Perhaps this abstracted will of Granville Co., NC will be useful to some researchers of early Williams families of the Nutbush Creek area of old Granville Co. (now Vance Co.). Charles Williams had been a witness in Dec 1775 to the will of his older brother William Williams [of Nutbush Creek area of Granville Co., NC] who died testate ca 25 Dec 1775 at Boonesborough, VA, now Kentucky (in Madison Co., KY). William's will is reportedly unrecorded, but the original is at the North Carolina State Archives, but transcripts/abstracts are available in publications of Granville Co. (see publications by Zae Hargett Gwynn and more recently by Timothy Rackley) Granville Co., NC Will Book 8, 1816-1821, pp. 259-260, Apr. 22, 1817 - proved Aug. court 1819 - Charles Williams wills to son Robbin Williams the land whereon I live on Raleigh Road near Rewin [Ruin] Creek at Ragland's line, Burton's line, and Allen Williams's line on Glebe road containing 100 acres; all other land sold and 2/3rds of money to be given son Leonard Williams; to daughter Fanny Williams, a loom and apparatus, spinning wheel and cotton, and wool cards for herself and children and not at disposal of her husband; the balance sold and debts paid; any money left to go to my daughter Aggy Ragland, one fourth part, daughter Polley Craft, 1/2 part, Fanny Williams and her children (not her husband), 1/2 part; the other 1/4th to five sons: William, Leonard, John, Allen, and Robbin Williams. Excrs: John Hare, William M. Sneed, William Robards, Samuel Craft, Leonard Williams (William Morgan Sneed). Wts: Richard Sneed, Step Sneed, Elizabeth Yancey. (Zae Hargett Gwynn, ABSTRACTS OF THE WILLS AND ESTATE RECORDS OF GRANVILLE COUNTY, NC 1808-1833, V. 2 [Joseph W. Watson, 1976], p. 115) *Leonard Williams may be the one who appears in the 1800 NC census, Warren Co., which was adjacent to Granville Co., to the east. He seemingly is a single man, no females listed: 0-0-0-1-0 (Comment: Elizabeth Yancey, wife of Sterling Yancey, is daughter of William Williams, who died Dec 1775 at Boonesborough and his wife Phillis [Beckham?]. For information about Sterling and Elizabeth Yancey, I highly recommend that you do a <A HREF="www.google.com">www.google.com</A> search Type in sterling yancey, and up will come several links to works by Mr. Albert Spinks.) E.W.Wallace