Dobbs-Greene-Wayne County NcArchives Military Records.....Williams, Willoughby Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Old Dobbs Gen Soc n/a December 25, 2007, 5:03 pm Willoughby Williams – His date and place of birth and parents are not shown. While a resident of Dobbs County, NC he enlisted in 1776 as private under Colonel Abraham Sheppard, served in the different grades including that of Assistant Commissary in Issues, about seven years in all; he was in the battle of Cowpens where he was wounded in the right arm and right leg, date and place not stated. He married January 1, 1786, Nancy Glassco, the daughter of Colonel James Glassco, Secretary of the State of North Carolina. They were married at the home of her father in Dobbs County. Mother’s name not stated. He was a member of the State Legislature from Dobbs County in 1790. He died June 6, 1802 in Rutledge, East Tennessee, while enroute to Tennessee from Greene County, NC. His widow, Nancy Williams, married August 4, 1818 in Kingston, Roane County, Tennessee to Joseph McMinn, Governor of Tennessee. Nancy McMinn was allowed pension on account of the services of her former husband, Willoughby Williams, on her application executed March 8, 1848, at which time she was seventy seven years old and a resident of Davidson County, TN and died June 27, 1857. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/dobbs/military/revwar/pensions/williams166mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb