Person:Oliver Williams (14)

An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West PIONEERS FROM MASSACHUSETTS page 47 [p.47] LEE,Mary, b. Concord, 1777; m. 1796, Oliver Williams of Mass. and Mich. Shiawassee, 158.

see vol 2 for more text

1. ↑ Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
   v.1 p.382.

   WILLIAMS, Oliver, s. Benjamin and Anna, [born] May 6, 1774

2. ↑ Williams, Ephraim S. "Major Oliver Williams", in Michigan State Historical Society, and Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Michigan historical collections
   Vol. 10, p. 194.

   Major Oliver Williams was born at Roxbury, Mass., May 6, 1774, and died on his farm at Silver lake, Oakland county, Michigan, October 11, 1834. In the spring of 1819, Major Williams moved to Silver lake, from Detroit, where he had resided since 1815, and with three men cut their own road through the woods and drove the first horse team ever driven from Detroit to Pointiac. He settled on the south bank of Silver lake, in the town of Waterford, which was then on the frontier of civilization.
   
   Major Williams had visited Detroit in 1808, and was at that place most of the time during the war of 1812; being present there at Hull's surrender.