Posted on: Colleton Co. SC Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Colleton?read=910 Surname: Williams, Hamilton, Sheridan ------------------------- If you are related to Abram Williams and  Harriet Risher, you might be interested in this letter as well. Thanks, Eleanor Williams Bradley To: Robert J. Williams; Sorry your mail to me did not have a return on it.  Dr. Abraham English Williams was my great grandfather. I think if you check you will discover that Catherine Hamilton could not have been related to "the" Alexander Hamilton.  I went down that path years ago and definitely ruled him out. All one has to do is to see his real parentage and where he lived. I am more inclined toward the Hamiltons that settled near the Savannah River (some of that family moved West) or the Hamiltons that settled in Williamsburg Township. I surely would like to find them. I am not even sure all the things we have been told about Hugo Sheridan are true.  Some suggest he had South Carolina roots and his brother lived very near him.  However, I am still going with the Pennsylvania and other stories as so nicely handed down by Great-grandmother Georgianna Sheridan Williams. That history is well distributed to all of us and thus the same stories seem to go around and around. I am just discovering some things about our Great-great Grandmother Catherine Spears (Spell,Liston) Sheridan. Do you know anything about Catherine Spears parents, Rachael and Stephen Spears?  Or about Hugo Sheridan's parents for that matter?  Abram(iour) Williams was a Justice of the Peace.  On the marriage agreement between Hugo Sheridan and Catherine Liston he signed his name Abramiour Williams.  Never have I seen Thomas, yet so many of you have that as his middle name.  If he was truly named Abram Thomas Williams then that could be a huge clue to family names or just another blind alley. I think you will discover that Abram Williams and Harriet Risher are buried at what is now known as Green Pond United Methodist Church Cemetery, a stones throw from the home they established when they married and not far from his General Store.  It was his son, Thomas R. Williams,  for whom the town of Williamsville is named.  He gave the land for the Williams Cemetery, and his homestead, built in the mid 1800's, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Place.  He was a brother of Dr.Abraham English Williams, my Great Grandfather.   (see: Cemeteries in Upper Colleton County,SC) If you have anything that can help me with my search, I would appreciate it. From: Can someone answer this question from >MALCOLM L. WILLIAMS ? >>Eleanor, did H.W. Smith in his communication to you ever mention any of >the following members of my Williams ancestors: John Grandison Williams, >Prudence Williams, Margaret Williams, James Alexander Williams, Benjamin >Williams, or Ann Williams? All were born in Colleton county before 1800, Thanks Eleanor Williams Bradley >