Seth Williams

GEDCOM Note

Category: Taunton, Massachusetts Category: Neck O Land Cemetery, Taunton, Massachusetts

Biography

Seth Williams married Mary Deane. (p. 38) <ref name="Taunton">History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From Its Settlement to the Present Time, By Samuel Hopkins Emery, D. Mason & Company, 1893 </ref>
Mary, wife of Hon. Seth Williams Esq., died at Taunton on June 8, 1746in her 66th year. (p. 226) <ref name="VR">Vital Records of Taunton Massachusetts to the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1928</ref> <ref>Mary Dean Williams (1680-1746) on sameas=no Retrieved 24 January, 2018.</ref> Her husband Seth died May 13, 1761 in his 86th year and is buried withMary in the Summer Street Burying Ground (neck of Land), at Taunton.<ref name="VR" /> <ref>Seth Williams (1676-1761) on sameas=yes Retrieved 24 January, 2018.</ref>

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Ref. Photo/document on this page, involving "Witness Seth Williams": 1729/9 Document Translation:

Bristol, GEORGE the Second, By the Grace of GOD of Great

                   Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith [?]

(Wax Seal of Bristol)
To the Sheriff of Our County of Bristol his Under-Sheriff or Deputy, Greeting:
We Command you to Attach the Goods or Estate of Henry Gidley of Dartmouth in ye County of Bristol Husbandman to the Value of Sixteen Pounds; and for want thereof to take the Body of the said Henry Gidley (if he may be found in your Precinct) and him safely keep, so that you have him before Our Justices of our Inferior Court of Common Pleas next, to be holden at Bristol, within and for Our Said County, at Bristol, on the Second Tuesday of April – next; Then and there in Our Said Court to answer unto John Akin Samuel Cornel[l] & Stephen West Jr & all of the Town of Dartmouth & County aforesaid Yeomen for a plea of debt for not paying to ye [pen?](suit,Latin) the just sum of Eight Pounds Current Money of ye
province of ye Massachusetts Bay [?] to ye debt by virtue of Bill in waiting under ye hand & seal of ye debt dated ye thirteenth Day of January 1728/9. [?] Court produced will appear [for?] non payment -----------------------------------------------------------------------
To the damage of the said John Akin Samuel Cornel & Stephen West [ ] Pay the sum of Sixteen Pounds; Which shall then and there be made to appear, with other due Damages: And have you there this Writ with your doings therein.
Witness Seth Williams – Esq; at Bristol, this 21st day of March . In the sum of sixteen Pounds; which shall then and there appear, with other due damages: And have you there this Writ with your doings therein.. In the second year of Our Reign, Annoque Domini, 1728/9

                                                                                                                          Timothy Kale Clk