Capt Caleb WILLIAMSON

1662 - 1738  (76 years)

• Name	Caleb WILLIAMSON  [1]
  	On 31 Oct 1682 Arthur Howland was approved by the Court at Plymouth as guardian of Caleb Williamson, and therefore the latter must have been under twenty-one years of age at that date. The inscription on his gravestone stating that he was eighty-seven years old at the time of his death in 1738, thus implying that he was born about 1651, must, therefore, be an error. On 20 Dec 1687, being at that time a resident of Barnstable, Caleb Williamson sold part of the land in marshfield which he had received from his father's estate and from that of his deceased brother Timothy. Apparently, however, he lived for a year or two in Middleborough, as he bought a house and twenty acres of land in that town on 16 may 1688. But he was of Barnstable 3 Feb. 1690/1, when he sold to his brother Nathan, for L20, all the remainder of his Marshfield real estate. He was a corporal in Sir William Phipps's expedition to Canada in 1690 and one of the signers of the petition presented in1735 for a grant of land to the heirs of the captain and those who accompanied him. In 1697 John Bickford's account for ferriage bears on the reverse side of the paper the following words: "20 men feryed and pilated to join Sherborn's in ye plains on ye 10th of June b John bickford according to the president's ord," and among the names is that of "Lff caleb williamson." (New Hampshire Rolls). At a meeting of the Council of the Province of Massachusetts Bay held 12 Oct. 1704 there was presented "A muster roll of the foot company under command of Capt Caleb Williamson in the late expedition into the Bay of Fundy, containing an accompt of wages for their service from the 2d of may 1704 to the 14th of Aug following being 15 weeks, &c." On 30 July 1699 Captain Williamson's wife Mary was admitted to full communion in the Congregational Church of the town, and all his children except his youngest daughter Martha were baptized there together on 13 Aug. 1699. At a meeting held 29 Nov. 1699 he was appointed one of the townsmen, and his youngest child Martha was baptized 14 Apr 1700. He must have been in hartford, Conn., before 7 Dec. 1705, as on that date, being then a resident of Hartford, he took an inventory of the estate of one Abigail Woodbridge of that town. On 23 Apr 1707 he was commissioned captain of the Eighth Company of forty men, under col. Fra. Wainwright of the First regiment of the intended expedition to Nova Scotia and L'Accadie. On 6 Feb. 1707/8 Caleb Williamson of Barnstable, Gent., bought a house and land situated in the centre of hartford, a lot now bounded on the north by City Hall Square and west by main Street. On 2 Mar. of the same year he was granted a "Lycense" to keep a tavern, and the license was renewed almost every year, the last one bearing te date of Apr. 1738. From the records of the Superior Court for Hartford County it was apparently customary for the meetings to be held at the Williamson Tavern. Captain Williamson sold his Middleborough property on 5 Apr 1710. He was admitted to full communion in the First Church of Hartford on 1 June 1712, and his wife Mary on 27 Nov. 1712. He and his wife are buried in the graveyard adjoining the First Congregational Church of Hartford, the inscriptions on their headstones reading as follows: "Here Lyethe ye body of Cap. Caleb Williamson who Dec'sed December ye 24th 1738, Aged 87 (sic) years Wanting 2 Months and 18 Days." "Here Lies ye Body of Mrs Mary ye wife of Capt Caleb Williamson whos Holey Sol took its Flight from Hartford To ye Heavenly Mansions on December the 16th 1737 AEtatis Sue 77 wanting eleven Days." [1]
  Prefix	Capt
  Birth	Mar 1661/2	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Dec 1738	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I61929	Main Tree
  Last Modified	3 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Timothy WILLIAMSON,   b. abt. 1621, England d. Jul or Aug 1676, King Philips War (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary HOWLAND,   b. 1629, Huntingdon, England d. Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	06 Jun 1653	Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F05306	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary COBB,   b. 26 Nov 1664, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts d. 16 Dec 1737, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	3 May 1687  [1]
  Children	1. Timothy WILLIAMSON,   b. 29 Sep 1692, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts d. Abt 1718 (Age 25 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 May 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Mar 1661/2 - Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Death - 24 Dec 1738 - Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5387] Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, "Genealogies of Mayflower Families" From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, (Balitmore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1985). [S5459] Franklyn Howland, "A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland, and their Descendants, of the United States and Canada", (Franklyn Howard - New Bedford, Mass, - 1885).