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CONTENTS
1.
Members Lines
2.
Watts DAR Records
3.
Gleanings from St. Mary’s County Maryland records
4.
Frederick Watts of Carlisle, Pennsylvania
5.
Watts Will abstracts of Madison County, Virginia
6.
Mr. Watts, lawyer in Orange County, New York
7.
Old Medical Terms
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MEMBERS LINES
From:
Grstmll@aol.com
Dear Lori,
Thank you for your Watts' on-line. Each issue
is scanned furiously by this distant family member.
My GGGrandfather
was Samuel Watts, born somewhere between 1820 and 1827, possibly in
Virginia. He was living on Long Island, NY at the time of
his marriage to Catherine E. Abrams on October 23, 1843.
In all the posts you have listed, I have yet
to see anything close to him for the southern states.
Does the Watts' on line have a digest form,
possibly I missed it and do you know of anyone researching the New England
branch of the family?
Thank you so much,
Linda
Linda, there is a New York Watts in
this issue.
Lori
From:
gss47a@horizon-isp.net (Gary)
Thank you adding me !
I can't wait for the next issue.
I will share all the information I have
regarding the Watts, but it isn't very much and I don't have many dates.
I have talked with relatives, done some research, and the result is what follows.
ggggrandparents:
Thomas Watts & Sally Jane (?)
Note: Sally Jane had a twin named Betsy.
Betsy married into the Harlow family
and was the grandmother of Lantie Sue Sallee (see Ivy Watts).
gggrandparents:
Willie Watts (b. abt 1860) & Mary Harlow
Children: Ivy
(1884-1946)(we called him "Great
Ivy" but maybe Iva) married
Lantie Sue Sallee (ggrandparents)
Strauder
Heze
Patrick
Marinda
Lantie Sue married a Trister (first
name unknown) after Willie's death and
had two more children:
Nell Trister
Ella Trister
ggrandparents:
Ivy Watts & Lantie Sue Sallee
Mercer Co., Harrodsburg, KY
Children: Raymond -
married Stella Maddox
Isaac - married Mamie Lee Downey
Robert - married Katherine Jacob
John Willie - married Francis (?)
Katherine -
married Rankin Sapp
Mary Francis - married J.B. Stopher
Hazel
Harvey - Peggy
H.T.
Nelva Louise - married Harold Smith
Lillian
De Baun - married Millard Hurst
Tarzan - Gilda Cinnamon ( I do have a
connection to this Cinnamon line if anyone should need info)
grandparents:
Mary Francis Watts & J.B. Stopher
Children:
Mary & J.B. had two children, both are still living.
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DAUGHTERS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION LINEAGE BOOKS
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 16
page 265
Mrs. Marie Austin Bloomhall.
DAR ID Number: 155840
Born in Hale, Iowa.
Wife of Clair W. Bloomhall.
Descendant of Peter Lamb, John Watts, Jacob Easterly and Thomas C.
Frederick, as follows:
1. Frank E. Austin (b. 1832) m. 1878 Ida Lamb (1860-1918).
2. Jacob Lamb (1825-63) m. 1853 Mary Easterly (1833-1904).
3. Philip Lamb (1784-1832) m. 2d 1820 Virginia Jane Gordon (d. 1844);
Samuel Easterly (1810-80) m. 1829 Hannah Watts (1810-1900).
4. Peter Lamb m. 1775 Catharine Kiplanger (1748-1822); Thomas Watts
(1775-1841) m. 1798 Catharine Frederick (1776-1848); Laurence Easterly
(1783-1841) m. 1806 Catharine Westheffer (1787-1873).
5. John Watts m. 1773 Hannah Watts; Jacob Easterly m. 1770 Elizabeth
Easterly; Thomas C. Frederick m. 1774 Ann Margaret Tibbens.
Peter Lamb (1747-1804) served as private in Capt. Nehemiah Stokeley's
company, 8th Pennsylvania regiment of foot. He was born in Pennsylvania;
died in Fairfield County, Ohio.
Also No. 115688.
John Watts served as private in Capt. Peter Stroder's company, Chester
County militia, and also in Capt. Le Brun De Bellecour's troop, Partizan
Legion, Pennsylvania Line. He was born, 1748, in Pennsylvania; died in
Cumberland County, Pa.
Also No. 84224.
[p.265] Jacob Easterly, from Northumberland County, Pa., served in Capt.
Mathew Wilson's company of rangers on the frontiers. He was born in
Moravia; died, 1791, in Pennsylvania.
Also No. 126535.
Thomas C. Frederick (1751-1808) served as private in Capt. Thomas
Koppenhoffer's company, Col. Timothy Green's Hanover rifle battalion, and
also as a ranger on the frontiers, 1778-83, of Northumberland County, Pa.,
under Captains Obermier and Watson. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa.;
died in Columbiana County, Ohio.
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The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 16
page 283
[p.283] Mrs. Myrtle Allen Willis.
DAR ID Number: 155903
Born in Hull, Ill.
Wife of James A. Willis.
Descendant of Lieut. William Ray, as follows:
1. Edmund Littleberry Allen (1836-1907) m. 1866 Mildred Ann Ray (b. 1843).
2. John Watts Ray (1813-87) m. Emily Allen (d. 1884).
3. Robert Ray (1789-1838) m. 1812 Mildred Watts (1796-1877).
4. William Ray m. Phoebe Anna Brown (1736-1825).
William Ray (1740-1840) received a pension for service as private and
lieutenant in the Pennsylvania troops under Col. Anthony Wayne. He was
born in Ireland; died in Vigo County, Ind.
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 21
page 318
Mrs. Mary Moncure Paynter Parker.
DAR ID Number: 20900
Born in Booneville, Missouri.
Wife of William Reynolds Parker.
Descendant of Dr. Valentine Peyton, of Virginia; Rev. James Caldwell, of
New Jersey.
Daughter of Henry Martyn Paynter and Alice Gascoigne Moncure, his wife.
Granddaughter of Rev. Joseph Paynter and Hannah Vredenburgh, his wife;
Judge Richard C. L. Moncure and Mary Butler Washington Conway, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of John Moncure Conway and Catherine Storke Peyton
(1786-1865), his wife (m. 1802); Rev. John Vredenburgh and Sarah Caldwell,
his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Valentine Peyton and Mary Butler Washington
(1760-1822), his wife, m. 1780; James Caldwell and Hannah Ogden, his wife.
Valentine Peyton served as surgeon and captain in the Continental Line. He
was born 1756 in Stafford county.
Also Nos. 2225, 4078, 9328, 10211.
[p.318] James Caldwell, (1734-81), served as chaplain of militia and in
1780 in the successful defense of Springfield, when gun wadding gave out,
he supplied hymn books saying, “Now give them Watts,
boys.” He was shot by a sentry and his wife was shot while in her room.
In 1846 a monument was erected to their memory at Elizabethtown.
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 22
page 163
Mrs. Margaret Wiley Morris.
DAR ID Number: 21444
Born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wife of Edward John Morris.
Descendant of William Harvie and of George Menife.
Daughter of Jesse Priestley Dean and Steven Theresa Menife, his wife.
Granddaughter of willis Menife, (d. 1855) and Jeanette Leonora Watts,
his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of George Menife and Nancy Collier, his second wife;
Littlebury Watts and Margaret Harvie, his
wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of William Harvie and Judith Cosby, his wife.
William Harvie was a private in the Virginia militia.
George Menife served with the Georgia troops and received a grant of land.
He died, 1840, in Talbot Co., Ga.
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 22
page 247
Miss Harriet Bushnell.
DAR ID Number: 21677
Born in Bath, New York.
Descendant of Lieut. David Arnold, of Massachusetts.
[p.247] Daughter of Watts Bushnell and
Harriet Wheeler, his wife.
Granddaughter of Harvey Bushnell and Emeline Arnold, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of William Arnold and Margaret Washburn, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of David Arnold and Phebe Pratt, his wife.
David Arnold, (1732-1810), served as lieutenant at the Lexington Alarm. He
was born and died in Braintree.
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 22
page 319
Mrs. Lena Chichester Comstock Weed.
DAR ID Number: 21874
Born in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Wife of Alfred S. Weed.
Descendant of Enoch Comstock and of Sergt. Justus Hoyt, of Connecticut.
Daughter of Charles Comstock and Mary P. Chichester, his wife.
Granddaughter of Watts Comstock and Nancy
Hoyt, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Enoch Comstock and Anna Weed, his wife; Justus Hoyt
and Elizabeth Fitch, his wife.
Enoch Comstock, (1749-1807), enlisted, 1775, under Capt. William Hubbell
and served, 1779, under Capt. Reuben Scofield and Col. John Mead. He was
born in Stamford; died in Canaan Parish, Conn.
Justus Hoyt, (1742-1823), served as sergeant, 1776, in Capt. Daniel
Benedict's company, Ninth Regiment of militia.
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 22
page 343
Mrs. Margarette Menefee Wiley.
DAR ID Number: 21941
Born in Talbot county, Georgia.
Widow of Joseph W. Wiley.
[p.343] Descendant of George Menefee and of William Harvie.
Daughter of Willis Menefee (d. 1855) and Jeannette Leonard Watts,
his wife.
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GLEANINGS
FROM ST. MARY’S COUNTY MARYLAND RECORDS
History
of St. Mary’s County, Maryland 1634-1990 by Regina Combs Hammett
Pa. 141
Daniel Watts, Pvt. Co. E, 2nd Nd. Cav. – listed as
serving with the Union army from St. Mary’s County
Pa. 118
George Watts, Pvt. – served in the war of 1812 in 4th
Regimental Cavalry District
Pa. 318
George Watts served on the board of trustees for the scholastic year
of 1900-1901 Bay District (Jarboesville)
This was a “colored school”
Pa. 300
Henry Watts was appointed on the Board of County School Commissioners
in 1883-1885
Pa. 501
Henry Watts was a member of the St. Mary’s County Levy Court in
1812, 1813, 1815, 1816, 1818, & 1819
Pa. 523
Henry Watts was a representative in the House of Delegates for St.
Mary’s County in 1816
Pa. 110
Thomas Watts, Robert Watts, Richard Watts and John Watts all served
under Capt. William Bean in the 12th Regiment for St. Mary’s
County in the War of 1812. They
were stationed at Point No Point, Cherry Fields, Piney Point, Clifton
Factory, different points in St. Mary’s and Charles County.
Pa. 113
John Watts served under Capt. James Jarboe in the 12th
Regiment for St. Mary’s County. He
was stationed at Cedar point, Clifton
Factory, from Herring Creek to St. Inigoes, at St. Inigoes, in St.
Georges, at Thomas L. Walls in St. Mary’s Co.
Pa. 113
Joshua Watts served under Capt. Enoch J. Millard in the 12th
Regiment for St. Mary’s County. He
was stationed at Clifton Factory, at St. Inigoes, Bayside and Mattaponi,
at Thomas L. Hall’s, in the Ridge, Piney Point, St. Georges at different
points in St. Mary’s and Charles County, at the Glebe of St. Andrews
Parish.
Pa. 69
Peter Watts served in a government position in the Lower House in
1704-1707. William
Watts served in the same position from 1701-1704, 1704-1707,
1712-1714, 1722-1724.
Pa. 493
Richard Watts was appointed commissioner in 1799 to divide, determine
boundaries and number the districts of each county in Maryland.
Pa.
96
Richard Watts, Jr. is listed as a known
St. Mary’s Emigrant, in 1790 and 1800.
He was a mill owner in 1812 in St. George district in Baltimore
County.
Pa. 63
Robert Watts served as sheriff of St. Mary’s county in 1768 and
1769.
Pa. 72
“St. Mary’s County’s meeting of gentlemen, freeholders, and others
was held at the Leonardtown Courthouse on December 23, 1774.
Jeremiah Jordan was chosen chairman of the group, and Timothy bowes
served as clerk. After
voicing unanimous approval of the resolves of the provincial convention,
the group established three committees for St. Mary’s County – a
General Committee, a Committee of Correspondence and a Provincial
Committee. Robert Watts and William
Watts were named to the original General Committee.
Pa.
83
Robert Watts was one who administered the Oath of Allegiance in St.
Mary’s County in February and March 1778.
Pa. 499
Robert Watts served as Justice of the Peace in 1779, 1782, and 1784.
Pa. 88
Sara Watts filed a claim for property destroyed by the British in
1781. She valued her property
loss at 100 British pounds.
Pa. 505
Thomas B. Watts was elected County Commissioner of St. Mary’s County
in 1889
Pa. 58
William Watts served as County Justice in 1720 and 1723.
Pa. 339
William Watts was appointed to
the Board of Trustee’s for the St. Mary’s Female Seminary in 1858.
Archives of Maryland, 1683
Assembly Proceedings, October – November 1678
Ensigne William Watts was granted six hundred pounds of Tabacco
Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Vol. 21, No. 5, May 1973
Pa. 7
250 acres were surveyed in 1665 for William Watts. This was
called Watt’s Lodge and was located in the Tract of Popular Hill Hundred
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FREDERICK WATTS
9 May 1801 – 17 Aug 1889
Frederick Watts was commissioner of
agriculture. Born in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Frederick was the son of David and Julian (Miller)
Watts. He was the grandson of Frederick Watts, a native of Wales who
emigrated to American in 1760. Watts
attended Dickinson College but did not graduate. After leaving college Watts lived on a farm with his uncle,
William Miles in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
While there Watts acquired a practical knowledge of agriculture.
Later he returned to Carlisle and studied law with Andrew Carothers
and formed a partnership with him. Watts
reported the cases of the western district of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court from 1829 to 1845. Interested
in the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, he became its president in 1845
and remained in that position until 1871.
Watts was appointed judge of the 9th Judicial District
in 1849 and served until 1852. Retiring
to his farm near Carlisle in 1869, Watts performed much experimentation in
farm buildings, equipment, and in livestock breeding.
He aided in popularizing the use of the McCormick Reaper in
Pennsylvania and became president of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural
Society. In 1854 Watts helped
to push through the legislature an act creating Farmers’ High School
which later became the Pennsylvania State College.
Watts was appointed federal commissioner of agriculture in 1871.
Through his efforts Congress appropriated money to collect and
publish meteorological information for the benefit of agriculture.
In 1827 Watts married Eliza Cranston, and they had three daughters.
In 1835 he married Henretta Edge, who bore him five sons and one
daughter.
The Watts Family, American
Genealogical Research Institute, Heritage Press, Inc. Washington D.C.,
1975. Pa. 76
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WATTS WILL ABSTRACTS OF MADISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Madison Co. Will Book 1, pa. 305
Will of Barnett Watts, mentions
wife, Fanny. Seven daughters:
Nancy Lurena, Lydia, Fanny, Jenny, Nelly, and Sally.
Sons: Noah and Howard. Executors: Joshua
Willis, James Watts, Owen
Willis (son-in-law). Wit.
William Watts, Winston Durrett, James Barnett.
Dated 3/26/1801, probated 10/13/1801.
Administration of estate in Madison Co., Will book 6, pa. 198
(1834)
Madison Co., Will Book 2, pa. 169
Will of William Watts, Sr. of
Madison Co. sons: John,
Washington, and William. Daughters:
Patsy White, Lucy Allen, Betsy Durrett.
Wife of William Sr. Sarah Watts still alive.
Son-in-law, William White, mentioned.
Dated 3/4/1808, probated 6/23/1808
Madison County Will Book 4, pa. 3
Will of Noah Watts.
Money provided for education of Edwin Bradley, son of William
Bradley, and Elizabeth Cauthorne, daughter of Frances Yager.
Money to Noah’s brother Hord Watts, and rest of estate to his
sister, Sally R Willis, Executors: Joshua
Willis, Sr. and William Watts. Wit.
William Smith, George Bradley, Jr.,
Dated 3/17/1817, probated 7/27/1820
Inventory: 9/7/1820
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MR. WATTS, LAWYER IN ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK
The History of Orange County, New
York, edited by Russel Headle, published by Van Deusen and Elms,
Middletown, NY, 1908. Pa. 523-525.
Mr. Watts is
a very nucleus of abounding and superabounding energy.
He generates energy by a process of spontaneous mental combustion.
His mental activity is more continuous and intense than any I have
ever known. His mind never
goes fallow, but seems to be constantly fructified by the floating pollen
in the business, legal or intellectual atmosphere surrounding him.
It is of course inevitable that, with such a temperament, he should
repeatedly cross the path of people who would like to have him keep out of
their way. But Mr. Watts is
so constituted that where other people are there would he be also; and he
is always willing to keep out of their way by letting them step aside.
Yet, despite all his initiative,
aggressiveness and combativeness with respect to those who can meet him
upon equal terms, he is tenderness and generosity itself to the weak, the
helpless and the dependent. He
has been known to pour out his bounty for years upon those who appealed to
his sympathy or invoked his aid. He
has, in a marked degree, the English love of fair play and is as ready to
acknowledge to mistake as he is to resent an injury.
Often brusque and impulsive in his manner when no offence is
intended, and quick to regret when it is, he is always surprised to find
that others are not so ready to forget as he is to forgive.
The fighting qualities of Mr. Watts are never
shown to better advantage than when he is asserting the rights of the poor
and weak against all the resources of corporate or individual wealth.
He never tires. His
tenacity cannot be shaken. No
reversal of the first judgment dismays him.
He enters upon the second or third trial with as much vigor and vim
as upon the first. In one
case he more than doubled upon the second trial the verdict obtained upon
the first trial. Indeed he
has led in the securing of large verdicts, having obtained the largest
verdict in a death case ever rendered in the county and the largest
verdict, with one exception, ever rendered for personal injuries.
The judgement for eight hundred thousand
dollars to which reference has been made was obtained by Mr. Watts in an
action brought by him for a contractor against a railroad company for
extra work in the building of a branch, disputed by the company.
Mr. Watts examined and cross examined all the witnesses and with
the aid of his office force, prepared the final argument.
He was opposed by the finest legal talent in the State and the case
was tried before the learned, eminent and profoundly respected judge, the
Honorable Alton B. Parker, sitting as referee.
The case involved many intricate questions of which Mr. Watts
exhibited entire mastery. His
management of this case marks the zenith of his ability and reputation as
a trial lawyer. A lawyer who, before such a tribunal, wins such a case,
involving such large interests and attended with results of such
magnitude, for the judgement was not only obtained but settled, has
established his place, beyond all question, in the very front rank of the
trial lawyers of the State.
Mr. Watts excels in cross-examination.
In a case brought by him for injuries resulting from the explosion
of a locomotive boiler, the judge hesitated at the close of
his case about letting it proceed, but finally ruled that the
railroad company should go on with its proof, reserving the questions that
troubled him. Mr. Watts
thereupon took the defendant’s witnesses in hand and on
cross-examination he so completely established the liability of the
company of the mouths of its own witnesses that all thought, not merely of
nonsuit, but of defense even was abandoned and the company was thrown into
a panic. It made an offer in
the recess and when the court convened again to resume the case it was
announced as settled.
Mr. Watts’ address to the jury are marked
by pith, point and piquancy. He
emphasizes the silent features of the case and lets all minor or
subordinate issues take care of themselves. His
sturdy defense of his client’s rights, his strong individuality and his
intellectual force combine to make him a formidable opponent.
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