Willoughby Williams

Willoughby Williams was an American war veteran and politician from North Carolina.[1][2]

Biography

Career

He enlisted in 1776 and fought in the American Revolutionary War as a regimental commissionary officer.[1][2] He served in the Battle of Cowpens of January 17, 1781.[1] In 1790, he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives.[1]

Personal life

On January 1, 1786, he married Nancy Glasgow (1771-1857), daughter of James Glasgow (1735-1819) who served as North Carolina Secretary of State from 1777 to 1798.[1][3] They had six children.[1] Their son Willoughby Williams, Jr. (1798-1882) went on to live in Woodlawn, a National Register of Historic Places-listed mansion in Nashville, with his wife m. Nancy Nichols (1808-1844).[3]

He lived in Dobbs County, North Carolina.[1] He died on June 6, 1802 in Rutledge, Tennessee on his way to Davidson County, Tennessee.[1]

In 1806, his widow married Joseph McMinn, who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Zella Armstrong, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution: Compiled from Pension Statements, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2009, p. 117
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 William Stevens Powell (ed.), Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press, 1986, p. 304
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lineage Book, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1936, p. 269