Family of Phillip Williams, Sr.

 

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1.  PHILLIP¹ WILLIAMS, SR.¹ was born Bef. 1732, and died Bet. Mar - Nov 1786 in Amelia Co, VA.  He married (1) MARY HUNDLEY Bef. Jan 14, 1748/49, daughter of WILKINSON HUNDLEY.    She died Bet. 1752 - 1760.  He married (2) ELIZABETH HUNDLEY Aft. 1752, daughter of WILKINSON HUNDLEY. 

 

Notes for PHILLIP WILLIAMS, SR.:

Possibly immigrated from Wales, first found located in Gloucester County, Virginia.

Earliest record in Amelia cty., VA: Mar 8, 1754/5 Philip Williams "of Gloucester County" purchased 400 acres Amelia cty. from Benj. Hawkins "of Amelia".

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More About PHILLIP WILLIAMS, SR.:

MILI: Military: September 20, 1777, Sworn 1st Lt., VA Militia - Rev. War

Residence: Nottoway Parish, Amelia Co., VA

Will 1: January 14, 1785, Dated

Will 2: December 28, 1786, Proved

     

Children of PHILLIP WILLIAMS and ELIZABETH HUNDLEY are:

              i.   LETITIA WILLIAMS, b. Bet. 1760 - 1765, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Aft. May 1797, Green County, Kentucky; m. THOMAS ELMORE^2,3, Oct 15, 1783, Amelia Co, VA; b. Mar 5, 1758, Prince Edward Co, VA; d. Jul 1, 1827.

 

Notes for THOMAS ELMORE:

Justice of the Peace, Amelia Co.

 

Enlisted in the Revolutionary Army on January 7, 1777 as a gunner in Company Q of Colonel Harrison's Virginia and Maryland Artillery Regiment. He served at Valley Forge and Yorktown.

 

He settled in Green County, Kentucky after June, 1810.

 

 

More About THOMAS ELMORE:

Appointment: Bet. 1807 - 1808, Sheriff & Tax Collector, Amelia Co.

Military service 1: January 07, 1777, Revolutionary War

Military service 2: July 27, 1786, Capt., 1st Bat., Amelia Co. Militia

 

More About THOMAS ELMORE and LETITIA WILLIAMS:

Marriage: October 15, 1783, Amelia County, Virginia

 

              ii.   FRANCES WILLIAMS, b. Bet. 1760 - 1765, Amelia County, Virginia; m. VINCENT COMPTON, December 23, 1783, Amelia County, Virginia.

 

More About VINCENT COMPTON:

Residence: Pittsylvania County, Virginia

 

More About VINCENT COMPTON and FRANCES WILLIAMS:

Marriage: December 23, 1783, Amelia County, Virginia

 

             iii.   MARTHA WILLIAMS, b. Bet. 1760 - 1765, Amelia County, Virginia; m. JOHN VAUGHAN, February 08, 1786, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. May 03, 1806, Amelia County, Virginia.

 

More About JOHN VAUGHAN and MARTHA WILLIAMS:

Marriage: February 08, 1786, Amelia County, Virginia

 

             iv.   CAPTAIN JOSIAH WILLIAMS ^4,5, b. Abt. 1764, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Abt. January 04, 1826, Autauga County, Alabama⁶; m. JUDITH ELMORE, May 04, 1785, Amelia County, Virginia⁷; b. Abt. 1764, Prince Edward County, Virginia; d. Aft. November 21, 1840, Alabama.

 

 

             v.   DANIEL WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1772, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bet. April 21 - October 04, 1841, Green County, Kentucky; m. MARY WHITE, Bet. 1794 - 1795, Charlotte County, Virginia.

 

More About DANIEL WILLIAMS and MARY WHITE:

Marriage: Bet. 1794 - 1795, Charlotte County, Virginia

 

             vi.   WARNER WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1774, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Possibly Buckingham County, Virginia; m. ELIZABETH PRICE.

 

     

Children of PHILLIP WILLIAMS and MARY UNKNOWN are:

            vii.   PHILLIP² WILLIAMS, JR.^10,11, b. January 14, 1748/49, Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia; d. Bef. May 28, 1818, Amelia County, Virginia; m. MARTHA MOTLEY, Bet. 1775 - 1780.

 

More About PHILLIP WILLIAMS and MARTHA MOTLEY:

Marriage: Bet. 1775 - 1780

 

           viii.   ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, b. Bet. 1750 - 1755, Gloucester County, Virginia; d. Aft. January 1785; m. NICHOLAS VAUGHAN, Abt. 1770.

 

Notes for NICHOLAS VAUGHAN:

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THe following information is by: Mary Gregg (MarySapp@aol.com)

 

 

In KENTUCKY, A HISTORY OF THE STATE, EDITION 4,

W.H. Perrin, J. H. Battle and G. C, Kniffin, pub. by F. A,

Battey and Company in 1887 and reprinted by Southern

Historical Press in 1979, there is a biographical sketch of a

William N. Vaughan, who is stated to have been the son of

John Vaughan and Margaret Edrington. It is further stated

that this John Vaughan was born in 1794, the youngest of 13 children of Nicholas Vaughan and Elizabeth Williams of

Amelia County, Virginia, and that he John-was "brought to Kentucky by Stephen Board". Thus from this sketch we learn

the name of Nicholas Vaughan's wife, that they lived in Amelia County, that they had 13 children, and that the youngest of

those 13 was born in 1794.

 

Elizabeth Williams, the wife of Nicholas Vaughan, almost

certainly was the daughter of Phillip Williams of Nottoway

Parish, Amelia County, Virginia, whose will [Amelia County

Will Book 4:19] dated January 14, 1786 and proved December

28, 1786, mentions, among others, his daughter Elizabeth Vaughan. [He als mentions his daughter "Martha Williams

alias Hundley... "and she married, in Amelia County, on

February 8, 1786, one John Vaughan, whom I cannot further identify]

 

The mention of Stephen Board in the biographical sketch cited above is, perhaps, yet another valuable bit of information, for

in Bedford County, Virginia, on March 24, 1800, Lettice

Vaughan married Stephen Board. Possibly this is the Stephen Board with whom young John Vaughan went to Kentucky,

and, if so, it seems likely that the Lettice Vaughan who married

Stephen Board was John Vaughan's older sister, therefore a daughter of Nicholas Vaughan and Elizabeth Williams.

 

Names of two other probable daughters of Nicholas Vaughan

and Elizabeth Williams are found in Amelia County where Nicholas Vaughan is mentioned as the father of the bride in

two marriage records. I cannot be absolutely certain that this

is the Nicholas who married Elizabeth Williams, but so far I

have found only one Nicholas Vaughan living in Amelia

County during this time period, and if I am correct in theoriz-

ing that he was the Nicholas who married Elizabeth Williams,

then they must have been the parents of these two girls.

 

1797 Jason Meador and Polly Vaughan, daughter of Nicholas Vaughan.

Surety: Willis Vaughan.

[If Lettice Vaughan who married in Bedford County was the daughter of Nicholas Vaughan of Amelia, the fact that she

married in Bedford might be an indication that she was living

with a sibling who had moved to that county.

I have not made a serious study of this, but I have reason to believe that Jason and Polly (Vaughan) Meador moved from Amelia County to Bedford County, Virginia; if this is correct,

then possibly Lettice was living with them when she met and married Stephen Board.]

 

1800 George W. Baldwin and Elizabeth Vaughan, daughter

of Nicholas Vaughan.

Witness to consent: Willis Vaughan and James Townes.

Surety: Willis Vaughan.

 

The name of another probable child, a son, is found in the

deed records of Amelia County, Book 21, pages 20 and 406.

These are both deeds of gift from Nicholas Vaughan to his

son Willis Vaughan. The first is a gift of household items and

livestock dated February 14,1800, and the second, dated the

same day, but not recorded until 1803, is for 50 acres of land

in Amelia County bounded by Thomas Wright, John Wright,

Seth Webber [or Webster], and by one other person whose

name I could not read.

 

This Willis, son of Nicholas Vaughan, almost certainly is the

man of that name who, in 1796 in Amelia County, married

Betsy Wright, daughter of Thomas Wright.

 

I have found two more Virginia marriages which I think might

be those of children of Nicholas Vaughan and Elizabeth

Williams.

 

In Charlotte County,December 6, 1802, Lewis Beadles married Martha Vaughan with the consent of Nicholas Vaughan, and

with George W. Baldwin as security. It is not stated in the published record of this marriage that Nicholas Vaughan was

the father of the bride, and it is quite possible that he stood

in some other relationship to her, but the presence of George

W. Baldwin, known to have married a daughter of a Nicholas Vaughan, strongly suggests the probability that this bride,

Martha Vaughan, was another daughter of Nicholas Vaughan.

 

And, again in Charlotte County, on September 21, 1806, Sally Vaughan married Morgan Morgan, with the consent of her guardian, Jason Meadow. Since Jason was the son-in-law of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Williams) Vaughan, it seems reasonable

to suppose that this bride - a ward of Jason Meador/Meadow,

also, was their daughter.

 

This Nicholas Vaughan died ca 1803-1804, for his name disappears from Amelia County tax lists after 1803.

Beginning in 1809 and continuing through 1813, an Elizabeth Vaughan is seen in the lists, and she might be Elizabeth

(Williams) Vaughan, widow of Nicholas.

[I have not read the lists for dates later than 1813.]

 

To summarize: Nicholas Vaughan (born November 21, 1734, in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia; perhaps

died ca 1803 in Amelia County) married Elizabeth Williams and had 13 children, probably including:

 

1. Willis Vaughan who married, in Amelia County, December

16, 1796, Betsy Wright, daughter of Thomas Wright.

 

2. Polly Vaughan who married, in Amelia County, January

13, 1797, Jason Meador.

 

3. Elizabeth Vaughan who married, in Amelia County,

October 30, 1800, George W. Baldwin.

 

4. Lettice Vaughan who married, in Bedford County,

Virginia, March 24, 1800, Stephen Board.

 

5. Martha Vaughan who married, in Charlotte County,

Virginia, December 6, 1802, Lewis Yancy Beadles.

 

6. Sally Vaughan who married, in Charlotte County,

Virginia, September 21, 1806, Morgan Morgan.

 

7. John Vaughan (born in Amelia County, Virginia, 1794;

died in Kentucky) married in Kentucky, Margaret Edrington.

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More About NICHOLAS VAUGHAN and ELIZABETH WILLIAMS:

Marriage: Abt. 1770

 

             ix.   MARY WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1753, Gloucester County, Virginia; d. Bef. June 17, 1783, Amelia County, Virginia; m. JOEL MOTLEY, September 13, 1769, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. March 26, 1793.

 

More About JOEL MOTLEY and MARY WILLIAMS:

Marriage: September 13, 1769, Amelia County, Virginia