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Author: Thomas Allen Whitefield Sr.
Zachariah Williams was born at Wales 23 February 1760. He served as a Private in Captain Henry Dorroch’s Company of the Associators and Militia at Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He also paid the 1780 Supply Tax at New Britain Township, Bucks County (thereby providing funds to the war effort). He married Elizabeth Schwartzlander (1753-1836) 23 March 1780 at Milford Township, Bucks County. Their known children are Margaret (1781-1856), Eleanor (1782-1854), Amos (1784-1853), Rhoda (1787-?), Edward (1789-1851), Elizabeth (1791-?), Hannah (1793-1830) and Mary (1796-1839). He appears in the tax records of New Britain Township in 1782 and 1783. He was enumerated in the 1790 U.S Census at Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In the 1800 U.S. Census, he appears at Milford Township, Mifflin County, and in 1810 at Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. He died 29 May 1832 at Dry Valley, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. His final resting place is not known.
There is an anecdote told by Willian Nickles, a grandson of Zachariah Williams, as printed in the newspaper Ringgold Record, of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, Thursday, 11 November 1880, page 1:
His [William Nickles'] maternal grandfather, Zachariah Williams, served through the Revolutionary war with Washington and lived till 1830 [sic]. He used to relate how, when he and some of his comrades were stealing green corn in New York, when orders had been issued that no foraging should be done, Washington came on to them just as they were leaving the field with their arms full. The Commander looked them well over said quietly, "Don't steal too much of the poor fellow's corn, my boys," and then rode on.
Service Source: Published Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Volume 5, Page 380. Tax and Exoneration Lists RG-4 1780 Supply Tax.
Note: The copy of the first page of the Ringgold Record appears in the documentation of NSSAR RC# 122242.
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