Are you having trouble finding your colonial Williams family of Richmond Co., VA? Perhaps this information will help someone. Submitted by E.W.Wallace HENRY WILLIAMS. (d. testate ca 1785, Caswell Co. NC; Will Bk B-page 92 contains his will) (This is my ancestor. Some of his children migrated to Madison Co., KY. Others seem to have migrated to Tennessee. I will exchange information, but PLEASE, not every person with the surname Williams is related to this Williams family. Please do your homework before contacting me. E.W.W. Henry Williams of colonial Brunswick Co. and perhaps of Pittsylvania Co., VA Caveat: Henry Williams, who died in Caswell Co. NC, is not the same Henry Williams who appears in Brunswick Co., VA records in 1753. This excerpt from Brunswick Co. Deed Bk 5-469 indicates some of the relationships of Henry Williams of Brunswick Co. VA and thus eliminates him as related to Henry Williams, son of Daniel Williams, the father having died testate in Granville Co. NC in 1759. The information in brackets has been added by this writer: "638 (469) Henry Williams of Northfarnham Parish in Richmond Co. [Northern Neck Virginia] to Luke Williams of same. 20 Oct 1753. 50 pds VA. (No acres) which John Williams the father of Luke Williams & Henry Williams purchased from John Davis, on Nottoway River, joining Matthews. Wit: Joshua (I) Hightower, John Phenix, Charnel Hightower, Francis Elmer, John (x) Gunter, Hugh Williams. Proved 27 Nov 1753. Litt Tazewell CC. [Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS, Vol. 2, 1744-1755-1764 [Published by author, n.d.] [Fam Hist Lib, 975.5575, R2bs, V. 2] A subsequent deed indicates the wife of Henry Williams of Richmond Co., VA was named Priscilla. Henry Williams of Richmond Co. appears on a list of Richmond County Voters, 1758. (Joanne Lovelace Nance, "Richmond County Voters 1758," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, V. 25, No. [Richmond, VA: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1 Feb 1987], pp. 20-22) Furthermore, there is a later recorded power of attorney in Pittsylvania Co., VA dated 16 Dec 1776 in which a Henry Williams "late of Pittsylvania" makes his good friend Richard Brown of the same county his attorney "to recieve all the debs due me." Because the POA is witnessed by Luke Williams, William Williams, Chas. Womack, Katherine Williams, and Richard Yates, Jr., we have reason to suspect he is not the Henry Williams of Caswell Co., especially since he is associated with one Luke Williams. We suspect he is the same person or a namesake of that Henry Williams, formerly of Richmond Co., VA in Northern Neck Virginia. (TLC Genealogy, PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 4 (1774-1778) [Miami Beach: TLC Genealogy, 1991], p. 40)