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About John Watson, of Hartford
Birth: 1616, England
Death: 1650
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA
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Children:
Sarah Watson Merrill (1636 - 1687)*
Spouse:
Margaret Smith Watson (____ - 1683)
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Burial:
Ancient Burying Ground
Hartford
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA
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Created by: Nareen Lake
Record added: Jun 01, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 37807087
JOHN2 WATSON, son of Robert, was born about 1616, in England. He went to Hartford from Windsor, Conn., about 1637, and married there Margaret (Smith). She was born in England, and tradition says that Peggy Smith, a fellow passenger on the ship coming to America, fell overboard. John Watson saved her and later married her. He was surveyor of highways in Hartford, 1647. In 1645, "The eare marke for Jo Wattson: a little slitt of the side of the near eare & both the tops cutt of both eares." He died in Hartford, in 1650, between March 26, the date of his will, and June 4, its probate. He left his property to his wife, naming portions to be given his son John, when of age, and five pounds each to his daughters Sara and Mary, at eighteen years old. His widow died March, 1683. The will of Margarett Wattson, made March 26, and probated May 31, 1683, mentions her daughters Sarrah Merrels and Mary Seamor; and granddaughters Mary and Margaret Seamor; and the new wife of her son John Watson. (The Bassett Preston Ancestry, pp. 311, 312.) (D. F. P. A. 1913, p. 76--No. 110 John Watson, 1646; married Ann, his first wife; married second, Margaret Smith, between March 25, 1660 and June 4, 1650. She died 1683. (Records of Hartford, Conn., 1644)--John Watson served as Jury, Surveyor, 1646. He died in Hatfield, leaving a widow, Margaret, who died 1683. Reference: "Genealogy of Conn.," Vol. I, p. 351.
Sources: Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service, Pp. 321-22, Author: Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford, Call Number: R929.1 R62t. Families of Early Hartford, CT, Page 391.
Immigrant and early settler of Hartford. He was a juror in 1644 and surveyor of highways in 1647. May, 1645 he took the Oathe of Fidelity at the General Court in Hartford.
The inventory of his estate taken on June 4, 1650 by John White and John Barnard was valued at 126 pounds, 1 shilling, & 6 pence. His will was dated March 26, 1650 as follows:
I John Watson doe ordayne this my last will and Testament: My debts being paid, my dwelling house and all my moveable goods I give and bequeth to my wife, and the use of my meadow & swamp till my son John Come to Twenty years of age; and my will is that She should bring up my Children; and my will is that my son John Shall have my meadowe and swampe at the age afore mentioned. And further it is my will that my wife should paye to my Daughter sara five pound when she is Eighteen years of age, and to my Daughter Mary also five pound at Eighteen years of age. And further it is my will that my son John shall paye to his Mother five pound when he Come to his Land. And it is my will also that if any of my Children departe this life before they Come to the age that is before mentioned, that then the portion of that that dy shall be equally divided between them that are living. And my will is, in Case that my Children Should not be well Educated or not well used, then my overseers dispose of them so they may be brought up in the fear of God, and my wife to paye what shall be thought meete for bringing of them up. I ordayne my beloved friends John White and Gregory Wolterton to be overseers of this my will. Signed John X Watson. Witnessed by John Moodie and Francis Barnard.
Margaret Smith & John Watson were married about 1644.
Addendum: apparently there is some question as to exact birth date of his son John whose gravestone states he died at 74 years of age in 1725. According to his fathers will he was alive in March 1650, so birth date of 1651 would not be accurate.
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John Watson, of Hartford's Timeline
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March 26, 1616
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England
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May 2, 1644
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Hartford, (Present Hartford County), Connecticut Colony
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February 16, 1646
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Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, (Present USA)
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Hartford, Connecticut Colony
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June 4, 1650
Age 34
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Hartford, Connecticut Colony
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March 7, 1933
Age 34
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March 22, 1933
Age 34
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February 19, 1943
Age 34
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