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Oliver Williams
Record Number: 248003
Born: May 6, 1774 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Died: Oct. 11, 1834 at Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan
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Cemetery: Oak Hill Cemetery
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Father: Benjamin Williams
Mother: Anna Fuller
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Mary Lee
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Sep 1796
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
4832
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Gardner Davinport Williams
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He was one of the first land owners in Oakland County, Michigan. Major Oliver Williams was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, May 6, 1774, and died on his farm at Silver Lake, in Oakland County, Michigan on Oct 11,1834. In the spring of 1819, Major Williams moved to Silver Lake, from Detroit, where he had resided since 1815, and with three men cut their own road through the woods and drove the first horse team from Detroit to Pontiac. He settled on the south bank of Silver Lake in Waterford township, which was then the frontier of civilization. Major Williams had visited Detroit in 1808, and was there at that place most of the War of 1812; being present there at Hulls Surrender.