Esther (Williams) Williams, daughter of William (13) and Hannah Stoddard Williams, was born in Weston in 1726. She became the second wife of Thomas Williams (14) about 1726, and served as executrix of his estate. Several of their eleven children are named below. Esther died in 1800. A number of her papers are letters from her brother-in-law, Reverend Stephen West of Stockbridge, Mass., in regard to her son Stephen who went to live with the Wests after his father's death (one letter is from Stephen, asking for money when he was a student at Yale). Mr. West had the unhappy duty to write to her about her son's untimely death at the age of 31. Other letters are from her sister, Elizabeth, and the latter's husband, Joseph Buckminster; from her daughters Cynthia and Martha (Polly), and the latter's husband, Jeremiah West. There are two copies of her will (1799) and a detailed inventory of household goods in her estate.[1]
The numbers in parentheses that follow many of the names are those assigned by George Sheldon in the Williams genealogy included in the second volume of his History of Deerfield, Massachusetts (1895).
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Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
Sheldon, George. "A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Times When the People by Whom it was Settled, Unsettled and Resettled", Greenfield Mass: Press of E.A. Hall and Company, 1896.
Book Title: History of the Dudley Family with genealogical tables, pedigrees, & c : number 1
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46783801/esther-williams: accessed 12 April 2023), memorial page for Esther Williams Williams (10 Mar 1726–24 Sep 1800), Find a Grave Memorial ID 46783801, citing Old Deerfield Burying Ground, Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Kevin Avery (contributor 47024642).
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