Hukey Williams (1740 - abt. 1818)

Born 12 Dec 1740 in North Farnham Parish, Rappahannock, Virginia

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Died about 1818 at about age 77 in Warren County, Georgia, United States of America

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Family Notes: Hukey was born 12 December 1740 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.^[1]

HENRY/HUKEY Williams ( of Richmond co) married Ann Lightfoot.^[2]

He had left Richmond Co, Va before 1767, living in Goochland Co., VA by 1772, when his son, Lightfoot was born. Later in Georgia, a deed states that he had borrowed money in Goochland (this establishes a good "connection"). [Need Source for Deed]]

Henry died @1818, Warren Co, GA. Married, 1761, Richmond County, VA. Through the generations of Williams it has always been passed down that "Hukey" was robbed and murdered in Georgia. However, no documentation has been found.

Update 11/12/2021

I have attempted to contact the manager of this WikiTree listing for HUKEY WILLIAMS, but have received no response, as there appears to be a conflict between who Hukey "Henry" Williams married and when he may have died. I updated Hukey's WikiTree to add his mother, Ann Williams (nee Williams) and all sources I have referenced below are added as sources in their WikiTree listings -- I just wanted to add the following information for HUKEY WILLIAMS:

Hukey Wiliams was the son of Roger and Ann Williams -- Ann Williams' maiden name was Williams. Per the Northfarnham Parish Registry book his given name at birth was HUKEY WILLIAMS. While researching these Williams families for a possible connection, I found the WILL of Ann Williams' father, John Williams -- located in the Richmond County, Virginia Wills & Inventories, Vol. 5 1725-1753, Image 355 of 687 at FamilySearch.org. Hukey's mother, Ann Williams, predeceased both of her parents, but her father's will mentions his "son-in-law Roger Williams." So Hukey's mother, Ann Williams, was the wife of ROGER WILLIAMS. The will lists Ann's mother as "Jane." Trees on FamilySearch are divided about whether Ann's maiden name was Jane Harris or Jane Frestoe, but I see that here on WikiTree her mother is listed as Jane Harris -- which I think is most likely correct based on my research.

However -- I think that Roger and Ann's son HUKEY WILLIAMS, b. 12 Dec. 1740 per the Northfarnham Parish Registry book (his name was definitely spelled HUKEY at birth) and who later lived in Brunswick County, VA -- may be getting confused with Ann's NEPHEW, HENRY WILLIAMS, who also later lived in Brunswick County, VA after the death of HIS FATHER, HENRY WILLIAMS, who was the brother of Ann Ann Williams. HENRY WILLIAMS would have been HUKEY WILLIAMS' FIRST COUSIN. On FamilySearch and here on WikiTree, they appear to have been combined into one person Henry "Hukey" Williams -- but the sources appear to show they were two different people.

Per Ann Williams' (nee Williams) father's will, he left property that he owned in Brunswick County, VA to his sons LUKE and THOMAS (all my land on the Nottaway River above and below Rockey Run.) (Source: Richmond County, VA Wills & Inventories,Vol. 5 1725-1753 Image 355 of 687 at FamilySearch) John originally purchased this property on 5 Nov 1747 (Brunswick County, VA Deed Records, Vol. 3 1744-1749, Image 500 of 638) with his son, HUGH WILLIAMS, and they divided the property up equally between them.

In 1753 Luke Williams "of Northfarnham Parish and County of Richmond" sold his inheritance of this property to HENRY WILLIAMS "of the Parish and County aforesaid" being in the County of Brunswick and Parish of Saint Andrews lying on the Nottaway River which "John Williams the father of HENRY WILLIAMS and LUKE WILLIAMS purchased of John Davis." The witness to this deed was their brother HUGH WILLIAMS. On the same day, their brother, Thomas, also sold his inheritence in Brunswick County -- again witnessed by their brother, Hugh Williams. Images 492 - 494 are several more sales of property between LUKE and HIS BROTHER HENRY. So Henry purchased property in Brunswick at that time, and appears to have lived there afterwards, as did his brother Hugh, who was also living there.

According to a source at FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/LC7P-6DL) -- Hukey Williams, the son of Roger Williams and Ann Williams (nee Williams) m. Miss Sarah Jones, whose family lived in Granville, NC -- they married in the year 1762 or 1763. They only had one son, John Williams, before Hukey was murdered in the early 1760s, in Petersburg, Virginia. I don't know how reliable a source this is.

But Roger Williams' will clearly indicated that his son's name was HUKEY, the Northfarnham Parish Records for his birth also clearly state his name was "Hukey" and I also found a deed of sale of property in Brunswick County by Hukey Williams to a Lewelling Jones (Brunswick County Deed Records Vol. 8 1765-1767, Image 102 of 607 at FamilySearch.org) and again his name was spelled HUKEY. See also, sources below -- possible connection between Hukey Williams and a HENRY JONES.

In fact, there are MANY ORIGINAL SOURCE RECORDS for HUKEY WILLIAMS, and also for HENRY WILLIAMS, his first cousin. And Hukey is always listed as Hukey and not "Henry," or vice versa. So it appears possible that researchers may have been confusing the source records they have found in Richmond and Brunswick Counties for HENRY WILLIAMS and HUKEY WILLIAMS, and combing them into one person -- "Henry Hukey Williams."

And in looking at the sources, It seems possible that it was HENRY WILLIAMS who married Ann Lightfoot (the marriage record clearly states she married HENRY WILLIAMS) -- and he was the first cousin of HUKEY WILLIAMS who married Sarah Jones, and they were not the same person. I have not researched this possibility as of yet, but it does seem possible. Will update if I find more evidence of this.

Update: I found the WILL OF HUGH WILLIAMS, the brother of Hukey's mother, Ann Williams -- his will was written on 30 Mar 1780 in Brunswick County, VA -- Hugh died without issue, and in his will he leaves bequests to his brothers and several nieces and nephews, inluding his NEPHEW "John, son of HUKEY WILLIAMS" -- the fact that Hugh left a bequest to Hukey's son, John Williams, and not to Hukey himself, would appear to indicate that Hukey was already deceased by 30 Mar 1780.

See sources below: WILL OF HUGH WILLIAMS -- I HUGH WILLIAMS of the Parish of Saint Andrew County of Brunswick . . . MY NIECE WINIFRED TARPLEY . . . MY BROTHER LUKE and MY BROTHER THOMAS WILLIAMS . . . MY LOVING WIFE ELIZABETH . . . TO JOHN SON OF HUKEY WILLIAMS . . . to CATY LAWSON . . . TO ANN BENNEKAM . . . to EDWARD WILLIAMS . . . TO THOMAS WILLIAMS PLUMMON (PLUMMER?) . . . JOHN SON OF WILLIAM LYALL (LYELL) . . . TO LUKE SON OF ROGER WILLIAMS . . . to MY BROTHER LUKE WILLIAMS . . . BENJAMIN JONES and my loving wife EXECUTORS . . . witnesses: MOSES QUARLES, JUNIOR, DAVID ROPER, JOHN READ. Brunswick County Court 28th May 1781. This will was proved by the oaths of MOSES QUARLES, JUNIOR and DAVID ROPER witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and upon the motion of ELIZABETH WILLIAMS the Executrix therein appointed and she having given bond with security and taken the oath according to law certificate is granted her for obtaining probate thereof in due form. Drury Stith, Clerk of the Court.

The reason why I'm so interested in this family is because MY RESEARCH into my family's history led me to BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VA (based on sources, etc. that I have found) so I had intensively researched all the Williamses there in Brunswick -- so I was amazed when I found that some of those Williamses I had been researching in Brunswick were actually Ann Williams' family! I have Timelines for both Brunswick and Richmond County, for all the Williamses I am finding there, trying to find connections to my 4th great-grandfather, John Wiliams (Williams-102491)

See Also

The name of SHADRACK is carried down for four generations, later in his lineage -- his Grandfather's name.

The family of Luke Williams and his son, and family, Henry Williams and Ann Lightfoot, was given to me by MORGAN, who did the genealogy on this family in the early 1980s, on the old Ancestry, which was not founded until 1983, and not put on computers until 1985, later 1996. MORGAN AND GREER did the genealogy on the early Ancestry website.

This family was well researched by Dona (Floyd) Kimmons ( Dona Floyd Sr.), and put in a book called "The Williams Family History Book, written in 1972, at the request of her grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams, of Ft.Worth, Texas and District Judge of Fairbanks, Alaska, 1961-1966.

Another book on this family, the "Owen Family History Book" was written on the Owen/Williams family in 1961, author Bonner Frizzell, and later reprinted by Joe T. Owen in 1994.

The "Williams Family History Book", author Dona (Floyd)(Vance) was written in 1972, and copywrited in Washington, D.C. All information in her book came directly from her own family descendants in Texas, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia. Her family members in Georgia are members of the Colonial Dames, the Dames of the Magna Carta, Americans of Royal Descent, the Daughters of the American Revolution under the names of Luke Williams and Dona (Floyd) Kimmons is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution under the name of Elijah Cornwall, Jacob's Well Chapter, Wimberley, Texas. Copies of her book are in the libraries of the State of Texas and the State of Georgia, Jasper County, including at the Chamber of Commerce there, and Ft.Worth, Texas.

Dona (Floyd) Vance, author of this book, self-published the book and distributed it to libraries and family members, who all contributed their own memories and life stories to her in 1972. Proof of all that is in this book, birth, death, marriage records on her family were given to the Daughters of the American Revolution to gain membership in this organization. All stories in her book were contributed directly from her own family members in their own words, and they gave her trunks full of their own research concerning relationship to King John Plantagenet, Americans of Royal Descent. This was done by her ancestors in Georgia, North and South Carolina, and given to Dona (Floyd)(Vance) to include in her book, 1972.

The Courthouse in North Carolina belonged to her family, the Williams/Lane family, it was their Plantation before the Civil War, 1863. Her ancestors' other Plantations were burned down by Sherman in Jasper County, Georgia. Many of her family in Georgia died in that war, one was badly wounded and came to Lufkin, Texas, where his sons, Luke Williams, French Beard Williams became very successful in business, and were Inventors of many machines patented in the Patent Office, Washington, D.C., They founded Crown Machine and Tool Company, which provided the Navy with bullets for WWII, and they founded Molded Products, maker of plastics, both companies still in business today, with an office in Colorado. Dona (Floyd)(Vance), now Kimmons's grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams invented the geo-thermal machines, a machine which located uranium. Judge Alvin Luke Williams, a lawyer and Judge and his brother, French Beard Williams invented many machines, some for the Navy. Judge Alvin Luke Williams passed away in March, 1978, as he was handling an estate for his granddaughter, Dona (Floyd) Vance, 1976, 1977, 1978, Utah and California.

In the original MORGAN, GREER GENEALOGY, Luke Williams, b. 1700 is listed as married to Ann Williams.

Sources

• Page 201 The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663 - 1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783 - 1800 Richmond County Virginia Compiled and Published by george Harrison Sanford King Fellow, American Society of Genealogists Fredericksburg, Virginia 1966.

• Brunswick County Deed Records, Vol. 8 1765-1767, Image 102 of 607 at FamilySearch.org. 5 Dec 1764 sale of property by Hukey Williams to Lewelling Jones.

• Brunswick County Deed Records, Vol. 9 1765, Image 585 of 848 at FamilySearch.org. 5 Feb 1765, Indenture of bargain and sale between LEWELLING JONES and PETER RANDOLPH BLAND. (I could not find the original in the deed records -- but see 23 Jul 1765 below where Peter Randolph Bland sued HUKEY WILLIAMS.)

• Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 9 1765, Image 609 of 848 at FamilySearch.org. 20 Apr 1765 "Petition of Peter Stainback Administrator, etc. of Littleberry White deceased against HUKEY WILLIAMS and HENRY JONES . . . is dismissed as to the Defendant Jones, the plaintiff not further prosecuting and as to the DEFENDANT WILLIAMS being no inhabitant abates." Same page: Thomas Flewelling against HUKEY WILLIAMS -- "The defendant being returned no inhabitant this suit abates."

• • Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 9 1765, Image 613 of 848 at FamilySearch.org. 20 Apr 1765 "On the petition of LEWELLING JONES against Richard Dobyns and HUGH WILLIAMS." (HUGH WILLIAMS was the Uncle of Hukey Williams, the brother of Hukey's mother, Ann Williams -- see next source below)

• • Brunswick County Deed Records, Vol. 3 1744-1749 Image 500 of 638 at FamilySearch.org: On 5 Nov. 1747, Hugh Williams purchased property with his father, JOHN WILLIAMS, on the South Side of the Nottaway River in Brunswick County, VA. The witness to this purchase was LEWELLING JONES. (see next source below)

• • Brunswick County Deed Records, Vol. 9 1767-1790, Image 344 of 607 at FamilySearch.org: On 28 Apr 1767 Hugh Williams and Elizabeth his wife sold their property on the South Side of the Nottaway River in Brunswick County, VA. Witness to this sale was RICHARD DOBYNS.

• Brunswick County Deed Records, Vol. 8 1765-1767, Image 102 of 607 at FamilySearch.org: Hukey Williams of the County of Brunswick sale of property to Lewelling Jones.

• Brunswick County Court Order Book, No. 9 1765, Image 609 of 848 at FamilySearch.org 20 Apr 1765 -- Peter Stainback v. Hukey Wiliams and Henry Jones -- "as to the Defendant Hukey Williams being no inhabitant abates."

• Brunwick County Court Order Book No. 9 1765, Image 597 of 848 at FamilySearch.org 22 Apr 1765 Peter Randolph Bland v. Hukey Williams. The defendant not appearing . . . attachment issued against DEFENDANTS ESTATE.

• Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 9 1765, Image 757 of 848 at FamilySearch.org. 23 Jul 1765 Peter Randolph Bland v. Hukey Williams. The court "abates the defendant being returned not an inhabitant of this county."

• Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 9 1765, Image 821 of 848 at FamilySearch.org. 28 Aug 1765, LEWELLING JONES, assignee of HUKEY WILLIAMS."

• Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 9 1765, Image 830 of 848 at FamilySearch.org. 28 Aug 1765, HUKEY WILLIAMS v. RAWLEIGH HIGHTOWER. Three cases in a row, Hukey lost all and ordered to pay costs of defendant.

• Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 10 1765-1768, Image 214 of 600 at FamilySearch.org 27 May 1767 Lewelling Jones asignee of Hugh Williams. So Lewlling Jones, who had previously been assignee of HUKEY WILLIAMS, is now assignee of Hukey's Uncle, HUGH WILLIAMS. As per above court entries "Hukey no longer an inhabitant."

• Brunswick County Court Order Book No. 11 1768-1772, Image 541 of 600 at FamilySearch.org. 5 Nov 1771, HUGH WILLIAMS appointed surveyor of the road from Red Oak Schoolhouse to LEWELLING JONES' ROAD. (Hugh Williams was the brother of Hukey's mother, Ann Williams)

• Brunswick County Will Books, Vols. 4-5, 1761-1795, pg. 15, Image 307 of 626 at FamilySearch.org. 30 Apr 1777, WILL OF ISAAC JONES, witnessed by HUGH WILLIAMS, the Uncle of HUKEY WILLIAMS. Proved in court on 25 May 1778 by the oath of HUGH WILLIAMS.

• Brunswick County Court Order Book, Vol 2, 1741-1742, Image 348 of 852 at FamilySearch.org. 30 Oct 1780 WILL OF HUGH WILLIAMS left a bequest to "John son of HUKEY WILLIAMS."

• Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800, Henry Williams-Ann Lightfoot, MARRIAGE DATE 18 Sep 1761, Richmond County, Virginia; Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com.

1. ↑ Page 201 The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663 - 1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783 - 1800 Richmond County Virginia Compiled and Published by george Harrison Sanford King Fellow, American Society of Genealogists Fredericksburg, Virginia 1966.
2. ↑ Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800, Henry Williams-Ann Lightfoot, MARRIAGE DATE 18 Sep 1761, Richmond County, Virginia; Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com.

Williams Family History, Chapter 1, read pages 2-6 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2467wil?id=navbarbrowselink;view=text