CHARLES WILLIAMS (ca 1735?-CA 1819 Granville Co., NC) WIR00325 Charles Williams is one of the four known sons of John Williams, Sr. of colonial Granville Co., NC, formerly of Goochland Co., VA. The VA county is his probable birthplace. Some of the Williams family genealogy is to be found in by Alvahn Holmes in SOME FARRAR'S ISLAND DESCENDANTS. (SLC film 1,033,635. A copy of the book is in Virginia State Library and in DAR Library, Washington.) Charles died in Granville Co. before 27 Aug 1819, as indicated in a Raleigh newspaper: "D. Lately, in Granville [county], Mr. Charles Williams, an old and respectable inhabitant of that county. RaNCSw Fri 27 Aug 1819 3:3." (Lois Smathers Neal, ABSTRACTS OF VITAL RECORDS FROM RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPERS, 1820-1829. V. II, p. 536) Goochland Co. Records Father John Williams II (adm. bond filed by two sons Jan 1770, Granville Co.) and his two younger sons, Charles and Nathaniel (qv) removed to Granville Co., NC ca. 1750, probably from Goochland Co., as Charles appears on the 1747 list of Goochland Co., VA, tithables, along with brother Nathaniel, both in the household of father John Williams. This would indicate he was at least 16 years of age, the age at which he would have been eligible for militia duty. Again, refer to biography of John Williams II of Goochland Co. (Mrs. W. M. Sweeny, "Goochland County Tithables, 1747, 1751," VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST, V. 6, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 1962) Granville Co. NC Records Charles is on Granville Co., NC tax list of 1755, and is designated "s. of John". Therefore, he was a brother of John Williams, Esq. (d. 1799), of William Williams (d. 1775), and also of Nathaniel Williams, also designated on the same tax list as "s. of John." Also, on 1762 tax list for Granville Co. in Ragland District taken by John Williams, Jr. is this listing: "John Williams & son Charles, Thomas Davis, Pleasant Hicks, Abraham," total of 4 whites, 1 black, 5 total, 1 black over 16. (Ransom McBride & Jo Anna B. McDaniel, "List of Taxables for 1762 in Granville Co., NC," NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL, May 1987, pp. 100 ff.) The identities of Thomas Davis and Pleasant Hicks are unknown. However, a neighbor of the Williams family in Goochland Co. was one Daniel Hix of Goochland and probably Brunswick Cos., VA. Pleasant Hicks is probably not a son but possibly a relative of Daniel Hix, a neighbor of John Williams I in Goochland Co. before Williams removed to Hanover Co. in the 1730s. (No sons but only two daughters and a wife named in will of Daniel Hix of Goochland Co.) Charles Wiliams appears on the tax list of Reuben Searcy, Granville Co. of 1764-65. In 1761, Charles Williams received a patent in Granville Co. [Patent Bk 14] [no.] 2822, pg 100 ["Lord Granville to"] Charles Williams 24 Jul 1761. 700 acres in Granville Co. on both sides of Crooked run, joining Vincent Bodine OR [Original record] /s/ Chas. Williams. Wits. -- Bullock, Thos Lowe surveyed 29 Aug 1760 SCC: Thos David, Chas. Williams. Thos Person, surveyor. (Margaret M. Hofmann, THE GRANVILLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1748-1763, V. 2, p. 161). (Question: Is Thos. David, one of the chain carriers, the same as Thomas Davis listed among the the tithables in cited Goochland Co. taxable list?) To be continued Does anyone have anything to contribute on this man and his family? Evelyn W. Wallace a descendant of Charles's brother William Williams