John Frederick Watson

Family/Spouse: Mary Ann Sophronia Hunter. Mary was born about 1836 in Chambers County, Alabama; died about 1896 in Green's Creek, Anson, Jones County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Extract from a transcription of the 1850 Meriwether County, Georgia Census: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/ga/meriwether/1850/pg0353b.txt

687 687
Watson, Arthur 42 M F 2,400 SC
Watson, John F. 19 M F SC
Watson, Mary A 16 F GA
Watson, Allen H. 13 M GA 6
Watson, Ophelia F. 12 F GA X
Watson,Elizabeth P.8 F GA X

In searching the WorldConnect Project family trees, I found a match at DANA'S FAMILY COLLECTIONS http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dana_thomas

Arthur Holmes (sic) WATSON was born 1807, and died 1880. He was buried in Concord Methodist Church Cemetery outside of Woodbury, Meriwether County, Georgia. He married Frances Ophelia O'HARA, daughter of William O'HARA and Rebecca Louisa FOY. She was born 1805, and died ABT 1845. She was buried in Imac, Meriwether County, Georgia. Dana's tree included sons Allen Hezikiah WATSON and John Frederick WATSON, but did not list the daughters shown in the above census. As her sources were not listed, this information should be used as a starting point for further research. It is believed to be realible, but not proven.

Arthur married Frances Ophelia O'Hara after 1823. Frances (daughter of William O'Hara and Rebecca Louisa Foy) was born about 1805; died about 1845; was buried in Imac, Meriwether County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Per ABBEVILLE DISTRICT WILLS AND BONDS Compiled by Willie Pauline Young of Liberty, S.C. and copyright 1950:

WATSON, HEZEKIAH Box 102, Pack 2504

Est. Admnr. Oct. 27, 1828 by John W. Swanzy, Richard Anderson, Geo. W. Hodges bound to Moses Taggart Ord. Abbeville Dist. sum $1,000. Cit. pub. at Greenville Church. Inv. made Nov. 21, 1828 by Wm. Dunn, Jas. Hodges, A.C. Edward Weatherall. Sale, Nov. 27, 1828. Byrs: Gilla Watson, Rosannah Moore, Saml., Richard L. Anderson, etc.

IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THE WILL ABSTRACTED ABOVE IS FOR THE SAME HEZEKIAH WATSON.

Hezekiah married Mary Holmes. Mary was born before 1790; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Rebecca Louisa Foy. Rebecca (daughter of Peter Foy and Hamutal Moore) was born about 1776; died about 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In upland South Carolina, at a place where local farmers penned their cows, an American force of 300 Continentals and 700 militia from North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, won a brilliant victory against the British. On January 16, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, pursued by 1,100 British under Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, carefully picked his ground for a defensive battle. That night, Morgan personally went among the Continentals and militiamen to explain his plan of battle. Morgan wanted two good volleys from the militia, who would then be free to ride away. The next day, the battle went very much as Morgan had planned. Georgia and North Carolina sharpshooters, in front of the main body of American militia, picked off British cavalrymen as they rode up the slight rise toward the Americans. Then the deadly fire of the main body of South and North Carolina militia forced Tarleton to commit his reserves. Seeing the militia withdrawing as planned, the 17th Light Dragoons pursued, but were driven off by Morgan's cavalry. Meanwhile, the British infantry, who assumed that the Americans were fleeing, were hit by the main body of Continentals, Virginia militiamen, and a company of Georgians. At the battle's end they were aided by militia troops, who, instead of riding away as planned, attacked the 71st Highlanders, who were attempting to fight their way out of the American trap. The British lost: 100 killed including 39 officers, 229 wounded, and 600 captured. As they fled the field, Tarleton and his dragoons were pursued by Colonel William Washington's cavalry, which included mounted Georgia and South Carolina militiamen. http://www.ngb.dtic.mil/gallery/heritage/cowpen.shtml

Samuel married Frances Lewis. Frances was born before 1768; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Our family tradition holds that Peter FOY (1745 - 1 March 1782) and Hamutal MOORE (1750 - 1810) were married in Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC, in 1769, but I cannot prove this tradition. In 1769 Peter received a Royal Land Grant from George III for 100 acres surrounded on all sides by vacant land in what was then in Colleton County SC. Peter fought in a mounted SC Militia Company late in the Revolution and was killed at Carter's House/Cloud Creek on 1 March 1782, massacred by "Bloody Bill" Cunningham's Tory Raiders. Hamutal collected Peter's back pay and later married William Wilson.

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Peter married Hamutal Moore. Hamutal was born about 1750; died about 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hamutal - kinsman of the dew, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, wife of King Josiah, and mother of King Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:31), also of king Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:18). URL: http://www.trellis.net/users/freshwaters/ebd/List-h.htm The name is sometimes is spelled as Hamital, depending on which Bible translation you use.

However, on 30 July 1785, Hamutal Moore, the widow of Peter Foy signed her name, in her own adult hand, unmistakably as "Hamutal Foy," and not as "Hamital," on the receipt to a petition to the Commissioners of the State of South Carolina, requesting outstanding military pay and interest still due to her deceased husband. It looks to me as if the unpaid salary was 85 Pounds, and as if the accrued interest was 12 Pounds, 2 Shillings, and 10 Pence.

WILL of Hamutal (nee Moore, m. 1st Foy, m. 2d) WILSON. Dated 22 October 1806 and Probated on 20 April 1810. Daughters: Martha Hill, Elizabeth Gains, Hamutal Foy, Rebecca Oharron (O'Hara), Sally House [Howze], Louisa Foy. Sons: James Foy, William Foy, Frederick Foy, Benedict Bourgeon. Step-sons: Joab and Jeremiah Wilson. Executors: Sons-in-Law James House [Howze] and James Oharron (O'Hara). Witnesses: John Pope, Louis Mobley, Patrick Ardogh. Page 276 of Edgefield Co., SC, Will Book. Cited in Abstracts of Wills, Edgefield Co., SC. Published by Delwyn Associates, Atlanta, GA, 1973, page 39.

Sally (sometimes "Salley") Wilson, b. 1790 in Edgefield District, SC, was the daughter of Hamutal Moore FOY and Hamutal's second husband, William Wilson. Although the Will names Sally's husband as James HOUSE, I have found the most frequent spelling to be James HOWZE. Other members of this family also seem to have continued the spelling as HOWZE.

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