| 3. | Gilbert Williams  (1.Sarah1) was born on 5 Mar 1796 in Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA. Notes:
GILBERT WILLIAMS was born in Westchester County, N. Y., on March 5, 1796. His parents were Benjamin and Sarah (Lewis) Williams, and the family were early located in Westchester County being quite numerous at the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. The father of Benjamin Williams was Frederick, and his grandfather Stephen Williams, both of whom resided in Westchester County.
The early life of Gilbert Williams, until the age of twelve years, was passed upon the paternal farm in his native county. In 1808 his father removed to the town of Newburgh, Orange Co., where he engaged in farming. Gilbert Williams during his boyhood served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith with Samuel Corwin. His schooling advantages were meagre. Frederick Williams, his grandfather, had removed to Nova Scotia, where he owned a large landed estate. Here young Gilbert repaired, by invitation, when about sixteen years of age, taking charge of his grandfather’s affairs, and inheriting at his death considerable property. With a portion of this he returned to Newburgh and purchased his father's farm, where he resided for twenty-one years. At the expiration of that time he bought his present farm, whereon he has since continued to reside.
Mr. Williams has led an active and industrious life, and confined himself strictly to the legitimate pursuits of husbandry. He has accumulated a good estate, is a man of good judgment, careful and circumspect in all of his affairs, a great talker, and devoted to family and friends. He has taken no interest in political affairs, and has voted only half a dozen times during his long residence in the town of Newburgh. He was formerly an officer in Capt. Daniel Tooker's company of militia, and delights in recalling the martial trainings and experiences of that body. Since 1832 he has been a member of the Methodist Church at Middlehope, and has filled most of the offices of the church and society with general acceptance. He has always been a stanch supporter of the temperance cause. He is now in his eighty-sixth year, mentally sound, possessed of considerable activity and ambition, and is one of the last living representatives of an old and fast-vanishing race of men to whose industry toil, and self-denial so much of our present prosperity is due.
Gilbert Williams was married on April 11, 1832, to Jemima, daughter of Samuel Corwin, of the town of Newburgh. No children were born of the union.
source: Ruttenber, Edward Manning and Lewis H. Clark. History of Orange County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, PA: Everts and Peck, 1881.
Gilbert married Jemima Corwin on 11 Apr 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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