Family Notes

Jesse Williams, originally a merchant apprentice at age 16, transported provisions to George Washington's army at Dorchester, Massachusetts. After the Revolutionary War he became the first merchant in Woodstock, Vermont, transporting axes, cloth, needles and other goods from Connecticut. He later served as a probate judge.

A document survives in which he declines reappointment as Chief Justice of Windsor County, Vermont, dated November 2, 1803.