As I introduce Jason and Lucy Williams’ children, I’ll go in birth order with one exception: I’ll be saving Martha for next-to-last. You’ll see why once I get to her. Mary J. Williams was born April 8, 1826 in Salem, Washington County, NY, the oldest of Jason’s and Lucy’s children known to me. Sometime before 1850, she married Newman Bowen Carley, a blacksmith from Whitingham, Windham County, VT.

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Years ago when I wrote about my third great-grandfather John Wesley Williams, I stated that he was born “in Cambridge, Washington County, NY to Jason and Lucy Williams”.  For years I had no idea who Jason and Lucy were.  When full-text search came to Family Search I happily found a few deeds for Jason with his wife Lucy, but that was it. 

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