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- ID: I0067
Name: Thomas WILLIAMS 1
Sex: M
Birth: 22 NOV 1785 in Colleton District SC
Death: 24 JAN 1854 in Tx
Burial: Unknown
Note:
William's goes back to Wales in Great Britain. Copied by many from the popular " William the Conqueror", a Norman. This is a patronymic surname. Patron = Father and Matron = Mother.
The early history of our Thomas Williams born 1785 begins in Charleston District South Carolina and is murky. On the first census of the US in 1790 in SC in the St. Bartholomes Parish are only two Williams families. A Widow named Mrs Williams with one male under 16 and three females, including herself. No ages given. The other is John Williams with one male under 16 also. Either is possible as John is in our family too, but Thomas & Phillip is the most common given name in this family.
On this same census and parish is Absolem Carrell with one male under 16 and three females. He was married 4 times and his children are difficult to pursue. Susannah born 1795 to the third wife. She will marry our Thomas Williams. Also on the same census is Edward Harper, and his son, Edward Harper, Jr. who is nicknamed "Ned" and he will wed Mary Carroll, Susannah's half-sister. These are mentioned by name in the History of Absolem Carrell by T R Carroll. Only a search of this District's probate, wills, land and tax records will help to clear up this mystery.
One old note said that Absalom Carroll and family had land in "St Bartholomes Parish--Colleton District--on Parkers Ferry Road. Now a River Road near Jackson called Old Burned Church" [Road]. Pulling up stakes they moved to Madison County Ms [about 1815] as Ned and Tom are on the 1816 Natchez Territory Census. They lived somewhere along the Black River which is the western border of Madison County, Ms, according to the oral history from the James Carroll Williams family.
The 1820 Perry County Ms census shows that Edward Harper and Absalom Carroll living close together, while Thomas Williams and family were near by. Wayne, Covington, Lawrence, Greene & Perry County were being re-formed to make room for Jones Co. Named after that Sailor, John Paul Jones, another good Welsh surname. The 1837, 1841 & 1853 State Census of Jones Co-Ms is very telling about our family and some of those who married into it. For instance on the 1837 Census, Darling Herrington is living between Thomas and Phillip Williams. That is Father & Son. Darling had married Mary Eleanor Williams, daughter of Thomas and sister of Phillip.
On the 1850 Jones Co Census in dwelling #313 is Thomas and Susannah. Living with them are the boys; Lewis, 18 yrs old. Thomas Absalom, 15 yrs old, {This writer "Ken Williams" Great Grand-Father}; William H, 27 yrs old, John Byrd, 25 yrs old, and a Penny Landrum, 20 yrs old. Next door in #314 is Samuel Myers Williams and wife Sarah A McLeonard. Next door in #315 is Phillip Williams and wife Mildred Walters. House hold # 316 is Horace Williams and wife Margaret. Back in HH #250 is James Carroll Williams and Christian McGilvray. James is shown as Thomas C Williams which has caused many problems.
Not much is known of this family while they lived in Jones Co Ms. They lived on the Bogue Homa [Red Bayou] a few miles East of Laurel.. On the reconstructed Jones Co Tax Rolls from 1827 through 1841 they paid their taxes. All of these SC and MS Williams except for Charles Williams are gone in the odd 1853 Jones Co Ms Census. This could be a brother or cousin to Thomas. The name Charles was carried on down to my oldest Uncle who died young. They came to Tyler County Tx in 1852-3 and later branched out to the following counties; Brazos, Harris, Leon, Montgomery, Robertson and Tyler.
They came in a large group of about 100 families by covered wagons according to the hand me down history from James Carroll Williams through the generations to Theodore Williams and his notes of 1960. Which said they came from New Orleans. The probable route was from New Orleans through Alexandria and Nacogdoches. This route was on high ground and passable most of the time.
Thomas was granted (1 League) 4428 acres for ranching and (1labor) 177 acres for farming in Montgomery Co Tx and was granted a patent for same per his grandson Benjamin Thomas Williams.
Some of the Williams boys left Tyler county prior to 1860. Their is records of them working on the Roads and Bridges to 1858. The Civil War 1861-1865 further dispersed and reduced this family so it is difficult to trace and I'm sure there is errors. kw
Marriage 1 Susannah CARROLL b: 1795 in Colleton District SC
?Married: 9 MAR 1809 in Carolina's 2
?Note: Miss Mabel Mabry who searched this line shows a marriage date of 1818, and since I don't know where she found this date I will go with our old Williams Family Bible, copyrighted 1828, where the marriage notes say March 9, 189. We take this to be 1809 and as cousin Billie Jean Reome explained it could be written down by someone in the family that could write, perhaps a child, and if told 18--9, then the zero was simply left out. kw & bjr
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Sources:
1.Title: Williams Family Bibles of 1828 and 1880
Text: 1840 and 1850 Jones Co Ms Census. Many notes from Williams cousins of East Texas. Jean Strickland's book "Who Married Whom in Jones Co Ms". Tax Records from Jones Co Ms. Tyler Co Tx census's and Minutes of the Court. 2.Title: Williams Family Bible, Copywrite of 1828.
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