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EDWARD & Ann (Martin) watts

 

1687 Sept 16 - received a levy for work done at the Stafford County Courthouse and prison.  Both Edward and his brother Thomas received payment for mending the rails and fences on the same day.

             (Stafford Co. Order Book 1686-1689, pa. 65)

 

1688 - marries Ann Martin Hubbard in Stafford Co. VA, widow of John Hubbard.

Her marriage to Jacob Hubbard and subsequent relationship to Edward is  confirmed in Stafford Co. Record Book 1686-1689 104-104a, & Order Book  1689-1693 at 156.

 

1689 Dec - Ordered to pay a debt to Robert Hewit (Stafford Co. Order Book 1689-1693, pa. 4)

 

1689/90 March - Edward and Ann filed suite against Christopher Herringe for assault at the house of Symon Stacey on Potomac Creek.  The assault was against Ann in which she was apparently Kicked and beaten.  They won the suit.  (Stafford Co. Order Book 1689-1693, pa. 32

 

1689/90 March - Edward filed suits against Thomas Chapman, William Waller and Henry Ridgeway.

             (Stafford Co. Order Book 1689-1693, pa. 22, 33, 38)

 

1689 - Edward Watts of Stafford Co., VA, with his wife, Anne Watts, were brought into Court in 1689 and fined. (Stafford County Court Book 1689-90,pa. 32).

 

1691 -  Edward Watts was deceased by August that year when Ann was in court.  (Stafford Co. Order Book 1689-1693, pa. 156)

 

From Edward C. Watts Addendum to his book “Thomas Watts of Stafford County, Virginia and His Descendants

 

"This (April 1863 record) is the last known record for Edward in Northumberland County, the timing being consistent with the appearance in October 1687 of the first known record for Edward Watts in Stafford County."

             "There is further reason to believer that Thomas and Edward of Northumberland County are the same persons who appear later in the records of Stafford County.  James Austin of Northumberland County received a patent of 900 acres in September 1661 for the transportation to Virginia of "William Norgrove."  This is likely to be the William Norgrave who became Thomas Watts's brother-in-law since this is the only know record for a William Norgrove or William Norgrave in any Virginia county other than Stafford.  There is also a connection between Northumberland and Stafford for Edward Watts.  Among the passengers transported into Virginia with Edward was George Lyle.  This is likely to be the same George Lyle who was mentioned in the will of Jacob Hubbard, the first husband of Edward's wife Anne.  The will asked that George Lyle become the guardian of Jacob's son John if Anne were to die."

             "Did Thomas and Edward Watts migrate to Northumberland County because of connections to a father or another relative already living there?  There are indications that Henry Watts who lived in Northumberland County from 1655 to 1670, having apparently migrated there from Isle of Wight County, had some connection to the Norgrave family.  In March 1657, Henry prepared an inventory of an estate with James Austin, who transported William Norgrove into Virginia.  William Langford, who made a gift of land in Stafford County to the children of John Norgrave, witnessed a deed for Henry Watts in Northumberland County in December 1655.  Never less, Henry's June 1670 will made no mention of any children he may have had."

             "Records for other Watts' of Northumberland County also provide no clear indication of a connection to the Watts' of Stafford County.  These Watts' with records in Northumberland County prior to 1687 include an Alexander Watts with records from 1672 and 1673, a Thomas Watts, Junior, who patented land in Northumberland County in April 1651, but migrated soon thereafter to Nansemond County and was deceased by December 1654, a Tom Watts who was mentioned in a record from May 1662 and a John Watts of Bristol, England, who bought land in Northumberland County in 1658 but sold it in 1662 through a power of attorney."

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