Samuel Williams, Sr.

Biography

d.​ Mary Moore (ca. 1670-after 1712) married William Williams (ca. 1670-1712).

From “MOORE-(WILLIAMS) EXCERPT” < link >

(3) Captain Samuel Williams (ca. 1700-1754) married Elizabeth Alston (ca. 1712-after 1767). She married (2) Richard Burt (1724-1805), as proved by a court reference of July 1765 to their marriage agreement and by her deed of gift in December 1767 to her sons William, Solomon, and Joseph John Williams (Halifax Deed Book # 9, p. 312; # 10, p. 123.

[Note: Concerning the Alston family, Elizabeth Alston was a daughter of Colonel John Alston (ca. 1673-1755) of Chowan County, North Carolina, noted above in association with Thomas Pyland, a cousin of Samuel Williams. Concerning the Alston family, see Dr. Joseph A. Groves, The Alstons and Allstons of North Carolina and South Carolina (Atlanta 1901); cf. Dr. Claiborne Thweatt Smith, Jr., Planters on the Roanoke: Smith of Scotland Neck (Baltimore, 1976).

Among her siblings were the following:

1. Solomon Alston (1701-ca. 1784/85) married Ann “Nancy” Hinton. Concerning them and their progeny, see in thematerial about Mrs. Louisa A. Hendon Seawell, granddaughter [# 7, a, (2), (c), 4), a, (5] of John Moore the Hatter, theHill-Hinton-Kimbrough-Seawell Note [# II, 3], as Solomon Alston’s wife was the great-aunt of Mrs. Grizelle HintonSeawell, the mother-in-law of Mrs. Louisa Hendon Seawell.

2. Joseph John Alston (1702-1780/81), justice and North Carolina assemblyman, married (1) Elizabeth Chancey and(2) Euphan Wilson. He left his long will of 1780/81 in Halifax County, North Carolina; for the entire text, see the posting by Mark Gillespie (Genealogy.com) …

notes

Date of marriage to Elizabeth Alston might specifically be 1728.

comments

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1698 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.

links

• https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Samuel-Williams/f11220
• “MOORE-(WILLIAMS) EXCERPT” < link >