Capt. William Williams
William Williams was born at Newton, Massachusetts, on 19 September 1690. He was the fifth of ten children of Isaac Williams and his first wife, Elizabeth Hyde. His mother died in June 1699, when he was eight. His father later became Capt. Isaac Williams, a selectman of Newton.
On 27 September 1721, at Newton, he married Experience Wilson. She was born on 19 November 1696, a daughter of Joseph and Deliverance Wilson. They had twelve children over twenty years. Two sons named Abijah died as infants, in 1722 and 1726, and a daughter Anna born in 1739 lived two days.
He was a housewright, a builder of houses. In 1737 the Newton history calls him "a housewright, of Wat.", meaning Watertown, and records that he sold fifty five acres to Dr. Samuel Wheat for £300. The land ran "by the gangway through the farm of the late Capt. Isaac Williams" and adjoined "land of the College, of Richard Coolidge, and of Dr. Wheat."
In 1736 he went into a land purchase in Connecticut. With Col. Ephraim Williams of Newton and Thomas Greenwood of Newton, he bought a tract of 1,722 acres at Union from Thomas Steel of Boston. Ephraim Williams was his father's half-brother, a son of his grandfather's second marriage, and only a year younger than William. Ephraim's son, also Ephraim, left his property by will to found a school at Williamstown, Massachusetts, which became Williams College.
The family moved from Watertown to Connecticut and settled at Mansfield in Windham County. There he was captain of a troop of horse and a representative to the General Court of Connecticut, the colony's legislature. Experience died on 13 March 1761. William died at Mansfield on 4 February 1767, aged seventy six.
His sons went to Union and on to Vermont. William, the eldest surviving son, married Azubah Metcalf in 1747, lived at Union for some years, returned to Mansfield, and later settled in Vermont. Elisha served in the French and Indian War, lived at Union and settled at Clarendon in 1769. Amariah commanded the Mansfield minute men at the Lexington Alarm and fought at Bunker Hill. Phinehas founded the first militia company at Woodstock, Vermont. Jesse was a physician. Of his daughters, Anna married the Rev. Jacob Cushing of Waltham and Abigail the Rev. Samuel Woodward of Weston, both in 1753, Esther married Nathan Jennings, and Eunice married Joseph Hovey Jr.
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