Silas
Williams
Born in Prince George's, Maryland
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Williams
and Prudence Beals
Brother of
Charity (Williams) Hiatt, Jesse Williams, Prudence (Williams) Coffin, Sarah (Williams) Stanley, Ruth (Williams) Gordon, Mary (Williams) Hockett and Ann (Williams) Jessop
Husband of
Mary (Hunt) Williams
— married
16 May 1770 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Rachel Edwards (Williams) Hiatt, Richard Williams, William Williams, Asa Williams, Catherine (Williams) Curl and Esther (Williams) Downs
Died
at age 83
in Champaign, Ohio, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Jul 2011
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Silas was a Friend (Quaker)
Biography
Silas, son of Richard and Prudence Beals Williams, married Mary Hunt. Born in Maryland, he moved as a child to New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina, where he grew up and married. He and his brothers Jesse and Richard II were prominent in the business meetings of the New Garden Society of Friends. They were appointed often on important matters claiming the consideration of the Society in Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meetings. Memorials to Congress on the slave evil appear often in the early minutes of the New Garden Meeting. Early on, many Quaker families began to leave the South.
Silas and his family transferred to Westfield Monthly Meeting, Surry County North Carolina in 1793, then in 1801 to Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting, Grayson County, Virginia of which Mary was an original member. They moved onto Ohio along with many of their related families. Son William went first, his son Caleb was born in Ohio in 1805, and others came later. Silas and Mary are recorded as hosting a Meeting at their sugar camp in Champaign County in 1812. In 1813 they and other members of their family joined Darby Creek Monthly meeting, Champaign County, Ohio. They homesteaded and remained there for the rest of their lives. Silas died at the age of 93.
Sources
- 1790 Census Salisbury District, Guilford County, North Carolina
- 1820 Census, Salem Township, Champaign County, Ohio
- Otis Brown and Prudence Williams Thomas: "Pedigree of the Williams Family", 1875
- Beers: "History of Champaign County, Ohio", 1881, pp 597, 873
- W. W. Hinshaw: "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy", Vol I, North Carolina, pp. 521, 582, 970, 1013 and Vol VI, Virginia, p. 1003
- Edna Harvey Joseph: " Descendants of John and Mary Clayton Beals", Vol 3
- Richard J. Williams: "Descendants of George Williams", 1908
- Mabel Williams Bean: "Williams-Enoch Genealogies", 1953, pp. 32-3
- Inscribed Photograph of Old Home Place.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Silas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Silas:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Silas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Silas:
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~1.56%
Kathleen Murphy
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch 3873650 [compare], Ancestry member A633240
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~1.56%
Bonnie Williams :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Clare Bromley :
23andMe, GEDmatch XA3190815 [compare], yourDNAportal CLA5a23e73b
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~0.78%
Joyce (Moore) Hodges :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T449786 [compare], Ancestry member jehodges2
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T449786 [compare], FTDNA kit #351187
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Living DNA, GEDmatch T449786 [compare]
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~0.78%
Eve Hiatt :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A377772 [compare], Ancestry member ESevierHiatt
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~0.78%
Barbara Hadley :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Ithus1
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Linda (Payne) Kitchens :
AncestryDNA
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #746950
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~0.78%
Fontaine Wiatt :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch YA6358489 [compare], FTDNA kit #93595
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~0.39%
Darlene Hooker :
23andMe, GEDmatch ZS1603258 [compare]
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Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Liz (Noland) Shifflett
ps See the G2G discussion about adding Meeting categories so that all Quakers wouldn't be directly in the Quakers category.
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by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Liz (Noland) Shifflett
I added the category for the New Garden (NC) Friends Meeting, which the marriage information names. The text shows birth in "New Garden_mm, Prince_georges, CO, MD" - there's not a category for a New Garden Meeting (or Monthly Meeting) in Maryland (there are only three Meeting categories at present - see Category:Quakers - and no Monthly Meeting categories). Cheers, Liz
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by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
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