Ancestry of
William Williams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Robert Williams

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of William Williams — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1600 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1608 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Sep 1693 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Elizabeth -----
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Williams

  Samuel Williams

  Isaac Williams (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Stephen Williams

• Additional marriages for Robert Williams

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha Strong
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 28 Jul 1674

• Sources for Robert Williams

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 384, Birth record for son Steven Williams.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 74, pp. 292-298.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 376.
  • ⁴ Baker, Henry A., comp., History of Montville, Connecticut: Formerly the North Parish of New London from 1640 to 1896, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1896), 460-461.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 283.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ⁷ Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 3-5.
  • 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), 25-33.