Willoughby Williams was an American war veteran and politician from North Carolina.Zella Armstrong, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution: Compiled from Pension Statements, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2009, p. 117 William Stevens Powell (ed.), Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press, 1986, p. 304
Early life Williams was born in the 18th century.
Career Williams enlisted in 1776 and fought in the American Revolutionary War as a regimental commissionary officer. He served in the Battle of Cowpens of January 17, 1781. In 1790, he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Personal life On January 1, 1786, Williams married Nancy Glasgow (1771-1857), daughter of James Glasgow (1735-1819) who served as North Carolina Secretary of State from 1777 to 1798.Lineage Book, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1936, p. 269 They had six children. Their son Willoughby Williams Jr. (1798-1882) went on to live in Woodlawn, a National Register of Historic Places-listed mansion in Nashville.
Williams lived in Dobbs County, North Carolina.
Death Williams died on June 6, 1802, in Rutledge, Tennessee, on his way to Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1806, his widow married Joseph McMinn, who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821.
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