Meet the Womacks
Chapter ThirteenJohn Williams
Family records

Introduction

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Chapter Thirteen

First page of the Articles of Confederation preserved by the National Archives

No verified portrait is used here.
The chapter opens with the national document that bears John Williams's name.

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North Carolina · Philadelphia · Montpelier

John
Williams

March 14, 1731 · October 10, 1799

Lawyer, frontier investor, Revolutionary legislator, Continental Congress delegate, signer of the Articles of Confederation, judge, and founding trustee of the University of North Carolina.

Family connection
Reported eldest son of Mary Womack and John Williams Sr.
National act
Signed for North Carolina · July 21, 1778
Home
Montpelier near Williamsboro, Granville County
Wife
Agnes Bullock Keeling Williams
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