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The family origins of Zachariah Williamson, the progenitor of an immense line of Williamsons in Georgia, are presently unclear despite considerable research. Zachariah was born in 1752, possibly in North Carolina, and fought in the Revolutionary War. A Zachariah Williamson was listed among the wounded and captured soldiers in Col. Dixon's North Carolina Regiment during the battle of Camden, South Carolina in August of 1780, and British records identify him as Zachariah Will[iam]son who enlisted in Captain Whitson's Company on June 23, 1780. Two pay vouchers were issued to Zachary/Zacharias Williamson in 1783 in the Salisbury District of North Carolina for Revolutionary service. Zachariah married in the early 1780s, but the name of his wife is still unknown.
Zachariah Williamson first appeared in Georgia in the 1793 Greene County tax digest, and by 1794 Zachariah owned 100 acres of land in newly-created Hancock County. Zachariah lived in Hancock Co. until winning land in Baldwin County in the 1805 lottery, to which he relocated. This land became part of the newly-created Putnam County in 1807, and Zachariah remained there until shortly after 1822, when he and several of his children relocated to Bibb County on the western Georgia frontier. Shortly after registering his oath of Revolutionary service in anticipation of the 1827 Land Lottery, Zachariah Williamson died on November 14, 1826. His obituary in the newspapers recorded both his age and his service in the Revolutionary War.
Zachariah's elderly widow apparently moved in with her unmarried son Littleton, where she appeared in his household in both the 1830 and 1840 census records, the last of which noted her to be "insane or idiot at public charge" (presumably from senility). Neither Zachariah's grave in Bibb County or his widow's grave in Heard County has yet been located.
Children of Zachariah Williamson (possibly incomplete)
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