John Williams (1699 - 1759)

Born 27 Mar 1699 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (King) Williams — married 1728 in Taunton, Bristol Co. MA

Descendants

Died 16 Oct 1759 at age 60 in Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

John Williams, early known as "Ensign". He was born March 27, 1699, in Taunton, Bristol Co. Massachusetts, and settled in Taunton, MA about the same time as his brother,

His house was south of Benjamin Williams and was where Walter Henshaw now lives.

When John's brother gave up innkeeping in 1730, John took up the business and carried it on until his death, in 1756.

His wife, Abigail continued the same for three years afterward. Seldom does it fall to the human lot to have such an accumulation of sorrows within a month as visiting this bereaved woman?

Hardly regaining strength after the birth of a child, she buried, late in September, a son, October 3, another son dies; on the 15th she loses a daughter; on the next day, she sees her husband breathe his last. Four days after that another son passes away, and less than one month afterward still another son is gone.

She loses a husband and five children in the space of a month and a half. Ensign Williams was one of the builders of the furnace at Furnace Village.

Both he and his brother owned a negro slave. He died on October 16, 1756. source William L. Chaffin, History of the Town of Easton, MA (Cambridge: John Wilson & Son: University Press, 1886, pg55-56.

John was born in 1699. John Williams ... passed away in 1756. source Massachusetts Deaths and Burials 1795-1910 Index reference 25; FHL microfilm # 1059951 also GS Film # 1059951 ref ID :25 John Williams was also known as "Ensign". Chaffin's History of Easton, Massachusetts mentions great devastation hitting this family with five children or so and husband, John dying within a month and a half of each one another, shortly after the birth of a new child.

John Williams is also mentioned as well in Mayflower Families Through Five Generations (Rogers).His father's brother, John, above, married Elizabeth Rogers, Mayflower Descendant.

John Williams is buried in the Williams Cemetery Easton, Bristol Co. MA according to Chaffin's History of Easton MA

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #57717125
• Williams, Joseph H., A Genealogical Note, The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder (S.M. Watson, Portland, Maine, 1889) Vol. 6, Page 260.
• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:MBPY-PZR : accessed 1 November 2018), entry for Isaac WILLIAMS; file (2:2:2:MM9R-QRB), submitted 6 May 1999 by thansen2703730 [identity withheld for privacy].
• Familysearch.org Pedigree file-( AFN:3DCW-5M)
• Chaffin's History of Easton, MA
• rootsweb.com Baker, Estep. Love Ancestors. Gwen Boyer Bjorkman.
• Charles C. Williams, Ancestry and Posterity of Richard Williams of Taunton, MA (Los Angeles, CA, 1924, LA Public Library CS71.W72)
• familytreeguide.com/Family Tree of Green and Williams