Abraham WILLIAMS

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Information from Mrs. E.J. Guillaume of Eden, NY, that Azariah was bap. East Hartford, June 8, 1729, the son of Jonah (Mass. Town Vital Records)

Azariah married Beulah BROWN on 9 Oct 1760 in Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Beulah (daughter of Deacon Samuel BROWN and Mercy PATTERSON) was born in 1736 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 10 Aug 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mercy PATTERSON in 1721. Mercy (daughter of Joseph PATTERSON and Mercy GOODENOW) was born on 1 Sep 1702 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 6 Mar 1774 in Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was admitted to full connection in Waltham Church, 9 April 1724, and he 21 March, 1724-5. They were both dismissed from Waltham to Leicester Church, 18 February, 1738-9, about which time they removed to Leicester, where they resided in may, 1742. they removed from there to Stockbridge, where, in 1749, at the death of Rev. (?) they, and the families of their son, Samuel Brown, Jr., and son-in-law, Deacon John Chamberlain were three of the only twelve English families in town. He was a deacon of the church, and had a large share of the municipal offices and business of Stockbridge while it was a precinct and after it was incorporated as a town. He was a member of the provincial Congress in 1775. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His will, dated 1782, making son Samuel sole executor, was proved 2 March, 1784. He willed all his estate, real and person, to his grandsons, Joh Isaac, Abram, Joseph, and Lemuel, sons of Captain Abraham Brown. She died in Stockbridge, 6 March, 1774, and he died 7 February, 1784.