Individual Details

William was born 9th month, 7th day, 176--. Page is torn. An account of another researcher had given dates for several of these records - that gentleman must have had an opportunity to view these records when they were in better condition.

William married Rachel Kemp, daughter of Richard & Susanna (Piggott) Kemp.
Minutes of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Chatham (now Alamance) NC, Vol. 1, 1751-1796, p.143
"at a monthly meeting held 1st of 4th mo 1786 Report was here made that the marriage of Edom Ratcliff and Rachel Cashat was orderly accomplished. Robert was also made that the marriage of William Williams and Rachel Kemp was orderly accomplished.

William's father died before he was ten and his mother remarried. In 1782, he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker of Center Quaker community in Guilford. He returned to Cane Creek to marry Rachel Kemp about 1786. He followed his brother west to Surry Co NC and on to East Tennessee. Records of both families are at Lost Creek in Jefferson Co TN. 21 May 1803, William was recommended as a Minister. From 1804 to 1823, he made eight long journeys on the fringes of Quakerism from Georgia to New England and from the Atlantic to the Northwest Territory. He visited Indiana as early as 1807 and in 1814, led the Williams' families to Indiana. He filed on a tract in Wayne Co, IN and moved there from Newberry, Blount Co TN. He was the first citizen of Richmond IN when the town was platted in 1816 and built the first home.

Birth	7 Sep 1763	Chatham County, North Carolina
Marriage	16 Mar 1786	Orange County, North Carolina - Rachel Kemp
Death	25 Aug 1824	Wayne County, Indiana

Spouse	Rachel Kemp (1764 - )
Child	Richard Williams (1786 - )
Child	Prudence Williams (1788 - 1857)
Child	Hezekiah Williams (1790 - )
Child	Nathan Williams (1792 - )
Child	John Williams (1794 - )
Child	James Boyd Williams (1796 - 1883)
Child	Joshua Williams (1798 - )
Child	Caleb Williams (1798 - )
Child	Josiah Williams (1800 - 1873)
Child	Jesse Williams (1804 - )
Child	William Roy Williams (1806 - )
Child	Sarah Williams (1808 - )
Child	Rachel Williams (1809 - )

Father	WILLIAM Williams (1719 - 1773)
Mother	MARGARET [Williams] (1721 - )
Sibling	Priscilla Williams (1741 - )
Sibling	ISAAC Williams (1742 - 1824)
Sibling	Owen Williams (1743 - 1810)
Sibling	Mary Williams (1746 - 1766)
Sibling	Richard Williams (1749 - 1766)
Sibling	Elizabeth Williams (1750 - )
Sibling	Rachel Williams (1753 - 1840)
Sibling	Margaret Williams (1755 - 1813)
Sibling	Jean Williams (1758 - 1766)
Sibling	Daniel Williams (1760 - )