When Mary Williams was born on 2 July 1697, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Williams Sr, was 23 and her mother, Mary Lowell, was 17. She married Timothy Sargent on 7 December 1720, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 3 July 1757, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 60.
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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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