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Richard Williams
b.Abt 1726 Monocacy, Frederick, Maryland, United States
d.6 May 1761 Guilford County, North Carolina
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m. 11 Oct 1746
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[idahojo.ged] Richard Williams family came to America from Wales in 1685 Richard and Prudence Beales Williams lived in Guilford Co., NC. At the e nd of the Revolutionary War, a battle was fought at the Guilford County Co urth House. The British Officers at the battle were quartered at the Will iams home and Richard contracted small pox from one of them and died fr om this on may 6, 1781. Died from smallpox The location of the home of Richard and Prudence Beals Williams in North Carolina is shown on a map of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse <Graphics/guilcthse.jpg>. Richard Williams died there in 1781 from smallpox incurred from wounded British officers quartered in his home after the battle of Guilford Courthouse. References
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