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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Rev. Warham Williams |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
7 Jan 1725/26 |
Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States |
| Degree[1][2] |
1745 |
Yale College |
| Ordination[2][3] |
13 Jun 1750 |
Northford, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesMinister at Northford. |
| Occupation[1] |
Bet 1750 and 1788 |
Northford, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesFirst minister at Northford. |
| Marriage |
30 Nov 1752 |
Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesRecorded at Branford.
to Ann Hall |
| Marriage Banns |
15 Feb 1778 |
West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Saltonstall |
| Marriage |
5 Mar 1778 |
West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Saltonstall |
| Death[1][2][3] |
4 Apr 1788 |
Northford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[4] |
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Northford Old Cemetery, Northford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Children of Rev. Stephen4 Williams, D.D., in Williams, Harrison. The Life, Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxbury, in His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1607-1693: With Biographical Sketches of the Rev. John Williams of the Deerfield massacre; the Rev. Col. Elisha Williams, Rector, Yale College, 1726-1739; Col. Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College; Col. William Williams, signer of the Declaration; the Hon. Thomas Scott Williams, Chief Justice of Connecticut; the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D.D., Bishop of Connecticut, and of Many Other Descendants; Together with . (Washington, D. C.: W. F. Roberts Company, 1934)
80.
"IV. Warham5 (Williams) born 7th January, 1726. Graduated at Yale and was ordained at Northford, a parish in Branford, Conn., on the 30th [13th] June, 1750. He married first, 13th November, 1752, Ann, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Hall of Cheshire. They had six sons and six daughters. His wife died in March, 1776. He then married the widow of Col. William Whiting of New Haven. Dr. Williams was for many years a member of the corporation of Yale. He died in April, 1788."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Warham Williams, in Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
2:69-70.
"Biographical Sketches, 1745
Warham Williams, the third son of the Rev. Dr. Stephen Williams (Harv. 1713) and Abigail (Davenport) Williams, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and brother of Stephen Williams, Jr. (Y. C. 1741), and of Nathan Williams (Y. C. 1755), was born in Longmeadow, January 7, 1725-26.
He remained at College after graduation, as a Berkleian Scholar, and after the expiration of a year entered on a tutorship in the College (October 30, 1746), which he held until June, 1750. Meantime he had pursued theological studies, and in the year 1749 began to preach as a candidate in what is now the town of Northford (known also familiarly by its Indian name, Paug), in the northern part of Branford, about ten miles from the College. His efforts were acceptable, and he was ordained on the 13th of June, 1750, as the first pastor of the Northford Society,—a church of 19 male members being gathered at the same time. His ministry was more than ordinarily successful, as is evidenced by the fact that not a single year of it passed without some accessions to the church. Tradition in the parish represents him as of commanding presence, and of more than ordinary ability as a preacher. His theological sympathies were with the 'New-Lights.'
He was one of the Corporation of Yale College from October, 1769, until his death; and for six years (1770-76) served as the Secretary of the Board.
He died in office, in Branford, April 4, 1788, in the 63d year of his age, and the 38th of his pastorate.
He married, November 30, 1752, Ann, second daughter of the Rev. Samuel Hall (Y. C. 1716), of the neighboring parish of Cheshire, who died, after a painful illness, on March 25, 1776, in her 43d year. He next married Mary (Saltonstall), widow of Colonel Nathan Whiting (Y. C. 1743), of New Haven, who survived him. His children, by his first marriage, were six sons and six daughters, of whom two sons were graduated here,—Jonathan Law, in 1777, and William Augustus, in 1780; one of the daughters was successively the wife of the Rev. Jason Atwater (Y. C. 1781), of the Rev. Lynde Huntington (Y. C. 1788), and of the Rev. Joseph Barker (Y. C. 1791 [1771])."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Volume 081 Northford, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
142.
"Williams, … Warham Rev., ch. mem. June 13, 1750 [1:2]"
"Williams, … Warham Rev., ordained June 13, 1750; d. Apr. 4, 1788, in 63rd yr. of age & in 38th of his ministry [1:1]"
"Williams, … Warham Rev., ordained Pastor June 13, 1750; served 38 yrs.; d. Apr. 4, 1788, age 63 [3:11-12]"
- ↑ Stott, Clifford L. Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts to 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002)
1:112.
"Warham Williams the Son of Revd Mr Stephen Williams & Mrs Abigail Williams was Borne January 7th: 1725/6"
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