This information is contributed by Carolyn Shank

Revolutionary soldier, WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS, a resident of 
Dobbs County, N. C., enlisted in 1776 as a private in COLONEL ABRAHAM 
SHEPHERD'S regiment. He served about seven years. WILLIAMS was in the 
Battle of Cowpens, during which he was wounded in the right leg. He 
married, in the home of the bride's father, JAMES GLASGOW, N. C. 
Secretary of State, NANCY GLASGOW, on Jan. 1, 1786. He died on June 6, 
1802 in Rutledge, Tenn. on his way to Davidson County.
     In 1790, WILLIAMS served as a member of the North Carolina 
Legislature from Dobbs County. His widow, NANCY GLASGOW WILLIAMS, married 
second, on August 4, 1806 in Kingston, Tenn. to JOSEPH MCMINN, Governor 
of Tennessee, who died at the home of his step-son, J. G. WILLIAMS, at 
the Cherokee Agency in Calhoun, Tenn.
    NANCY GLASGOW WILLIAMS MCMINN (b. 1771), at the age of seventy-seven, 
applied for and was granted a pension for her first husband's services. 
She was then a resident of Davidson, having previously lived in Wilson 
County, Tenn.  She had six children by her first marriage, and none by 
her marriage to MCMINN. Her youngest child was WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS JR., 
(b. 1798) who, in 1851, lived in Nashville. She died on June 27, 1857.





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