Person:Edmund Williams (2)

About Edmund Williams

Edmund Williams was a justice of the peace in the part of North Carolina that would become Tennessee.--KF-in-Georgia 16:33, 15 May 2007 (MDT)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson. Tennessee Records : Bible Records and Marriage Bonds. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox, 1974)
   pg. 199.

   Edman Williams, a native of Wales, emigrated to America, settling in Massachusetts, and married Lucretia Adams. (note: Lucretia has been erroneously cited as the sister of John Adams, second President of the United States, which has been dis-proved).
   
   Between the years 1775 and 1779 Edman Williams moved to the "Great West" making his home on Buffalo Creek (now Carter County, Tenn), Washington County, N.C. He was a man of splendid education, as most all the wills, and deeds of his neighbors are in his handwriting, which is good and legal expressions and forms closely observed. He was in the Battle of Kings Mountain and he was one of the first magistrates in Washington County, N.C., and was, it is thought, Chairman of the County Court, as he was addressed as Judge Williams. He disposed of 1,918 acres of the best farmnig land on Buffalo Creek, and elsewhere, also nine negroes in his will, which bears date Sept. 16, 1795, and was probated Nov. 1795. He was buried at the old homestead, about one mile above Milligan.