Otho Holland Williams
BIRTH
Mar 1, 1749
Prince George's County, Maryland
DEATH
July 15, 1794
Woodstock, Virginia
FAMILY
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Williams, Otho Holland
(1749-1794)
Otho Holland Williams was a Maryland officer in the Continental Army. Captured at Fort Washington, he returned to service and became an important commander in the Southern Campaign, fighting at Camden, Guilford Court House, Hobkirk's Hill, and Eutaw Springs before promotion to brigadier general in 1782.
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WIFE
Mary Williams
(c. 1761-1795)
Robert Williams
(1925-1996)
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DIED:
Woodstock, Virginia
Jul 15, 1794
Otho Holland Williams was born on Mar 1, 1749 in Prince George's County, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Otho Holland Williams with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Otho Holland Williams died on Jul 15, 1794 in Woodstock, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.