Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Williams, William 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

New Garden Township
p. 676

William Williams was a native of Chatham County, N. C., where he was married 
to Rachel Kemp, a native of the same county, in 1786. They removed to Blount 
County, Tenn., where they lived till 1814, when, with a family of twelve 
children, they removed to Wayne County, Ind., and settled in Boston Township, 
four miles south of where the city of Richmond is now located. Here he 
improved a farm, clearing it of timbers and making a home for his children. He 
was a prominent minister in the Society of Friends, and was active in the work 
of building up the society in Wayne County. He built the first house on the 
present site of Richmond, and his family were the first residents of that 
city. He died in 1824. His wife survived him many years.


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