Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume II, Part 32

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 646

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(XXIII) Henry Tracy, Esq., of Todding- ton, died about 1506. He married Alice, daughter of Thomas Baldington, Esq., of Al- derley, county of Oxford. Children : William, Richard, Ralph, Anne, Elizabeth.

(XXIV) Sir William Tracy, of Todding- ton, was sheriff of Gloucestershire during the reign of Henry VIII. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Cross Court, Gloucestershire. Children : Wil- liam, Robert, Richard and Alice.

(XXV) Richard Tracy, Esq., of Todding- ton, was the sheriff of Gloucestershire during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He married Barbara, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, Warwickshire. Children: Hester, Nathaniel, Susan, Judith, Paul and Samuel.

(XXVI) Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewkesbury, received lands at that place from his father.

(XXVII) Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, son of Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewkesbury, was born at Tewkesbury, about 1610, died at Norwich, Connecticut, November 7, 1685. He came to Salem, Massachusetts, in April, 1636, removed to Wethersfield, and was one of the original proprietors of Norwich in 1660. He married (first) at Wethersfield, 1641, Mary, widow of Edward Mason; (second) at Norwich, prior to 1679, Martha, daughter of Thomas Bourne, of Marshfield, and widow of John, son of Governor Bradford; (third) at Norwich, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Demming) Foote, of Wethersfield, and widow of (first) John Stoddard. (second) John Goodrich. Children, all by first mar- riage: 1. John (see forward). 2. Thomas, married and had: Nathaniel, Jeremiah, Daniel, Thomas, Jedediah, Sarah, Deborah and Jeru- sha. 3. Jonathan, married (first) Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Francis Griswold, and had: Jonathan, Christopher, David, Francis, Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Mariam and Sarah. He married (second) Mary Richards, who married (second) Eleazer Jewett. 4. Dr. Solomon, married (first) Sarah, daughter of Deacon Simon Huntington, the first, and had : Simon, Solomon and Lydia : married (second) Sarah Bliss, widow of Thomas Soluman, and had one son. 5. Daniel, married. (first) Abi- gail, daughter of Deacon and Mary (Bushnell) Adgate, and had : Daniel and Abi- gail; he married (second) Widow Hannah (Backus) Bingham, and had: Samuel and Elizabeth. 6. Samuel, died without issue. 7. Miriam, married Lieutenant Thomas, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Bourn) Waterman, of Marshfield.

(XXVIII) Captain John Tracy, son of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary ( Mason) Tracy, was born at Wethersfield, in 1642, died at Nor- wich, August 16, 1702. He was one of the original proprietors of Norwich, justice of the peace, represented his town in the legislature at six sessions, and was prominent in all pub- lic affairs. He married, August 17, 1670, Mary, born 1646, died July 21, 1721, daughter of Josiah and Margaret (Bourne) Winslow, and niece of Governor Winslow of the "May- flower." Children: 1. Josiah, died young. 2. John (see forward). 3. Joseph, married Mar- garet Abel; children: Joseph, Dr. Elisha, Phineas, Mary Margaret, Zervia, Lydia, Irene,

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Jerusha and Elizabeth. 4. Winslow, married Rachel, daughter of Joshua and Hannah (Bradford) Ripley, and had: Joshua, Perez, Josiah, Eliphalet, Nehemiah, Samuel, Solo- mon. 5. Elizabeth, married Nathaniel, son of William and Elizabeth ( Pratt) Backus.

(XXIX)) John (2), son of Captain John (1) and Mary (Winslow) Tracy, was born about 1675. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Leffingwell. Children: John (3), of further mention ; Hezekiah, died without is- sue : Joshua, no record, perhaps died young ; Isaac, married Bushnell; Ann (or Anne ) married Richard, second son of Will- iam Hyde (2), of Norwich; Ruth, married Elijah, third son of Samuel Hyde (2) ; Eliza- beth, no record.

(XXX) John (3), son of John (2) and Elizabeth (Leffingwell) Tracy, was born June 27, 1700, died at West Farms, now Franklin, August 20, 1786. He married, January 21, 1724, Margaret, daughter of John Hyde (1), of Norwich. Children: John (4), of whom further : Eleazer, Josiah, Hezekiah, Daniel, Theophilus, Joshua, Elizabeth, married Zebe- diah Edgerton, Margaret, married Bentley, and Rachel, married Ezekiel Hyde.

(XXXI) John (4), eldest son of John (3) and Margaret (Hyde) Tracy, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, February II, 1725, died at Franklin, March 28, 1810. He married, Oc- tober 13, 1747, his third cousin, Margaret

Huntington. Children : John (5). of whom further ; Oliver, married Lydia Rudd : Erastus, married Sally Prentice; Lydia, married An- drew Hyde; Margaret, married Benjamin Storrs : Mary, died unmarried.

(XXXII) John (5), eldest son of John (4) and Margaret (Huntington) Tracy, was born December 21, 1755. He settled in Columbus, New York, where he died January 14. 1821. He married, May 24, 1780, Esther Pride, died June, 1838. Children : 1. Rachel, born at Norwich, Connecticut, August 22, 1781, died in Wisconsin, October 29, 1852; married An- drew Palmer, of Mansfield. Connecticut. 2. John (6), born at Norwich, October 25, 1783 ; settled at Oxford, New York, and became a very prominent and influential citizen ; he was a member of New York legislature, lieutenant- governor of the state, and president of the constitutional convention of 1846; married a distant kinswoman, Susannah Hyde ; both died in Oxford. 3. Zedediah, born in Franklin, Connecticut, October 8, 1786; settled at Dur-

hamville, New York, where he died. Married (first) Dorothy Robinson ; (second) Frances Hubbard. 4. Ulysses, born August 13, 1790, died in infancy. 5. Harriet, born at Franklin, May 16, 1792, died at Ithaca, New York ; mar- ried Otis Eddy. 6. Bela, born at Franklin, April 19, 1794, died at Titusville, Pennsyl- vania ; married Calista Spurr. 7. Esther, of whom further. 8. Emily, born at Franklin, November 10, 1798, died at Jamestown, New York, September 30, 1838; married Dr. Wil- liam Hedges, a physician, of Jamestown. 9. Ulysses (2), born at Franklin, January 4, 1803, died at Sinclairville, New York, August 19, 1840 ; married, October, 1835, Jane L. Bunker.

(XXXIII) Esther, seventh child and second daughter of John (5) and Esther (Pride) Tracy, was born at Franklin, Connecticut, No- vember 8, 1796, died at Sinclairville, New York: she married, at Ithaca, New York, April 17, 1817, James Williams, and is buried with him in Evergreen Cemetery, at Sinclair- ville. (See Williams).

(The Dorsett Line).

(I) Mrs. Calista T. (Dorsett) Williams is a descendant, on the paternal side, of Dorsett, residents of Acadia, Nova Scotia, from whence they were exiled with other resi- dents in 1754-55, being placed in the town of Union, Connecticut. They were the parents of a large family, among whom was Joseph (see forward).

(II) Joseph Dorsett, grandfather of Mrs. Williams, was born June 1, 1775, died May 29, 1855. He married Abigail Hanks, born February 23, 1780, died April 16, 1820, daugh- ter of Benjamin Hanks. They were the par- ents of eight children, the youngest of whom was Daniel Brewster (see forward).

(III) Daniel Brewster Dorsett, father of Mrs. Williams, was born June 12, 1816, died August 15, 1892. He married, at Eastford, Connecticut, November 16, 1841, Harriet Fox Preston. In 1849 they moved to Sinclairville, Chautauqua county, New York, and there re- sided until 1890, when they removed to James- town, New York. Their children were: I. Calista T., born in Eastford, Connecticut, Sep- tember 8, 1843 ; married, January 1, 1862, Ed- win Williams (see Williams, IX). 2. Daniel H., born in Eastford, Connecticut, July 6, 1845, died in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 12, 1907. He married (first) Ellen R. Shep- ard, of Marshalltown, Iowa, who bore him

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two children: Rae Shepard. now a physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Leonard P., who is engaged in business in Washington, D. C. He married (second) Marie Anderson, who bore him five children. 3. Charles W., born in Sinclairville, New York, September 28, 1850; married, June 29, 1876, Martha Angle, of Randolph, New York; they have two daughters married and living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and three adopted children. 4. Hattie Preston, born in Sinclairville, New York, October 15, 1857, died January 24, 1863. 5. Minnie F., born in Sinclairville, New York, April 22, 1865 ; married, May 14, 1885, at Sin- clairville, Dr. George F. Smith; children: Charles, born July 15, 1887, died August 31, 1908; D. Burt, born May 1, 1891.

Mrs. Harriet Fox (Preston ) Dorsett was a granddaughter of Esek Preston, who was a resident of Eastford, Connecticut. He mar- ried Sally, born October 20, 1769, daughter of Major Earl Clapp, of Rochester, Massachu- setts. They were the parents of ten children, the eldest of whom was Earl Clapp (see for- ward).

Earl Clapp Preston, son of Esek and Sally (Clapp) Preston, and father of Mrs. Dorsett, was born November 25, 1796, died in Sin- clairville, Chautauqua county, New York, May 5, 1890, having almost attained the century mark. He married, March 29, 1821, Harriet Fox, daughter of William and Mary Fox, of Woodstock, Connecticut. She died in Sinclair- ville, New York, February 5, 1875. They were the parents of four children, among whom was Harriet Fox, the second child, born April 27, 1824, died November II, 1904, afore- mentioned as the wife of Daniel Brewster Dor- sett and mother of Mrs. Williams.

This family is of great WILLIAMS antiquity in England and Wales, and the name is de- rived from the ancient personal name William. Like many other possessive names, it arose from the Welsh custom of adding to a man's name the name of his father in the possessive form, as William John's, from which quickly came Jones, David Richard's, Thomas David's (Davie's Davis), and kindred forms. Sir Robert Williams, ninth baronet of the house of Williams of Penrhyn, was a lineal descend- ant of Marchudes of Cyan, Lord of Aberglen, in Denbighshire, of one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales that lived in the time of Rod-

erick the Great, King of the Britons, about A. D. 849. The seat of the family was in Flint, Wales, and in Lincolnshire, England. Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, was a Wil- liams by right of descent, and was related to Richard Williams, who settled in Taunton, Massachusets. Alden de Cromwell lived in the time of William the Conqueror, and from him descended in succession ten Ralph de Crom- wells, the last dying without issue. The seventh Ralph de Cromwell married Amicia. daughter of Robert Berer, member of par- liament. Robert Cromwell was a Lancastrian killed in the wars of 1461. His son William (2) left a daughter Margaret, who was an- cestor of both Cromwell and Williams. John Cromwell (3) married Joan Smith, and had son Walter (4), who married a Glossop. Katherine (5), daughter of Walter Cromwell, married Morgan Williams, fifth from Howell Williams, mentioned below. Sir Richard (6), son of Morgan and Katherine, born about 1495, married Frances Murfyn. After reach- ing mature years he took the name of Crom- well, under the patronage of his mother's brother, Thomas Cromwell, and lived in Glamorganshire, Wales. Sir Henry (7), son of Sir Richard Cromwell, alias Williams, was called the "Golden Knight" of Hinchenbrook, Huntington, and married Joan Warren. Rob- ert (8) Cromwell, alias Williams, was of Huntington, a brewer, and married Elizabeth Stewart. Their first child was Oliver the Great Protector, who used the alias in his youth, his name appearing on deeds as Oliver Williams, alias Cromwell. (1) Howell Wil- liams, Lord of Ribour, was progenitor of the Williams family of Wales. (2) Morgan, son of Howell Williams, married Joan Batten. (3) Thomas, son of Morgan and Joan Williams, was of Lancashire, and died in London. (4) John, son of Thomas Williams, married Mar- garet Smith and died at Mortlake, 1502. (5) John, son of John and Margaret Williams, born 1485, married Joan, daughter of Henry Wykis, of Bolley's Park, Certney, and sister of Elizabeth Wykis, who married Thomas Cromwell (brother of Katherine, mentioned above), secretary to Henry VIII, Lord Crom- well of Oakham, Earl of Essex. (6) Richard, son of John and Joan Williams, born 1487, at Rochampton, settled at Monmouth and Dexter, and died 1559. (7) John, son of Richard Wil- liams, was of Huntingdonshire, near Wotton- under-Edge, Gloucester, died 1577. (8) Wil-

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liams, son of John, was also of Huntingdon and married (first) November 15, 1585, Jane Shepherd; (second) December 4, 1603, Jane Woodward. His first child by the second mar- riage was Richard Williams, who settled at Taunton. The Williams families of America descend from more than a score of different ancestors. That several of them were related to Richard of Taunton seems certain, but the degree has not been traced in various instances.

(I) Stephen and Mary (Cook) Williams re- sided in England, whence their son came to America, and among the descendants was the founder of Williams College.

(II) Robert, son of Stephen and Mary (Cook) Williams, was born 1598, and baptized at Great Yarmouth, England. He came from Norwich to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1638. He sailed from Great Yarmouth in 1635. in the ship "Rose," and died at Roxbury, September I, 1693. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston in 1644. He married (first), December 11, 1628, in England, Elizabeth Stahlman, who died July 28, 1674; (second) Martha Strong, who died December 22, 1704. Children : Elizabeth, Deborah, John, Samuel, Isaac, Stephen and Thomas.

(III) Samuel (I), second son of Robert and Elizabeth (Stahlman) Williams, was born in England, 1632, died September 28, 1698; married, March 2, 1654, Theoda, daughter of Deacon William and Martha (Holgrave) Parke, of Roxbury, who married (second) Stephen Peck. Children: Elizabeth ; Samuel (2); Martha; Elizabeth (2) ; Theoda; John; Deborah, married Joseph Warren, grandfather of General Joseph Warren, who was killed at Bunker Hill; Martha, Abigail and Park. One of his sons, Rev. John, was a graduate of Harvard College, 1683, and the first minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The story of his captivity among the Indians is a familiar one.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Theoda (Parke) Williams, was born in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, April 15, 1655, died in Brooklyn, Connecticut, August 8, 1735 ; mar- ried (first) Sarah May, February 24, 1679. She died December 29, 1712. He married (second), April 28, 1720, Dorothy (Weld) Denison. Children: Samuel (3) ; Theoda, married Samuel Scarborough : John; Sarah, married John Polly; Ebenezer; Elizabeth, married Rev. Samuel Ruggles ; Eleazer ; Wil-

liam, of whom further; Martha, married Thomas Colton. Descendants of first and sec- ond Samuel have been noted in the Christian ministry.

(V) William, son of Samuel (2) and Sarah (May) Williams, was born in Brooklyn, Con- necticut, April 24, 1698, died June 21, 1766; married, 1720, Sarah Stevens, of Roxbury, and removed to Pomfret the same year. He was a deacon of the Roxbury church, and was also connected with the church at Pom- fret. His wife died June 6, 1786, aged eighty years. Children: Samuel, of whom further; William, married Martha Williams; Thomas, graduate of Yale College; Nathan, died aged twenty-nine years; Timothy and Eliakim, drowned in a mill pond in 1796, aged fifteen and sixteen years ; Joseph.

(VI) Samuel (3), son of William and Sarah (Stevens) Williams, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, 1721, died February 4, 1805, aged eighty-four years. He was a prosperous farm- er. He had three wives, and seven children, who grew to adult age, four by first wife, three by second.

(VII) John, son of Samuel (3) Williams, was born March 28, 1768, died March 5, 1832. He resided in Brooklyn, Connecticut, and at the time of the controversy between his church, the Congregational, and the Unitarians, he espoused the cause of the latter. The contro- versy split the Brooklyn church, and since that time the family have been Unitarians. He married, December 25, 1793, Susan Far- rington, of Boston, born about 1778; eight children, one of whom, Daniel, after going to Michigan settled in Buffalo.

(VIII) John R., third child of John and Susan (Farrington) Williams, was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut, July 20, 1800, died at Buffalo, New York, August 12, 1849. He followed farming in Connecticut until 1838, when he emigrated to Buffalo, where he was engaged in the grocery business and in the lumber trade. He was an ardent Abolitionist, and followed closely that movement through the columns of The Liberator, to which he was a subscriber, and an intimate friend of the Whig and Abolition leader, Samnel J. May. He was a devoted Unitarian and a strict temperance man. At the time of his death he held an office under the city govern- ment. He married Louisa Upham, born in Leicester, Massachusetts, July 12. 1804, died in Buffalo, March 13. 1863, daughter of Bar-

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nard and Betsey (Hubbard) Upham, and granddaughter of Captain Daniel Hubbard, who fought at Bunker Hill, and, tradition says, carried from the field an American offi- cer of high rank.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Office of Secretary.

Boston, Mass., March 7, 1894.

Revolutionary service of Daniel Hubbard : Daniel Hubbard appears with rank of private on Lexing- ton Alarm Roll of Captain Seth Washburn's com- pany, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment. Marched in the Alarm of April 19, 1775, from Leicester. Served seven days. Appears with the rank of cor- poral on Muster Roll of Captain Seth Washburn's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, August 1, 1775. Enlisted April 26, 1775, served three months, twelve days. Also appears with rank of corporal on com- pany return of Captain Washburn, Colonel Ward's regiment, dated October 8, 1775. He appears on Leicester Rolls, credited with eight months service. WILLIAM M. OLIN, Secretary.

(See "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution.")

Children of John R. Williams: I. Frank- lin, of whom further. 2. Robert L., born De- cember 20, 1829; married Levina Steel, of Buffalo, September 15, 1854; four children. 3. Elizabeth Hubbard, born July 18, 1831, died June 25, 1908; married E. Carlton Sprague. 4. Barnard, born May 9, 1833, died March 13, 1869. 5. Daniel R., born March 29, 1835, married Mary W. Moulton. 6. Lucy B., born May 12, 1836, died July 25, 1852. 7. Amelia L., born September 15, 1839; resides in Buf- falo.

(IX) Franklin, eldest son of John R. and Louisa (Upham) Williams, was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, August 7, 1827, died in Buffalo, New York, August 13, 1884. He was educated in the public schools and at Buf- falo Academy. He was about ten years of age when his father located in Buffalo, and that city was ever afterward his home. He became a surveyor and civil engineer, and laid out the old Attica & Buffalo railroad, now a part of the Erie system. About 1866 he became interested in transportation business on the great lakes. Later he engaged in coal mining at Oak Ridge, Pennsylvania, where the firm of Frank Williams & Company were known as extensive and successful operators. This business is yet continued by his sons, as is the wholesale and retail coal business he established in Buffalo. Mr. Williams was an energetic, admirable man of business, yet keenly alive to his duties to church and state.

He served as engineer in the Seventy-fourth Regiment during the civil war, and from 1880- 82 as alderman of the Ninth Ward of Buffalo. He was one of the incorporators of the Charity Organization Society, the first society of its kind organized in the United States. He was an active, independent Republican, and a warm friend of Grover Cleveland, whose early poli- tical career was greatly influenced by Mr. Wil- liams and others of the opposite party. He was a member and trustee of the First Uni- tarian Church of Buffalo, to whose service he gave freely of his time and means.

He married, December 2, 1852, Olive French, of Plainfield, Connecticut, born there May 16, 1828, died in Buffalo, December II, 1908, daughter of Hezekiah French, born in Voluntown, Connecticut, a school teacher and farmer ; served in the war of 1812, and re- ceived a land grant for his services; married Olive, daughter of John Hall, a soldier of the revolution, who marched from Connecticut on the Alarm at Lexington, and later served with Connecticut troops on Long Island. Hezekiah was a son of Nathaniel French. Children of Frank and Olive Williams :

I. John Ruggles, born in Buffalo, August 7, 1853 ; a coal merchant of Buffalo, member of Frank Williams & Company. Is an active Republican, member of the First Unitarian Church, Buffalo, Chamber of Commerce, Saturn and Ellicott clubs.

2. Frank French, born in Buffalo, Novem- ber 20, 1855; graduate, A. B., University of Michigan, 1877; studied law with E. Carlton Sprague, of Buffalo, and was admitted to the bar, 1880. He began the practice of law in Buffalo immediately after his admission, and there continues in successful general practice. He is a member of the First Unitarian Church ; Buffalo Chamber of Commerce; Erie County Bar Association ; New York State Bar Asso- ciation; Phi Beta Kappa fraternity ; and in politics is a Republican. He married Ruth, daughter of Joseph Churchyard, of Buffalo; children : Olive and Roger Churchyard.

3. Robert Hall, died December 13, 1906. He was a member of the coal firm, Frank Wil- liams & Company, and a thorough man of business, who stood high in the commercial world. He was equally prominent in Pitts- burgh business circles. He was a leading member of the First Unitarian Church, and an independent Republican. His clubs were the Saturn and Ellicott. He married Elizabeth,

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daughter of George and Emily (Marshall) Wadsworth.

4. Grace, now a resident of Buffalo.

5. Arthur Henry, graduate, A. B., Univer- sity of Michigan, 1885. Studied law and was graduated, LL.B., Law Department, Univer- sity of Buffalo, 1894. He is now in general practice in Buffalo. He is a member of the First Unitarian Church, Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, Erie County Bar Association, Lawyers' and Saturn clubs, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and an independent Republican. He is associated with the reform element in city politics, and is secretary of the Good Govern- ment Club.

6. Herbert Upham, educated in the Uni- versity of Michigan and University of Buffalo, being graduated from the latter, M. D., 1891 ; also graduated, M. D., from University of Pennsylvania. He is a skillful and learned physician, and since 1895 professor of pathol- ogy and bacteriology, University of Buffalo. He is a member of the leading medical and scientific societies, and holds high rank in his profession. He married, June, 1909, Mary Carver, daughter of William P. Stoddard, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

7. Elizabeth Sprague, graduate of Smith College, M. A., 1891 ; now a well known phil- anthropic worker and head of a college settle- ment in New York City.

WILLIAMS Robert Williams, son of Stephen and Margaret (Cook) Williams, was born 1598, baptized December 1I, 1608, in Great Yarmouth, England. He came to America in the ship "Rose," from Great Yarmouth, land- ing in the year 1635. He died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, September 1, 1693. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company of Boston, 1644. He married (first) Elizabeth Stahlman, of Great Yar- mouth, died July 28, 1674, aged eighty years. Children: I. Elizabeth, born in England; married Richard Cutter. 2. Deborah, born in England ; married John Turner. 3. John, born in England, died unmarried. 4. Samuel, born 1632, see forward. 5. Isaac, born 1638; mar- ried Martha Park. 6. Stephen, born 1640; mar- ried Sarah Wise. 7. Thomas, died young. He married (second), it is supposed, Martha Strong.

(II) Deacon Samuel, son of Robert and Elizabeth Stahlman Williams, was born 1632,

in England, died September 28, 1698. He was a deacon of the church at Roxbury, Mas- sachusetts, and a farmer. He married Theoda, daughter of Deacon William and Martha (Holgrave) Park, of Roxbury. Children : Elizabeth, born February 1, 1654, died young ; Samuel, born April 15, 1655, see forward; Martha, born April 29, 1657, died young ; Eliz- abeth, born February II, 1659, married Stephen Paine; Theoda, born July 27. 1662, died at age of seventeen years; John, born December 10, 1664, first minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts; Ebenezer, born December 6, 1666; Deborah, born November 10, 1668, grandmother of General Joseph Warren ; Martha, born May 19, 1671, married Jonathan Hunt ; Abigail, July 12, 1674, married Exper- ience Porter.

(III) Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Theoda (Park) Williams, was born December 6, 1666, died February 15, 1746. He removed to Ston- ington, Connecticut, about 1685. and settled on lands he purchased of the Winthrops, just north of what is now "Old Mystic." He mar- ried, January 24, 1687, Mary Wheeler, died November 3, 1709, daughter of Isaac and Martha (Park) Wheeler. Children : Theoda, born October 29, 1687, died young ; unnamed child, born September 17, 1691; Mary, born January 7, 1694, died aged twenty years ; Sam- uel, born February 3. 1696, twice married : Theoda, born January 3, 1701, unmarried : Selina, born December 18, 1703. married Alvin Grant ; Ebenezer, born October 21, 1705, twice married ; Elizabeth, twin of Ebenezer, married Jonathan Smith ; Martha, born April 3, 1708. married Jeremiah Price. He married (sec- ond), July 12, 1711, Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (French ) Hammond. Children: Unnamed child; unnamed child ; Nathaniel, born July 24. 1715 (see forward ) ; Elisha, born January 12, 1718, had four wives.

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Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume II, Part 32

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1912 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 646

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 646