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From: "Nadine Holder" <>
Subject: [PACHESTE] Re: Amos Williams
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:21:08 -0700
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Is this the best list on the net or what? It is shaping up more and more
that Amos who married Phebe Allen (he was also son of Zachariah) is the one
we are looking for as the two oldest sons of our Amos of North Carolina were
James and Thomas.
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Subject: Re: Amos Williams


> To Nadine, and the List:
>
> I have notes in my database re: three Chester County Amos Williamses.
I've
> arbitrarily numbered them below, just for the sake of some sort of
clarity.
> Hope this information helps someone out. It comes from Quaker meeting
> records, probate files at Chester Co. Archives, church records, and
Chester
> Co. deeds.
>
> Dot Clark, Lansdale, PA
> ******************
> #1 Amos - Son of Zachariah Williams (d. bef. 16 May 1741, when his will
was
> proved in Chester Co.) and Anne Elliott, who were married 30 May 1733 at
> Christ Church in Philadelphia. This Amos had brother James, and sister
> Rachel who married William Powell on 21 Nov 1754 at Sadsbury Mo. Mtg.,
> Lancaster Co.
>
> In Chester County Deed Book L, pages 523-525, in an indenture made 4 Mar
> 1760, Amos Williams, cordwainer, and James Williams, wheelwright, both of
> Sadsbury Township, agreed to sell to Thomas Bulla for 193 pounds, a tract
of
> land. According to the indenture, on 21 May 1753, Thomas Penn and Richard
> Penn confirmed to them by patent or grant a parcel of land, bordered by
land
> of Henry Marsh and Isaac Taylor, containing 200 acres plus the usual
> allowance of 6 acres for roads. The patent for this land was noted as
being
> recorded in Philadelphia in Patent Book A, Vol. 17, page 97. The
indenture
> was witnessed by James Allen, Margaret Miller, and John Miller. [NOTE:
> Thomas Bulla was the second husband of Anne (Elliott) Williams, widow of
> Zachariah Williams, father of Amos and James. Isaac Taylor, Jr., son of
> Isaac Taylor, deceased, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Bulla in 1761.
> Additionally, one of the witnesses to the will of Zachariah Williams was
> Henry Marsh, and Zachariah calls William Marsh "my brother" in his will
and
> leaves him a saddle."
>
> According to the records of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Lancaster County,
the
> declaration of Amos Williams and Phebe Allen to marry was recorded on 20
Jan
> 1762 and 18 Feb 1762, and on 17 Mar 1762 that their marriage had been
> accomplished. On 22 Feb 1764, a complaint was recorded in the Minutes of
> the Meeting against Amos Williams "speaking falsehoods. Amos and Phebe
had
> at least two sons, James, b. 1762, and Thomas, b. 1764.
>
> On 23 Oct 1765, the Minutes record that Phebe Williams, wife of Amos
> Williams, requested a certificate to Cane Creek or Newgarden Monthly
Meeting
> in North Carolina for herself and her two children. It appears that Amos
> Williams also went to North Carolina, for on 19 Jun 1776, there is a
mention
> that he sent a letter to the Sadsbury Monthly Meeting acknowledging his
> misconduct during his residence here (PA). There are mentions of an Amos
> Williams in the Minutes after this date, so perhaps he went and came back,
or
> these may be mentions are of another Amos Williams. One of the mentions
is
> when he was accused of passing counterfeit paper currency and absenting
> himself from his place of abode, on 21 Oct 1778.
> **************
> #2 Amos - He was born 8 Aug 1747 and was the son of Joseph Williams and
Mary
> Minshall, who were married in 1746 at Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., Lancaster Co. He
> appears to be the oldest of their children, and had siblings named Martha,
> Elinor, Minshall, Hannah, Joseph, Mary, Ann, John, and Joshua. Amos
married
> Rachel Miller, daughter of James Miller, on 5 Jul 1797 at Sadsbury Mo.
Mtg.,
> Lancaster Co. I do not have any information about their children.
>
> In an Indenture recorded in Chester County Deed Book B2, Pages 146-7, made
22
> May 1786, the following information was recorded. Joseph Williams,
deceased,
> of Sadsbury Township, by his will, left a piece of land which had been
part
> of his residence, to his son, Amos Williams. A part of that land,
consisting
> of 21 acres, was seized and sold at a public sale by the Sheriff for the
> payment of debts owed by Amos Williams. Mary Williams, widow of Joseph
> Williams, bought that land for 40 pounds, 10 shillings and later died
> intestate but still seized of that land. Her heirs at law, Amos Williams,
> Minshall Williams, Joseph Williams, Mary Williams, Ann Williams, and
Thomas
> Fulton and Hannah, his wife, agreed that David Moore of London Grove
> Township, the Administrator of her estate, would pay them a total of 50
> pounds (a sum which included interest) in gold or silver coin for that
land,
> which would then be divided to be a part of their inheritance from Mary
> Williams, deceased. The Indenture was affirmed on 15 Aug 1786 and
recorded 9
> Oct 1786. [Note: David Moore subsbequently married Martha Williams.]
> *****************
> Amos #3 - The Joseph Williams, father of Amos #2 above, was himself the
son
> of another Amos Williams, who died before 1 Oct 1751, when his will was
> proved in Chester Co., and his wife, Elinor (maiden name unknown to me),
> married at least by 1722. Other children born to Amos and Elinor were
James
> (b. 1722), Anne (who married Joseph Elliott before Jul 1749), and Elinor
(who
> married George Money or Mooney).
>
> Abstract of Wills and Administrations, 1682 - 1758, Chester County: Page
359:
> The administration of his estate was given on 1 Oct 1751 to James &
Joseph
> Williams.
>
> In _Guide to the Mortgages of the General Loan Office of the Province of
> Pennsylvania 1724 - 1756_, compiled by James M. Duffin (published by
> Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, PA in 1995 as
Monograph
> Series No. 1), it is noted on page 86 that on 15 Oct 1749, Amos Williams,
a
> resident of Sadsbury Township, Chester County, yeoman, received a mortgage
of
> 97 pounds, 10 shilling, 0 pence, on 250 acres of improved land located in
the
> same township. The mortgage was recorded in Book 1747, page 449, of the
> General Loan Office.
>
> The same 250 acre tract of land became the subject of an Indenture made
16th
> of the 1st month 1754 before Thomas Bulla and Henry Marsh, in which James
> Williams of Sadsbury, Chester County, for the sum of 5 shillings, released
to
> Joseph Williams of the same place, all rights to the tract of land of 250
> acres partly in Chester and partly in Lancaster County. That document was
> affirmed on 27 Jan 1795 and recorded on 4 May 1807. (James and Joseph
> Williams were evidently brothers and the sons of Amos and Elinor
Williams).
>
> On the 9th day of the 6th month 1794, the granchildren of this Amos
Williams,
> being the surviving heirs of the late Joseph Williams and his wife Mary,
as a
> group created a series of Indentures recorded in Book A3, pages 325-330,
in
> which they released and cross-released claims to each other, and
apparently
> settled the titles to the 250 acres of land. In those Indentures, they
> identify themselves as: Amos Williams, chapman, of Sadsbury; David Moore
of
> London Grove, yeoman, and Martha, his wife; Minshall Williams of Sadsbury,
> yeoman; Thomas Fulton of Sadsbury, husbandman, and Hannah, his wife; Ann
> Williams of Sadsbury, spinster; John Williams of Sadsbury, yeoman; Joshua
> Williams of Sadsbury, yeoman; and Joseph Williams of Sadsbury, yeoman. A
> subsequent document in the series of indentures was signed by the sisters
of
> the late Joseph Williams, and their husbands. They identify themselves as
> Joseph Elliott of Sadsbury, Lancaster County, yeoman, and Elinor, his
wife;
> and George Money (or Mooney), also of Sadsbury, Lancaster County,
blacksmith,
> and Ann, his wife. These indentures were finally recorded 4 May 1807.
> ************
>

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