THE FOLLOWING
NARRATIVE WAS WRITTEN BY HAZEL CRAFT AS DICTATED TO HER
BY HER HUSBAND, THE REV. WARDIE CRAFT, AT THE REQUEST OF CONNIE A. WIREMAN ON
BEHALF OF THE MAGOFFIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
DANIEL WILLIAMS
BY WARDIE CRAFT
I FIRST HEARD OF DANIEL WILLIAMS IN JANUARY 1928 WHILE WE WERESTUDYING KENTUCKY
HISTORY AT THE OLD CANNEL CITY HIGH SCHOOL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MISS ANNA
POWELL WHERE MRS. ELMA R. GREEN WAS THEPRINCIPAL.
THAT DAY THE TORCH WAS LIT AND MY IMAGINATION SOARED.
JUST WHO WAS THIS DANIEL WILLIAMS? WE WERE STUDYING KENTUCKY HISTORY AND USING
AS A SUPPLEMENT SPENCER'S KENTUCKY HISTORY. A SMALL SECTION OF THIS BOOK WAS
DEVOTED TO ELDER DANIEL WILLIAMS WHO CAME TO KENTUCKY
IN MAY 1775 WITH DANIEL BOONE ON HIS SECOND TRIP TO BOONESBOROUGH. 'THE SPENCER
BOOK FURTHER STATED THAT DANIEL WILLIAMS WAS MARRIEDTO VILOT COUCH (OR CROUCH)
BY DANIEL BOONE'S BROTHER, SQUIRE BOONE, WHO WAS A BAPTIST PREACHER. FROM OTHER
SOURCES I GARNERED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. DANIEL WILLIAMS SOON LEFT
BOONESBOROUGH. HE CAME INTO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KY
WHERE HE HELPED ORGANIZE THE LULBEGRUD CHURCH IN 1794 NEAR THE PRESENT DAY TOWN
OF MT. STERLING, KY. BETWEEN 1799 AND 1801 DANIEL LEFT LULBEGRUD TO ORGANIZE
ANOTHER SEPARATE BAPTIST CHURCH DANIEL WILLIAMS LATER MOVED TO EASTERN
KENTUCKY.
DANIEL WILLIAMS b. 31 March 1763 PROB
Prince William County VA s/o EDWARD & JEMIMAH PROB CARTER WILLIAMS
came to Caintuck in the Spring of 1779 as a 16 year old boy if he
came with his father or sometime AFT Spring of 1779 if JEMIMAH &
the children came after EDWARD did. The next claim is that Elder
Daniel Williams helped to organize Lulbegrud Baptist Church on
Lulbegrud Creek in Montgomery County KY in March 1793. FACT:
Lulbegrud Creek was in CLARK County KY in 1793. Montomery County KY
was cut from Clark County in 1797. I don't know how much DANIEL was
involved in the organizing of Lulbegrud Baptist Church...EDWARD
WILLIAMS was a deacon there...his son JOSHUA was a member there and
EDWARD'S son DANIEL is listed as ELDER DANIEL WILLIAMS there. ELDER
DANIEL WILLIAMS did become the pastor there in c1799 and remained for
several years.
The next claim is that DANIEL WILLIAMS moved to MORGAN County KY in
the 1780s and built the first log cabin in West Liberty when this was
still the wilderness. FACT (here it comes again): ELDER DANIEL WILLIAMS
never set foot in MORGAN County KY in his lifetime. He LIVED & DIED
in FLOYD County KY. Morgan County was not formed from FLOYD County
until after DANIEL WILLIAMS died 31 July 1820 in FLOYD County KY. He
was buried at Old Caney Cemetery in FLOYD County KY. DANIEL WILLIAMS'
grave is NOW located in Morgan County KY...his widow VIOLET COUCH
WILLIAMS who survived him by 10 years died in Morgan County KY in
1830 and is buried with him in Old Caney Cemetery in Morgan County
KY.
The next claim is that ELDER DANIEL WILLIAMS became the first moderator
for the Burning Springs Association. FACT: That seems to be fact. LSH
Near site of winter camp of Daniel and Squire Boone, Alexander Neeley, and
John Stuart, 1769-70. Creek named by these pioneers after
"Lorbrulgrud" of Gulliver's Travels, first known book brought to
Kentucky. Corrupted to Lulbegrud.
LULBEGRUD CHURCH ENJOYED PROSPERITY UNTIL 1843, THEN DIVISION CREPT INTO IT. IN AUGUST 1843, THESE MEMBERS WERE EXCLUDED: CHARLES HAZELRIGG, ELI BIGGERS, STEPHEN TREADWAY, NANCY HAZELRIGG, NANCY FLETCHER, ELIZABETH BARTLETT, JR., KITTY BIGGERS, SHARLOTTY NELSON, SALLY MORRIS, MARTHA MORRIS, SALLY BROOKSHIRE, ELVIRA MCKEE, THEODOSIA HOOD, ELIZABETH RAGLAND, VOANA MORRIS (LATE BURTON), AND POLLY ANN TREADWAY.AT THE NEXT MEETING NIMROD GARRETT, BETSY GARRETT (HIS WIFE), AND POLLY DAVIS WERE EXCLUDED. THESE
EXCLUDED MEMBERS ORGANIZED A NEW CHURCH IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE AND WERE ACCEPTED INTO THE BOONE'S CREEK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, SEPTEMBER 1843. LITIGATION FOLLOWED THIS DIVISION WHICH WAS SETTLED IN 1847 BY THE KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS.
The courts were appealed to in order to settle the property rights, and while the case was pending, which was for several years, the Pitts party improved the house at a cost of $450.00. About the year 1847, the Court of Appeals finally disposed of the case by giving the property to the Boone party by their first paying to the other party the $450.00 expended by them in improvements on the building. The reason assigned by the Court for its decision was that it appeared from the records that the Boone party was in the majority. The money was promptly paid and enough was added to it by the Pitts party to build another house, and in 1848 another was built near the old one and it too was called Lulbegrud Church. Here we leave our brethren of the Primitive Baptists (The Boone party), except to say that they still remained in full fellowship with North District Association until they ceased to exist as a church a few years ago.
THE INSCRIPTION ON THE GRAVE MARKER OF DANIEL
WILLIAMS:
ELDER
DANIEL WILLIAMS
DIED JULY. 31. 1820
AGED.. 57..Y..4..M
THE DEC'D EMIGRATED TO
KY MAY 1775 AND SERVD
AS A PASTOR OF VARIOUS
CHURCHES OF UNITED
BAPTIST DURING HIS LIFE
THE DAR MARKER FOR DANIEL WILLIAMS READS:
DANIEL WILLIAMS
KENTUCKY
PVT. BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS '
REV. WAR
MARCH 31, 1763
JULY 31, 1820
THE WIFE OF DANIEL WILLIAMS, ALSO IN FENCED AREA.
THE MARKER FOR VIOLET WILLIAMS READS:
VILOT WILLIAMS
#DIED JUNE 10 1830
OTHER INFO NOT READABLE ON MARKER.
Daniel Williams did not fight in the Battle of the Blue Licks.
Facts that will dispute old erroneous claims regarding the Williams family. From the research of the East Ky Williams Genealogy Research Group.
The South Fork church at Malone, Ky was organized by Elder Daniel Williams in 1808. Jemimah and Joshua Williams joined this church (on the south fork of the Licking River) by letter in late 1811 or early 1812. This puts Jemimah in Floyd County (present day Morgan County) in 1812. We know that Caleb moved to the Montgomery Territory of Missouri in 1818 and as far as we know he remained on the Edward homeplace in Montgomery County, Ky until then. But here Jemimah is in Malone, Ky in 1812. Morgan County natives know Malone is between West Liberty and the Old Caney Cemetery where Daniel and Violet are buried so she might be staying with Daniel, we just don't It is not known when Jemimah died. It would appear that she lived until at least 1825 or 1828.
In the first Court Order book for Morgan County as abstracted by Joe Nickell and Ella Nickell in 1984 there are three references to a Jemimah Williams that seem to be our Jemimah Williams.
Page 35 (October Court 1825)
Jemima Williams "a poor widow of this county" gave proof by witnesses that she did not have "estate in her own right to the value of one hundred dollars" and thereby claimed benefit of an act of Assembly (21 December 1820) which was certified to Auditor of Public Accounts.
Page 64 (March Court 1828)
Sheriff to pay William Jones "the money allowed to Jemima Williams which was ordered to be paid to John Williams."
Page 73 (November Court 1828)
Sheriff ordered to pay to court clerk "Ten Dollars in stead of paying over to William Jones who was heretofore allowed that sum for the use of Jemima Williams."
Nothing more is known about Jemimah Williams.
We know Daniel Williams was born in 1763 based on his headstone and probably came to Boonesborough in 1779 with his father and family as a 16 year old boy.
It is written (no proof) that Daniel Williams and Violet were married about 1787 in Boonesborough by Squire Boone or Boone Jr. The date for the marriage of Daniel and Violet is based on their daughter Frances "Frankey" Williams' stated age of 63 on the 1850 Morgan County KY census, 1850 minus 63 equals a born date of about 1787.
Much has been written about Daniel Williams, some of it fact and some of it "a tall tale." However there is no doubt he left his mark on the history of eastern Kentucky and I've read nothing that says anything except he was a fine and moral man. He organized churches and associations of United Baptists, was often a moderator of a church and performed many marriages. Marriage Book 1 in the courthouse in Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Ky (Morgan County was formed in 1822 after his death) list many marriages by Daniel Williams and contain some marriage permissions signed by Daniel for his children. See the Genealogy link on http://www.bobbystuff.com/ for images of Marriage Book 1 for Floyd County, Ky.
It is written that after a few trips into what is now Morgan and Magoffin Counties, hunting and preaching, Elder Daniel Williams was invited by early settlers of the region to come there and settle and preach to them regularly. As a further inducement, they offered to help him clear land and build a cabin if he would remain there and preach. About five acres on the Licking River was cleared and a cabin was built near a spring that flowed from the ground at the base of a small hill. This is said to be the first cabin in present day West Liberty and its location was on Riverside Drive behind the former Stamper Motel.
Daniel organized the Burning Springs Association in 1813 and the Low Gap United Baptist Church on Grape Creek in present Magoffin County in 1814 among others. More churches are listed later.
Daniel died on 31 July 1820, aged 57 years, 4 months and is buried in the Old Caney Cemetery. His wife Violet died on 10 June 1830 and is buried beside him.(excerpt from Bobby Daniel-Complitation of your 4000 messages) research done by http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ekywilliams/
1779 Dec 20 Preemption Warrant #142 Edward Williams is granted a preemption for 400 acres of land in the district of Kentucky lying on the Dividing Ridge of Small Mountain Creek, a branch of Licking Creek & Lulbegrud on account of his settlement made on the first of June 1779.
1779 Dec 27 Preemption Warrant #138 Nicholas Anderson is granted a preemption for 400 acres of land in the district of Kentucky lying on the head of a branch of Licking called Little Mountain Creek to include the said Settlement this 27th day of December 1779. Adjoining Edward Williams preemption.
1779 Dec 21 Preemption Warrant #140 John Harper is granted a preemption of 400 Acres of land at the State price in the district of Kentucky lying on So. side of Lulbre Grud Creek opposite the land of Edward Williams by making an Actual settlement on 1st June 1779 satisfactory proof being made to the Court, they are of the Opinion that the said Harper has a right to a preemption of 400 Acres.......
1780 Sep 06 - Oct 21 Our Edward Williams was with Nicholas Anderson and John Harper in Captain David Goss' Company
1782 Our Edward Williams served with Captain Nathaniel Hart's Company along with Nicholas Anderson guarding Lincoln County.
1782 Pay Roll of Capt. William Hoyes Company - Lincoln Militia State of Virginia in Actual Service on an Expedition against the Shawnee Indians Under the Command of George Rogers Clark, Brigadier General 1782: SOLIDERS Ambrose Coffee, Sgt. Edward Williams, Nicholas Anderson, Rolly (Raleigh) Crouch.
1783 Providence Separate Baptist Church, also known as "Old Stone Church" because of its construction of limestone blocks, was one of two "traveling churches" whose congregations migrated en masse from Virginia to Kentucky. It was built about 1783 on Howards Creek in Clark County, Kentucky, was led by Robert Elkin and was a member of the South Kentucky Separate Baptist Association when it was formed in 1787. The current United Baptist Church of Kentucky was formed at this church in 1801 by the Regular and Separate Baptist Churches. Daniel was baptized and worshiped as a young man at this church. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyclark/churchprov.html for a photo.
1784 June 15 Clark County Court
House, Winchester, KY Deed Book 1 Pages 271-273, Williams to Williams 1794 Aug
25
This deed in 1794 states the land being sold is from the 400 acre preemption
granted to Edward Williams via deed on 15 June 1784
1786 Oct 2 Clark County, KY Deed
Book 1, p.264. 1794 Oct 2
This deed in 1794 states the land being sold by Edward and Jemimah Williams is
from a 287 acre tract granted to Williams on Oct 2, 1786.
1787 Sep 8 Providence Baptist Church records. Church receives Nicholas Anderson, Edward Williams and Jemimah Williams into membership by experience. A month later they receive Daniel Williams by experience. A month later they receive Winifred "Winnie" Williams by experience. The group believes that Winifred who married (1) John Hearn and (2) Joshua Bartlett was probably a daughter of Edward and Jemimah even though she was not listed in the Pioneer Families of Missouri book. Daniel later named one of his daughters Winifred "Winnie" Wiliams.
1787 Fayette County, VA (now KY) Tax List has Edward Williams, Nicholas Anderson, Ambrose Coffee
1788 Fayette County, VA (now KY) Tax List has Edward Williams, Nicholas Anderson
1792 Clark County, KY Tax List has Edward Williams, Daniel Williams, Nicholas Anderson, John Harper and Dudley Curl(e) husband of Edward's daughter Penelope
1793 Lulbegrud Church organized with Daniel as a preacher.
1794 March, the 3rd Saturday, Providence Church records. Brother Edward Williams and others chosen as Deacons.
1794 May, the 3rd Saturday, Providence Church records. Brother Daniel Williams chosen to act as Elder in the Church.
1794 Aug 25 Clark County Court
House, Winchester, KY Deed Book 1 Pages 271-273, Williams to Williams
Edward Williams and Jemimah Williams, his wife, sell 100 acres to Daniel
Williams from their 400 acre preemption granted to Edward Williams via deed
dated 15 June 1784 for 30 pounds. Jemimah was examined separately from her
husband according to law to make sure she understood she was giving up her
Dower right to the 100 acres.
1794 Oct 2 Clark County, KY Deed Book 1, p.264. John Summers, Sr. purchased 50 acres on Lulbegrud from Edward and Jemimah Williams, part of a 287 acre tract granted Williams on October 2, 1786.
1794 December, the 3rd Saturday, Providence Church records. Agreed to give Brother Daniel William a letter of dismission.
?? April, 4th Saturday, Providence Church, Brother Daniel Wiliams received by letter.
1795 Clark County, KY Tax List list Edward Williams, Daniel Williams and Nicholas Anderson
1795 Sep 21 Clark County Court
House, Winchester, Ky Deed Book 1 Page 484, Williams to Benjamin Talbert
Daniel, his wife Violet Williams and Edward Williams sell 100 acres on the
waters of Bresh Creek to Benjamin Talbert, this parcel being part of a 200 acre
survey made in the name of Edward Williams and lying next to Edward Williams'
400 acre preemption in Clark County.
1795 Sep 16 Clark County Court
House, Winchester, Ky Deed Book 1 Pages 485-486 Williams to Ambrose Coffee
Daniel Williams and wife Violet sell to Ambrose Coffee about 20 acres lying on
Spencer's Creek being part of Edward Williams' 400 acre preemption.
1796 April Lulbegrud Baptist Church records. Daniel Williams was received by letter. Edward and Daniel are mentioned in various church records over the years (Brother Daniel Williams sometimes as moderator) and Edward is mentioned as late as 16 Jun 1804 when he was "tenderly admonished and restored to his former standing."
1798 Nov 17 Lulbegrud Baptist Church records. Brother Daniel Williams moderator.
1799 About this date Daniel Williams started Sycamore Separate Baptist Church in present Jeffersonville in Montgomery County.
1803 Feb 10 Montgomery County, KY
Deed Book 2 Pages 400-401 Williams to Caleb Williams
Edward Williams and wife Jemimah give 112 acres, "being the land and
plantation whereon the said Edward Williams now lives", to Caleb Williams
for love and affection of a father to his son and six shillings. Within the
body of the document in the survey of the Williams homeplace and mentioned as
adjoinging neighbors are Nicholas Anderson, John Harper, George Johnson and
Dudley Curl, husband of Penelope Williams, daughter of Edward and Jemimah.
Daniel Williams is witness and this also identifies Edward and Jemimah as
parents of Caleb. Edward and Jemimah move in and live with Daniel about this
time. See deed listed below.
1803 Apr 26 Montgomery Deed Book
3, Pages 51-52 Williams to Williams
This reads more like a Will instead of a deed but it is in the Deed Book.
Know all men by these presents that I, Edward Williams, of Montgomery County, and State of Kentucky. being Old and Infirm and unable to undergo the necessary cares to provide for and support a Stock and being desirous to lessen my fatigue and Labour, do by virtue of these presents give unto and deliver up unto my Son Daniel Williams, all my Stock of Horses, Cattle, and Sheep and Hogs, and all my farming and Manufacturing Utensils, all my household table and kitchen furniture with an exception of one feather bed and furniture and one Cow & Calf to my Daughter Susannah Williams, and one bed and furniture and one heifer yearling to my granddaughter, Nancy Williams, which Property I Warrant and defend against all claims, rights or titles or demands whatsoever and in the name and behalf of all above mentioned. I have delivered unto Daniel Williams aforesaid one feather bed and furniture included as writings, my hand and Seal, Edward Williams, this 26th day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three.
Edward Williams (Seal)
M, Harrison
In the performance of which the said Daniel Williams doth bind himself to take the aforesaid Edward Williams on his premises, see to him and help and assist him In such things as shall procure for and maintain the aforesaid Edward Williams without injuring or damaging the aforesaid Daniel Williams or his Family as witness my hand and Seal this 26th day of April in the year of our Lord, One Thousand (eight hundred) & Three
Daniel Williams (Seal)
Test: M Harrison
The land suit depositions in the Fayette County court records have been abstracted in "Fayette County Records, Vol I" Michael Cook, CG and Bettie A. Cummings, CG. The following are quoted from this book
1804 May 9 p.808 Deposition of Edwin (Edward) Williams (taken at his home on his land in Montgomery County) stated the he, John Harper and Nicholas Anderson on 6 June 1779 came from Boonesborough to this land and they helped him to build a cabin.
1804 May 9 p.809 Deposition of Nicholas Anderson (taken at Edward Williams home) stated that he, John Harper and Edwin (Edward) Williams came to this place in June 1779, he thinks on the 6th of June.
1804 May 9 p.810 Deposition of Daniel Williams (taken at Edward Williams home) claims Edward Williams as his father, who deeded 100 acres of this land to him years ago. By this time Daniel had sold the 100 acres.
1804 Jun 8 p.803 Deposition of Nicholas Anderson states that himself, John Harper, Edwin (Edward) Williams and others, he thinks in the month of June 1779, were making improvements on land and mentions Edwin (Edward) William's place. These two men are always with our Edward.
1804 Jun 8 p.804 Deposition of John Harper states Edward Williams was not in KY before 1779, that he lived about 1 1/2 miles below Boonesborough for about two years before moving to his land preemption on the Lulbegrud.
1805 Jan 29 p.805 Deposition of John Pleankenstalver stated he heard in the year 1779 that Edwin (Edward) Williams, Nichola Anderson and John Harper say they had made improvements on land for each of them on a dividing ridge near the headwaters of Hingston (sic) on Little Mountain Creek. He also stated that Edward had build a cabin at Boonesborough for him and his family.
1805 Jan 29 p.806 Deposition of Ambrose Coffee stated he was acquainted with Edwin (Edward) Williams, John Harper and Nicholas Anderson in 1779, that Edward built a cabin on his preemption as required to claim title to the land and mentions Daniel Williams as being the son of Edward.
1808 Nov-Dec South Fork Church (which was first known as "Poplar Meetinghouse" and was on the South Fork of the Licking River in present day Malone, Morgan County, Ky) was organized by Daniel Williams.
1811 Sep 1 Montgomery County, Ky
Deed Book 5 Pages 486-488 Williams to Tredway
Edward's sons are selling his land and they are listed as Daniel Williams of
Floyd, Joshua Williams of Floyd and Caleb Williams of Montgomery County. Our
Daniel Williams was the only Daniel Williams in Floyd County in 1811, Caleb
Williams is named so we know that he was Elder Daniel Williams' brother, which
tells us we have the Edward Williams, who was married to Jemimah, as his
father. The said Caleb, Daniel and Joshua Williams for consideration of
nineteen pounds current money sold unto John Tredway a certain tract or parcel
of land (48 acres) lying and being in the County of Montgomery on the waters of
the Crooked Ash Fork of the North Fork of Lulbegrud and being a part of Edward
Williams' tract of two hundred and one acres patented in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty six. In this 1811 document the survey names John Summers'
line, Peter DeWitt's line, and James Anderson's line. NOTE: In 1794 John
Summers, Sr. purchased 50 acres on Lulbegrud from Edward and Jemimah Williams
which was part of a 287 acre tract granted to Edward Williams on October 2,
1786 (Clark Deed Book # 1, page 264).
1812 South Fork Church records, late 1811 or early 1812. Jemimah Williams and Joshua Williams join by letter.
1876 "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri" William S. Bryan and Robert Rose (1876) ISBN: 0-8063-0753-6 contains narrative sketches and anecdotes devoted to the settlement of Missouri and more than 800 family histories. The entire reference to our Caleb, son of Edward is as follows:
"WILLIAMS, Edward Williams, of N.C., went to KY with DANIEL BOONE, and lived for some time at Boonesborough, where he married JEMIMA ANDERSON, daughter of MAJOR JACK ANDERSON. Their children were Daniel, Joshua, Pernell, Casper, Susan and Caleb. The latter married ELIZABETH WOODLAND, of KY., and settled in Warren Co. in 1818. They had 9 children: William, Dulcina, Laurel, Abihue, Heath, Jane, Zuima, Elizabeth and Caleb C. Dulcina married EVERETT CREECH, who settled in Warren Co. in 1832. Caleb Williams was Justice of the peace in Warren Co. for many years."
This paragraph is the only proof of their children listed together and it is not known if the list is accurate or complete. This is also where her maiden name of Anderson comes from. Major Jack Anderson has been proven to NOT be the father of our Jemimah. Her parents are unknown as are Edward's.
Still Some Dispute
Daniel William's headstone states he "emigrated to Ky May 1775." Based on the dates on his stone, he would have been 12 years old in 1775. We know his father did not come to Boonesborough until 1779. It seems doubtful that a 12 year old boy would be in the wilderness without his father. The people who came with Daniel Boone to build Fort Boonesborough in 1775 are all documented and Daniel is not among them. It the headstone wrong? I know when my father was born but not what he was doing at age 12 or 16. I'm sure Daniel, his father Edward and the family came to Boonesborough by May 1779 in time to plant a corn crop by the first of June 1779. Maybe Daniel's children, having heard stories about how their father and Grandpaw Edward came to the wilderness with Daniel Boone and grew their first crop of corn, were confused about the dates after Daniel's death, and said May 1775 instead May 1779. It was probably well known that Daniel Boone first came to build Fort Boonesborough in 1775.
But, we don't really know for sure, so everyone will have to come to their own conclusion. However, this disputed date like the claim of being in the Battle of Blue Licks does not change in any way the other facts we know about Edward Williams and Daniel Williams.
It is claimed that Daniel Williams
fought in the last battle of the
American Revolution at the Battle of Blue Licks on 19 August 1782.
History has carefully recorded and engraved on a monument the names of
those that fought and died there or escaped. Daniel is not among them.
There is a smaller monument for corrections and additions. Daniel is
not among them. However there was a group of men who were "on their
way" to the battle but arrived too late. The names of these men were
not recorded. Daniel could have been in this group. That Daniel fought
in this battle is one of the stronger traditional stories of his life
and there is a DAR marker at his grave that says he fought in this
battle as a private. The group has not found proof that he was or was
not at the battle so I'll leave it the reader to form his own conclusion.
Proven Children of Edward and Jemimah Williams
1. Penelope Williams: married Dudley Curle according to Bourbon County records on 23 May 1792
2. Daniel Williams: proven by deeds and land suit
3. Joshua Williams: proven by deed
4. Susannah Williams: proven by deed and will
5. Casper Williams: listed only in the Pioneer Families of Missouri book and there is no other record of him/her
6. Caleb C. Williams: proven by deed and a family bible which says he was born 10 Dec 1782 of Edward and Jemima Williams
7. Winifred "Winnie" Williams: circumstantial evidence but no direct proof. Could she have been the Casper listed in the History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri book? Pernell as listed in that book is thought to be Penelope.
Claimed Children of Daniel and Violet Williams
1. Frances (Frankey) Williams: b. 1787 married Peter Day. Her first name may have been Sarah.
2. John T. Williams: b. 1790 married Phoeba Ferguson and Susannah Cogswell Day (widow of Jacob Day). He is often referred to as Squire John T. Williams to identify him separately from his son, John T. Williams.
3. Thornton Williams: b. 1792 married Virginia "Jenny" Jones in 1812
4. Nancy Williams: b. 1794 married David Lykins in 1809
5. Elizabeth Williams: b. 1796 married John Ferguson in 1813
6. Daniel Williams: no other info
7. Isaac L. Williams: b. c1798 married Elizabeth Lykins in 1820
8. Wiley C. Williams: b. 1802 ???
9. Edith "Edy" Williams: b. c1803 married Richard Allen in 1819
10. Winifred "Winnie" Williams: b. 1805 married Peter Lykins
11. Mary "Polly" Williams: b. c1807 married Joseph Davis
12. Caleb Williams: b. 12 Sep 1809 married Malinda/Belinda Davis in 1826
13. James Jeremiah Vardeman Williams: b. 1808 married Jane Davis in 1829
14. William Williams: b. 1812. Some researchers list him, some don't, no proof.
15. David Williams: Some researchers list him, some don't, no proof
Children of Squire John T. Williams and Phoebe Ferguson
Taken directly from msg 2109 of the East Kentucky Williams group
... went over every marriage record to see if I had the actual marriage date or the bond date. If it is the bond date I put "(bond date)" after the date. The birth dates are from the Day-Williams Bible. Most of my Hill, Williams, and Ferguson information came from Mr. Jimmy Hamilton of Keaton, Kentucky who worked on the family for years figuring out who went where and he did this by interviewing people and by records of all sorts. I added the marriage records mostly from the Morgan County marriage records. I checked all the dates against the marriage record, for a few I had the actual marriage day, but most are the bond date.
Squire John Williams was born
November 7, 1789.
Phoebe Ferguson was born February 12, 1791 and she was the daughter of William Ferguson
and wife Catherine LeMaster. They were married in Floyd County, Kentucky on
September 21, 1809.
Squire John Williams married a second time to Susanna Cogswell Day (a widow of Jacob Day), born February 16, 1799 and they married on January 4, 1853. They had no children together.
Squire John Williams died March
10, 1869.
Phoebe Ferguson Williams his first wife died September 23, 1852.
1. Daniel Webster Williams born June 17, 1810 married Rebecca Day (d/o Peter Day and Sarah Francis Williams Day) on May 1, 1828 (bond date).
2. William Ferguson Williams b. March 24, 1812 married Celia Hill (d/o Edward Hill and Sarah Hamilton Hill) on April 15, 1833. (bond date)
3. Nancy Jane Williams b. January 12, 1814 married William Ferguson (s/o Richard Ferguson and Nancy Jones Ferguson) on March 2, 1829 (bond date)
4. Mary Phoebe "Polly" Williams b. March 19, 1815 married Ambrose Ferguson (s/o Richard Ferguson and Nancy Jones Ferguson) on April 19, 1832.
5. Richard Ferguson Williams b. February 3, 1817 married Rebecca Adams on February 8, 1846 (bond date)
6. Thornton Williams b. August 25, 1818 married Sytha Hill (d/o Edward Hill and Sarah Hamilton Hill) on February 25, 1842 (bond date).
7. Cynthia Ann Williams born August 26, 1820 married Spencer Hill (s/o Edward Hill and Sarah Hamilton Hill) on October 16, 1838.
8. John T. Williams born October 24, 1822 who married Rebecca Henry (d/o John Henry and Rebecca Howerton Henry) on February 10, 1847 (bond date).
9. Martha Williams born August 17, 1824 who married William Hill (s/o Edward Hill and Sarah Hamilton Hill) on February 28, 1846 (bond date).
10. Ambrose Jones Williams born December 6, 1826 who married Anne Hill (d/o Edward Hill and Sarah Hamilton Hill) on March 25, 1847 (bond date).
11. Frankey Jean Williams born November 8, 1828 married Benjamin Hamilton (s/o John Hamilton and Mary May Hamilton)on February 11. 1847 (bond date).
12. James Harve Williams born October 20, 1830 married Cordelia Howerton (d/o John Howerton and Barbara Jones, Barbara was the d/o Ambrose Jones and Martha Craig) on December 5, 1850 (bond date).
13. Margaret Williams born November 15, 1832 married William Brown on December 25, 1850 (bond date) and second Solomon Blevins on June 15, 1855 (bond date).
14. Alvin M. Williams (marriage record gives A.W. Williams) born March 23, 1839 married Caty Litteral on March 23, 1857 (bond date).
PREEMPTION WARRANT #142
"Kentucky County VA
We do hereby certify that Edward
Williams is entitled to the preemption of Four hundred acres of
land at the State price in the district of Kentucky on account of
Settlement made on the first of June 1779 lying on the
Dividing Ridge of Small Mountain Creek, a branch of Licking Creek
& Lulbegrud, to include said settlement. Given under our hands
at Boonesborough this 20th day of December 1779. /s/ William
Fleming, Stephen Trigg, Edmund Lyne.
Test: John Williams (and a word I can't read...looks like
curlicues & Cle*** and more curlicues...maybe Clerk...LSH). End
transcript by Lee Strohm Harrell.
SOURCE: Kentucky Secretary of State - Land office. Commonwealth of
Kentucky.
Some history about Lulbegrud Baptist Church
The following declaration, copied from the records at the Virginia State Library, was the genesis for the Chopawamsic Baptist Church:
"Here, in the Colony of Virginia firmly desiring to be constituted and established into a distinct church of the same denomination, faith and order and being at our request freely dismissed for that purpose from the church in Fauquier aforesaid. And appears by a letter signed by several members of that congregation ---- date August 9th, 1766. Hoping it may be to the glory of God and our edification, these subscribers in the presence of God solemnly unite as a religious body to worship him, to celebrate his ordinances, to manifest his truth and to promote his honor in the world....."
The declaration concluded:
That all disputes may
as far as possible be avoided and peace, concord and unity maintained by the
blessing of God for which we pray and in testimony of our union herein we have
all set our hand this day of our constitution being the 22nd day of November
1766.
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John Peck (Peak) |
Mary Anderson |
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John Carney |
Mary Carney |
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Absalam Carney |
Richard Farmer |
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William Murphy |
Lan (little o) Murphy |
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Grace Fristoe |
Carty Mills |
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John Davis |
Robert Million |
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Ann Davis |
Heciah Million |
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William Fristoe |
George Williams |
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Ann Williams |
Joseph Williams |
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Daniel Fristoe |
R (little o) Fristoe |
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John Read |
Sary Brown |
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William Peak |
Sary Carney |
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Joshisa Carney |
James Peak (Peek) |
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John Bland |
Peter Smith |
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Fleming Smith |
John Fristoe |
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Francis Fristoe |
William King |
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John Taylor |
Elizabeth Taylor |
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Mary Fristoe |
Ann Murphy |
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Tylor Maugh |
John Hampton |
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Ann More |
Ellener Crimmon (Grimmon) |
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Betty Harper |
Peter Mauzy |
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----- Fristoe |
Elizabeth Reid |
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William Brown |
Chasity Reid |
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Margaret Hampton |
Catharine Smith |
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Charles Smith |
Thd (little s) Smith, Sr. |
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John Smith |
Thd (little s) Smith, Jr. |
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Daniel Smith |
Casina Davis |
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Richard Hazle |
Manoha Hazle |
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Elizabeth Smith |
Tho (little s) Jacobs |
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Sary White |
Margaret Bland |
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Margaret Bush |
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March 3, 1767
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John Summers |
Elizabeth Summers |
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Lottis Bland |
Meriman Hasibay |
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Margret Waugh |
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June 2, 1767
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George Knight |
John Knight |
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Mary McCully |
Francis King |
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Elizabeth Knight |
Susanna Barker |
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Negro Nes |
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June 4, 1767
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Richard Kent |
Ann Kent |
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James Smith |
Ann Smith |
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Abera King |
Nancy King |
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Sary Summers |
Peter Cockrel |
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Daniel Misntush |
Elizabeth Roland |
September 5, 1767
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John Smith |
Patrer W. Smith |
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Samuel Summers |
Eleas Maid |
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John Hoper |
Francis Coteral |
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Thezeah Summers |
Elizeth Williams |
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Sitha MacIntush |
Elizebeth Folkner |
September 26, 1767
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Thomas Bland |
Wm. Bird |
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Sary Wiginton |
Elizebeth Vicus |
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Hester Meculloch |
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November 24, 1767
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Edward Williams |
Niclos Antherson |
December 3, 1767
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Magdalene Williams |
Lemimach (Jeremiah) Beck |
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Jemiah Williams |
Constant Peak |
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Negro Tom |
S(L)emimoh Summers |
May 21, 1768
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William Petty |
James Peters |
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Edward West |
Thomas Tathner |
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Thomas Randolph |
Obediah Calvert |
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Agnes Smith |
Elizabeth Smith |
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Barbery Anderson |
Lydoby Ward |
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Ann Chappile |
Lyddy Dowel |
July 24, 1768
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Jenatious West |
Lyddy Petty |
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Elizebeth Maully |
Elizabeth Richman |
September 8,----
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Elizabeth King |
Elizabeth Whobbney |
March --, 1769
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Thomas Thralkele |
Mary Thraldhel |
July --, 1769
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Spibby (Shibby) Stone |
Elizebeth Stone |
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Leanna Cohile-ott (lose) |
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November --1769
Phillis Stindy
May 1770
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Pilsher Edward |
Moses Pilsher |
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Benj (high n) Threlkhila |
Jenny White |
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Negro Ned |
--- Esau Sympson |
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Francis Barton |
Elizabeth Martin |
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Mulberry Criste |
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June 1769 ?
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William W. West |
William Ball |
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Elizabeth West |
Lettis Sorther |
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Phillip Spiller |
Francis Mathes |
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Obed Colvert |
John Livingler |
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And Bland |
Presilla King |
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Mary Colvert |
Nergo Daniel |
Chappawamsic May 1770
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Sebunach Berry |
Elizabeth Peters |
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James West |
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September 23, 1770
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William Smith |
Thomas Kindrel |
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Reuben Kenbrel |
Jos (high ah) Stone |
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Babordget Kindrel |
Negro Bet |
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Negro Moll |
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October 26, 1770
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George Wells |
Alderson Weeks |
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Mary Fristoe |
Mary Wells |
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Leeamme Fry |
Milly Ashby |
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Elizabeth King |
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June 1772
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Jeremiah More |
Nancy Ennes |
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Sary King |
Lechenak Christy |
July 177-
Walter Ford
September 27, ----
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John Edwards |
William More |
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Charles Yelton |
Negro Nat |
April 29th by letter
Jonatham Latham
March 1773
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Ann Johnson |
Molly Yelton |
July 1779
Jezreel Elis
September 5
Negro Sary
August 6, 17--
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James Bashus |
Alias Nailor |
June 3, 17--
Lyddieucanada
The old members removed and gone. This is to show what has been April 4, 1770. At a meeting held at Chappawamsic in Stafford County, William Fristoe was ordained a minister of the gospel by David Thomas and Richard Majoi, ministers in the Baptist Church.
1770 The Church, by election, hath called Brother Daniel Fristoe to exercise his gift in the sacred word of the ministry.
THE FENCE AT THE DANIEL
WILLIAMS GRAVE SITE WAS ERECTED BY THE DANIEL
WILLIAMS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT A COST OF ALMOST $1,700. ALTHOUGH SOME ANCESTORS
WHEN APPROACHED TO HELP WITH THE COST OF RESTORING THE
CEMETERY, EXPRESSED THE SENTIMENT "LET HIM REST" MANY, MANY MORE CAME
FORWARD TO HELP PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THIS GRAND OLD SETTLER WHO WAS
SO IMPORTANT TO THE HISTORY OF THE AREA AND THE GENEALOGY OF MANY
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. DESCENDANTS OF THE WILLIAMS FAMILY AND OTHER
CITIZENS OF THE AREA ARE GRATEFUL TO REV. WARDIE AND HAZEL CRAFT FOR
THE WORK THEY HAVE DONE IN LOCATING AND PRESERVING THE GRAVESITE AS
WELL AS INFORMATION ABOUT THE WILLIAMS FAMILY. THE FINE MARKER ERECTED
AT MEMORY HILL IN HONOR OF DANIEL WILLIAMS WILL SERVE FOR MANY
GENERATIONS TO COMMEMORATE THE LIFE OF THE REV. DANIEL WILLIAMS.
CLARK COUNTY COURT
HOY§E RECORDS -WINCHESTER. KY
DEED BOOK 1. PAGES 271-273. YEAR 1794
WILLIAMS TO WILLIAMS DEED: THIS INDENTURE MADE THIS TWENTY FIFTH DAY
OF AUGUST IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND
NINETY FOUR, BETWEEN EDWARD WILLIAMS AND JEMIMAH WILLIAMS HIS WIFE, OF
CLARKE COUNTY AND STATE OF KENTUCKY OF ONE PART AND DANIEL WILLIAMS OF THE
SAME PLACE. WITNESSETH THAT THE SAID EDWARD WILLIAMS FOR AND IN
CONSIDERATION OF THIRTY POUNDS (£ 30.0.0) CURRENT MONEY OF KENTUCKY TO
HIM IN HAND PAID BEFORE THE SEALING AND DELIVERING OF THESE PREMISES THE
RECEIPT WHEREOF THEY DOTH HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE, HATH GRANTED, SOLD, ALIENED
AND CONFIRMED AND BY THESE PRESENTS DOTH GRANT, BARGAIN AND SELL ALIEN AND
CONFIRM UNTO THE SAID DANIEL WILLIAMS HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS A CERTAIN TRACT
OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF CLARKE ON THE WATERS OF
LULBEGRUD CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED ACRES IT BEING PART OF A FOUR HUNDRED
PREEMPTION GRANTED TO THE SAID EDWARD WILLIAMS DEED BEARING DATE THE
FIFTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR
(1784) (AS BY THE PATTERN REFERENCE THERETO HAD WILL APPEAR) AND ONE
HUNDRED AS FOLLOWS; BEGINNING AT A HONEY LOCUST CORNER TO THE FOUR HUNDRED
ACRE TRACT AND EXTENDING SOUTH TEN DEGREES EAST ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT
POLES TO AN ASH REDBUD AND ELM ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF A HILL, THENCE SOUTH
EIGHTY DEGREES WEST ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT POLES TO A WHITE OAK ON A
HILL, THENCE NORTH TEN DEGREES WEST ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT POLES TO A
HONEY LOCUST IN THE LINE OF THE FOUR HUNDRED ACRE TRACT, THENCE NORTH EIGHTY
DEGREES EAST ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT POLES TO THE BEGINNING, TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD THE SAID TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED ACRES TO
BE THE SAME MORE OR LESS WITH ALL AND SRNGULAR THE APPURTENANCES
THEREUNTO BELONGING UNTO THE SAID DANIEL WILLIAMS, HIS HEIRS OR ASSIGNS
FOREVER TO HIS AND THEIR PROPER USE AND BEHOOF AND THE SAID EDWARD
WILLIAMS AND JEMIMAH WILLIAMS FOR THEMSELVES THEIR HEIRS THE SAID TRACT OR
PARCEL OF LAND UNTO THE SAID DANIEL WILLIAMS SHALL AND WILL WARRANT AND
FOREVER DEFEND AGAINST THE CLAIM OF HIS THE SAID EDWARD WILLIAMS AND
JEMIMAH WILLIAMS OR ANY OTHER PERSON CLAIMING THE SAME IN OR UNDER THEM
BUT NO OTHER WISE. IN WITNESS WHEREOF THE SAID EDWARD WILLIAMS HATH SET
THEIR HANDS AND AFFIXED THEIR SEAL THE DAY AND YEAR ABOVE MENTIONED.
EDWARD WILLIAMS (SEAL)
HER
JEMIMAH X WILLIAMS (SEAL)
MARK
CLARKE COUNTY SET.
JEMIMAH WILLIAMS THIS DAY CAME BEFORE US TWO OF THE JUSTICES OF THE
PEACE FOR THE COUNTY WHO BEING SEPARATELY AND APART FROM HER HUSBANDD,
EXAMINED, DID OF HER OWN FREE WILL AND RELINQUISH HER PART OF DOWER TO THE
WITHIN 100 ACRES OF LAND GIVEN UNDER OUR HANDS THIS 25TH DAY OF AUGUST
1794
ENOCH SMITH
JAS. POAGE
AT A COURT HELD FOR CLARKE COUNTY, AUGUST THE 26TH, 1794.