Grainger-Davidson-Roane County TN Archives Military Records.....Williams, Willoughby 
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WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS



     Willoughby Williams died June 6, 1802, in Rutledge, Tennessee while enroute

to Davidson County. The date of birth and the names of his parents are not shown

in the pension papers of his widow. While he was a resident of Dobbs County,

North Carolina, he enlisted in 1776, as a private in Colonel Abraham Shepherd's

regiment, and served in all about seven years. He was in the battle of Cowpens,

where he was wounded in the right leg. He married, January 1, 1786, Nancy

Glasgow, daughter of James Glasgow, Secretary of State of North Carolina. They

were married in James Glasgow's home.



   Willoughby Williams served as a member of the North Carolina Legislature from

Dobbs County, in 1790. Hi swidow, Nancy Glasgow Williams, married August 4,

1806, in Kingston, Tennessee, Joseph McMinn, Governor of Tennessee, who died at

the home of his stepson, J. G. Williams, in Calhoun at the Cherokee Agency.



   Nancy Glasgow Williams McMinn was allowed pension on account of the services

of her first husband, Willoughby Williams. She applied for pension March 8,

1848, when she was a resident of Davidson County, Tennessee, and was then

seventy-seven years old, and therefore born in 1771. She died June 27, 1857. She

had no children by her second marriage. By her first marriage she had six

children: one son was J. G. Williams. The sixth child, Willoughby Williams, Jr.,

born 14, 1798, was living in Nashville in 1851. The widow, Nancy McMinn, was

living in Wilson County in 1840.



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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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