In 1850, Jesse Williams is living in Peru, Clinton County, NY. He is 46 years old and a bloomer, and was born in Vermont. With him are wife Amanda (42, b. VT) and Maria (18, b. VT), Jesse Jr. (16, b. NY), Amanda (13, b. NY), Milo (8, b. VT), Charles (4, b. VT) and Janet (1, b. NY). Amanda and Milo attended school that year.

(Possible interest: a Joseph Johnson, age 28, also a bloomer, lived at the next house, with wife Eliza and son Willard. Probably no connection.)

In 1880, Jesse and Amanda were living with son Milo Williams in Jay, NY. Both listed as a disability “old age.”24