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Many thank to the contributors this week! I’m sorry this letter is
a couple
days late. We have been out of town for Spring Break visiting family
in Las
Vegas and St. George. I glad (from the e-mail) some of you missed
it!. Lori Contents: 1. Members Lines: David Watts of South Carolina 2. Queries 3. The Ordinaries of 1755 in Northern Virginia 4. The Ordinary of Thomas Watts 5. Notes on Thomas Watts of Fauquier County, Virginia 6. U.S. Surname Distribution Web Site 7. Chief John Watts Jr. ******************************************** Members Lines From: RWatts9090@aol.com This is three generations of my Watts family. My great-grandfather was David, my grandfather was Samuel, and my father was Barney Benjamin. Descendants of David Watts 1 David Watts b: 1825 in Kershaw County, SC .. +Sinthey Rebecca Walton b: October 18, 1832 in Kershaw County, SC d: October 12, 1903 in Lexington County, SC (?) ......... 2 John Watts ......... 2 Adam Watts b: Abt. 1847 ............. +E.(?) Watts .................... 3 Willie H. Watts b: September 08, 1871 d: May 20, 1893 ......... 2 Amanda E. Watts b: March 1849 in Kershaw County, SC d: July 21, 1928 in Lexington County, SC (?) ............. +James J. Howell b: March 15, 1849 in Fairfield County, SC d: March 13, 1935 in Lexington County, SC .................... 3 Ola Howell .................... 3 Eula Howell .................... 3 Cora Howell .................... 3 Frances A. Howell b: January 16, 1876 d: March 30, 1953 .................... 3 [1] James T. Howell b: August 25, 1881 in Fairfield County, SC d: July 16, 1934 in Lexington County, SC ........................ +Pie .................... *2nd Wife of [1] James T. Howell: ........................ +Barbara Rish b: November 20, 1892 m: January 02, 1907 d: July 24, 1920 ............................... 4 [3] Adelle Bertha Howell b: November 10, 1909 in Lexington County, SC d: April 10, 1974 in Richland County, SC ................................... +[2] Barnie [Barney] Benjamin Watts b: June 01, 1909 in Lexington County, SC m: December 22, 1928 d: February 12, 1987 in Lexington County, SC Father: Samuel M. Watts Mother: Maggie B. Lucas ......... 2 Nancy Watts b: Abt. 1850 ......... 2 Joanna Watts b: Abt. 1855 ......... 2 Hilliard (Lewis) W. Watts b: May 16, 1857 d: November 09, 1926 ............. +Mary C. Watts b: July 07, 1865 d: July 06, 1924 .................... 3 Isaiah Watts ......... 2 Elizabeth Watts b: Abt. 1858 ......... 2 Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Watts b: September 16, 1860 d: April 10, 1931 ............. +Jency Alice Lucas b: June 14, 1867 d: July 04, 1931 ......... 2 Mary Watts b: July 07, 1865 in Kershaw County, SC d: July 16, 1924 in Lexington, SC ......... 2 Samuel M. Watts b: December 24, 1874 in Kershaw County (?) d: January 14, 1943 in In Richland County, SC ............. +Maggie Bell Lucas b: February 20, 1877 d: December 02, 1963 .................... 3 Gary Watts ........................ +Gladys Toole .................... 3 Leroy "Lee" Watts b: November 15, 1896 in Lexington Cty., SC d: September 20, 1954 ........................ +Zinnie B. Jumper b: December 28, 1898 d: February 07, 1941 .................... 3 Daniel C. "Dan" Watts b: September 09, 1898 in Lexington Cty., SC d: January 28, 1921 .................... 3 John H. Watts b: June 07, 1900 in Lexington Cty., SC d: February 18, 1933 ........................ +Thelma Mae Watts b: September 05, 1902 d: May 1994 .................... 3 Perry D. Watts b: December 12, 1902 in Lexington Cty., SC d: April 12, 1962 in Baptist Hospital ........................ +Ollie Furtick b: September 11, 1900 d: August 24, 1982 .................... 3 Louis D. Watts b: March 24, 1905 in Lexington Cty., SC d: March 03, 1979 ........................ +Maggie P. Furtick b: August 28, 1908 d: September 07, 1990 .................... 3 Bessie Watts b: January 22, 1907 d: May 03, 1985 ........................ +Lonnie B. "Lone" Dowd, Sr. b: July 07, 1897 d: January 24, 1966 .................... 3 [2] Barnie [Barney] Benjamin Watts b: June 01, 1909 in Lexington County, SC d: February 12, 1987 in Lexington County, SC ........................ +[3] Adelle Bertha Howell b: November 10, 1909 in Lexington County, SC m: December 22, 1928 d: April 10, 1974 in Richland County, SC Father: James T. Howell Mother: Barbara Rish .................... 3 Lessie Watts b: June 06, 1911 in Lexington Cty., SC d: March 14, 1930 ........................ +Lever Sturkie .................... 3 Samuel M. Watts, Jr. b: August 22, 1913 in Lexington Cty., SC d: February 02, 1981 ........................ +Lila Mae Reynolds b: October 21, 1921 .................... 3 Homer T. Watts b: October 12, 1917 in Lexington Cty., SC d: August 06, 1986 ........................ +Hortense Mullette b: March 01, 1923 .................... 3 Mary L. Watts b: May 11, 1920 in Lexington Cty., SC d: September 02, 1971 ........................ +Joseph L. "Joe" Perry b: December 29, 1915 d: November 29, 1970 ......... 2 Alfred Watts b: October 1877 in Lexington Cty.,S.C. d: December 22, 1942 in Lexington Cty., SC ............. +Hattie E. Watts b: September 1878 .................... 3 Ranson L. Watts b: September 1898 ......... 2 Thomas B. "Tom" Watts b: April 23, 1889 d: May 30, 1953 From: ccation@earthlink.net - Charles Cation My Watt's connection is as follows: My G.G. Grandmother was Margaret Watt From Lothian, Scotland--born 20 Oct. 1806. Her father was James Watt--born 30 Nov. 1762. His father was John Watt--born 29 June 1729. All my people were born and died in Scotland. If there are any Scots among the group, I would like to hear from them. Charles Niven Cation Covina, CA From: Pinstride@aol.com - John Watts Jamison I am descended from Reuben Watts, through Molly (Mary) Watts and her husband John D. Kelly. My mother's parents were Reuben Watts Kelly (b. 1843) and Mary Leggett. I have a good bit of data on that line. I am very interested in exchanging information with you and others searching the Watts family. Thanks, John Watts Jamison ******************************************** Queries none this issue ******************************************** The Ordinaries of 1755 in Northern Virginia Dalrymple records, either as landmarks or as stages on his several routes from tidewater to Winchester, a number of ordinaries, for so he had found the Virginia taverns to be called in the old English sense of the word we now translate table d’ hote. The practice of the county courts to license all ordinary keepers has preserved evidence that there were, indeed, many more such facilities for the traveller in the old Prince William than Dalrymple mentions; but he manages nevertheless to advertise several of the wayside inns on the which subsequent travellers found occasion to animadvert. The present study is therefore, limited to the identification of Dalrymple’s names and locations. … Although the inns are sometimes bad, he says yet upon the whole they are better than in the other States. Those in the back country where I have travelled are preferable to the inns in many of the most inhabited parts of New England. …Again, his description of one of the most frequented ordinaries in tidewater Virginia is borne out by the buildings which still stand in Fairfax, Loudoun and Fauquier to testify to the departed hospitalities of some of the hosts we are to name. It was a ‘little house’ absolutely isolated in the midst of the woods…for lodging there is one large room for all the company. A pallet brought in and laid on the floor for each guest suffices for these country folk. …the accommodations, such as they were, usually clean. It is not always the custom to hang shields before taverns, but they are easily identified by the great number of miscellaneous papers and advertisements with which walls and doors of these public houses are plastered; generally, the more of such bills are to be seen on a house, the better it will be found to be. In this way the traveller is afforded a many sided entertainment and can inform himself as to where the taxes are heavy, where wives have run away, horses have been stolen, or the new Doctor settled…Along the chief roads the ordinaries are commodious enough where there are not too many guests, but coffee, ham and eggs are commonly the sole entertainment. Ham is the great delicacy to the Virginians. A Mrs. Wakefield reports the following: "We scarcely pass ten or twenty miles without seeing an ordinary, as they call inns in this country. They all resemble one another, having a porch in front, the length of the house almost covered with had bills; they have no sign but take their name from the person that keeps the house, who is often a man of consequence; for the profession of an inn keeper is far more respected in America than in England. Instead of supplying their guest as soon as they arrive, they make everybody conform to one hour for the different meals. There are always several beds in every room and strangers are obliged to sleep together. The sheets are mostly brown and seldom changed." The Ordinary of Thomas Watts Twelve miles above Nevill’s and still on the Fredericksburg-Winchester road, Dalrymple showed, ‘Watts Ordinary’. Fry and Jefferson had not followed Warner’s northern Neck map of 1737 by laying down the main stream of Goose Creak flowing east from Calmes (Manassas) gap so Dalrymple had no water course by which to identify his location of this ordinary. The road distance proves, however, as usual, the substantial accuracy of this survey and topography. Twelve miles by the Winchester road north of "Rockingham’ in the ‘thoroughfare of the Rappahannock mountain’ the traveler comes to the goose Creak ford below the mouth of Crooked Run, where the village of Delaplane had arisen. Not only has this ford been always a strategic point in all road building plans for the territory now known as upper Fauquier, but as a natural consequence of that local importance it has been the site of a tavern from the earliest settlement of the country. A surviving Prince William court order book (1752-1753) shows that on June 26, 1753, Thomas Watts had license to ‘to keep an ordinary at his house the ensuing year’. This was undoubtedly Dalrymple’s "Watts’ Ordinary’ for, although the earliest Fauquier records do not show any renewal of this license to Thomas Watts or any other of the name in 1759 or thereafter, they afford evidence of the location of the house which had been so licensed prior to the organization of that county. In 1760 the Fauquier court appointed John Wood surveyor of the road ‘from Watts’ to the head of Goose Creek’ and again ‘from Thomas Watts’ to Top of the Ridge on the Manassas Road; which are convincing descriptions of the Cool Spring road which leads up to Goose Creek to its source in Manassas gap, and in doing so still crosses the Winchester road immediately south of Delaplane. Although Thomas Jefferson’s map of 1787 also showed ‘Watts’ Oy.’ In a situation which was badly out of drawing by reason of the distortion of the entire territory of old Prince William on that map, it does not appear that any Watts kept ordinary on Goose Creek after Dalrymple’s days. That family had been superseded in such a function by the Ashby’s, whose house, ‘Yew Hill’ at the crossing of the Winchester and Cool Spring road, long has been, and still is, a local landmark. It is the old building which Porte Crayon depicted in a book which delighted the generation before the war between the states, calling it "Miss Katy Shacklett’s quaint old fashioned cottage. By this name the house is laid down on the confederate map of 1863 as well as on Garden’s Fauquier map of 1876. Footnotes: The Fauquier Watts: In 1744 Capt. John Watts of Westmoreland had a land grant on Hunger Run (N.N., F; 193, 194) and in 1749 employed George Washington to Survey it for him (See Washington’s book of Surveys, 1747-1750, printed in Dr. Toner’s edition of the journal of 1748). While several proven kinsmen of this John Watts can be traced up the Potomac into eastern Fairfax, it has not been possible to relate him or them to the Thomas Watts of the text. The only genealogical proof for the latter is that he was the son of Francis Watts who was a voter in Prince William in 1741 (Boogher, Gleanings, p. 116), but removed, before 1750, to South Carolina, where in that year he made a will (Fauquier W. B., I;159) devising his property in Virginia (i.e., the ordinary on Goose Creek) to his son Thomas. Landmarks of Old Prince William: A study of origins in Northern Virginia in Two Volumes, by Fairfax Harrison, pa. 485-516. Contributed by Dale Molina - Dale 9to4@aol.com (Dale sent me the whole article and I took the liberty of editing it for the newsletter.) ******************************************** Notes on Thomas Watts of Fauquier County, Virginia Taken from "Watts Families Descended from Early Immigrants Who Settled in the Tidewater Counties of Virginia" by Charles B. Henieman, pa. 148-149. "Thomas Watts,…married Lydia Thornton. The compiler believed her name was Lydia Thornton, because Thomas Watts sued the executors of Francis Thornton’s estate 25 Oct 1768. Then, as the administrator of his father’s estate September 25, 1754 and gave surety. Evidently he was then of age. He was the only child of Francis Watts named in his will. Whether there were others is unknown, for absence of the names is not any sense proof. He was appointed surveyor of the road in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1761, and was licensed to run an ordinary near where Delaplane, Virginia now is located." "June 26, 1769, his widow, Lydia, obtained letters of administration on his estate (D.B. P. 101) In 1753, Thomas Watts was running an ordinary 12 miles north of where Delaplane now stands. It was kept by Thomas Watts who was granted a license by the Prince William court in 1753 for one year, no other record of license by Fauquier County but the house remained a local landmark." From the distribution of the slaves under the administration of his father’s estate, we find reference to the following children: Francis, John, Thomas, Margaret, Bennett, mason, Mary, and Sarah. Mary Watts orphan of Thomas Watts, deceased, chose Bennett Watts as her guardian.(M.B. 1781-1784 pa. 83) It is believed that Thomas is the son of Francis Watts who was of Welsh and English Stock and was in Prince William County when he leased land on 22 May 1749.(D.B. 1749, pa. 195) He later moved to Fauquier County, Virginia. We know he was granted 500 acres of land in Augusta County on Hawksbill Stream. Record of this is in Prince William D. B. pa. 197, recording the grant dated December 19, 1749. (Land office Book G. pa. 334) In Prince William County Virginia, may 6, 1765, a suit was filed again Thomas Watts, son and heir of Francis Watts. This related to the 500 acres tract of land formerly in Augusta County, but which later fell into Frederick County, Virginia. It was a suit to clear title to the land which Francis Watts had sold to Thomas Machen, but he had failed to execute the deed before his death. The suit was settled when Thomas Watts executed the deed to the buyer. (D.B. 2, pa. 221) There is a copy of Francis Watts’ will in Fauquier County Virginia Records, Will Book 1,pa. 159 and in Charles Heineman’s book, pa. 105-106. It is believed Francis married a woman named Ann and the only known child is Thomas. ******************************************** U.S. Surname Distribution Web Site http://www.hamrick.com/names/ This is a great Web Site. You can enter the Surname you are researching, such as Watts, and it will show you the distribution of that name in the various states. When I entered the name of "Dike" is was obvious that in 1850, most all Dikes were in Vermont. Now I know where to look first in tracing that line out of New York! Lori Enter a surname (last name) into the form and you'll get a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. The source of this data is the 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1920 Census, and 1990's phone books. Note that the Census data is a sampling of 1 in 100 names, so the 1990 data is the most accurate. Contributed by Seauall@aol.com (Not a Watts researcher) ******************************************** Chief John Watts Jr. The following was forwarded to me by Tom and Mary and I am printing it for the benefit of all those of this line. I may not have all of this in order, so forgive me if I botch it up. Lori Dear Mary, Lori I got some info on Attakullakulla and his siblings. I got this from http://www.gendex.com/users/pthree/d2.htm#P33787 Attakullakulla was born between 1700 and 1710 in Sevier's Island, Tennessee. He died in 1780-1 in Tennessee. Sevier's Island was also referred to as Big Island of the French Broad River. From Cuma Schofield's book "My Mother's Brown Family"- Attakullakulla was originally Miskwakihha Indian, one of the divisions of the Algonquin Nipising Indians. He had been captured as an infant and then adopted into the Cherokee Tribe. This account was given by Turtle At Home, his son in 1809 to Maj. John Norton. This may account for his different stature. Attakullakulla means Wood Leaning or Stick Slightly Bent. The Little Carpenter name came with his ability to craft treaties with all the various European and Indian Nations. His children given were Dragging Canoe, Turtle At Home, The Badger, and Little Owl. His father is listed as Moytoy, the Cherokee principal chief from 1730 to 1760. This was his adoptive father I suppose, and then Attakullakulla went on to become another principal Chief. There is a nice story about Dragging Canoe. It was Dragging Canoe and half breed John Watts Jr. his brother who are mentioned in John Ehle's book Trail of Tears- The rise and fall of the Cherokee Nation. John Jr. was indeed a Chief and the book even mentions who he raided and who he fought against. One of John's brothers, possibly our Thomas Watts, was quoted that he met with George Gist to examine his symbols of speech and asked if the proper speeches that Chief John Watts Jr. could be written down because there were so many misquotes. John Jr. was against the treaty of 1835 and went on the warpath. This may explain why we still do not know of Thomas' birthplace. It was probably the Old Cherokee Nation in Tennessee, then a territory of North Carolina and listed as such. He relocated to Anson, or Anson came into being around him where he always lived from the start. Children of Dragging Canoe: Naky Canoe, Young Dragging Canoe, Little Owl, Turtle At Home. Dragging Canoe died March 1st 1792 at Lookout Town. He was six feet tall, broad and muscular and his face pitted with scars from smallpox at the age of 8 which decimated the Cherokee children as well as other Indian nations in 1738. Motoy is shown to have been born about 1690 and died in 1770. Data lists Moytoy's wife as sister of Old Hop (Connecot) and does not list Na-Nih as a daughter. His children were: Attakullakulla, Tame Doe b. 1712, Killaque, Oconostotoa, Willenawah, Skalilosken, Ounaconoa, Kollannah, Oukah, Tatitowe, Clogoittah. Sources at the web page are listed and to get a thorough understanding of what was happening at the time, read Ehle's book and Starr's book I have sent for through inner library loan as I find it hard to get Starr's as it is out of print. It is shown where all these famous chiefs descend from Moytoy and shows how (our Thomas) and John Jr, were related to Sequoyah (George Gist) John Jolly, Major Ridge, and many others. The books also tell who sold out to bribes and who was killed as a result even after the move to Oklahoma. This reading is a must after you discover who is behind the Indian names of John Watts, the trader's children with Kai Yan Tahee and the rest of Attakullakulla's children and his siblings. It seems that Moytoys family including his wife, the sister of Old Hop created quite a few notable people. I'll try to cc the rest of our Watts tribe, but if I am unsuccessful, please forward this to Lori, our Watts family, and follow up on this website. I do not know how long I will be able to use my email, (virus related I'm sure from downloading) so reply back if this info is new or helps. I'll send you copies by snail express if you can't find the site. Later, Tom Durham Keywood Nan 406 wrote: Hello Dan, Thank you for your note about the Gulledge family on your "roots" listing. I looked through them, & we pretty much have the same thing on the > 1--2 generations I have in my file---you have a great #----------most of mine came from Virgil W. Huntley's book on "Thomas Huntley, Sr. of Anson Co., NC"---------he also sent me some extracted info on the Lewellen/Watts > connection from the lost ledgers of John Huntley, as they were located after he published. Lavina "Vinny" Huntley m. Thomas Watts, & one of their children, Mary, m. Isaac Lewellen, & their son Thomas L. Lewellen is my g. grandparent. My > interest in Lavina's sister, Zilpha, is Z.'s mother-in- law, Barsheba Watts, [wife of William Gulledge]---------have tried many different allied lines of people I've contacted on the net, but it seems no one knows Barsheba's > parentage, & what if any is her connection to Lavina's husband, Thomas Watts. Your info about her b. being in Bedford Co., Va. is more than I've learned from anyone else. Thanks! In a bio. of Thomas L. Lewellen, in abt. 1892, great effort seemed to have been made to indicate what his father, Isaac's politics were back in > Anson Co, & to state that his mother, Mary Watts Lewellen's father, Thms. Watts, was an Englishman. Several of us who descend from Thomas & Lavina > Watts, feel Thomas was 1/2 Cherokee, & the son of Trader John Watts & his Cherokee wife---from Anson Co., & Va. If you have any knowledge of this theory, please let me know. From the web page, it looks as though you have not pursued any Watts info on Barsheba--------do you know of anyone who has? Sincerely, Mary L. Wallace Hi Sheila, Found something else on Moytoy. Look this up for descendents through Tame Doe/deer, sister of Attakullakulla. There are a lot of Indian names you may have run across. The web page is http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5205/indexcherokee4.html This version adds a generation (unknown daughter of Moytoy), but the rest has alot I've never seen before. Later, Tom Contributed by keywood@olypen.com (TD Keywood) and Nan406@aol.com ******************************************** Watts's On-Line: Compiled from e-mail and other sources Distributed by Lori Watts Linnell lwlinnell@aol.com
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