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The Watts On-line
Issue No. 77
August 3, 2000


Everyone must be on vacation….contributions are a bit slow.  Look over your research this month and consider sharing with us.    Lori

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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OLD MEDICAL TERMS
Do you need a reference for all those old diseases you come across in death records?  Check out this site.

http://members.tripod.com/PearlsPad/Medical.htm

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