Person:Ezekiel Williams (4)

NE Reg 34:70 (for full citation of 01-239) Thomas Williams [01-560] "was one of the Roxbury 'Minute Men' in Revolutionary times, and together with his brother-in-law Thomas Dana,jr., took part in the famous Boston Tea Party." As a minute man served at Lexington, and "aided in driving the 'Regulars' into Boston." This f.n. states he and brother Ezekiel removed to Framingham 1783 starting a Tannery, continuing it until 1790. They became in debt & removed to Whitestown, Oneida co., NY, settling in village of New Hartford. They were soon relieved from debt. He was first deacon of the first church in Oneida co. His 2nd child Martha is called Patty in NE Reg;34;71. It also lists Roxbury as birthplace of the 3rd & 4th ch. which agrees with the statement in the fn p70 as to the founding of the Tannery in Framingham. T Fr pg 14 Re a Mill privilege on Roaring Brook, "at the falls west of Tower's Hill" built in 1740, sold by Joseph Mixer, son of the builder of the Tan yard, in 1780 to Thomas and Ezekiel Williams of Roxbury, who carried on tanning and currying here for ten years and sold to Benj.Eaton in 1790 ib.pg 746 corrects this citing deeds the purchase by Ezekiel, currier & Thomas, tanner, 21 Apr 1780 for L150 silver money was for 6 3/4 acres with dwelling house, tan vats & curry shop, on line of Framingham and Southborough, with sale to B.Eaton 1786, when "they bought of John Eames & Thomas Buckminster, for L63, 20 acres with dwelling house, barn, tan house & curry shop on the east side of Sud.River at mouth of sucker creek where they did business until the spring of 1790, when... sold "by the mortgagee." On 11 May 1790 the brothers removed to Hartford, Oneida co., NY. "They married on the same day, two sisters and shared each others fortunes for life." Colonial families of the United States of America: Volume 1 THOMAS WILLIAMS, b. Roxbury, 14th January, 1754; d. at Utica, N. Y., 31st July, 1817; m. 20th November, 1777, Susanna DANA, dau. of Thomas and Martha (WILLIAMS) DANA. From DAR application of Mrs. Katherine H. Seward Stirling (great grandaughter) #14633: "Thomas Williams, (1754-1817) turned out at the Lexington Alarm and was corporal, 1776-1777, in Capt.Eban Winship's company, Col.Thomas Nixon's Massachusetts regiment. He served as Sergeant under Capt.Job Sumner ans Col. John Greaton, 1780."