| Note* | | He was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of James and Sophia Watts. His father was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and was a sergeant in Captain Taggart’s company of Col. James Murray’s Battalion in the Revolution. He was killed at Fort Freeland on the 28th of July, 1779, being caught by the Indians just outside the fort, and tomahawked. The subject of this sketch was born in 1793, on Warrior run, and on the breaking out of the war of 1812, he ran away from home and joined the Warrior Run Rifle Company, commanded by Capt. William McGuire of Northumberland county, and served throughout that war. In April, 1829, he settled on Larry’s creek, in Mifflin township, Lycoming county, where Jacob Reichard now lives. In 1840 he purchased 100 acres of land, where, John S. Williamson lives, which he partly cleared and improved. In 1844 he moved to Indiana, and settled near Elkhart City, where he died. Mr. Watts married Maria, daughter of Samuel Chestnutwood of Mifflin county, who bore him twelve children: Samuel, and James, both deceased; Samuel C; Thomas J; Maria J., deceased wife of Samuel Mallory; John A; Marjorie; David J; Phoebe T., wife, of A. C. Williamson; Hannah E., who was twice married, first to William Yost, and afterwards to David Hollingshead; Eli M., and Jonathan W. Mrs. Watts survived. her husband and died in Mifflin township, October 22, 1879. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. (History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania, John P. Meginess, 1892.) |
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