A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for William Henry Tams
"Gleanings of Virginia History, An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources", by William Fletcher Boogher (Washington, DC, 1903), p. 344:
William Tams, born March 13, 1794, was a native of Buralen, England; immigrated to America in 1820; settled in North Carolina, where he married, in 1824, Mary Brownlow Purviance, of Fayetteville, a granddaughter of Col. Wm. Purviance, of Huguenot descent, who settled in North Carolina in 1763; was appointed colonel of militia for New Hanover county 1775-6, page 365, "Revolutionary History of the State, by J. S. Jones." His only living child, William Henry Tams, born 1824, at Fayetteville, North Carolina, was a Master of Arts of Princeton College before he reached his nineteenth year; and, after graduating in law at the University of Virginia, settled in Rockingham county, Va., where he married Marie Antoinette, daughter of the distinguished jurist Judge Daniel Smith.
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