Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameBarnabas WILLIAMS
Birth1792, Groton, New London, Connecticut [96], [7895]
Birthbef 1786 [2492]
Death4 Apr 1826, Akron, Summit, Ohio [96], [1425, p 2], [7895] Age: 34
FatherPaul WILLIAMS (~1767-1828)
MotherMartha GEER (<1769-1796)
Individual Notes
• Her [Hannah Allen] husband may have been the son of Paul Williams who also came as early as 1811. [1337, p 872]

• On 25 Feb 1826, Barnabas Williams was named as principal in a surety bond as Administrator of the estate of Dennison M. Williams, deceased. On 15 May 1826, Richard Chapman was named as principal on the estate of Dennison Williams, presumably to replace Barnabas as the result of his death. [1422, p 116]
Source: File #112, Portage County Probate Court, obtained August 1991.

• Obituary notice given in Western Courier: “22 Apr 1826 WILLIAMS, Barnabas -- Tallmadge, 34y” [1425, p 2]

• Will probated, 1826, file #119, Miner Spicer?, administrator. [1422, p 182]
Census
• 1800 Groton, New London, Connecticut. 20011/20010. [4427]
• 1810 Groton, New London, Connecticut. 11101/31101. [4428]
• 1820 Census: Portage, Portage County, Ohio. 100010/1001. On same page with his father, Paul Williams, and Miner Spicer. [112, p 555], [1572]
Spouses
Death2 Jun 1817 [1399]
FlagsEldest Child
FatherCapt. Amos SPICER (1762-1830)
MotherEunice (~1760-1822)
ChildrenOliver Geer (Died young) (1815-<1817)
 Oliver Spicer (1817->1828)
Birth16 Sep 1792, North Groton, New London, Connecticut [93, p 483]
Death7 Mar 1856, Akron, Summit, Ohio [93, p 94], [258, p 32; date only], [1400, month, year, place only] Age: 63
FatherEphraim ALLYN (1747-1816)
MotherTemperance MORGAN (1752-1799)
Individual Notes
• The year following his wife's death, Major Spicer married her sister, Hannah Allen, widow of Barnabus Williams. Her husband may have been the son of Paul Williams, who also came as early as 1811. [1337]
Census
• 1820 Census: Portage, Portage county, Ohio. 11 in household. 100010/1001. [1572]
• 1850 Census: Portage, Summit, Ohio. Age 57, b CT. [1624]
Marriage10 Jun 1819, North Groton, New London, Connecticut [507, p 157; marriage only], [1400], [2492, marriage only]
Marr Memonow Ledyard
ChildrenEliza Ann (1818-1865)
 Eunice (1822->1828)
 Paulina Peron (1824-)
 Hannah Ermina (1826-1868)
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