Rev John Williams
Reverend John Williams
Colonial American
Lineage
- Daughter: Eunice Williams
- Son: Eleazar Williams
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1686/00/00 | Rev John Williams receives a house, a homelott and 16 cowcommons of meadowland. | Home | Williams Parsonage site | Deerfield, MA | |||
| 1686/00/00 | Eunice Mather marries John Williams | Groom | Marriage of Eunice Mather and John Williams | ||||
| 1704/02/29 | John Williams, his wife and five children are kidnapped and marched off towards Canada. | Captive | Williams Parsonage site | Deerfield, MA | Raid on Deerfield | ||
| 1706/10/25 | Reverend John Williams and two of his sons are redeemed and leave Quebec. | Captive | Raid on Deerfield | ||||
| 1706/11/21 | Reverend Williams returns to Boston, Massachusetts. | Life | |||||
| 1706/12/05 | Williams gives a sermon in Second Church, Boston (lost). Luke 8:39 KJV - Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him. | Vocation | The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (book) | ||||
| 1707/03/00 | "The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" is published. Boston: Printed by B Green, for Samuel Phillips, at the brick shop (lost, across from Town House). | Author | The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (book) | Old State House | Boston | Raid on Deerfield | |
| 1707/07/00 | Parson Williams's new house is completed during the summer of 1707. His children are living with relatives in Roxbury, Charlestown and Northampton. | Home | Old Deerfield Village Historic District | Deerfield, MA | |||
| 1707/09/00 | Abigail Bissell, a widow, marries John Williams. Abigail is a granddaughter of the Rev John Warham, and a first cousin Williams' first wife. She helps him rebuild the household and reunite his children. John and Abigail will have five children. | Groom | Marriage of Abigail Bissell and John Williams | ||||
| 1707/12/28 | Rev Williams removes to Deerfield to resume his pastoral duties. The town votes to build him another house to replace the one burned in the attack. The meetinghouse, built in 1695, was still intact. | Life | |||||
| 1729/06/09 | Reverend John Williams, minister of Deerfield, suffers a stroke. | Health | |||||
| 1729/06/12 | Reverend John Williams dies at the age of 65. | Died |
1 Creative Work by Rev John Williams »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (book) | Author | Book | 1707/03/00 |
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