I am unfamiliar with the William J. Williams of whom you write. You may get some answers to your posts if you include DATES and PLACES. Queries require three items, even if they are guesses: Name (complete if possible) Date (or time period) Place (or best guess) Some of my Williams ancestry: William Williams of Granville Co., NC who died Dec 1775 (testate) at Boonesborough, then in VA but now in KY, according to my many-years' research, had only one surviving son: Samuel Farrar Williams (b. 1759 Granville Co., NC, according to his rejected Rev War claim filed in Henderson Co., KY). Samuel F.' s older brother, John "Jacky" Williams died not long after the father's death, according to a letter written by Col. Richard Henderson to Jacky's uncle, Judge John Williams of Granvile Co. Col. Henderson was a maternal cousin to Judge John Williams, and to the Judge's three brothers: William (as above), Nathaniel, and Charles of the Nutbush Creek area of old Granville Co. This letter was published in one of these two valuable sets of books: North Carolina Colonial Papers or North Carolina State Papers. (Both great sources for locating early settlers of North Carolina, giving time and sometimes place.) Samuel Farrar Williams, who must have died ca 1838 when he disappears from tax lists of Henderson Co., had several sisters but they, of course, would not bear the surname Williams. As far as my research has determined, those sisters and their husbands did not migrate to Kentucky. At least two of them remained in North Carolina, and another is said in a secondary--or worse--source to have died in Wilson Co., TN. Good luck in searching the Williams name!!! It takes LOTS of research. Linkage to my branch of Williams in Henderson Co. is based on a bail bond, which an avid researcher in Kentucky found by flipping through some unfiled books in the Henderson Co. courthouse!!!! E.W.Wallace