Calvin Philby Williams was born on 18 August 1806, in Ohio, United States. He married Matilda Melinda Shoop on 11 January 1827, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Guernsey, Ohio, United States in 1840 and Wood, Virginia, United States in 1850.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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