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There is scant documentation of Lucy Barnes' ancestry. She was born in Litchfield Co., Connecticut and married Solomon Williams, also of Litchfield County. Their marriage is recorded as taking place on September 27, 1789 in New Hartford, Litchfield Co., CT

Lucy and Solomon had three known children indicating that Solomon might have died at a young age as it was normal for pioneering families to have many children and by pioneering standards, bearing three children is just getting started.

Their known children were:

1 - Amos Williams b.1789/90 CT m. Eunice (maiden name unk) moved to Hancock, NY; d. 1847
2 - Mary E. Williams b.1793 CT m. Isaac C. Sutliff (Isaac is shown in 1830 census in Bethel, NY, then moved to Windsor, NY before 1850) d. between 1865 and 1869 .
3 - Elizabeth "Betsey" Williams b.1797 CT married Sherman Neal (in the 1830 census, Sherman Neal is shown residing in Bethel, NY where Isaac C. Sutliff also resides. In the 1840 census Sherman Neal is shown residing in Damascus, Wayne Co., PA about 15 miles south of Hancock, NY). Elizabeth's birthdate is calculated by her listed age in the 1860 census (which tend to be notoriously off and very misleading).

It appears that after Lucy's daughters, Mary and "Betsey" married they moved with their husbands and children to the deep woods of the very untamed and unpopulated area of Bethel, NY in Sullivan County, then later the sisters went their separate ways - Isaac and Mary choosing to move to the area where Mary's parents had settled in Windsor township, NY (later split off and became Colesville township) and Betsey and husband Sherman moving to Wayne County, PA. and settling in the township of Damascus.

A large number of Barnes families and Williams families moved from the Litchfield, CT area and settled in the township of Windsor, NY before 1820. In 1821, the township was split up with the creation of newly named Colesville township and from 1830 on, census records show the Barnes and Williams families as living mostly in Colesville along the border of West Windsor, NY.

Records are extremely hard to come by for both Lucy and her husband Solomon. Lucy is thought to have had a brother named Oliver who also lived in Colesville. Oliver was the son of James Barnes and Phebe Batchelder. Lucy was born about the same time that Oliver's father James Barnes died (listed as "lost at sea" between 1759-1760) and records of that family stop abruptly with his death, possibly explaining the lack of records of Lucy. Nothing is known of James' wife Phebe after his death and it's possible she was pregnant with Lucy at the time and almost certainly remarried.

Solomon is believed by some to have been the son of Bartholomew Williams and Sybil Thompson, but documentation does not exist (thus far) and shares a similar story with Lucy's parents. Bartholomew Williams and Sybil Thompson had several children before Bartholomew's untimely death in 1759. Bartholomew was killed in battle during the French and Indian Wars. Solomon would have been a newborn at the time or his mother Sybil was pregnant when her husband was killed. Again, like in Lucy's case, Sybil and her youngest children fall off all records and end abruptly after the husband's death - Sybil probably remarried.

Bartholomew and Sybil's children were:

1 - Elizabeth Williams b. 1750 m. James Pendleton
2 - Israel Williams b. 1752 m. Hannah Parker (daughter of Eliada Parker and Sarah Curtiss) (moved to Windsor)
3 - Obadiah "Obed" Williams b. 1754 m. Prudence Doolittle (stayed in Litchfield, CT and lived near Colebrook)
4 - Bartholomew Williams Jr. b. 1755 m. Mary Goodwin (moved to Windsor)
5 - Rebecca Williams b. 1756 m. Thomas Murphy (unknown)
6-?[Solomon Williams b. 1758/59 m. Lucy Barnes (moved to Windsor)]

There are a couple of open spaces besides Lucy's headstone and it is believed to be the area in which her husband Solomon is likely interred without a headstone or the headstone has gone missing.