When Abel Lawson Williams was born in 1820, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Wheelwright Williams, was 49 and his mother, Mary Jane Shreve, was 32. He married Susan Elizabeth Garrett on 9 April 1864, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Simpsonville Township, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1870 and New Bethel Township, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died in 1892, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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