WILLIAMS, David, patriot, born in Tarrytown, New York, 21 October, 1754; died near Livingstonville, New York, 2 August, 1831. He enlisted in the Revolutionary army in 1775, served under General Richard Montgomery at St. John's and Quebec, and continued in the army till 1779. During his service his feet were badly frozen, and this partially disabled him for life. With John Paulding and Isaac Van Wart, he was one of the captors of Major John Andre on 23 September, 1780. (See PAULDING, JOHN.) Many of the details of the capture are related in Williams's deposition that lie made on the following day. Some time after the war he bought a farm near the Catskill mountains, that had been the property of Daniel Shays, leader of Shays's rebellion. Williams was very generous, and indorsed freely for his friends. The farm became heavily mortgaged, yet he succeeded in retaining it, and received also a pension of $200 a year from the government. The estate is now in the possession of his grandson, William C. Williams. Williams was given a silver medal by order of.congress, and also received in New York city a cane that was made from the cheval-defrise for obstructing the Hudson at West Point. In December, 1830, he visited New York by invitation of the mayor, who gave him a horse, harness, and carriage, and the pupils of one of the city schools presented him with a silver cup. A monument has been erected to his memory, by the state, at the stone fort near Schoharie court-house. The purity of the motives of Andre's captors has been called in question by some historians, but it has been vindicated by Horatio Seymour and Henry J. Raymond in addresses at Tarrytown in 1853, by Samuel J. Tilden and Chaunter M. Depew at the same place in 1880, and by Grenville Tremaine and Daniel Knower at Schoharie in 1876.