Pension of Willoughby Williams; Greene Co, NCGenWeb

Revolutionary soldier, WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS, a resident of Dobbs County, N. C., enlisted in 1776 as a private in COLONEL ABRAHAM SHEPHERD'S regiment. He served about seven years. WILLIAMS was in the Battle of Cowpens, during which he was wounded in the right leg. He married, in the home of the bride's father, JAMES GLASGOW, N. C. Secretary of State, NANCY GLASGOW, on Jan. 1, 1786. He died on June 6, 1802 in Rutledge, Tenn. on his way to Davidson County. In 1790, WILLIAMS served as a member of the North Carolina Legislature from Dobbs County. His widow, NANCY GLASGOW WILLIAMS, married second, on August 4, 1806 in Kingston, Tenn. to JOSEPH MCMINN, Governor of Tennessee, who died at the home of his step-son, J. G. WILLIAMS, at the Cherokee Agency in Calhoun, Tenn. NANCY GLASGOW WILLIAMS MCMINN (b. 1771), at the age of seventy-seven, applied for and was granted a pension for her first husband's services. She was then a resident of Davidson, having previously lived in Wilson County, Tenn. She had six children by her first marriage, and none by her marriage to MCMINN. Her youngest child was WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS JR., (b. 1798) who, in 1851, lived in Nashville. She died on June 27, 1857.

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WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS PENSION