Nancy Williams

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Willoughby Williams – His date and place of birth and parents are not shown. While a resident of Dobbs County, NC he enlisted in 1776 as private under Colonel Abraham Sheppard, served in the different grades including that of Assistant Commissary in Issues, about seven years in all; he was in the battle of Cowpens where he was wounded in the right arm and right leg, date and place not stated. He married January 1, 1786, Nancy Glassco, the daughter of Colonel James Glassco, Secretary of the State of North Carolina. They were married at the home of her father in Dobbs County. Mother’s name not stated. He was a member of the State Legislature from Dobbs County in 1790. He died June 6, 1802 in Rutledge, East Tennessee, while enroute to Tennessee from Greene County, NC. His widow, Nancy Williams, married August 4, 1818 in Kingston, Roane County, Tennessee to Joseph McMinn, Governor of Tennessee. Nancy McMinn was allowed pension on account of the services of her former husband, Willoughby Williams, on her application executed March 8, 1848, at which time she was seventy seven years old and a resident of Davidson County, TN and died June 27, 1857.

Dobbs County, NC - Willoughby & Nancy Williams Revolutionary War Pension, 1848

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[Based on Tennessee Revolutionary Soldiers]

     Revolutionary soldier, WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS, a resident of  Dobbs County, N. C., enlisted in 1776 as a private in COLONEL ABRAHAM  SHEPHERD'S regiment. He served about seven years. WILLIAMS was in the  Battle of Cowpens, during which he was wounded in the right leg. He  married, in the home of the bride's father, JAMES GLASGOW, N. C.  Secretary of State, NANCY GLASGOW, on Jan. 1, 1786. He died on June 6,  1802 in Rutledge, Tenn. on his way to Davidson County.

    In 1790, WILLIAMS served as a member of the North Carolina  Legislature from Dobbs County. His widow, NANCY GLASGOW WILLIAMS, married  second, on August 4, 1806 in Kingston, Tenn. to JOSEPH MCMINN, Governor  of Tennessee, who died at the home of his step-son, J. G. WILLIAMS, at  the Cherokee Agency in Calhoun, Tenn.

   NANCY GLASGOW WILLIAMS MCMINN (b. 1771), at the age of seventy-seven,  applied for and was granted a pension for her first husband's services.  She was then a resident of Davidson, having previously lived in Wilson  County, Tenn.  She had six children by her first marriage, and none by  her marriage to MCMINN. Her youngest child was WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS JR.,  (b. 1798) who, in 1851, lived in Nashville. She