Ancestry of
William Williams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

William Williams

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Solomon Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Porter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Apr 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Aug 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence

• Marriages for William Williams

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Trumbull

• Sources for William Williams

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/13/2014).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 333.
  • ³ Dwight, Nathaniel, The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, New York: A. S. Barnes and Co. (1852), 90-93.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 743.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 243-244.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "William Williams (Continental Congress)", (accessed 01/13/2014).
  • ⁸ Williams, Stephen West, The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly of the Descendants of . . ., Greenfield: Printed by Merriam and Mirick (1847), 165.