Isaac Williams (1638 - 1707)

Born 1 Sep 1638 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Judith (Hunt) Williams — married 13 Nov 1677 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1707 at age 68 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Isaac Williams was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1 Sep 1638. He was the first child of Robert Williams and Elizabeth Stalham to be born in New England.^[1] He was baptized at Roxbury 21 Sep 1638. The Rev. John Eliot in his records shows that Isaac was confirmed 21 Nov 1658 ("21.9M.1658" - BRr2, p.82).

Isaac was a weaver and Deacon. He married at Newton, Mass., Martha Parke, before 1660. Martha was born 2 Mar 1641/42, and died at Newton, 24 Oct 1675, where they had moved immediately after their marriage, settling on 500 acres purchased by her father from Major Samuel Shepard.^[1]

Isaac married second, Judith (Hunt) Cooper of Taunton on 13 Nov 1677. Judith was the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Smith) Hunt of Rehoboth, and widow of Nathaniel, son of Thomas Cooper, by whom she had had three children. Judith died in 1724.^[1]

Children of Isaac Williams and Martha Parke

Isaac and Martha had nine children.^[1]:

1. Isaac, b. and d. 7 Mar 1661
2. Isaac, b. 11 Dec 1661
3. Martha, b. 27 Dec 1663
4. William, b. 2 Feb 1665
5. John, b. 31 Oct 1667
6. Eleazar, b. 22 Oct 1669
7. Hannah, b. 8 Oct 1671, married (2d wife) John, son of Job and Elizabeth (Fuller) Hyde of Newton, born February 1, (Bond), Dec. 1, (Jackson), 1681-2; died before 1739; she d. 8. p. April 28, 1739
8. Elizabeth3 b. Oct. 8, 1671 (twin)
9. Thomas, born Dec. 23, 1673. Jackson says that he sold, 1708, his part of his father's estate but East Cambridge records do not show this to be a fact. As he did not join in the protest to his father's will, and as he is not mentioned in it, he probably died before his father. There was, however, a Thomas Williams at Newton, later, who by wife Lydia (Child) had a daughter Lydia, b. July 22, 1754. It may have been his son.

Children of Isaac Williams and Judith Hunt Cooper

Isaac and Judith had four children.^[1]

1. Peter, 31 Aug 1680; d. unmarried, 1732
2. Sarah, b. 2 Oct 1688
3. Mary, b. 2Oct 1688 (twin)
4. Ephraim, b. 21 Oct 1691

Isaac headed the first school of Cambridge in 1706. He passed away 11 Feb 1708 in his 69th year.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Williams, Edward Higginson. Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass., and his descendants : four generations. Newport, R.I. 1891. pg. 5 pp. 8-9
2. ↑ Capt. Isaac Williams Find A Grave: Memorial #7104115

• History of Stonington, Connecticut, 1649 - 1900 : Author: Richard Anson Wheeler: Publication: New London, CT, Press of The Day Publishing Company, 1900: p. 662 no. 6: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n684/mode/1up

• Robert Williams, the life, ancestors and descendants of, Roxbury : Author: Williams, Harrison: Publication: W.F. Roberts Co. Washington: 1934

• The Life Ancestors & Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxbury 1607-1693, Chapter VIII, page 89. Oklahoma History Center Genealogical Library

• Jackson, Francis. A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts (Stacy & Richardson, Boston, 1854) Page 438: Capt. Isaac Williams

• Stowell, William Henry Harrison. Four Generations of Descendants of Jonathan Hyde of Newton, Mass., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1917) Vol. 71, Page 268: See footnote.