from "Williamstown and Williams College" by Arthur Latham Perry (1899):
A brief record of Captain Judah Williams may fitly close this branch of the current chapter. He was born Dec. 14, 1741, at Colchester, Connecticut, a son of Nathan and Elizabeth Lewis Williams. His wife was Mary Skinner, a daughter of the well known pastor of that place, and an older sister of the two Skinner brothers, Tomson J. and Benjamin, prominent citizens of Williamstown.[sic] *(see note) .... Judah Williams and his wife came here about 1770.... He located on House-lot 63, on Green River, at the easternmost edge of the village plat, and became a large owner of some of the best lands in the valley and of the out lots beyond. He kept and dealt in cattle; and when the war broke out in those parts, he became a commissary with the rank of captain, and collected hundreds of cattle at his own place and elsewhere for the use of the army. His accounts of course were kept in the Continental money, which was constantly depreciating, and when his settlement was made with the Revolutionary government, he received stacks of this money, which shortly afterward became worthless. This ruined his fortune. In his prosperous time he had built a fine brick house of two stories on the front line of his house-lot, which is still standing erect and intact after a century and a quarter. It must have been when built the best house in the town. His farms must have been then the best within the hamlet proper. His money, though a plenty in quantity, was not such that he could pay his debts with it. His fine house and large farm were sold under the hammer in order to pay his debts; the whole estate passed into the hands of David Noble, who occupied the house so long as he lived; Captain Williams conspicuously destroyed his piles of Continental money, and in 1788 removed to Troy. Eight years after the family moved to Utica. The Captain was much broken down by his pecuniary misfortunes. Although remaining remarkably active in body, - always a great walker,- his disposition became melancholy, and he died in Utica, at the house of his son, Judge Nathan Williams, of whose family he formed a part, in March, 1807, aged sixty-five years.
*note: The manager of this memorial believes that statement to be incorrect. -THS
A brief record of Captain Judah Williams may fitly close this branch of the current chapter. He was born Dec. 14, 1741, at Colchester, Connecticut, a son of Nathan and Elizabeth Lewis Williams. His wife was Mary Skinner, a daughter of the well known pastor of that place, and an older sister of the two Skinner brothers, Tomson J. and Benjamin, prominent citizens of Williamstown.[sic] *(see note) .... Judah Williams and his wife came here about 1770.... He located on House-lot 63, on Green River, at the easternmost edge of the village plat, and became a large owner of some of the best lands in the valley and of the out lots beyond. He kept and dealt in cattle; and when the war broke out in those parts, he became a commissary with the rank of captain, and collected hundreds of cattle at his own place and elsewhere for the use of the army. His accounts of course were kept in the Continental money, which was constantly depreciating, and when his settlement was made with the Revolutionary government, he received stacks of this money, which shortly afterward became worthless. This ruined his fortune. In his prosperous time he had built a fine brick house of two stories on the front line of his house-lot, which is still standing erect and intact after a century and a quarter. It must have been when built the best house in the town. His farms must have been then the best within the hamlet proper. His money, though a plenty in quantity, was not such that he could pay his debts with it. His fine house and large farm were sold under the hammer in order to pay his debts; the whole estate passed into the hands of David Noble, who occupied the house so long as he lived; Captain Williams conspicuously destroyed his piles of Continental money, and in 1788 removed to Troy. Eight years after the family moved to Utica. The Captain was much broken down by his pecuniary misfortunes. Although remaining remarkably active in body, - always a great walker,- his disposition became melancholy, and he died in Utica, at the house of his son, Judge Nathan Williams, of whose family he formed a part, in March, 1807, aged sixty-five years.
*note: The manager of this memorial believes that statement to be incorrect. -THS
from "Williamstown and Williams College" by Arthur Latham Perry (1899):
A brief record of Captain Judah Williams may fitly close this branch of the current chapter. He was born Dec. 14, 1741, at Colchester, Connecticut, a son of Nathan and Elizabeth Lewis Williams. His wife was Mary Skinner, a daughter of the well known pastor of that place, and an older sister of the two Skinner brothers, Tomson J. and Benjamin, prominent citizens of Williamstown.[sic] *(see note) .... Judah Williams and his wife came here about 1770.... He located on House-lot 63, on Green River, at the easternmost edge of the village plat, and became a large owner of some of the best lands in the valley and of the out lots beyond. He kept and dealt in cattle; and when the war broke out in those parts, he became a commissary with the rank of captain, and collected hundreds of cattle at his own place and elsewhere for the use of the army. His accounts of course were kept in the Continental money, which was constantly depreciating, and when his settlement was made with the Revolutionary government, he received stacks of this money, which shortly afterward became worthless. This ruined his fortune. In his prosperous time he had built a fine brick house of two stories on the front line of his house-lot, which is still standing erect and intact after a century and a quarter. It must have been when built the best house in the town. His farms must have been then the best within the hamlet proper. His money, though a plenty in quantity, was not such that he could pay his debts with it. His fine house and large farm were sold under the hammer in order to pay his debts; the whole estate passed into the hands of David Noble, who occupied the house so long as he lived; Captain Williams conspicuously destroyed his piles of Continental money, and in 1788 removed to Troy. Eight years after the family moved to Utica. The Captain was much broken down by his pecuniary misfortunes. Although remaining remarkably active in body, - always a great walker,- his disposition became melancholy, and he died in Utica, at the house of his son, Judge Nathan Williams, of whose family he formed a part, in March, 1807, aged sixty-five years.
*note: The manager of this memorial believes that statement to be incorrect. -THS
A brief record of Captain Judah Williams may fitly close this branch of the current chapter. He was born Dec. 14, 1741, at Colchester, Connecticut, a son of Nathan and Elizabeth Lewis Williams. His wife was Mary Skinner, a daughter of the well known pastor of that place, and an older sister of the two Skinner brothers, Tomson J. and Benjamin, prominent citizens of Williamstown.[sic] *(see note) .... Judah Williams and his wife came here about 1770.... He located on House-lot 63, on Green River, at the easternmost edge of the village plat, and became a large owner of some of the best lands in the valley and of the out lots beyond. He kept and dealt in cattle; and when the war broke out in those parts, he became a commissary with the rank of captain, and collected hundreds of cattle at his own place and elsewhere for the use of the army. His accounts of course were kept in the Continental money, which was constantly depreciating, and when his settlement was made with the Revolutionary government, he received stacks of this money, which shortly afterward became worthless. This ruined his fortune. In his prosperous time he had built a fine brick house of two stories on the front line of his house-lot, which is still standing erect and intact after a century and a quarter. It must have been when built the best house in the town. His farms must have been then the best within the hamlet proper. His money, though a plenty in quantity, was not such that he could pay his debts with it. His fine house and large farm were sold under the hammer in order to pay his debts; the whole estate passed into the hands of David Noble, who occupied the house so long as he lived; Captain Williams conspicuously destroyed his piles of Continental money, and in 1788 removed to Troy. Eight years after the family moved to Utica. The Captain was much broken down by his pecuniary misfortunes. Although remaining remarkably active in body, - always a great walker,- his disposition became melancholy, and he died in Utica, at the house of his son, Judge Nathan Williams, of whose family he formed a part, in March, 1807, aged sixty-five years.
*note: The manager of this memorial believes that statement to be incorrect. -THS
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"Vault under monument. Maria Wager also remains from old ground buried under monument. Names on Monument."
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