Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Jacob Watts

Male 1730 - 1821  (90 years)


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  • Name Jacob Watts  [1
    Birth 9 Jul 1730  Spotysylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 Apr 1821  Albemarle County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I62655  Tree1
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

    Father Thomas Watts,   b. Bef Aug 1691, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Mar 1750, St. Thomas Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia - Probate Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 58 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Esther Stone,   b. Bef 1695   d. 25 Jun 1772, Orange County, Virginia - probate Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 77 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Bef 1712  Spotsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F29298  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Durrett,   b. 10 Jun 1738, Albemarle County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jan 1819, Albemarle County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 19 May 1752  Albemarle County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. William Watts,   b. Bef 1758, Albemarle County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F33678  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

  • Notes 

    • Will 22 Dec 1748, Probated 16 Mar 1749 (Library of Virginia, Will Book A, 1749-1770, Culpeper County, VA, Reel 31, pages 10-14: Culpeper County Will Book A, Page 10 and 29) -- "I Thomas Watts of St. Thomas’s Parish in Culpeper County, planter. . .” -- names: wife Esther; sons Edward, John, Benjamin, Thomas, Jacob, William; daughters Sarah, Esther, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, Frankey
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      1783-1791 Culpeper County, Virginia Will Book C; [Dorothy Ford Wulfeck];
      Will of Benjamin Watts of Culpeper Co. Dated 10 July, 1790. Proven 18 Oct., 1790.
      Legatees: Wife Anne Watts. At death of wife, land to Jeremiah White of Orange Co., son of Henry White. Elizabeth Snell, dau. of Lewis Snell. At death of wife, remainder of personal estate equally among bro. John Watts, bro. Thomas Watts, bro. Jacob Watts, sis. Sarah Gaines, each of their youngest children.
      Executors: Wife Anne Watts, nephew Barnard Watts, nephew Thomas Watts, nephew James Watts.
      Wit.: George Eve, William Broaddus, Molley (X) Lamb..
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      1757-1762 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book C; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 475-78.
      14 April 1761. Jacob Watts of Albemarle County, planter, to John Cave of Culpeper County, planter.
      For £25 current money. 150 acres adjoining to land of John Cave whereon he now lives ... Cave's line ... by a branch ... by a small branch ... to a branch ... being part of the land devised to Jacob Watts by the last will and testament of Thomas Watts, deceased.....
      Jacob Watts
      Wit: Martin Johnston, Richard Quinn, Benja. Cave junr.
      16 April 1761. Proved by Martin Johnston, Richard Quinn and Benjamin Cave junr.

  • Sources 
    1. [S214] The Virginia Genealogist Volume 16, 1972.

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