When Sally Williams was born on 24 December 1796, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Festus Williams, was 29 and her mother, Jemima Bennet, was 26. She married Georg Henrich Miller on 8 August 1821. She lived in Columbia, Herkimer, New York, United States for about 15 years. She died on 12 July 1866, in Herkimer, New York, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Millers Mills Cemetery, Millers Mills, Columbia, Herkimer, New York, United States.
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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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