• Her [Hannah Allen] husband may have been the son of Paul Williams who also came as early as 1811.3233, p 872

• On 25 Feb 1826, Barnabas Williams was named as principal in a surety bond as Administrator of the estate of Dennison M. Williams, deceased. On 15 May 1826, Richard Chapman was named as principal on the estate of Dennison Williams, presumably to replace Barnabas as the result of his death.1538, p 116
Source: File #112, Portage County Probate Court, obtained August 1991.

• Obituary notice given in Western Courier: “22 Apr 1826 WILLIAMS, Barnabas -- Tallmadge, 34y”3310, p 2

• Will probated, 1826, file #119, Miner Spicer?, administrator.1538, p 182

• 1800 Groton, New London, Connecticut. 20011/20010.3236
• 1810 Groton, New London, Connecticut. 11101/31101.3237
• 1820 Census: Portage, Portage County, Ohio. 100010/1001. On same page with his father, Paul Williams, and Miner Spicer.3053, p 555,3161

• He learned the carpenter's trade of his brother, John. He was contractor and builder in Groton until 1810, when he and his cousin, Amos Spicer, went on horseback to Ohio and purchased a tract of three hundred acres of land on the Western Reserve in Portage County, now Summit County. They then returned home. In the early spring of 1811 he, Capt. Youngs Morgan, and others, started West with their families in ox teams. They lived in their wagons; cooked by the roadside, adding to their provisions by picking berries and killing game. After six months of hard travel they reached their destination. He build a log cabin, in which they lived eight years, in a wilderness among the Indians and wild beasts, enduring the hardships of pioneer life.2600, p 94

• Born in Groton, Conn., May 29, 1776; married to Miss Cynthia Allen, of Groton, in 1798; and in 1810 came, on horseback, to Ohio and bought 260 acres of land in the southeastern part of Portage township; in June, 1811, with his family, accompanied by his cousin, Capt. Amos Spicer, and Mr. Paul Williams, again started, by ox team, to Ohio, arriving at their destination in September, being the first actual settlers in Portage township; built small log cabin about 40 rods southeast of the present corner of Spicer and Carroll streets. On organization of township Mr. Spicer was made a trustee, and also for many years was justice of the peace. In the war of 1812, served as Major of Militia, and through life was active and energetic in all business matters, both public and private.3085, p 32

• The white man who first settled permanently within this township came from Groton, New London Co., Conn., Maj. Minor Spicer, in the summer of 1810. He purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, whose headquarters were at Hartford, Conn., and who originally bought the entire territory of the Western Reserve from the State of Connecticut.
Leaving Groton again in June, of 1811, with the sturdy conveyance of an ox team and wagon, and this time accompanied by his family, his brother Amos and Paul Williams, he once more reached the spot that was for more than twoscore years to be his home.3165, p 323

• The youngest son, Miner5, went to Akron, Ohio, in the company of Youngs Morgan.1924, p 197

• The first settler in the Akron territory outside Middlebury was Major Miner Spicer, who laid out a 260-acre farm in what was later “Spicertown,” in 1810, and settled there the following year, after a four-month trip from Groton, Conn., by ox team. With him were his wife, his brother Amos and his cousin, Paul Williams. This same cousin, Paul Williams, was to be the first settler in the original town-site of Akron. But this was not until the next decade.3232, pp 14-15

• Miner Spicer, early settler in Portage Township, was born in Groton, Conn., May 29, 1776. In the summer of 1811 he came to the Western Reserve and selected a homesite in the southeastern part of Portage Township. After making a clearing, he returned East and purchased the tract, containing 260 acres, from Joseph Perkins, paying $2.50 an acre. The purchase was made on February 6, 1812.
In the following June, he again started for Ohio, this time with his family. He was accompanied by his cousin, Amos Spicer, and Paul Williams who had purchased a 109-acre tract immediately west of his land. The party, traveling by ox cart, did not arrive in Portage Township until September.3053, p 651

• Early in the year of 1810, Major Minor Spicer left his home in Groton, Conn., and came on horseback to Ohio. He purchased 260 acres of land in the eastern part of Portage township, then returned for his family, consisting of his wife Cynthia Allen Spicer and the children, Lucinda, Cynthia, Rhoda, Temperance, Emily and Lydia, an infant. The oldest of these six daughters was only ten years of age. The trip to the Western Reserve was made with oxen and a covered wagon. The party reached here September, 1811.
The year following his wife’s death, Major Spicer married her sister, Hannah Allen, widow of Barnabus Williams. Her husband may have been the son of Paul Williams who also came as early as 1811.3233, p 872

• 1816 Tax List, Portage County, Ohio.1538, p 65

• Among the earliest, if not the earliest, justices of the peace in Portage township, was its earliest settlers, Major Miner Spicer. Though perhaps not very well up in legal learning, the Major was possessed of good strong common sense, and his decisions were very seldom reversed by the higher courts.3085, p 295

• 1810 -- Miner Spicer and Paul Williams travel from Groton, Conn., and buy 300 acres in Portage Township, which will become Akron. Both men will move their families to the area a year later. Miner Spicer will become one of the leading citizens of Akron. After he dies on Sept. 11, 1855, his body will be buried in Spicer Cemetery and then exhumed in 1871 and moved to Akron Rural Cemetery, also known as Glendale, so that construction can begin on Buchtel College.3229

• 1810 Census: Groton, New London; Connecticut: 01010/50010.3333
• 1820 Census: Portage, Portage County, Ohio. 11 in household. 200110/1322. On same page with Paul Williams & Barnabas Williams.3053, p 555,3161
• 1850 Census: Portage, Summit, Ohio. Age 74, farmer, born CT.3315