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Who were the parents of Amos Williams?

MOST LIKELY: Zachariah Williams and Anne Elliott

Supporting evidence:

• Source: First Families of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1. Unidentified Data: "Phebe Allen, daughter of Morral and Alice Allen of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, removed from New Garden to Sadsbury in 1760 and married 1762 Amos Williams, son of Zachariah Williams of Sadsbury Twp."
• Source: Wills of Chester County Pennsylvania 1713-1748. Will of Zacharius Williams, Sadsbury, Yeoman. 28 Jul 1739, 16 May 1741, Book B, page 81: To wife Anna 1/3 of estate. To sons Amos and James my plantation I now enjoy, when 21, they paying 10 pounds each to daughter Rachel Williams when she is of age. To brother William Marsh my saddle. Executors: Brother Amos and Wife Anna. Witnesses: Henry Marsh, Gravener Marsh, Josiah Kerr.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The Williams Family, in Chadwick, Edward H. Chadwick's history of Shelby County, Indiana. (Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1909).

   ... Amos Williams an his family were distinctively agriculturists, and from the pioneer days to the present none of them seem to have aspired to official or military honors. For one hundred and fifty years, in every war, the descendants of Amos Williams have stood dutiful, loyal citizens, ever asking for a musket to fight in the ranks, disdaining the sword, shoulder-strap and other emblems of authority, content with that element of good citizenship which characterizes the man ever ready for duty in the humblest capacity. Amos Williams was born in Pennsylvania, in 1720, on the Susquehannah River, eighty miles northwest of Philadelphia. He was a Quaker. Personally, he was small of stature, and lived to the remarkable age of one-hundred and five years. It is not known whom he married, but his family consisted of four sons and three daughters, -- James, Thomas, Allen, Joel, Ann, Elsie and Rachael. It is probable that these children were born in Sussex County, North Carolina. James and Thomas took a conspicuous part in the Revolutionary war, but their father, Amos, took no part in the conflict, being religiously opposed to fighting. After the war this family went to East Tennessee, possibly about 1795, settling in the Sequashia valley. ... Allen Williams [son of Amos Williams] accumulated considerable property in East Tennessee during his twenty years residence there. In the early summer of 1816 he started with his large family and twenty head of horses and several wagons loaded with household goods and provisions, for Indiana, then a wilderness. Allen’s father accompanied them. He was then ninety-six years old, but active and a good horseman. Their long journey through the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky was attended by many adventures and mishaps. Their principal meat was that of bear and deer, obtained by side hunting trips. The entire company of seventeen persons, after a perilous journey, finally landed in Wayne County, Indiana, in the early autumn of 1816, the year the state was admitted to the Union. Here Amos Williams died ...[more]
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   [see [[[Transcript:Chadwick, Edward H. Chadwick's History of Shelby County, Indiana/p 704/The Williams Family]] ]
   [Note: Sussex County, North Carolina did not exist. It is possible the author meant Sussex county, Virginia.]

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Amos Williams, in Rootsweb.

   "... the "Williams Family" discourse in the Shelby County, Indiana, History contained an ancestry for Amos Williams that quickly could be proven false. It appeared to be excerpted from a commercial genealogy of the time that tried to link the family to famous people in Pennsylvania and Virginia. ...
   
   [re: The Will of Amos Williams]
   ... No will or estate is currently found for Amos Williams in Wayne County, Indiana, but we have not had opportunity to search the records ourselves (usually more productive in that county as they only consult published indexes). We do not find a probate record or a will for Amos Williams in Shelby County, Indiana, where Allen and Joel Williams, sons of Amos, went about 1824. Amos could even have died in Johnson County, Indiana, where the family went about 1834. We have yet to search cemetery records in either county. Without a probate record for Amos it is difficult to confirm the composition of his family. ...

3.   WILLIAMS FAMILY REUNION, in Franklin Democrat. (Brookville, Indiana)
   9 Sep 1898.

   ... Amos Williams was an orthodox member of the church of the Society of Friends, and adhered to its doctrines as taught by Penn and Fox, but his sons were Whigs and not only did heroic service for American independence but fought under Jackson at New Orleans and in Florida in the second war for independence.
   Amos Williams, the father of Allen Williams, died at the advanced age of 105 years. ... [more]

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Amos Williams in Zacharius Williams, in Ourtexasfamily.org.

   [Philadelphia Patent Book A, Vol 17, p 97]
   ... Amos and his brother James Williams on 21 May 1753 received a patent or grant from THOMAS PENN and RICHARD PENN. Said parcel of land, bordered by land of HENRY MARSH and ISAAC TAYLOR, containing 200 acres plus the usual allowance of 6 acres for roads.
   [then]
   On 4 Mar 1760, in an indenture between AMOS WILLIAMS, cordwainer (a shoemaker, a skilled tradesman), and JAMES WILLIAMS, wheelwright, both of Sadsbury Twp., agreed to sell to THOMAS BULLA for 193 pounds, a tract of land confirmed to them by patent or grant on 21 May 1753, by THOMAS PENN and RICHARD PENN. Said parcel of land, bordered by land of HENRY MARSH and ISAAC TAYLOR, containing 200 acres plus the usual allowance of 6 acres for roads. Wit: James ALLEN, Margaret Miller, and John Miller. ...