Person:Thomas Williams (294)

Note there were two men named Thomas Williams in Maine and New Hampshire. One was Thomas¹ Willliams of Saco and the other is Thomas¹ Williams of Portsmouth. It is hard to argue that Paricia Hatcher, FASG and Michael Leclerc were in error given their credentials when they stated that Ann's father was living when in "4 May 1682 when Thomas Williams of Saco River acknowledged at York, Maine, having deeded all his estate 17 Dec 1681 to Phineas Hull for support. He was in Saco, Maine by 1635." They clearly cite Noyes, Sybil. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (GDMNH) but the later source ascribes the Saco deed to Thoma¹ Willliams of Saco. GDMNH indicated that Ann was probably daughter of Thomas¹ Williams of Portsmouth. Thomas¹ Williams of Portsmouth as "he was in want and sick at Wm. Richards’ ho. in Jan. 1674-5, liv. sick and poor in Oct. 1675" indicating that was died around that date. And Thomas¹ Williams of Saco is covered in Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII p 435 and had no daughter Ann. So I think we may want to assume that Thomas¹ Williams of Portsmouth (not Saco) was the father of Ann. Note Ann widow of Thomas Wannerton may have been Ann's mother.

1.   Thomas Williams, in Wright, Helen Marion Locke. The Ancestry of Helen Marion (Locke) Wright . (Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press, 2011)
   82 # 722.

   of Sagamore Creek in Portmouth, NH, died after 4 May 1682 when Thomas Williams of Saco River acknowledged at York, Maine, having deeded all his estate 17 Dec 1681 to Phineas Hull for support. He was in Saco, Maine by 1635

2.   Thomas Williams, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
   757-58.

   THOMAS, Portsmouth, was gr. Clampering Isl. 25 Aug. 1645 and assigned all right to Richard King (11) 11 June 1649. Father of Judith Ellins’ child in Nov. 1648 (see Ellins 2), and bef. or aft. this date m. Thomas Wannerton’s wid. Ann who was liv. 27 June 1671. Around Sagamore Creek 1663. Lists 72, 323, 331a. T. W. and John, his partner, taxed 1673. In July 1674 he compl. ab. the leather sold by Richard Waterhouse and Mr. Job Clements. ‘A shroud for T. W. 1674’ must have been for his w. as he was in want and sick at Wm. Richards’ ho. in Jan. 1674-5, liv. sick and poor in Oct. 1675. He may or may not have had legit. ch. ANN, m. Robert Lang in 1668, the first of several unplaced. In 1670 Martha (wrote) and Elias Stileman wit. Anthony Ellins’ deed. Rachel, see Purington (4). Sarah ‘lately called Williams now Sarah Bodge’ named in a Portsm. warr. with others 7 Mar. 1709-10; see Randall (12) and Benj. Bodge, her husb., appar. a neighbor of Samuel Williams (36) at O. R. Rebecca, Portsm. 1719, see (39). Hannah (see Page 2), poss. from Essex Co., but see (6). Margaret (see Ayer 1), prob. from Essex Co.

3.   Maine, United States. Province and court records of Maine. (Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1928-1975)
   1:2.