John Williams (b.1714)
of Scorrier
1714 John Williams was born
c.1740 He conceived the Great County Adit
By 1748 Manager of the Poldice Mine.
1791 With Robert Were Fox set up the Perran Foundry to supply machinery to the Gwennap copper mines. Other shareholders were the Price and Tregelles families of Falmouth and Penryn.