The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . nia Troops, on August i6, 1777. and also to have been, fromFebruary 10 to March 10, 1778, a captain in Colonel Alexander Bars detachmentof Westmoreland militia in an expedition to the Indian country. Dr. John is authority for the statement that the Westmoreland troops were atGermantown. Johnstons Cecil County, p. 281. Thomas died in 1830 at the age offifty-seven, and was buried in the yard of the West Nottingham PresbyterianChurch. He was thus born in 1773.
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . nia Troops, on August i6, 1777. and also to have been, fromFebruary 10 to March 10, 1778, a captain in Colonel Alexander Bars detachmentof Westmoreland militia in an expedition to the Indian country. Dr. John is authority for the statement that the Westmoreland troops were atGermantown. Johnstons Cecil County, p. 281. Thomas died in 1830 at the age offifty-seven, and was buried in the yard of the West Nottingham PresbyterianChurch. He was thus born in 1773. Catherine married John Matthews and Esther became Mrs. McCulIough. Their mothers sister was married to a Lamar. = The marriage license was issued on that date, as is recorded at Elkton,Md. The History of Pittsburgh, by Neville B. Craig, 1851, p. 231. MajorKirkpatrick became, in 1777, a captain in Colonel John Nevilles Fourth Vir-ginia Infantry. Hamerslys Army Register, p. 27. * Neville and Kirkpatrick married daughters of the Oldham family, also awell-known one. Address of Captain Williams on a letter of November 19, THOMAS WILLIAMS, SR. Halftoue of a small painting iu possession of the Misses Williams, Philadelphia HIS FOREFATHERS AND THE WEST 5 dent of Pittsburgh and the other to furnish it a still morenotable descendant. In the long days of travel on his pack horse over themountains, how Mr. Williams must have weighed thepros and cons of the historic past, promising present andpossible future of this interesting region !^ The forks ofthe Ohio, which had been fought over by the two greatestnations years before, and afterwards was a bone of fiercecontention between two of the greatest colonies eventhen all too fresh in his memory, not to speak of the knifeand tomahawk, ever ready to appear out of the forests towrest them from the actual settlers—these forks werenow practically safe. It was only the year before that theIndians on the farther side of the Allegheny and O
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