In memory of John Watson, my Maternal 11th Great-Grandfather on the HARVEY branch.
Bibliography:
- A history of the Seymour family : descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for six generations, with extensive amplification of the lines deriving from his son John Seymour of Hartford, by D. L. Jacobus, 1939. [Link]
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John Watson
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Birth:
1616
Harby, Newark and Sherwood Dist., Nottinghamshire, England
Marriage:
1636
Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
Burial:
1650 June 4
Hartford, Connecticut
Ancient Burying Ground
Hartford, Connecticut
Father:
Mother:
Biography
John Watson was born in 1616 in Harby, Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, England. He was an early settler of Hartford, Connecticut, where he was a juror in 1644 and surveyor of highways in 1647. He took the Oath of Fidelity at the General Court in Hartford in May of 1645. He married Margaret Smyth before 1636 and died on June 4, 1650, in Hartford. He was 33 or 34 years old and is buried in the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford.
Children
John Watson & Margaret Smyth were the parents of my ancestor,
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