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About Sgt. Nathaniel Williams
From Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine and Magazine of New England History (Google eBook). Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company, 1915 - New England. Page 7-9. JOHN WILLIAMS OF NEWPORT, MERCHANT, AND HIS FAMILY. BY Gnonon ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A.M.:
The first member of this family in this country was:
Lieut. Nathaniel Williams, merchant and glover, of Boston. He joined the First Church at Boston on 26 May, 1639. In this entry he is described as a “laborer,” * [* A description sometimes used of a man having no trade, and who was a wage earner] but this word is used in the sense of the seventeenth century. He was probably an apprentice; otherwise it would be impossible to reconcile this entry with subsequent ones that show the high esteem with which he was held and the prominent place that he occupied in Boston.
He was made a Freeman of the Colony on 13 March, 1640, and is henceforth styled in the records of Boston “glover” and “merchant.” His wife Mary joined the First Church on 4:5 mo:1640. He became a member of the Artillery Company in 1644, and was its “second sergeant” in 1654, shortly after which he became a lieutenant of the colonial militia. In addition to these military offices he held numerous positions of trust in the town government of Boston. In 1651, he was chosen Clerk of the Market, and on 23: 12: 1656, he was elected Constable of Boston, and from 12: 1 mo: 1659/60, until his death, he was one of the Selectmen. This office, like that of Constable, being one of great importance in so large a place as Boston. On the 25:1: 1660, he was made Sealer of Weights and Measures. His will is dated 22 : 2 mo : 1661, and was proved 10:7 mo:1662.
Nathaniel Williams acquired a large estate in Boston. He had a grant of land at Mount Wollaston, next to Capt. Thomas Foster, and a farm at Muddy River (Brookline), as well as several estates in the town of Boston proper. His earliest home seems to have been on what is now Court Street, adjoining the site of the Old Court House and west of it. This property he sold on 22: 12 mo: 1648, to Richard Critchley and on January 30, 1655, he purchased of Richard Pepys* of Ashon in Essex county, England, the estate that had formerly belonged to Rev. William Blackstone. This property ran from the present Louisburg_ Sq. on the north to the Charles River on the west, the Common on the south and the present Joy Street on the east. So we see that Nathaniel Williams was one of the earliest residents of Beacon Hill.
Nathaniel Williams and his wife, Mary, had issue:
- i. Ruth, bp. 2 June 1639; married Joseph Belknap of Boston.
- ii. Elizabeth, bp. 18 Oct. 1640. b. 21 Oct 1640 m. (1) Thomas Sanford and (2) Dr. John Chase[2]
- iii. Nathaniel, bp. 25 Sept. 1642, aged 6 days. Born 16 Sep 1642 m. (1) Lydia and (2) Mary (Oliver) Shrimpton He was the “Hon. Lieut. Nathaniel Williams of Boston.” He was lieutenant of the Artillery Company, a Commissioner during King Phillip’s War, Deacon of the Old South Church, Constable, Selectman and Overseer of the Poor at Boston, as well as commander of the Castle (Castle William), when Sir Edmund Andros was imprisoned there. He married Mary, widow of Jonathan Shrimpton, merchant, and daughter of first Capt. Peter Oliver, Esq., of Boston, a member of the distinguished Oliver family. Among other children he had Nathaniel Williams, M.A. (Boston Latin School 1682, Harvard 1693). This Nathaniel Williams, 3rd, was a physician. In early life he removed to the West Indies, but soon returned to Boston, where he succeeded Ezekiel Cheever as master of the Latin School (1703—1735). He married Ann, daughter of Dr. Samuel Bradstreet of Jamaica and granddaughter of Gov. Simon Bradstreet of Massachusetts.
- iv. John, bp. 18 Aug. 1644, aged 3 days (of whom hereafter). b. Aug 1644; d. 1687; m. (1) Anna Alcocke.[2]
- v. Mary, born 30 Nov., bp. 6 Dec. 1646; married John Viall, Jr., of Braintree.
- vi. Hannah, bp. 7 Jan. 1649. b. 30 Dec 1648, living in 1679 unmarried.
Mary, the widow of Nathaniel Williams, married, second, Peter Brackett, merchant, of Braintree and Boston.
- Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). "NAME: Sergeant Nathaniell Williams EVENT TYPE: Death DEATH DATE: 23 Apr 1661 DEATH PLACE: Boston, Massachusetts"
- Leclerc, Michael J. and Simons, D. Brenton. “Origin of Accused Witch Mary (Williams) (King?) Hale of Boston and Her Brothers Hugh, John, and Possibly, Nathaniel Williams.” The American Genealogist 82:168. PDF
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Sgt. Nathaniel Williams's Timeline
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1614
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England
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June 2, 1638
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Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States
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October 18, 1640
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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September 19, 1642
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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August 15, 1644
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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November 30, 1646
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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January 7, 1649
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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April 23, 1661
Age 47
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). NAME: Sergeant Nathaniell Williams
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