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Chapman (1880), Liberty Township biographies
“a prominent farmer in Liberty tp.”; b. 18 Dec. 1802, Cumberland Co., Me., son of George and Mable (Lichfield) Williams (father of Maine, mother of Massachusetts) (pp. 731–732). Came west with his family in 1838 by lake from Buffalo to Detroit, arriving in this county 3 Nov. with $300 in money; bought 80 acres and, by perseverance, accumulated enough to live in retirement (p. 732). M. 1835 Eliza F. Thomas; nine children, six living, named — incl. Henry S. and, in the narrative, Sumner G. Williams among Methodist founding-aiders (pp. 720, 732; the biography’s living list and the narrative’s names are printed as reached, not reconciled). Father a captain in the War of 1812; grandfather Lichfield fought through the Revolution (p. 732). Member of the M. E. Church (p. 732). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: the oldest biography subject in the set (b. 1802) and the register’s dated lake-route arrival: Buffalo–Detroit, 3 Nov. 1838, $300 in hand.