Hon. Israel WILLIAMS

Israel married Sarah CHESTER in 1731. Sarah (daughter of Maj. John CHESTER, Esq. and Hannah TALCOTT) was born on 1 Jul 1707; died on 18 Sep 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William WILLIAMS was born in 1735; died in 1808.
2. Sarah WILLIAMS

William married Christain STODDARD on 09 Aug 1699 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Christain (daughter of Rev Solomon STODDARD and Esther WARHAM) was born on 23 Aug 1676; died on 23 Apr 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Robert Williams and Elizabeth Stalham

Isaac married Martha PARKE in 1660 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of Deacon William PARKE and Martha HOLGRAVE) was born on 13 Mar 1642 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 24 Oct 1675/6 in Newton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 2 Mar 1641

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• Education: 1662; Grad. at Harvard
• Fact: Between 1667 and 1674, First Librarian of Harvard
• Fact: Between 1672 and 1729, Pastor at Northampton, Mass.

Solomon married Esther WARHAM on 08 Mar 1670. Esther (daughter of Rev John WARHAM and Jane DABINOTT) was born in 1644; was christened on 8 Dec 1644; died on 10 Feb 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev. John Warham of Windsor, Ct.

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• Fact: Son of Stephen and Margaret Cook Williams

Robert married Elizabeth STALHAM. Elizabeth was born about 1594 in England; died on 28 Jul 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Children: 1 Jun 1658, 2 unbaptized children were buried

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He came to America in 1630 and settled in Roxbury, where he became one of the prominent men of the colony. "He came to New England in the 12the month, 1630, a single man and was one of the first in the church at Rocksbrough." - Rev. John Eliot's Record of Church Members. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., 1638; represented Roxbury, Mass., in the General Court from 1635 to 1667, the longest known term of service under the old charter. He was one of the endowers of the Roxbury free school, the first in the United States and the oldest in Continued existence in America. He was undoubtedly a man of influence and a power in the colony. The records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony show that he was always on hand, always on committees, always adjusting difficulties. He was executor the the will of Thomas Dudley and of many others who died during the early days of the Colony. He married Martha, a daughter of John Holgrave, of Salem.

William married Martha HOLGRAVE in 1636. Martha was born about 1614; died on 25 Aug 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He came, it is said of a family of gentry of Dorset and Devon; Rev. G.C. Wilson in his article in the Memorial History of Hartford County, says he is thought to have come of an ancient family, the same stock as William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1532. He was a graduate of St. Mary Hall, Oxford University, B.A., Nov. 14, 1614, M.A. May 18, 1618, and on May 23, 1619, was ordained at Silverton, co.Devon, by the Bishop of Exeter. Later, he preached in the City of Exeter and having embraced the Puritan doctrines, came to New England in the "Mary and John", in the spring of 1630, as one of the ministers of the party who founded Dorchester, Mass., where he served six years. His name is in the list of those desiring to be made Freemen, Oct., 1630. In 1636, he with the major part of the Dorchester congregation moved to Connecticut River and founded Windsor, where he served as pastor for thirty-four years until his death. He is classed by Trumbull, as one of the twelve civil and religious fathers of Connecticut. According to Cotton Mather,he was an energetic minister and a vigorous preacher and although "as pious a man as most that were out of Heaven, yet Satan often threw him into those deadly pangs of melancholy that made him despair of every getting thither." (Mather's Magnalia, I, pp. 441-2.) Several early New England ministers were similarly afflicted, doubtless from being steeped in the dismal theology of that period. There is an interesting note about him in Roger Clap's Memoirs. Living as a lad 3 miles from Exeter, he says: "I then took such a liking unto the Revd. Mr. John Warham that I did desire to live near him; So I removed (with my Father's consent) into the city," etc,. His first wife, whom he married in England, died at Dorchester, Mass., about Dec., 1634

John married Jane DABINOTT about 1637. Jane was born in England; died on 23 Apr 1655 in Norwalk, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Perhaps the dau. of John and Johane Dabinott of Chardstock, Dorset, England