Robert Williams, Cordwainer

Robert Williams (1607-1693) was the eldest son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams.

Married:

1. Elizabeth Stalham (1597 - 1674)
2. Margaret Hawkes (1617 - 1690), widow of Fearing.

Children:

1. Edward Williams (1627 - 1688)
2. Deborah (Williams) Turner (1628 - 1676)
3. Elizabeth Williams (c 1629 - ) NOT Elizabeth Cutter
4. Mary Williams (1630 - 1670) NOT Mary Wood
5. Samuel Williams (1632 - 1698)
6. John Williams (1635 - 1658)
7. Isaac Williams (1638 - 1708)
8. Stephen Williams (1640 - 1720)
9. Thomas Williams born c1644; died young.

The eldest son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams, of St. Nicholas Parish, Great Yarmouth, England. He was baptized 11 Dec 1608. In 1623, he left his father's house and went to Norwich where he was apprenticed to be a cordwainer. He embarked for Boston on 20 Jun 1637 on the ship "Rose" and after arrival in Roxbury became a freeman on 2 May 1638. From 1647-1653 he was one of the 5 selectmen there. In 1644 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorble Artillery Company. The homestead of Robert Williams (1644), in which five generations of the family lived and died, remained standing until 1794, upon the site now occupied by the large brick dwelling-house on Dearborn Street, near the school-house. He came from Norwich, England, "and is the common ancestor of the divines, civilians, and warriors of this name, who have honored the country of their birth." Among his distinguished descendants are Col. Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College ; Rev. Elisha, president of Yale College ; William, Governor of Connecticut, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; Col. Joseph, of Roxbury, and Rev. Eleazer, he " lost Bourbon." Robert was married to Elizabeth Stalham (1597-1674). They had 4 childen, their daughter Elizabeth (1620-62) married Richard

Source: Cutter (1621-93).

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Gives the following about the children of Robert Williams:

• 1628, December 11: Robert Williams married (1st) Elizabeth Stalham at Great Yarmouth, Norwich (Norfolk) England.
• Children, born at Great Yarmouth: 1) Elizabeth; born c1629; 2) Deborah; born c1630; 3) John; born c1631; died October 6, 1658 at Roxbury, Massachusetts and 4) Samuel; born c1632; married Theoda Park; died September 28, 1698.
• Children, born at Roxbury: 5) Isaac (see below); 6) Stephen; born November 8, 1640; married Sarah Wise; died February 1702 at Roxbury and 7) Thomas; born c1644; died young.

"History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut" by Richard Anson Wheeler; Press of The Day Publishing Company; New London, Connecticut; 1900 (974.62 S87Wl LAPL) p. 662

• Mention in the Will, born in England; Mary; married Nicholas Wood of Dorchester, Massachusetts; died February 19, 1662. "The Descendants of Veach Williams, of Lebanon, Connecticut" by Alexander Hamilton Wright; p. 9; Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, Printers; New Haven, Connecticut; 1887 (HeritageQuest)
• 1675, November 3: Robert Williams married (2nd) Margaret, widow of John Fearing.

"The Descendants of Veach Williams, of Lebanon, Connecticut" by Alexander Hamilton Wright; p. 9; Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, Printers; New Haven, Connecticut; 1887 (HeritageQuest)

• Robert Williams married (3rd) Martha Strong.

"The Descendants of Veach Williams, of Lebanon, Connecticut" by Alexander Hamilton Wright; p. 9; Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, Printers; New Haven, Connecticut; 1887 (HeritageQuest) http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/people.do?shortName=Joh...

Additional Resources:

• "The Descendants of Veach Williams, of Lebanon, Connecticut" by Alexander Hamilton Wright; p. 9; Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, Printers; New Haven, Connecticut; 1887 (HeritageQuest) "Cord Wayner" or "cordwayner" was the term during this period for a shoemaker.

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The Oxford English Dictionary's (second edition, 1989) article about the headword, "cordwainer":

A worker in cordwain or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. Now obsolete as the ordinary name, but often persisting as the name of the trade-guild or company of shoemakers, and sometimes used by modern trades unions to include all branches of the trade. (In Scotland in the 18th c. distinguished from ‘shoemaker’: see 1722 in {beta}.) {alpha} a1100 in Earle Land Charters 257 Randolf se cordewan[ere]. 1200 Rotuli Chartarum 61/1 Roger Cordewaner. 1397 Act 21 Rich. II, c. 16 §1 Qe null Suour ne Cordewaner ne use la mistier de Tanner. 1415 York Myst. Introd. 23 Cordwaners. c1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 651/31 Hic alutarius, Ae cordewenere. c1489 CAXTON Sonnes of Aymon vii. 173 They lighted att a cordueners house. c1515 Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 9 Coryers, cordwayners, and cobelers. 1570 LEVINS Manip. 79 A cordweiner, calcearius. 1600 DEKKER Gentle Craft Wks. 1873 I. 44 L. Ma. Maister Eyre, are all these Shoomakers? Eyre. All Cordwainers, my good Lord Mayor. 1682 A. BEHN False Count I. i, Her Father..was in his youth an English cordwinder, that is to say a shoomaker. 1720 STRYPE Stow's Surv. (1754) II. V. xii. 299/1 The company of Shoemakers or Cordwainers as they stile themselves..were first incorporated in the 17th year of King Henry VI. 1814 WELLINGTON in Gurw. Desp. XII. 30 The unanimous resolution of the incorporated Company of Cordwainers of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1831 CARLYLE Sart. Res. III. i. (1858) 128 This poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man. 1837 WHEELWRIGHT tr. Aristophanes I. 325 Surrendering thyself to..cordwinders, To leather-cutters and to hide-dealers. 1892 Alden's Oxford Almanac 45 Trades Unions..Cordwainers' Society. {beta} 1473-4 in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. I. 65 To Henry Lintstare the Kingis cordenar. 1481 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 331 The crafte of cordynerez. 1512 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 7 The crafte of cordeners in Oxford. 1552 LYNDESAY The Tragedy 353 Ane trym Tailyeour, ane connyng Cordonar. 1608 N. Riding Records (1884) I. 125 John Simpson of Staythes, cordener. 1641 Termes de la Ley 85 Cordiner or Cordwayner. a1651 CALDERWOOD Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 124 The magistrats apprehended..one Killon, a cordiner. 1722 Annals of Hawick (1850), The cordiners petition the council to be incorporated and separated from the shoe~makers ‘or those who make single-soled shoes’. {gamma} 1601 HOLLAND Pliny X. xliii, Another shoomaker who had taken the next corviners shop unto him. {emem} Ibid. (1634) I. 188 The art of sowing, as wel for tailors as Corviners and shoomakers.

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A maker of shoes, a worker in fitting leather around human feet. This and other forms of the word all derive from "Cordovan," as in leather originating in kind or actuality to that of Cordoba, the formerly Muslim city in Andalusia, Spain.

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Emigrated from Great Yarmouth, England in the ship Rose to New England.

Military: 1644, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, MA

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Birth: 1593

Great Yarmouth

Norfolk, England

Death: Sep. 1, 1693

Roxbury

Suffolk County

Massachusetts, USA

The eldest son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams, of St. Nicholas Parish, Great Yarmouth, England. He was baptized 11 Dec 1608. In 1623, he left his father's house and went to Norwich where he was apprenticed to be a cordwainer. He embarked for Boston on 20 Jun 1637 on the ship "Rose" and after arrival in Roxbury became a freeman on 2 May 1638. From 1647-1653 he was one of the 5 selectmen there. In 1644 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. The homestead of Robert Williams (1644), in which five generations of the family lived and died, remained standing until 1794, upon the site now occupied by the large brick dwelling-house on Dearborn Street, near the school-house. He came from Norwich, England, "and is the common ancestor of the divines, civilians, and warriors of this name, who have honored the country of their birth." Among his distinguished descendants are Col. Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College; Rev. Elisha, president of Yale College; William, Governor of Connecticut, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; Col. Joseph, of Roxbury, and Rev. Eleazer, he "lost Bourbon." Robert was married to Elizabeth Stalham (1597-1674). They had 4 children. Their daughter Elizabeth (1620-62) married Richard Cutter (1621-93).

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Immigrated abt 1638 w/wife from Norwich England.

The descendants of Robert Williams (1607-1693) and Elizabeth Stalham (1597-1674) were a prestigious group whose members were social, economic, political, military and intellectual leaders. A great number were physicians, clergymen, or lawyers and many held positions of civic responsibility. Several had distinguished military careers. The founding of Williamstown, Massachusetts, and establishment of Williams College are among their accomplishments. William Williams (1731-1811), great great grandson of Robert Williams, was among the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/williams_content.html http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41990874

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "International Genealogical Index (IGI)," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MWGV-JC7 : accessed 2016-02-10), entry for Robert Williams.

'Wiliam Williams and His Descendents' pub 1910 by Isaac Williams, Muncie, IN

'The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660' by Peter Wilson Coldham

'The Life, Ancesters & Descendants of Robert Williams of Robbury' Source S-670832584 : Title: Robert Williams, the life, ancestors and descendants of, Roxbury : Author: Williams, Harrison: Publication: W.F. Roberts Co. Washington: 1934

Source S-683868399 : Title: Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and his descendants : Author: Williams, Edward H. (Jr.) : Publication: Magazine of New England History, The, Newport RI: 1891

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Robert Williams (bef. 1608 - 1693)

Robert Williams
Born before 11 Dec 1608 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Englandmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Stephen Williams and Margaret (Cooke) Williams
Brother of Anne Williams, Margaret Williams, Thomas Williams, Nicholas Williams, John Williams, Francis Williams and Stephen Williams
Husband of Elizabeth (Stalham) Williams — married 11 Dec 1628 (to 28 Jul 1674) in Norwich, Norfolk, Englandmap
Husband of Margaret (Unknown) Williams — married 3 Nov 1675 (to 22 Dec 1690) in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Baymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Deborah (Williams) Turner, Elizabeth Williams, Samuel Williams, John Williams, Isaac Williams, Stephen Williams and Thomas Williams
Died 1 Sep 1693 after age 84 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Contents

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1 Disputed Information
1.1 Disputed Emigration / Origin
1.2 Disputed 3rd Wife
1.3 Disputed Daughter
1.4 Disputed Marriage of other Daughter
2 Biography
3 Children
4 Sources
Disputed Information

Disputed Emigration / Origin

"Robert Williams of Roxbury is found to have been of immediate East Anglian rather than of Welsh parentage,"[1] as some sources have suggested.[2]
Actually, according to the more recently published research, he came from Norwich, County Norfolk, England.[3]

Disputed 3rd Wife

The marriage to Martha Strong has no documentation, it is only a family tradition. There is no mention of a third wife in any of the sources most recently published.
Disputed Daughter

Mary (Williams) Wood: According to Edward H. Williams, Jr. in his article under Notes and Queries in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 44, Mary (Williams) Wood, wife of Nicholas Wood, was NOT the daughter of Robert Williams of Roxbury. The reasoning is:
"As Robert [Williams] was so careful to mention two mysterious granddaughters [in his will] it is strange that he did not mention some of the numerous children of Mary (Williams) Wood, if she were his daughter."[3]
She is somehow connected, as Robert and Samuel Williams inventoried the estate of Nicholas Wood, Mary's husband.

Disputed Marriage of other Daughter

From a 1999 article The American Genealogist:
Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Robert Williams of Roxbury was not the wife of Richard Cutter or Thomas Robinson.[4]
Biography

Robert Williams, the eldest son of Stephen and Margaret was baptized 11 Dec 1608 at St. Nicholas Parish in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.[1][5][4][6][7]

In 1623 he left his father's house in Norfolk, England and went to Norwich, where he was apprenticed to to a man named John Garrett for seven years. It is perhaps for this reason that he escaped the disease, the Black Plague, which killed his father, mother, and brother in 1625 when Robert was a young man of just 18 years of age. Robert continued his apprenticeship until 1630 at which time he became a freeman of Norwich, England. Robert took as his own apprentice his brother Nicholas Williams, "the son of the late Stephen Williams of Yarmouth."[5][6][1][1]

Robert was warden of the Guild of Cordwainers and Sealer of Leather for the city of Norwich in 1635.[5][1]

Robert married Elizabeth Stalham (or Stratton) sometime before the year 1630 in England, although no record has yet to be found of their marriage date or place.[5][4][6][7][8]

Elizabeth was baptized November 11, 1597 at St. George, Tombland, Norwich, probably the daughter of John Stalham of St. George, Tombland, Norwich, County Norfolk and his wife Alicia Gibson.[5] "Proof of this identification, however, has not been found."[4]
Robert applied for permission to emigrate in 1637, at the age of 28 years old. The application was made on April 8, 1637 and the family group on this application "consisted of himself, a wife, four children and two servants."[6][1][4] In 1890, professor Edward H. Williams Jr. made a serious study of the family and he interpreted the damaged application as follows:

"[April 8th 1637. The examination of Robert Williams] of Norwich in Norff. cordwaynar, aged 28 years and [Elizabeth his wife, aged 27 years] with 4 children, Samuel, John, Elizabeth, and Debra [and two servants, Mary Williams] aged 18 yeres, and Anne Williams, aged 15 yeres [are desirous to passe to Bostone in New] England to Inhabitt." [9]
So he, along with his wife, Elizabeth; children Elizabeth, Deborah, John, and Samuel; and two servants, perhaps kin, who were Mary Williams, aged 18 years and Anne Williams, aged 15 years, embarked from Great Yarmouth for Boston aboard the ship Rose in 1637.[6][7][4][10]

His departure from England was probably due to "the religious persecutions of the Puritans, which at that time was carried on in England with fiery and unrelenting zeal." The Puritans were harassed by King Charles I of England who had shown "his inclination to political absolutism and religious persecution" from the time of his ascent to the throne. Since Robert was a Puritan, he along with thousands of other Puritans, fled England between 1630 and 1640. During this decade, "two hundred emigrant ships crossed the Atlantic, and twenty thousand Englishmen found refuge in the west."They faced the privations and sufferings of the perilous voyage, famine, disease after their arrival... All these hardships and sufferings were endured by our ancestors in preference to their unrelenting persecutions in their native land."[2][11]

Robert Williams was "of Roxbury," a relatively newly formed community, which had been in existence a mere seven years when the Williams arrived.[1][12] Upon arrival, temporary shelter would have had to be found, then acquisition of land and building of a home. Houses of that early day were one-story affairs, frequently with one room that was about twenty foot square. In his later years, the house he constructed was a more pretentious and comfortable structure. This house was a target for the British guns during the siege of Boston and five generations of the family lived and died there until 1794 when it was removed.[13]Robert was originally given twenty-five acres of land, as shown in the first list of Roxbury lands. This was enough for farming and he probably carried on his trade of cordwaining as well.[14] By 1654 he had compiled 135 acres, if not the most extensive in area, it was the longest entry in the record book "Houses and Lands in Roxbury."[15]

Robert Williams was one of the most influential men in Roxbury affairs:[7]

In 1637 he became a member of Reverend John Eliot's church in Roxbury.[4][16]
On May 2, 1638, he was made a Freeman of Roxbury.[6][7]
From 1647-1653 he was one of the 5 selectmen in Roxbury. He was chosen, along with Sergeant John Rudges, to survey the property in Roxbury and to lay it out into lots.[17]
Between 1642 and 1645 the Roxbury school was started and Robert Williams became one of the founders, agreeing to make yearly support, along with about sixty other principal inhabitants of the town. Then on February 15, 1662, at the first meeting of the donors they chose seven trustees (Feoffees) and the record shows that Robert Williams was one of them.[18]
In 1644 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.[6][7]
On July 27[4]or 28, 1674,[6] his first wife Elizabeth Stalham (or Stratton) Williams died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, aged 80 years.[7][4]She was buried in the old First Burying Place, later known as the Eustis Street Burying Grounds.[19]

On November 3, 1675,[20] at Hingham, Massachusetts, Robert married Margaret (_____) Fearing, the widow of John Fearing of Hingham.[21][20][6][22] Margaret died in Roxbury on December 22, 1690.[6]

Robert Williams died September 1, 1693 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, at the age of 86 years.[6][1][7][23]He was probably buried at the old First Burying Place in Roxbury but his headstone has disappeared so the location of the grave is unknown.[24]

His will, dated November 26, 1685 named his wife; sons Samuel, Isaac, and Stephen; and his brother Nicholas Williams who was to receive 30s per year and maintenance.[6]His will can be found here: [25]

Children

Children of Robert and his 1st wife Elizabeth; first four born England; next three born in Roxbury, MA:[5][6][4]

Elizabeth was born about 1629. She was admitted to the Roxbury church in 1644.[3]"The church record identifies Elizabeth as 'daughter of John' but she is believed to be actually Robert's eldest daughter - who joined in the late 1640s." Mention is made of her in her father's will. She did NOT marry Richard Cutter nor Thomas Robinson.
Deborah was born about 1631. She married John Turner of Roxbury, in Medford in 1648. She was his 2nd wife, as according to church records his first wife died in child-bed. Deborah died in Medfield in 1676. Mention is made of her daughter (Deborah (Turner) Totman wife of Jabez Totman in her father's will.[5][3] Other children of Deborah (Williams) and John Turner were John, Isaac, Samuel, Mary, Sarah, and Hannah.
John was baptized at St. George at Colegate, Norwich on 26 August 1635[4]and died at Roxbury, unmarried, on October 6, 1658.[citation needed]
Samuel was born in 1632.[5]or 1633.[4] He was admitted into membership of the Roxbury church at age 15[5]or 16.[4] In 1654, he married Theoda Parke, the daughter of Deacon Wm. Park.[26]
Isaac was baptized September 1, 1638 and confirmed in the Roxbury Church at the age of twenty years.[4] In 1660 he married Martha Parke, daughter of Deacon Wm. Park.[27] Settled in Newton. Children:Isaac, Martha, William, Eleazer.[2]
Stephen, a Captain, was born November 8, 1640[28]and died February 15, 1720 at Roxbury.[2]
Thomas was born about 1642. He died young. No children.[4][2][29]
It was said by Farmer in his genealogy, "that Robert Williams, of Roxbury, was the common ancestor of the divines, civilians, and the ancestors of the name, who have honored the country of their birth." Among his distinguished descendants are his son, Captain Isaac, who headed the first school committee in Cambridge in 1706; his great grandson, Rev. Col. Elisha was Rector of Yale from 1726-1739; another great grandson, Colonel Ephraim founded and endowed of Williams College in 1755; and Bishop John Williams of Connecticut was President of Trinity College from 1848 - 1853 as well as founder and first Dean of Berkeley Divinity School in 1854.[30]William (1731-1811), a signer of the Declaration of Independence.[2] Colonel Joseph, of Roxbury, who said to President Jackson "May the arm be enervated that would strike down our glorious Constitution!"[31]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Notes and Queries," in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Vol. 47, p. 363.link for subscribers
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Williams, Stephen W. "The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams" Printed by Merriam & Mirick. 1847. pp. vii, 25-32.see at googlebooks; subsequently been shown to be inaccurate.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Edward H. Williams, Jr, "Notes and Queries," in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Vol. 44, p. 211, 212; link for subscribers
↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 Marsha Hoffman Rising, "Enigmas #12. Was Elizabeth, Wife of Richard Cutter of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Daughter of Robert Williams of Roxbury?," in The American Genealogist, New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 74 (1999) pp 292-298. link for subscribers
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Williams, Harrison. "The Life Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxbury" W. F. Roberts Company, Washington, D. C. 1934. pp. 16-20.see at archive.org
↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Jacobus, Donald Lines. "The Granberry Family and Allied Families" Edgar F. Waterman, Hartford, Conn. 1945. p. 347, 348; see at hathitrust.org
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 "Registration of Pedigrees: No. 67: John Jabez Williams," in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Vol. 43, p. 292; link for members
↑ Torrey. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.link for subscribers
↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 44 1890 By New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff page 212 https://books.google.ca/books?id=9U6qXPSwqOQC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq...
↑ Williams,Harrison pp. 24, 26
↑ Williams,Harrison p. 21
↑ Williams,Harison p. 27
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↑ Williams,Harrison p. 32
↑ Williams,Harrison pp. 33-36
↑ Great Migration Newsletter, V.6, p. 25. (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)link for subscribers
↑ Williams,Harrison pp. 36, 37
↑ Williams,Harrison pp. 38, 39
↑ Williams,Harrison p p.41, 42
↑ 20.0 20.1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Roxbury Marriages p. 437 link for subscribers
↑ McLean W. McClean, "Israel Fearing of Wareham, Mass. (1692-1754)," in The American Genealogist, New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 44 (1968), p. 138 link for subscribers
↑ Williams,Harrison p. 42
↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Deaths, vol 2, p 672; link for subscribers
↑ Williams,Harrison p. 42
↑ Williams,Harrison pp. 42-44.
↑ Williams,Harrison p. 40
↑ Williams,Harrison p. 40
↑ Williams,Harrison p. 37
↑ Wheeler, Richard Anson. "History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut" Press of The Day Publishing Company, New London, Connecticut. 1900. p. 662; see at archive.org
↑ Williams, Harrison p. 40
↑ Drake, Francis S. "The Town of Roxbury" Municipal Printing Office, Boston. 1908. pp. 115, 116, 384; .see at googlebooks
See also:

NEXUS: New England Across the United States. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983-1999. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) Vol. 3, p.237, col. 2 - see Williams.link for subscribers
Coldham, Peter Wilson. "The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660" Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 1987.link to extracts
Demos, John "The Unredeemed Captive" 1994. p. 8
Williams, Isaac J. "A History of William Williams and His Descendents: From his birth in 1760 down to a recent date" pub 1911, Muncie, IN
Find A Grave: Memorial #41990874
"First Settlers of Hingham" p. 254.link
Mackenzie, George Norbury. Colonial Families of the United States of America (New York, Boston, The Grafton Press, 1907), Volume I http://books.google.com/books?id=J1tlAAAAMAAJ.
Williams, Edward H. Jr. "Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and his descendants" see at archive.org
Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass. (Tarrytown, New York, 1887) Page 170
Williams, George Huntington. Tracing the Family of Thomas Williams of Roxbury, Mass.", Boston, 1880. (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/232169/?offset=3#... )
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"...Robert Williams, had also been a shoemaker (or corwainer," in the parlance of the time). Robert was actually the first of the Williamses to live in Massachusetts, having arrived from England in 1637 as part of the Puritans' "Great Migration." Further back, the family tree reached to the region known as East Anglia - and possibly to Wales."

Robert Williams BIRTH 24 Jul 1608, Great Yarmouth Borough, Norfolk, England DEATH 1 Sep 1693 (aged 85), Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA, PLOT D-411A, MEMORIAL ID 41990874, Photos added by Jeff Lloyd ©2004-2021 & BobBoston

The eldest son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams, of St. Nicholas Parish, Great Yarmouth, England. He was baptized 11 Dec 1608. In 1623, he left his father's house and went to Norwich where he was apprenticed to be a cordwainer. He embarked for Boston on 20 Jun 1637 on the ship "Rose" and after arrival in Roxbury became a freeman on 2 May 1638. From 1647-1653 he was one of the 5 selectmen there. In 1644 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorble Artillery Company.

The homestead of Robert Williams (1644), in which five generations of the family lived and died, remained standing until 1794, upon the site now occupied by the large brick dwelling-house on Dearborn Street, near the school-house. He came from Norwich, England, "and is the common ancestor of the divines, civilians, and warriors of this name, who have honored the country of their birth." Among his distinguished descendants are Col. Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College ; Rev. Elisha, president of Yale College ; William, Governor of Connecticut, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; Col. Joseph, of Roxbury, and Rev. Eleazer, he " lost Bourbon." Robert was married to Elizabeth Stalham (1597-1674). They had 4 childen, their daughter Elizabeth (1620-62) married Richard Cutter (1621-93).

Parents Stephen Williams 1583–1625 Margaret Cooke Williams 1586–1625

Spouses Elizabeth Stalham Williams 1597–1674 (m. 1628) Margaret Hawkes Williams 1617–1690 (m. 1675)

Children Elizabeth Williams Cutter 1620–1662 Deborah Williams Turner 1628–1676 Samuel Williams 1632–1698 John Williams 1635–1658 Isaac Williams 1638–1708 Stephen Williams 1640–1720

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