5795, 5859. Williams
Outline
- John Williams (d. 1668) m. Anna ____ (d. aft. 1667); Scituate, Mass.
- Mary Williams (d. bef. 1696) m. 1651 Anthony Dodson (d. bef. 1692); Scituate, Mass.
Sources
The basic source for the composition of this family is the will of John Williams, summarized by
George Ernest Bowman, Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories,
Mayflower Descendant 17
(1915): 109-17, at 109. It has been claimed that Lucy, the wife of Robert Barker of Plymouth and
Duxbury, was another child of this family, but Eugene Aubrey Stratton regards it as doubtful
:
Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 16201691 (n. p.: Ancestry Incorporated, 1986),
240. Neither Johns own will nor that of his son John implicates any member of that family.
For the will of the younger John, see Abstracts of Plymouth Colony Probate Records,
Genealogical Advertiser 4 (1901): 25-7. The Williams family also receives incidental
coverage in James Atkins Noyes, Barker Pedigree,
New England Historical and Genealogical
Register 53 (1899): 426-31, and Ian Watson, The Great Migration, 16361638, vol. 1
(Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024), 375-81, on John Barker. A sketch of John
Williams is expected in an upcoming volume in the latter series, to be compiled by Nathan W. Murphy.
Related surnames
2897, 2929. Dodson
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