Thomas Watson and Sarah Culan

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Husband Thomas Watson ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1759 - County Down, Ireland 2 3 4
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           Died: 1845 - Butler Co, PA 2
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Wife Sarah Culan ^{3 5}

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Children

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1 M James Watson ^{3 5 6}

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           Born: 1795 - Chester Co, PA 5
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           Died: 1868 7
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         Spouse: Mary Davis (      -1871) 3 5 6

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2 F Rebecca Watson ^{3 6}

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         Spouse: Joseph Moore (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Watson

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He was a soldier of the Revolution under Gen. Washington. At the battle of Brandywine, he was taken prisoner by the enemy, but at length made his escape and found his way to Conococheague, where he settled, learned the cooper's trade and married. In 1797, he came to the woods of western Pennsylvania and settled within the present territory of Clinton Township, Butler County, with Indians, bears, panthers and wolves and a very few white people for his neighbors. He lived to be eighty-seven, and reared two children.

He served in the War of the Revolution, as a private in Captain McGowan's company under Lieutenant-Colonel Bicker, and enlisted at Middletown, Pennsylvania, was taken prisoner by the British at Brandywine and was confined at Wilmington, Delaware, on a British prison ship until he finally made his escape.

He was born in Ireland and moved with his parents to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, when a boy. He served in the Revolutionary War, being taken prisoner at the battle of Brandywine. He was confined at Wilmington one month and on a British prison ship two months. He was later detailed to herd cattle for the British army. On an occasion when the cattle stampeded he chased a two-year-old heifer so far into the woods that he was lost sight of and thus escaped. He served under Lieutenant Colonel Bicker in Captain McGowan's company and enlisted at Middletown, Pennsylvania.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Culan

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from Chester Co, PA

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 279.

2 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 777.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 237.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 91.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 92.

6 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 280.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 238.