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| | Henry Williams |
 | | Henry Williams, of Revolutionary fame was the son of John and Mary Williams, who emigrated from Chester County, Pa., to Frederick County about the year 1753, and settled in the valley of Flat Run on land which, in 1812, he would formally name Fort Henry. |
 | | William Patterson, one of Capt. Williams' earliest and warmest friends, used to relate that Henry’s first wife often repaired to an old graveyard in Pennsylvania to visit the graves of her parents and strew flowers over them. |
 | | Williams frequently filled the position of a member of the Levy Court and county magistrate, and at the time of his death, in 1821, was a justice of the peace. |
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