When Thomas Williams II was born on 25 January 1717, in Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Williams I, was 23 and his mother, Eleanor Prather, was 17. He married Ann Jacobs on 27 December 1734, in Talbot, Maryland, United States. He died on 9 May 1771, in Prince George's, Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 54.
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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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