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WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS, while a resident of Dobbs County, North Carolina, enlisted in revolutionary service in 1776, as a private in Colonel Abraham Shepherd's regiment, serving 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. He died June 6, 1802 in Rutledge [Grainger County], Tennessee, while enroute to Davidson County, Tennessee. His widow, Nancy GLASGOW Williams, married August 4, 1806, in Kingston, Sullivan County, 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 [Davidson County] in 1851. The widow, Nancy McMINN, was living in Wilson County in 1840. (Revolutionary War Pension File)
Note: James GLASGOW, father of Nancy GLASGOW Williams, was involved in the Glasgow Land Fraud, as was her brother-in-law, Stockley DONELSON (who had married another daughter of James GLASGOW). Stockley was the son of John and Rachel STOCKLEY Donelson, and brother of Rachel DONELSON, wife of Tennessee Governor and U.S. President Andrew JACKSON.
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Bibliography
Armstrong, Zella, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, compiled from Pension Statements, Originally Published in Five Pamphlets in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1933, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1975)
White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, 1990
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Note: James GLASGOW, father of Nancy GLASGOW Williams, was involved in the Glasgow Land Fraud, as was her brother-in-law, Stockley DONELSON (who had married another daughter of James GLASGOW). Stockley was the son of John and Rachel STOCKLEY Donelson, and brother of Rachel DONELSON, wife of Tennessee Governor and U.S. President Andrew JACKSON.
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Bibliography
Armstrong, Zella, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, compiled from Pension Statements, Originally Published in Five Pamphlets in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1933, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1975)
White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, 1990
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NOTICE: This Research Report has been provided for the free use of those engaged in non-commercial genealogical research. Any and all commercial use is strictly prohibited. Researchers are encouraged to copy and distribute this work freely, but with the proviso that it may only be copied and circulated in its entirety -- including this notice, and all sources, bibliographies and credits; excepting electronically in which case permission is freely granted to hot link to this site instead.
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