Ancestry of
John Williams

(1692–1761)

John Williams

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Oct 1692 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Dec 1761 
  • Death Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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• Marriages for John Williams

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  • Spouse:
  • Desire Denison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Feb 1711/1712
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 13 Aug 1737 to 27 Jul 1740

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  • Spouse:
  • Prudence Potter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Nov 1761
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

• Sources for John Williams

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 288, Birth record for son William Williams.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 29.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 10/06/2014).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 186, 330, 352, 372, 643.
  • ⁵ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 88.
  • ⁶ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 340, 669.
  • ⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 119-121.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 602.
  • ⁹ Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 22, gives John another wife named Patience.