John Watson and Ann Stephenson

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Husband John Watson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1705 ? 2
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           Died: 4 Feb 1757 3
         Buried:  - Leacock Cemetery, Lancaster Co, PA

       Marriage: 1731 2 4

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Wife Ann Stephenson ^{2 5}

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         Father: [Father] Stephenson (      -      )
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         Father: James Stephenson (      -1767) 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Simpson (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M David Watson ^{4 6 7}

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           Born: Oct 1732 or 1734 - the north of Ireland 6 7
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         Spouse: Mary Hamilton (      -      ) 7 8

         Spouse: Sarah Patterson (      -      ) 7 8

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2 F Hannah Watson ⁷

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         Spouse: Archibald McCurdy (      -      ) 7

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3 F Susannah Watson ⁷

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         Spouse: Robert Young (      -      ) 7

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4 F Elizabeth Watson ⁷

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         Spouse: William Brisbin (      -      ) 7

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5 M Col. James Watson ^{3 9 10}

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           Born: 1743 3 9
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           Died: 2 Jul 1831 9 11
         Buried:  - Moss Spring Cemetery, Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Long (1746-1804) 4 10 12
           Marr: 25 Jun 1766 4 12

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General Notes: Husband - John Watson

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Among the sturdy Scotch Presbyterians who fled to the North of Ireland during the persecutions of the seventeenth century were the Watsons. They took a prominent part in the famous siege of Derry in 1689, and were among the earnest promoters of a petition to Governor Shute of New England in 1718, urging him to allow them "a refuge in his excellent plantation." This privilege being refused them they found a shelter in the Quaker colony of the Penns.
In 1730 John Watson, of Donegal, Ireland, came to Leacock township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and took up a large tract of land, for which he was granted a warrant in 1734-36, when warrants were first issued in Lancaster County.

His cousin, John Watson, settled near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

He and his wife had five children; the two sons were both officers in the army of the American Revolution, and each of the three daughters married officers in the army.
In his will, made January 19, 1757 and which is on record in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, John Watson leaves his real estate to his eldest son David and to his son James, then fourteen, he leaves "sixty pounds lawful money to be paid him when he arrives at the age of 21 years with lawful interest on the same." David is also to "duly maintain and decently clothe him and give him one whole year's schooling of such lawful learning as my son James shall choose." To David Watson was entrusted the maintenance and care of his mother as well as of his younger brother. Each of the daughters was left a money legacy.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 73, 702.

2 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 28.

3 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 29.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 703.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 73, 703.

6 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.

7 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 33.

8 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 763.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 73.

10 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 18.

11 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 31.

12 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 30.