Rev.
Warham
Williams
Born in Deerfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of John Williams
and Eunice (Mather) Williams
Brother of
Eleazer Williams, Samuel Williams, Esther (Williams) Meacham, Stephen Williams I, Eunice Marguerite (Williams) Arosen, John Williams Jr, Jemima Williams, Jerusha Williams, Jerusha Williams, Abigail (Williams) Silliman [half], John Williams [half], Eliakim Williams [half], Elijah Williams [half] and Sarah Williams [half]
Husband of
Abigail (Leonard) Williams
— married
23 May 1728 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
John Williams, Abigail Williams, Anna Williams, Eunice Williams, Samuel Williams, Sarah Williams, Leonard Williams, Eleazer Williams and Samuel Williams
Died
at age 51
in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Biography
Agathe de Saint-Père paid the ransom for young Warham Williams, who was four years of age and brought to Canada by Indians as a captive in 1704 after the expedition against Deerfield, Massachusetts. She, Later on, refused to exchange this child for an English weaver who was offered her and whom she needed badly.
Warham graduated from Harvard College in 1719 and was ordained in Watertown (now Waltham) in 1723.[1] He married Abigail Leonard on May 23, 1728 at Norton.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Williams, Stephen W. The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams...Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxbury. Greenfield, MA: Self-Published, 1847. Page 96.
- ↑ Vital Records of Norton Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1850. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1906. Page 269. https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Bristol/Norton/Images/Norton_M269.shtml
- "Annals of the Leonard Family," compiled by Fanny Leonard Koster, 1911, p74.
- "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ9Z-RM6 : accessed 17 May 2015), Warcham Williams, 16 Sep 1699; citing Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 186,146.
- "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLW-KQX : accessed 17 May 2015), Worham Williams and Abigaill Leonard, 23 May 1728; citing reference Vol 1, p 33; FHL microfilm 899,107.
- Find A Grave: Burial: Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA, Created by: Bette Hartman, Record added: Jul 10, 2010, Find A Grave Memorial# 54760429
- Parents are John and Eunice per Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, page 139. http://franklincountyhistory.com/deerfield/vrs/bir_will-z.html
- Francis, Convers. An Historical Sketch of Watertown, in Massachusetts (Metcalf & Co., Cambridge, 1830) Page 71-72.
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