Amos Williams, Sr.

Amos Williams

• Birth 14 Mar 1645, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut
• Death 20 Aug 1683, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey

Amos Williams son of Matthew, came to Essex Co, New Jersey with his brothers Matthew and Samuel and settled not far from his brother Samuel at Elizabethtown.

family

• Father Matthew Williams (~1620-<1654)
• Mother Susanna Cole (~1626-<1659) Married

1. 29 Jun 1670, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut to Elizabeth Rodgers Birth abt 1650 468 Death12 Mar 1701, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut 468

Children

1. Amos (1671-1744)
2. Samuel (1675-)
3. Elizabeth (1677-)
4. Susannah (1680-)

Notes for Amos Williams

Born out of wedlock, Matthew and Susanna were whipped for fornication.Presumably they were married before the birth of their second child.

biography

From http://williamsfamilyhistoryessexnj.blogspot.com

(II) Amos Williams, son of Matthew Williams (I-q. v.), was born at Wethersfield, Connecticut, March 14, 1645-46, died August 20, 1683. He was on the tax list and town crier in 1668 at Wethersfield, and was one of the earliest settlers of Rocky Hill section of Old Wethersfield. With his brothers, Matthew and Samuel, he was one of the second Branford emigration to Essex County, New Jersey. Exactly when the brothers severed their connection with the Wethersfield colony is not obtainable, and it is almost certain that he settled not far from his brother Samuel at Elizabethtown. The Amos who owned property at the North Corner at Orange, was Captain Amos WiIllams, his son, who was the father of Samuel Williams, who died in 1812, aged ninety -nine years. There is no certainty of record of Amos Williams at Wethersfield after the appraisal and division of his father's estate in 1680, although he may have been there. He did not, however, visit his brother Matthew in Newark (who lived at Day and Washington streets, Orange).

Amos Williams died August 20, 1683 and the inventory of his Wethersfield estate when probated was 217 15s. January 3, 1697, Lieutenant Thomas Hollister moved to Connecticut to appoint a suitable person to make distribution of the estate of Amos Williams, Hollister having married the widow of Amos Williams in 1690. Amos Williams drew land in the 1670 allotment. In 1673 he bought a tract of sixteen and a half acres at Rocky Hill from Thomas Hollister, on west side of Middle road, between Jonathan Boardman's south and Samuel Boardman's north, where he settled. He bought five acres from John Miller next north of William Morris at Rocky Hill.

He married, June 29, 1670-71, Elizabeth Rogers(?)

Children: Amos, born March 17, 1670-71, mentioned below; Samuel, born June 25, 1675, named for his uncle;
Elizabeth, born March 3, 1677, named for her mother; Susanna, born July 22, 1680, named after her grandmother.

Matthew Williams Sr. married, after 1645, Susanna Cole, of English birth, probably a sister of James Cole, an early settler there, and in 1639 an original settler and planter of Hartford, Connecticut.

Children:

• Amos, born March 14. 1645;
• Matthew, October 27, 1647, died an infant;
• Matthew born May 14, 1651:
• Samuel, born January 4, 1653-54, died at Elizabethtown, 1706

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sources

• Genealogical and Memorial History of New Jersey, F B Lee, p 1222-3
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tibart&id...
• page 371 of Genealogical Record of the Condit Family: Descendants of John Cunditt, a ... By Jotham Halsey Condit