Biography
He was born around 1810 and married Mary Maclay Pentz (c1810-1891). They owned a 121-acre (0.49 km2) tract in Somerset, New Jersey which was inherited by their son: Stephen Guion Williams on February 28, 1891. He died in 1876.
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