Individual Details

Benjamin Watts

(Abt, 1720 - Abt, 1790)

22 DEC 1746 Thomas WATTS of St. Thomas Parish, Culpeper Co., VA, planter, wrote his will. Leaves to his son Benjamin WATTS a share in the use and income of his still and "the plantation commonly called the schoolhouse with the tract of land bounded on Jas. Barbour and John WATTS, so up to the Great Branch, including the land between them" and Bland Ballard's line, estimated as 200 acres.

2 DEC 1752 Henry Bartlett of Spts. Co. and Sarah, his wife, to BENJAMIN WATTS of Caroline Co. 100 a. in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., part of a patent formerly granted Peter Rogers, etc. Peter Copland, Walter Cla??k, James Samuell. 6 FEB 1753 --William Armstrong Crozier, ed., Spotsylvania County [Virginia] Records 1721-1800 (Baltimore, MD: Southern Book Co., 1955), 192.

4 OCT 1755 BENJ. x WATTS and Mary, his wife, of Spts. Co., to Jesse Harper of Caroline Co. �65 curr. 100 a. in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co. Peter Copland, Jas. Martin, John Goodloe, John Daniel. June 1, 1756. --Crozier, Spotsylvania Co ., VA, 202.

21 AUG 1756 Roger x Cason of Spts. Co. and Elizabeth, his wife, to William Johnston, Gent., of Caroline Co. �23 curr. 84 a. in Spts. Co. Wm. Waller, William Wood, Thos. Cason, BENJAMIN WATTS. Sept. 8, 1756. A letter from Roger Cason saying his wife cannot come to the court to acknowledge her dower, "as it will be prejudicial to us in preventing our intended removal to the province of North Carolina," etc. --Crozier, Spotsylvania Co., VA, 203.

18 OCT 1790 Will Book C, pp.394-95, will offered for probate 18 Oct 1790. Left Jeremiah White of Orange Co., son of Henry White, 130 acres.

Events

BirthAbt, 1720Essex County, Virginia
DeathAbt, 1790Culpeper County, Virginia
MarriageMary
MarriageAnne
MarriageMary

Families

SpouseMary ( - )
SpouseAnne
SpouseMary ( - )
FatherThomas Watts Sr. (1690 - 1749)
MotherEsther Stone ? (1695 - 1772)
SiblingThomas Watts Jr. (1712 - 1774)
SiblingEdward Watts (1715 - 1790)
SiblingElizabeth Watts (1718 - )
SiblingJohn Watts (1722 - 1796)
SiblingRobert Watts (1724 - 1741)
SiblingEsther Watts (1726 - 1795)
SiblingAnn Watts (1728 - )
SiblingSarah Watts (1729 - 1803)
SiblingJacob Watts (1730 - 1821)
SiblingMary Watts (1732 - )
SiblingFrances "Franky" Watts (1735 - )
SiblingWilliam Watts (1741 - 1808)