John Watson

- Bef 1729

• Name	John Watson  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1728  [3]
  Death	Bef 11 Mar 1729  [4]
  Alternate death	11 Mar 1729  [5]
  Person ID	I1222	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Dorcas Gardiner,   b. Abt 1656   d. Bef 4 Aug 1702 (Age ~ 46 years)
  Marriage	Bef 7 Nov 1673  [5]
  Children	1. Ann Watson   d. Bef 1728
  Family ID	F1493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was a tailor and a farmer, first of record at Kingstown in 1672. Constable 1687; grand jury 1688; Conservator of the Peace and Deputy, 1690. As his second wife he married Rebecca Gardiner, sister of Dorcas, who was probably the infant that her mother carried to Boston.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3508] History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott: One of the Thirteen Original Proprietors of Providence Plantation and the Colony of Rhode Island by Roscoe L. Whitman. Oneonta, New York: Otesgo Publishing Co., 1932-39. [S480] The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner the Colonist, 1638 by Caroline E. Robinson. Providence, 1919. [S544] Noyes-Gilman Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches, with a Chart of the Ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, His Wife by Charles Phelps Noyes. St. Paul, Minnesota, 1907. [S3735] "Abstracts of North Kingstown Wills." Rhode Island Genealogical Register, July 1984. [S4975] The American Family of John Watson of the Narragansett Country, Rhode Island by George C. Davis, ed. Jean Adams Bradley. Kingston, Rhode Island: The Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 1983.