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hickman was a
legatee in John Williams' will was given a yearling heifer which was probably part of his contract for
service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By 1713 William Hickman made enough money to import three people to Virginia. He </span>received<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> a much larger patent of 150 acres for some reason. On 13 November 1713 he obtained a patent of 370 acres of "new land" in the Nottoway basin in the Isle of Wight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Three years later on 8 October 1716, William Hickman sold to Henry "Bosman", a cooper, for 3000 pounds of
tobacco, 175 acres on the North side of Nottoway River, of his 370 acre
patent. His wife Mary Williams Hickman signed that she relinquished her dower rights to the land. Over twenty years later 22 August <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1738, Henry Bosman, now of "Carolina" sold back to William Hickman the patented land that he had bought in 1716. Now listed as 170 acres, the different acreage probably due to a resurvey, or inaccurate recording.</span></div>
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the 1713 patent to Benjamin "Jonson" (Johnson), which was described as being on the
south side of Blackwater River and in the
forks of the Nottoway and Black Water. One of the landmarks was
"Hickman's Swamp". In July 1738 Benjamin Johnson sold this land back to Hickman<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hickman was living in Isle of Wight County as of November 1728 when he was one of the appraisers of the estate of Arthur Benn. Other appraisers were Samuel Brown, John Vasser, and James Garner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before 1732 William Hickman had moved to Nansemond County where Theophilus Pugh purchased of William
Hickman a parcel of land, on a branch of the Beaver
Dam Swamp however by 1739 William Hickman had moved to Edgecombe County North Carolina. A deed dated 10 June 1739 stated that a Christopher Guin sold lands </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">adjoining that of William Hickman &
Frederick Jones, with Henry West one of the witnesses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The West family seemed to be connected to William Hickman's family by 1730. The will of an Arthur
West, made out 12 April 1727 and recorded May 1730, in Bertie County, North Carolina, devised to a Nathaniel Hickman land
on Fishing Creek and to Robert, son of Henry West, land on Fishing Creek. Nathaniel Hickman was a son of William Hickman and may have married a daughter of Arthur West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In November 1741, when William Hickman would have been about 66 years old he proved his land
rights in Edgecombe County, North Carolina paying a poll tax for one white person and one black person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 21 March 1743 [1744] he petitioned for 100 acres in
Edgecombe County and received a warrant for 100 acres. As he was approaching seventy years he probably was seeking land to devise to heirs rather than farm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The North Carolina Archives does not now have </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">William Hickman will but he was dead by 19 February 1745 when his will which disappeared was proved by oath dated 19 February 1744 [1745] it was not recorded by the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the oaths of Wallace
Jones, Drewry [Drury]Jones, and Mary Jones. His son Nathaniel Hickman qualified as executor. T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">he father-son relationship of William and Nathaniel is predicated on Nathaniel's serving as executor, and the apparent difference in ages. William died in 1745 and Nathaniel died in 1795.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 1750 will of William Jones of Edgecombe County, names son
"Drewy", and mentions land formerly belonging to William Hickman. He named "Wallis" [Wallace] Jones as executor. Wallace Jones was the son of John Jones </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A detailed inventory showed that William
Hickman had considerable estate:25 barrels of Indian corn, 2 negro men, 42
head of cattle, 9 horses & mares, 1 bell & furniture, 1 pot & pot
hook, 1 frying pan, 2 & 3 dishes, 4 spoons, 1 bed cord, 1 clock, 1 hat, 2
pair of stockings, 1 pair of gloves, 1 pair of shoes, 1 pair comps to
over shirt, 1 waistcoat, cloth for suit of clothes, 1 bible, a drinking glass, 1
glass, 1 looking glass (a fairly rare item),honey scales, 3 books, 2 pair of
buttons, 8 brass buttons, ounce of brown thread, 1 cyphering book, 28 head of
hogs, 13 head of horses & 12 calves, 1 plantation, 1 ink glass, 1 knife
& fork, 1 file, 1 pocket book, 2 lb, 5 shilling in gold, 7 shilling & 5
pence in silver, 1 add, 1 gauge, 1 augor, 1 hand saw, 1 drawing knife, 2
gimbles, razors, 1 ink horn & pen knife, 3 weeding hoes, 2 stumps of hoes,
1 broad ax, 2 wedges, 1 gun, 1 powder tub, 3 pigeons, 1 meal sifter, 3 baskets,
1 jacket & britches, 77 head of hogs, 1 saddle, 2 ropes, 1 oxen, brigs,
wallet, 1 house knife. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The inventory of the "estate of William Hickman, deceased of Rocky Swamp" was signed by Nathaniel Hickman and presented to the court 21 May 1745. By some of the items listed in the inventory William Hickman may also have been a tailor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary William Hickman probably died in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Edgecombe County, North Carolina date unknown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 8 April 1745, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Hickman, 100 acres in
Edgecombe Co on the southside of Conoway Creek, joining the mouth of Fish Pond
Branch and the creek. This could have been a delayed recording or it could have been to William Hickman Jr. his son</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>I) </b>William Hickman, Jr., born about 1696 Isle of
Wight Co VA74, died 1761, Southampton County Virginia. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Southampton County, Virginia was divided out of Isle of Wight, and the William Hickman's land fell into the new county, and Nottoway Parish. The lands he bought back may have been given to his son William Hickman Jr. who died there in 1761. On 8 February </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1753, William Hickman sold William Grimmer 100 acres on Hickman Swamp,which was part of the land patented by William Hickman some 40 years before.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The will of William Hickman Jr, was proved 8 Oct 1761. In his will he names sons Joseph Hickman and John Hickman and daughters Sarah, Martha, Elizabeth, Tamer and he may have had more as he names "and my surviving children". The executors of the estates were "friends" Albridgton Jones and Job Wright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>II) </b>Nathaniel Hickman, Sr. born 1698 died 1795. Married first Sarah West (1712- 1740's) , Edgecombe County, North Carolina and secondly Sarah Strickland (1713-1805). Nathaniel is left land of about 180 acres on Fishing Creek in Bertie County in 1727 which later became Edgecombe County by his father in law Arthur West. He lived near Henry West. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In July of 1742 Nathaniel Hickman bought from probably a cousin </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William Williams of Onslow County, North Carolina 200 acres of land on the southside of the Tar River in Edgecombe County North Carolina for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10 lbs Virginia currency. The land adjoined "Dr.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clancey and the branch next to the Hickman
house; all houses, gardens, as by patent, 11 July 1739.Aug Ct 1742." </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Later on 12 May 1746 N</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">athaniel Hickman sold to Charles Matthews of Brunswick County Virginia for 15 lbs current money of Virginia 100
acres on the southside of Conaway Creek, joining the mouth of Fish Pond Branch
& the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creek. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Later that year he bought on 4 November 1746 from </span>Christopher<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Guin for 1</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">0 lbs current money of Virginia 100 acres on
the northside of Tar River, joining Indian Creek, Drew Smith & the river, part of 2000 acres granted to John
Green. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 23 February 1748 [1749] Nathaniel Hickman "of Tar River"sold to John and Elizabeth Lott for</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 120 lbs Virginia money 640
acres with one water mill on the northside of Toisnoit Swamp. The witnesses of were Benjamin and Solomon Williams probably grandsons of John Williams Sr. and cousins. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 13 May </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1749, Nathaniel & Sarah Hickman of
Edgecombe County bought from Peter Mitchell for 100 lbs of lawful money of England 200
acres on the southside of Tar River, joining Dr Clancy the river and the fork
of a branch next to the house where the said Hickman lives, part of a patent
for 640 acres to William Williams, 11 Jul 1739. The same day Nathaniel Hickman bought from John Jones for 15 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">lbs money of Virginia for 100 acres on the northside of Tar River. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6 August </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1751,Nathaniel Hickman of Edge County paid John Dew of Northampton County 50 lbs current money of Virginia for 300 acres with the
Grice [grist] Mill,"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">thereon the northside of Toisnoit Swamp." </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 8 February 1753 [1754] Nathaniel sold to William Grimmer 100 acres on Hickman Swamp in Southampton County Virginia as did his brother William Hickman. On 19 November 1757 Nathaniel Hickman Jr sold to first cousin one removed </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matthew Williams of Edgecombe County for 9 lbs Virginia Currency </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">100 acres on the southside of Toisnoit Swamp. Matthew Williams was the son of Richard Williams and Nathaniel Hickman Sr.'s first cousin. The witness to this deed was Thomas Dickson [Dixon] and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nathaniel Hickman, Sr. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nathaniel Hickman was a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Constable in June 1758 "In district
where George Blackwell formerly was." In 1758 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Halifax was formed from Edgecombe County and some of Nathaniel Hickman's property became located there. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">760 Although there were numerous clusters of
settlers in Edgecombe Co, the only town in the 18th century was Taraboro named
for the Tar River on which it is situated. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Apr 27, 1763 Nathaniel Hickman of Edgecombe County sold </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to Thomas Spell, for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">£15</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a tract of 100 acres on the north bank of Tar River and on Indian Creek adjoining Drew Smith, which land was purchased by said Hickman from Christopher Guin.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1777 The western half of Edgecombe Co was
sliced off to create Nash County and in 1855 its southern end was removed to make
a considerable part of Wilson Co. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Nathaniel Hickman Sr was in his 80's he was still receiving grants from the state of North Carolina. 28 November 1785 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">in consideration of 50 Shillings for every 100 acres was
paid into the NC Treasury.He was given & granted a tract of land containing
200 acres lying & being in the County of Edgecombe on the southside of a
branch of Town Creek called White's Branch. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nathaniel's will in Edgecombe Co NC (10 Mar
1790/Nov. Court 1795) "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the name of God, Amen. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I, Nathaniel Hickman of Edgecombe County and
State of North Carolina. Being of sick and weak body yet of perfect sound sense
and memory thanks be to God for the same and calling to mind the mortality of
my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and
ordain this my "Last Will and Testament." </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First and principally I give and recommend my
soul into the hand of God that gave it, and my mind I commit to the earth to be
buried at the direction of my executors hereafter named and as to what worldly
estate is hast pleased God to bless me with.I give, demise, bequeath
and......of the same on the following manner......................... </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First my will and desire that my debts and
funeral expense be paid. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I lend into my beloved wife Sarah Hickman, the plantation and land wherein I now live with 300 acres of land
belonging thereto, also I lend her 2 negro men namely Amritt and Guy , also I
lend her all the........................ </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">and residue of estate of what kind so ever it
be during her natural life, together with my plantation and land lies on the
branches of Town Creek. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I give and bequeath unto my loving son
Nathaniel, 150 acres of land after the decease of my said wife, Sarah Hickman,
it being the upper </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">part of the tract whereon I now live, to him
and his heirs or assigns forever the same in full of my estate and a bar from
his obtaining anymore. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I give, demise and bequeath unto my
loving son, William, 150 acres of land after the decease of my said wife, Sarah Hickman, it being </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the lower end of the tract whereon I now
live, to him or his heirs or assigns forever the same in full of my estate and
a bar from his obtaining anymore. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I give and bequeath unto my
granddaughter, Nancy Clark, 1/3 part of the cattle,......., hogs and sheep,
also one woolen wheel and one linen wheel after the decease of my said wife,
Sarah Hickman, to her and her heirs and assigns forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I give and bequeath unto my loving
daughter, Mourning Pittman, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">my negro man called Armitt, after the decease
of my said wife, Sarah Hickman, to her and her.....................lawfully
begotten of her body also I give her 1/3 of the cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep
and working tools after the decease of her mother to her heirs and assigns
forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I give and bequeath unto my loving
daughter, Elizabeth Vivrett the sum of 5 shillings sterling, to her heirs and
assigns forever. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">tem I give and bequeath unto my loving
daughter, Sarah Dixon, the sum of 5 shillings sterling, to her and her heirs
and assigns forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Item I give and bequeath unto my loving
daughter, Mary Stricklin the sum of 5 shillings sterling to her and her heirs
and assigns forever. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lastly, I nominate, constitute and appoint my
loving grandson, Snowden Hickman</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, and my friend Dempsey Dawson,
executors of this my Last Will and Testament allowing this and only this to be
my Last Will and Testament, in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and
affixed my seal the Tenth day of March in the year of our Lord God, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence
of us. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dempsey Dawson, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Roland Robbins. ,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dempsey Dawson, one of the executors </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">& Snowden Hickman. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">27 June 1803 a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">n additional inventory sale was
held by the executor Snowsden Hickman. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The widow, Sarah, was probably dead by June
1803. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">22 September 1</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">803, a division of the residual estate
among the heirs, to wit. "Mourning Pitman (now Mourning Carter), Snoden
Hickman, Nancy Clark, Sarah Dixon, Elizabeth Viveritt, and Mary Stricklin, Aug
9, 1804, Aug Court 1804". </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1.Sarah Hickman [1728-1816] married Thomas Dixon. 2. Nathaniel Hickman Jr [1730 died before Nov
1803]. 3</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.William Hickman [1732-1816] marred Mildred Smith in Edgecombe Co
NC; married 2nd </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lucretia Stricklin; living in Jackson Co GA
in 1800; will recorded there in 1816. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. Mary Hickman [1735 after 1790] married Mr. Strickland, 5. Elizabeth Hickman [1737-1807] </span>married <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Abraham Dew, bond 2 Dec 1763,
who was deceased by April 1774.She married 2nd by 1776 Thomas Vivrette </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vivrett's will, proved in Nash Co., N. C. at
Nov. court 1792, 6. Mourning Hickman [1740-1804] married 1st Pittman and 2nd Kindred Carter II</span></li>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jane Williams born 1684- after 1694 Age at time of death is unknown</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Jane Williams was probably the youngest daughter of John and Anne Williams as that she is the last daughter mentioned in his will. Her father wrote "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I give and bequeath unto my next daughter Jane Williams one feather bed boulster Rugg one blankett one sheet." Two years later her mother Anne gave her "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">pewter when 18" and "wearing apparel." Jane Williams would not have turned 18 until after 1700 probably about 1702. So far there hasn't been any record of her marrying so it is an enigma as to her fate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nicholas Williams was born about 1686 and died 1749 at the age of 63. His family seemed to be the
only one whose Bible records remained intact long enough to be passed down to
relatives in this family. However his birth date was not recorded in it but his
death date was 18 Aug 1749. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">n his mothers deed of gift in dated 9 April
1694, Anne Williams mentions that Nicholas was seven years old. Depending when
his his birthday was means that he could have been born in either 1686 or 87.
The former year seems more likely as that he married Anne Lewis 24 February,
1704/05 when he was about 18 or 19. Even that seems young for men to marry in
colonial times. By common law he was still considered an “infant” or minor
until the age of 21 years. But as he had property and both parents might have been deceased by then he would have been able to marry by then. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many legal actions did not require that a
person be 21. For many legal actions, the
law merely required that the person be judged capable of discretion. The age of
14 years was generally accepted under common law as the age of discretion. At 21 a
person could marry without parental consent but under that age a parent consent
was necessary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In March 1692 John Williams Sr. wrote in his
will “I give and bequeath unto my next Sonn Nicholas Williams and the heyrs of
his body truly begotten one parcel of one hundred and fifty acres of the
aforesaid land lying and being in Surry County and part of the same tract of
land where my Sonn John Williams now liveth to his heyrs truly begotten with
all appurtenances and benefits there unto belonging." This was part of the 600
acres that he acquired in 1685 shortly before his son’s birth. He would have been about 5 years old when he
inherited the property. Two years later his mother Anne Wllliams gave him a
deed of gift that stated “son Nicholas Williams his father‘s musket—Nicholas is
7 years old to have it at 18.” Nicholas
would have turned 18 if he was born in 1686 in 1704. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nicholas Williams married Anne Lewis on 24
February 1703, according to a Bible record reported in John Bennett Boddie, in his Historical Southern Families, Vol. VI. The actual date</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> would have been 24 February 1704. Under the
old British Imperial system March 25 was the 1</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> legal day of
the new year. As this date was from a Bible record and not an official document, written years after the event it could simply be
wrong. Anne Lewis Williams was the daughter of Richard Lewis who left his will also
in 1692. She is listed as having died 15 October 1760. She would have been
about 70 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the will of Richard Lewis, he placed the care of his infant daughter to a Mr. Bressie, which could have been William Bressie or his son Hugh. In any case both father and son were Quakers. One of the witnesses to Richard Lewis will was Alexander
Matthews who also witnessed Nicholas' father John Williams Sr's will. Alexander
Matthews was the grandson of Quaker William Boddie. Richard Lewis's a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ssociation with so many Quakers suggests that this family was of the Quaker faith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Richard Lewis. probably a Quaker himself, acted as a witness to Quaker George
Williams' will dated 1672. Richard Lewis had to have been born before 1651 to act as a witness. He may have been a son of a John
Lewis who was a witness of the will of John Vasser in 1650. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Richard Lewis of
Lower Parish made out his will 13 December 1691 which was recorded March 26,
1692 in Isle of Wight County. He would have been over 40 years old. His wife
Sarah must have been ill herself or perhaps from her pregnancy as none of
Richard Lewis children were left to her care. She may have been a second wife
as that his oldest son would have been born by 1677 and 14 years old at his
father’s death. Son Richard Lewis Jr was
of age by 1698 [21 years 1677] when he was one of the witnesses to the will of
Thomas Moore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Richard Lewis does mention an unborn child so we know his wife Sarah was
pregnant at the time of his death and they probably were a young family. He mentions his children in this order in
his will; Richard Lewis [Jr]., Thomas Lewis, Anne Lewis, and Elizabeth Lewis
and the unborn child. His son Richard was left the plantation where William
Duck lived and Duck was to provide tuition for this son presumably as part of rent.
Thomas Lewis was given the lands rented to James Cullies but he entrusted his
son to Thomas Giles. Thomas Giles must have been aged and may have even been
Thomas Lewis grandfather. The will said that if Thomas Giles should die then
Thomas Lewis was to be “free”. Daughters were given to the care of two Quaker
families which also indicates this family were Quakers. Anne was given to Mr.
Bressie and Elizabeth was given to the care of Richard Reynold and his wife
Elizabeth Williams Reynolds. Elizabeth Williams Reynold was the daughter of
Quaker George Williams and his wife Elizabeth Boucher. Elizabeth Boucher
Williams was the daughter of Elizabeth Vasser and granddaughter of John Vasser
who died in 1650. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elizabeth Vasser married Quaker Daniel Boucher and she was
probably the older aunt of Nicholas Williams. Nicholas Williams cousin Elizabeth Boucher married George Williams and when George Williams died in 1672 and their young daughter Elizabeth Williams was
entrusted to the care of Quaker William Bressie. As that William Bressie did
not die until 1701 he could have been the Mr. Bressie referred to in Richard
Lewis will. The title Mister was used as a sign of respect. The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The overseers [executors] of Richard Lewis’
will were Thomas Joyner, Jr. whose daughter married Nicholas Williams older brother Thomas Williams and Richard Reynolds, Jr. later would married
Elizabeth Williams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If Anne Lewis was raised as a Quaker it
would make sense that the family would have kept family records as that Quakers are excellent record
keepers. Anne Williams would have been about the same age as Nicholas Williams when they
married. As that Quakers frown on marrying outside of the faith, Nicholas
Williams may have became a Quaker also. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nicholas Williams was about 18 when he
married and 17 when his older brother William Williams and wife Mary Moore Williams deeded him
110 acres in 1703 in the Nottoway Basin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 7 July 1725 Nicholas Williams witnessed a deed between Robert Hodges of Lower Parish and John Dunkley of Upper Parish. Robert Hodges was the father-in-law of Isaac Williams, Nicholas Williams' nephew. John Dunkley was a son in law to Thomas Joyner. The land was on Southside of Blackwater adjacent to lands of Sarah Branch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nicholas Williams' eldest brother John Williams “of North Carolina” deeded Nicholas another
125 acres on 21 October 1725. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1725 when Nicholas would have been about
39 years old when his brother John Williams Jr of Bertie County, North Carolina sold him the 125
acres located on the west side Blackwater River just north of modern Franklin in
Southampton County in Virginia. This land was part of a patent granted to their brother
William Williams in 1702 and sold to John Williams bearing date 24 April 1703. This
transaction was almost a gift as that John Williams sold his interest in this
land for 1 shilling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Nicholas Williams his heirs & for and during the full
term & time of three years fully to be completed & ended yielding &
paying for ye same yearly on ye tenth Day of December ye fee rent one ear of
Indian Corn if ye same shall be Lawfully Demanded unto Ye said John Williams
his heirs & to ye intent & purpose that by virtue of these presents
& of ye Statue for Transferring Uses into possessions that ye said Nicholas
Williams may be in actual & peaceable possession of ye heretofore granted
premises”. John Williams traveled with Robert Hodges to Isle of Wight to
register the deed. Robert Hodge’s daughter Martha Williams married John
Williams son Isaac.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 13 September 1733 Nicholas Williams "gentleman of Newport Parish" sold to Joseph Godwin and Thomas Jarrell "Gentlemen and Church Wardens" 1 acre of land on which to build a </span>chapel<span style="font-size: 12pt;">. As that Quakers have meeting houses the wording of this deed is peculiar. Thomas Jarrell who married Martha Kinchen was a Quaker as was Joseph Godwin who witnessed the deed of Nicholas Williams nephews John and Stephen Williams to Nicholas Williams' brother Richard Williams in 1719. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1744 Nicholas and Anne Lewis Williams were in their 60's when they filed a deed of gift to their children William, Nicholas, Jacob, Johah, Lazarus,
Richard, Benjamin, Patience, Sarah, and Mary. They must have wanted to insure their children's inheritance while still alive. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Deed of Gift recorded June 23,1744 in
Isle of Wight County, Virginina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I, Nicholas Williams Senior and Anne. My wife
send Greetings, etc of the County of Isle of Wight and Parish Nottoway for the
love and affection for our children do give, grant and conform unto them .....</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To my son, William Williams 30 pounds cash
in lieu of his land and also one nego girl named Lucy .....</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To my son Nicholas Williams [jr] land and
plantation whereon he now livith, containing 205 acres, and a negro boy named
Frank.....</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have given unto my son, Jacob Williams the Plantations and lands whereon he now liveth containing 140 acres and one
negro girl, named Edy ..... </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To my son Jonah Williams plantation and
lands containing 260 acres and a negro
boy named Mingo.....</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To my son Lazarus Williams plantation and
lands containing one half that divident lying in Brunswick County and also a
negro boy named Anthony .....</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To my son Richard Williams, plantation and
lands it being the other one-half of that divident with his brother, Lazarus,
in the county of Brunswick, and a negro boy named Mingo (sic)......</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After the death of my wife, Anne and myself,
the plantation whereon we now live to my son Benjamin Williams, also a negro
gIrl named Marther and a negro boy named Pompey .... </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To my daughter Patience Williams a negro
girl, Elizabeth ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To my daughter Sarah Williams negro girl Rachel .... To my daughter Mary Williams a negro girl ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>I) William Williams</b>, b. 18 Dec 1704 died 15 September 1775 Brunswick County, Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>II) Captain Nicholas Williams </b> b. 4 Feb 1706/7 d. 1791 Thomas Clarke III
conveyed on 13 October 1748 to Nicholas Williams, Jr., no consideration
mentioned, 50 acres from property mentioned in the will of Thomas Clarke’s
grandfather, who was George Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nicholas Williams, James Sampson Clarke, and
James Clarke witnessed on 30 December 1748 a conveyance by William Flake,
“Heir-at-Law to his uncle, Robert Flake, deceased” on 30 December 1748.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>III) Jacob Williams,</b> b. 24 Jan 1707/08 died 18 August 1769 Southampton County, Virginia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>IV) Jonah Williams,</b> b. 21 April 1711 died 9 May 1771 married Martha Eley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>V) Patience Williams,</b> b. 21 Jan 1712/13 died 12 September 1773<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>VI) Richard Williams,</b> b. 11 Mar 1716/17 died 1 December 1769 Lunenberg, Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>VII) Lazarus Williams,</b> b. 9 Mar 1718/19 died 17January 1787 Lunenberg Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>VIII) Mary Williams,</b> b. 11 Nov 1720 died 2 April 1772<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>IX) Sarah Williams,</b> b. 15 Nov 1723 died 1 October 1770 Southampton County Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Captain Richard Williams as he was known was born circa 1689 and died
1738 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. From his father's will and his mother's deed of gift he appears to have been second to the youngest of the sons of John Williams Sr. His father gave him 150 acres in Surry County when he was still a toddler and his mother gave him his father's sword when he came of age. Richard Williams did not come of age at 18 until 1707 and would not have married </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">before that time. There is no record of his being place in the care of others after his father died so he must have remained in his mother's household during her marriage to his stepfather Arnold Schumake. He was not quite 10 years old when his mother became a widow again. His mother may have died around 1704 for William Williams began providing land for his younger siblings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In 1704 Richard's older brother William sold him 130 acres of land on the south side of the Blackwater River just north of the town of Franklin. This certainly raises the question of how old Richard Williams was in 1704. If he was born circa 1689 he would have only been 15 years old. Under the common law, full majority was reached at the age of 21 and anyone under 21 was legally an infant. Only persons who had reached majority could perform certain legal actions such as buying or selling land without restriction. However minors could be landowners, since they could acquire land by gift or inheritance. Land was never owned without title, so a father’s will devising land to a minor resulted in the minor’s immediate ownership regardless of age. Likewise, nothing in the common law prevented an “infant” from buying land or other property. But, again, such an action could be later be repudiated by the minor but as the sell was between brothers there was little chance of that. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This sale however was not simply a deed of gift. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">William Williams sold the 130 acres for 5,000 lbs. of tobacco. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">About nine years later on 13 November 1713 Richard acquired 400 acres in the Nottoway Basin which later he devised in his will to his son John Williams. Richard Williams was on his way to becoming a prosperous planter with 150 acres in Surry County, and 530 acres in Isle of Wight County. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">On 22 August 1719 Richard Williams' nephews John and Stephen Williams sold to their uncle, land that once was part of a patent granted to William Williams from 28 October 1702. This land is just above Franklin on the west side of Blackwater River in present day Southampton County. His brother </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thomas Williams, along with Quakers Christopher Reynolds, and Joseph Godwin, witnessed the deed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was about this time Richard Williams married. His wife was probably his second cousin Sarah Vasser the daughter of John Vasser. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">John Vasser the son of Peter Vasser who died in 1736. Peter Vasser and Anne Williams, wife of John Williams Sr. were mostly brother and sister. Richard Williams and John Vasser would have been first cousins and his wife Sarah would have been a first cousin once removed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">John Vasser’s will was recorded 23 Aug 1736. Legatees. - son Nathan after his mother's death; to daughter Sarah; daughter Elizabeth; granddaughter Sarah Vasser; wife Margaret. My estate to be divided into three parts, one part to my wife; one to Simon Everett, and the third to my son Nathan. Simon Everett never married or had issue and was a Quaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">It seems that once Richard Williams acquired land he kept it, for only one deed has so far been found showing him disposing of any land. "To all Christian people to who this present writing shall know ye that I Capt. Richard Williams of Isle of Wight County for the good will and natural affection that I bear to my four sons have after named Viz. Daniel, Elisha, George, and Joshua have given and granted to each of them one acre of land being part of a patent containing one hundred and eighty acres of land which patent is adjacent to the plantation whereon I now live, the said four acres I give to them Vis. One acre each in any part of the said patent. dated August 21, 1736." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard Williams made out his will on 8 November 1737 and it was recorded 27 February 1737 [1738]. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Will of Richard Williams: legacy. -
Son John land on which Arthur Edwards now lives; son Solomon my land on which John Row did
live; son Mathew; daughter Mary; Wife Sarah; son Elisha my land in Nanesmond
County, son Joshua land in Nansemond; son Daniel land in Nansemond; friend
William Wiggins; to my young children.
Executor Daniel Williams. Witness:
John Johnston, James Gardner, Elisha Williams. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two of Richard's children George Williams and Elizabeth Williams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">not mentioned by name in their father's will but had to have been his "young children". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard Williams' wife Sarah Williams did not remarry and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">survived him by about 13 years. The fact that she did not remarry while still having young children at home indicates that she had a strong family network that she could rely on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Southampton County was formed in 1749 from Isle of Wight
County, her lands lay in the new county and here her will was recorded. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sarah Williams made out her will 24 March 1750 and it was recorded 14 June 1750. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sarah Williams of Littletown. Legacy. - grandson Richard son of my eldest son John Williams, decd.; son Daniel; son Elisha; son Joshua; grandson Thomas son of Joshua Wiliams; son George; son Solomon; daughter Elisabeth Daughtrey; daughter Mary Carr. Executor Son Daniel Williams. Witnesses were Joseph Carle(Carroll), William Barcroft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When she died in 1750 Sarah Williams was living at her plantation called Littletown in the Nottoway Basin and her eldest son John was “deceased”. He had married and left an heir that Sarah Williams identifies as grandson "Richard Williams". She also names the two children who were not named in their father's will as being George and Elisabeth. Elisabeth Williams was married to John Daughtry by March 1750. So she may have been born around 1735. Daughter Mary Williams was also married to Robert Carr by 1750. Son Joshua Williams was old enough to produced a grandchild by that date also. </span></div>
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Sarah Williams were Nathan Vasser who also participated in
December 1750 in the redivision of the estate of Richard Williams upon the
death of his widow Sarah. Nathan Vasser was the son of John Vasser and was probably Sarah Williams' brother. Sarah Williams grandson Robert Carr IV was was married to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nathan Vasser's youngest daughter Elizabeth Vasser. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In summary, a number of things can be stated concerning Richard Williams, son of John and Anne Williams. He was born about 1688 and in 1704 he was deeded his first tract of land, it being deeded to him by William Williams who can be identified as his brother. He was still a minor at that time and the consideration he used for the purchase of the land apparently came from the accumulation of this income from his father’s estate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He was granted several tracts of land which came to lie in Southampton County, Virginia after that county was formed from Isle of Wight. He also owned land in Nansemond County, Va. Besides being a person who apparently had a frugal nature he was also of some importance in the community, having been a captain in the militia as proved by his being called “Capt. Richard Williams” in the only deed found showing his disposing of any of his land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Richard Williams and his wife Sarah were married approximately 25 years and had at least seven children during that period. They were John Williams, Solomon Williams, Matthew Williams, Mary Williams, Elisha Williams, Joshua Williams, Daniel Williams, George Williams and Elizabeth Williams. </span><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> John Williams Sr.'s Grandchildren </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">by Richard Williams </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>I) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>John Williams</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (ca. 1714-1738) married Sarah , maiden name unknown. He died in Isle of Wight County shortly after his father made his will. His mother’s will of 1749/50 noted that he was deceased. He signed his will on 21 November 1737 (13 days after his father made his will); probated 27 February 1737 [1738], the same day his father’s will was probated. He left two minor children Richard Williams and Elizabeth Williams. Richard Williams grandmother Sarah left to John Williams son Richard the bulk of his grandfather's estates. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">20 Feb 1755 - Southampton County Virginia Richard Williams to Albrighton Jones for 25 lbs 200 acres on the south side of Blackwater Swamp part of 400 acres granted Richard Williams, grandfather of said Richard on 13 Nov 1713. 14 August 1760 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard Williams of Southampton County Virginia to William West for 13 lbs., 100 acres, part of a tract containing 380 acres granted to Richard Williams, grandfather of the said Richard Williams by Honorable Robert Carter, dated Oct. 1, 1729. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>II) </b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Daniel Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (ca. 1716-after 1755) was mentioned in the will of his brother Elisha but otherwise remains an enigma. William Whitley Jr. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of Northampton County North Carolina to Arthur Barnes of Northampton County 24 Aug. 1751 for 4 pounds 10 shillings lawful money of Virginia 140 acres more on less on the north side of Maherrin river and the north side of Buckhorn swamp, joining Daniel Williams, other lands of William Whitleywhereon he now lives and William Wiggons [Wiggins], it being all the land John Miller bought of John Dow, all houses, buildings, etc. Wit: George Williams, William Barnes [William Wiggins mentioned in Richard Williams' will as friend] Arthur Barnes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of Northampton Co. to Charles Barnes of NorthamptonCo. 4 Jan. 1755 15 pounds lawfull money of Va. 140 acres on the north Buckhorn swamp, joining Daniel Williams, William Whitley, Will Wiggins and George Williams </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">III) </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Elisha Williams</b> [1718-1755] </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">died without issue in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He signed his will on 13 August 1751; probated February 1755. His legatees were all of the brothers identified in the wills of his parents (except for the deceased John Williams whose son Richard was a beneficiary) and his sister Mary Carr and Elizabeth Daughtry. Two of the witnesses were James and Drew Smith, brothers of Arthur Smith of Scotland Neck.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">IV) Joshua</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b>Williams</b> (ca. 1720-1761) married Sarah , maiden name unknown. He
was the executor for his brother Elisha in Edgecombe County in 1751 and left
his will in Halifax County North Carolina in 1761. His legatees were his wife
Sarah, sons Thomas Williams and Elisha Williams and daughters Temperance
Williams and Sarah Williams ,all of whom remain to be traced. Son Thomas Williams was mentioned in grandmother Sarah Williams' will March 1750.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">V) </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (ca. 1722-after 1773) married Robert Carr III (ca. 1715-1773)son of Robert Carr II and wife Miss Lawrence. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robert Carr and Mary Williams children were </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robert Carr IV who married Elizabeth
Vasser daughter of Nathan Vasser, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matthew Carr </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">married Elizabeth Wilkinson, </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 221); font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Titus Carr
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">married Winifred Stephenson daughter of
Abraham Stephenson, J</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">oshua Carr married
Mollie Applewhite daughter of Arthur Applewhite, md 2nd Absalom Williams, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elizabeth Carr married George Williams, M</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">artha Carr, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lydia Carr, M</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ary Carr married
Benjamin Williams died 1787; 2</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> married John Williams.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">VII) </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Solomon Williams</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (ca. 1726-1770) married Elizabeth , possibly a Lawrence , whose antecedents, in any event, are unknown. He signed his will in Halifax County, North Carolina on 15 August 1770; probated November 1770. He mentioned his children Charles Williams , Elisha Williams, Lydia Williams, Menia Williams, Lucy Williams Sarah Williams and Elizabeth Williams . Lydia identified another sister Jemima Williams in her will of 1773,and Lucy identified her brother Lawrence Williams in her will of 1783. The descendants of Solomon Williams are in Georgia Colony in 1770’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Theophilus Williams was an infant maybe under 2 years old when his
father died in 1692. John Williams Sr. left to him “the manor plantation” after his mother Anne Williams
passed away. The “said manor plantation is do descend to my youngest sonn
Theophilus Williams and the hyres of his body truely begotten and in case John
Williams wishes to take manor plantation then Theophilus to enjoy the
plantation in Surry County that John Williams is now seated containing one hundred
and fifty acres.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When his mother made a deed of gift to her children in 1694
upon her impending marriage to Arnold Shumacke, Theophilus Williams is not
mentioned. It is presumed that this child died prior to April 1694. His oldest
brother John Williams Jr named his second son Theophilus probably in honor of
the memory of this child. I suspect that he was buried next to his father on the "manor plantation" at the head of Burgh's Swamp. The name Theophilus suggests that his mother was at least a Quaker as the Quakers often named children after figures in the New Testament as opposed Puritans and Anglicans. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2006 I sent a
DNA sample to Family TreeDNA to try and connect Britton Williams with the
legions of Williams scattered in pre-revolutionary North Carolina and Virginia.
I was at a dead end trying to find a legal document that would connect Britton
Williams with a father or at least to the right family grouping. While I was
fairly convinced that he was a descendant of Theophilus Williams of Duplin
County North Carolina through a son named John Williams, all I had to base this
assumption on was circumstantial evidence. So I paid to have my DNA read to the
12th strand of alleles which would show a probable certain degree of relationship
from a common ancestor with others Williamses</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The results of the
DNA test were that I descend from the Genetic Haplogroup R1b1 specifically R1b1a2a1a1b4b L21 which was not surprising as that is the predominant genetic markers for people
who descended from the tribes that settle in the British Isles and Western
Europe. Our family line has a distinct subset of genetic markers that is identified as
M222. This subclade is very common in pockets of Northern Ireland where nearly 20 percent
of the population descend from a common ancestor. The second most common
location for the M222 population is Northern Scotland. Interestingly M222 is
found the least in Wales among the ancient Britonic kingdoms.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While the DNA test
could not prove conclusively a father to son link for Britton Williams, it did
provide enough DNA evidence that I am a paternal descendant of the Welshman
John Williams and his wife Ann of Isle of Wight County who lived in 17th
Century Virginia. The genetic signature shows a perfect match between
myself and the John Williams whose Will was probated in 1691 Virginia and who's
children, grandchildren and great grandchildren spread out in along the
Southern Atlantic Coastal Colonies of North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia. It also proved that I was not a descendant of the John Williams who
died 1689 and had married Ann Whitley. The families of these two men had been
confused for generations and most pedigrees still list Theophilus Williams who
married Christian Busby in the 18th Century as a son of John and Ann Whitley
Williams which is in error.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My DNA not only
matched John Williams, the Welsh Immigrant to America in the 17th Century, it
also matched three other individuals further back in history nearly 1500 years.
Two individuals were located in Wales, Edward Lewis, a 15th Century High
Sheriff of Glamorganshire, who died in 1508 AD and a 13th Century Welsh Warrior
Ednyfed Fychan Lord of Bryn Ffenigl who died 1246 AD. The third was Nial of the
Nine Hostages King of Ireland who died circa 405 AD and is thought to be the
ancestor of nearly all who carry the M222 genetic marker. These matches
do not suggest that each of these individuals are a direct paternal ancestor of
the descendants of Britton Williams but they do show a paternal male connection
and kinship back to medieval Wales and ancient Ireland.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The following tables showing the DNA markers out
to the 25th strand and even with some minor mutations it clearly shows a
Y chromosomal link between all them. All these
individuals carried the same Y sex cell, passed down through a distant common
ancestor who lived between 2000 and 1500 years ago. His DNA signature had slightly
mutated and then was passed down to his descendants as part of the M222 subclade of
the Hapogroup R1b1 tribes that settled the ancient British Isles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My DNA Strand R-M222</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">29</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">19</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 15.25pt;" valign="top" width="20"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">18</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">31</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">17</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">John Williams R-M222</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">29</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">17</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 15.25pt;" valign="top" width="20"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">18</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">30</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">17</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edward Lewis R-M222</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">29</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">17</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 15.25pt;" valign="top" width="20"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">18</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">31</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">17</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ednyfed Fychan R-M222 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 651px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">29</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">18</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 15.25pt;" valign="top" width="20"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">18</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">31</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">18</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nial of the Nine Hostages R-M222</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 651px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">29</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.7pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">17</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 15.25pt;" valign="top" width="20"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Genealogy is for me more about
connections to the past than royal pedigrees. It does not reflect on me as a
person or anyone else who our ancestors were. We are all responsible for our
deeds and therefore ancestors, famous or infamous, are mostly irrelevant to our
character. However some of us have an innate curiosity of "where it
all began" and who's genetic code has been passed down to us, a biological
mix of enzymes that connects us with distant ancestors.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Many medieval genealogies were
created simply as a way for kings to claim authority from a distant historical
figure. The conflicting genealogies of Jesus in the Bible was an attempt
to connect a Messiah with the House of David. Medieval kings and princes
especially in the British Isle had chroniclers create elaborate
pedigrees connecting them to various historical figures such as Claudius
Emperor of Rome and other Imperial family members such as Helen the supposedly
British mother of Emperor Constantine. Legendary figures such as Joseph of
Arimathea, the supposed uncle of Jesus Christ was claimed to have come to the
British Isles and established a Celtic connection with the lineage of
House of David. Another legend is that the Prophet Jeremiah escaped Jerusalem
when it was destroyed taking with him among other things, "Jacob's Stone
(the Coronation Stone), the Ark of the Covenant and his granddaughter Tea Tephi
the daughter of King Zedekiah. </span></div>
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grandaughter to Ireland where she married the king of Ireland thus establishing
another Celtic connection to the House of David. British Royalty uses this
legend to this day as authority for their rights to monarchy. The Jacob Stone
is placed under the coronation throne when ever a new monarch is crowned at
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While all these mythical genealogies
trace their origins back to Adam and Eve, the true source of our genealogies is
not in ancient records but within our own bodies. The slight mutations in the
male Y chromosome is a more accurate record of our origins and our bloodlines
that is identified as R-M222 a marker on a strand of DNA. We come from
thousands of generations of mating over tens of thousands of years. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The studying of the Haplogroups of
various people can determine which group of population descend from a deep
ancestral origin, dating back thousands of years.In human genetics, the
haplogroups most commonly studied are the Y-chromosome (Y-DNA) haplogroups that
males get from their fathers and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups which
both males and females get from their mothers. Y-DNA and mtDNA only change
by chance mutation at each generation with no intermixture between
parents' genetic material. Sometimes its easier to think of a Haplogroup
as as an ancestral clan, or a very large a large family stemming from a
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Haplogroup "R" is one of the two branches of the mega-haplogroup from
prehistoric times. After leaving Africa, the R group originated about 30,000
years ago in a hunter tribe in Central Asia from one man when his genome
mutated slightly. This Haplogroup R* originated before the Last Glacial Maximum
(26,500-19,000 years ago) and has been identified in the remains of a 24,000
year-old boy from the Altai region, in south-central Siberia. This individual
belonged to a tribe of mammoth hunters that may have roamed across Siberia and
parts of Europe during the Paleolithic. This Paleolithic population appears to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over several millenniums three main branches of R1b1 all seem to have stemmed from the Caucasus region the Middle East. The northern branch, R1b1a, seems to have originated around the Caucasus, eastern Anatolia [Turkey] or northern Mesopotamia [Iraq], then to have crossed over the Caucasus, from where they would have invaded Europe and Central Asia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been hypothesized that R1b people were the first to domesticate cattle in northern Mesopotamia some 10,500 years ago. R1b tribes descended from mammoth hunters, and when mammoths went extinct, they started hunting other large game such as bisons and aurochs [wild cattle]. With the increase of the human population in the Fertile Crescent [Iraq] from the beginning of the Neolithic (starting 12,000 years ago), selective hunting and culling of herds started replacing indiscriminate killing of wild animals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The analysis of bovine DNA has revealed that all the taurine cattle (Bos taurus) alive today descend from a population of only 80 aurochs. The earliest evidence of cattle domestication dates from circa 8,500 BCE in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic cultures in the Taurus Mountains. The two oldest archaeological sites showing signs of cattle domestication are villages in southeastern Turkey and in northern Iraq, two sites only 250 km away from each others. This is presumably the area from which R1b lineages started expanding - or in other words the "original homeland" of R1b.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The increased involvement of humans in the life of aurochs, wild boars and goats led to their progressive taming. Cattle herders probably maintained a nomadic or semi-nomadic existence, while other people in the Fertile Crescent (presumably represented by haplogroups E1b1b, G and T) settled down to cultivate the land or keep smaller domesticates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The early R1b cattle herder people would have split in at least three groups. We come from the third branch who crossed the Caucasus into the vast Pontic-Caspian Steppe, which provided ideal grazing grounds for cattle. Here after time they split into two factions: R1b1a1 which went east along the Caspian Sea into Central Asia, and R1b1a2 which at first remained in the North Caucasus and the Pontic Steppe between the Dnieper and the Volga of what is the Ukraine today.</span><br />
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would pass until another slight mutation in an ancestors DNA spawned a tribe of
people identified as R1b1a2 who lived 7,000 years ago still in Central Asia.
The next minor mutation happened a little more than 1200 years later when a man
living in the east European plain between the Ural and Caucasus Mountains
became the father of the Haplogroup R1b1a2a subclade L23. The R1b1a,
people seems to have originated around the Caucasus or eastern Anatolia
[Turkey] or northern Mesopotamia [Iraq], then to have crossed over the
Caucasus, from where they would have invaded Europe and Central Asia.</span></div>
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Europe began to be replaced by a Bronze Age people who migrated from the
northern shores of the Black Sea about 5,000 years ago. The mutation 5300 years
ago in the Caucasus Region of Asia gave rise to three sucessor subclades, L51,
L11, and U106 over a span of 500 years whose members spread west through Europe
all the way to the Iberian penisula. They first moved into the Balkans with its
rich deposits of gold and copper and tin. For two thousands years they began to
dominate central and western Europe replacing and interbreeding with the
descendants of the native Ice Age Cro-magnon men. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a long time a common myth has
been that the Irish are European Celts. The latest research into Irish DNA has
confirmed that the early inhabitants of Ireland were not directly descended
from the Celts of central Europe. DNA testing through the male Y chromosome
show that Irish males have the highest incidence of the haplogroup R1b1 gene in
Europe. While other parts of Europe have integrated continuous waves of new
settlers from Asia, Ireland's remote geographical position has meant that the
Irish gene-pool has been less susceptible to change. The same genes have been
passed down from parents to children for thousands of years concentrating the
Haplogroup R1b1 the highest in Irish families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Around 4500 years ago these new
comer to Europe developed a culture called the Bell Beaker movement based on
the shapes of their pots. In this period a man passed on to his sons a new
chromosomal mutation giving rise to the Subclade P312. Another 500 years or so
passed until the next mutation when a man passed to his sons the genetic change
known by the Subclade U152. The tribes of the Bell Beaker continued
across Europe and had extensively populated Europe between 4000 and 3000 years
ago. During this time a chromosomal mutation created the Subclade L21
which crossed over to the British Isles and on its way produced subclade DF 23
and then M222. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The highest frequency of men carrying
the M222 DNA today is in Ireland and among those of Irish descent. It has long
been assumed from this that the M222 subclade found in Scotland, Wales,
England, or in populations descended from them, must be due to migration from
west to east, from a source in Ireland. Latest studies now show that M222
originated first in Devon among a Celtic tribe known by the Romans as the
Dumnonii. Data suggests then that the M222 lineages in British Isles
likely originated in Devon, England and from there to Leinster, Ireland and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a
British Celtic tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon
and Cornwall today. The Dumnonii settled in the farthest parts of the South
West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age [1000 BC] up to the early
Saxon period [500 AD] The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county
of Devon. The Dumnonii in Devon and later Ireland and Scotland, lived in
small farmsteads, heavily defended, and were largely pastoralists, raising
cattle. In Devon they were part of the tin mining and trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">According to some historical sources
the Dumnonii confederation of tribes initially came<br />
from the region of ancient Gaul called Armorica, modern day Brittany in
France. It is suggested by geneticists that the Dumnonii of
Devon were related to the Damnonii of South Western Scotland and to the Laigin
(Fir Domnann) in Ireland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Victorian antiquarians often
referred to this Devon tribe as the "Damnonii", which is also the
name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland who may have been part
of a tribal confederation. In Ireland these people were known as Fir Domnann
who left blood lines dominant in the Irish province of Connacht. The name
of these people in Cornwall is Dewnans and Dyfnaint in Welsh. Our M222
common ancestor lived came out of the Damnonii clan about 1900 to 2000 years
ago in Devon and spread to parts of Cornwall, and Somerset England across the
Irish Sea to South Eastern Ireland and then across into central and
southwestern Scotland. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Irish annals have recorded links
between the Fir Domnann tribe and the Connachta people<br />
of western Ireland. In Leinster, the Dumnonii - known as the Fir Domnann
or Laigin - conquered all of Western Ireland, Connacht, and birthed the dynasty
known as the Connachta, which in turn gave rise to the Uí Néill dynasty of
Northern Ireland. Indeed, it would seem that the Connachta descended from
the Fir Domnann (aka Laigin or Dumnonii), and of course the Uí Néill Clan [of
which Nial of the Nine Hostages belonged] descended from the Connachta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Based on data analysis and
discussion, the M222 mutation in our forebearer is likely to have arisen in
South Western England among the Dumnonii. The M222 bearers of the Devon
ancestral origin mutation clearly have the oldest common ancestor of M222. However,
cross-analysis of lineages shows that the Irish M222 could have arisen
immediately after the English M222, but due to a possible bottleneck of the
population they started to expand only in the middle of the
1st millennium of the Common Era. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The frequency of percentage of
people with the M222 haplotypes continue to be sharply reduced from
Ireland where its 28% of the male population to Scotland where its only
13.5%. It decreases dramatically in England at 4.7% and least of all in Wales at
2.5%. It is from only 2.5 % of the Welsh population that our American
emigrants came from. In overall terms it would seem the rank ages of
R-M222 in the Isles we could suggest as follows: (a) Devon, England, (b)
Leinster, Ire-land (c) Central Scotland, (d) North Midlands, Ireland (e)
Connacht, Ireland (f) Northern Ire-land (g) Wales (h) South West Scotland</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As previously stated the
genetic marker M222 is particularly associated with male lines among the
northern Irish. The relatively high frequency of this specific subclade
among the population of certain counties in northwestern Ireland is due to the
Uí Néill dynasty of ancient Ireland. A study conducted at Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland, found that a striking percentage of men in Ireland [21%] share
the same Y chromosome. Now known as the the "Dynastic Ui Neill Y
chromosome" it is traced back to one person, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
King Niall established a dynasty of powerful kings that dominated Ireland for
six centuries. The Trinity College findings suggest that the 5th-century
warlord may be the ancestor of one in 12 Irishmen. His genetic signature is
found in 6/10 of one percent of the entire Family Tree DNA database. My
DNA matched nearly perfectly with Niall's with only two other slight mutations
over the 1500 years between us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Niall Naoighiallach was
High King of Ireland for twenty-seven years. He succeeded his Uncle Crimthann,
and was according to Irish pedigrees, the 126th Monarch of Ireland.He was twice
married. His first Queen was Inne, the daughter of Luighdheach, who was the
relict [widow] of Fiachadh and his second Queen was Roigneach. He had 12 sons
to who he passed the M222 subclade marker that eventually made it through time
to Wales, across the Atlantic to Virginia and then across the Southland of the
United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Niall was said to be
"a stout, wise, and warlike prince, and fortunate in all his conquests and
achievements, and therefore called Mor or "Great." He was also
"Niall of the Nine Hostages," from the royal hostages taken from nine
countries which he subdued and made tributary: Munster, Leinster, Connacht,
Ulster, Britain, the Picts, the Dalriads, the Saxons, and the Morini [a people
of France.] According to chroniclers King Niall began his reign in 379 AD
during the last years of the Roman occupation of Britain. He was not only a
"high king" of Ireland, he was one of the most powerful to ever hold
that office. He took advantage of the Roman retreat from Brittain and France
and mobilized great forces for foreign expeditions of plunder. He is known in
folklore as a raider of both the British and French coasts. He was supposedly
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interesting part legendary and part historical figure. In 1919 archeologists
discovered a hoard of Roman silver plate, dating from Emperor Valens (365-378)
to the early reign of emperor Honorius (395-423 AD.). Earlier a 1854 excavation
in County Londonderry, Ireland found silver coins which dated from Constantius
II to Honorius. There were approximately 13 finds altogether of Roman treasure
none were dated after Emperor Honorius. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The treasure found in
the excavations were thought to have been brought back by Niall's companions
after his death and buried. The interest created by the coins helped to make
Niall a historical reality. A lot of what is now known about Niall was found
while digging around to answer the questions about the coins. Niall of the Nine
Hostages died a pagan, but after the dawn of Christianity in Ireland, his
descendants thanks to St. Patrick were foremost in promoting and endowing the
Christian Church in Ireland. Nearly 300 of his descendants ere canonized as
Saints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Honorius became
Emperor of Rome in 395 AD and sent the Roman Army under the Vandal General
Stilcho north to take care of the raiders of his northern cities. Stilcho was
successful in putting down most of the raiders on the continent, but he could
not stop the raiders from Ireland. The Roman historian Claudian makes it clear
that" the most formidable onslaught had come from Ireland under one
powerful leader acting in co-operation with the Picts and Saxons." While
not naming Niall as the "powerful leader", it is he who went to the
Scots and Picts and created an alliance between the Celtic Scots, Picts,
and Irish called the Dal Riada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Niall sent a fleet to
Armorica [Brittany France)]in order to plunder and according to Geoffrey
Keating, in his History of Ireland, "St. Patrick was brought as a captive
to Ireland in the ninth year in the reign of Niall [388 AD]." An Irish
fleet went to the place where Patrick dwelt, then aged 16 years, and as was the
custom of the Irish, they brought a large number of hostages with them along
with Patrick's two sisters Lupida and Daererca. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Niall pillaged Wales,
Scotland, England and France during his reign. He played a great part in
breaking down Roman power in Britain and Frat the river Leor [Lianne].ance
between the years of 379 and 406 AD. Keating states Niall liberated Wales from
the Roman and that "Wales ceased to be controlled by the central
government of London from 380-400 due to Niall". Niall was also said to be
the first that gave the name of Scotia Minor to "Scotland," and
ordained it to be ever after so called; until then it went by the name of
"Alba."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Keating also stated that
"Niall having taken many captives, returned to Ireland and proceeded to
assemble additional forces and sent word to the chief of the Dal Riada,
requesting him to follow with all his host to France." In 405, Niall set
out for the new adventure to plunder France. Some accounts state that
after crossing the English Channel, Niall was killed by an arrow from a rival
upon reaching France. The spot on the Leor River where this Monarch was
murdered is still called the "Ford of Niall," near the French town of
Boulogne-sur-mer. Niall’s body was brought back by ship to Ireland and taken to
Ochann (in County Meath) for burial. His court poet was Torna Eigeas (the
Learned), of whom three poems are said to have survived. He wrote: "Saxons
with overwhelming cries of war, hosts of Jutes from the continent, From
the hour in which the King fell, Gael and Picts are in a sore
straight, Darling hero of the shinning host, whose tribes Are vast, a
beloved band; Every man was under his protection when we used to Go to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Niall of the Nine
Hostages died in 405 A.D. and from which of his sons we descend is impossible
to know. However descend we did from an unbroken line of sons who became
fathers to sons to this present day. </span></div>
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