Gen. Frederick Watts and Jane Murray

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Husband Gen. Frederick Watts ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 1 Jun 1719 - Wales 4
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           Died: 27 Sep 1795 - Perry Co, PA 6
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       Marriage: 1749 4

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Wife Jane Murray ^{2 3 4 5}

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1 F Margery Watts ⁶

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2 F Catherine Watts ⁶

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3 F Margaret Watts ⁶

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4 F Jane Watts ⁶

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5 F Elizabeth Watts ^{3 5 6}

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           Born: 7 Jul 1749 3 5
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         Spouse: Thomas Hulings (1755-1808) 3 5

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6 F Mary Watts ⁶

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7 F Sarah Watts ⁶

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8 M David Watts ^{4 6 7}

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           Born: 29 Oct 1764 - Perry Co, PA 4 6
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           Died: 15 Sep 1819 6 8
         Buried:  - Old Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

         Spouse: Juliana Miller (      -1869) 6
           Marr: Sep 1796 4

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Frederick Watts

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He was born in Wales, and received a fair English education. About the year 1749 he married, and in 1760 came to America. He first settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, but on Dec. 21, 1762, there was surveyed to him on a warrant dated June 4, 1762, a tract of 331 acres of bottom land, lying three miles above the mouth of the Juniata river, then in Cumberland, now in Perry County. Upon this he made his home, and there he lived until his death.
On the breaking out of the war of the Revolution he was appointed a member of the Cumberland county committee, and commissioned a lieutenant-colonel of one of the associated battalions. Upon the organization of the flying camp, by direction of Congress, he was placed in command of the battalion that was assigned to Cumberland county, which was captured at the surrender of Fort Washington, Nov. 16, 1776. He was soon exchanged and afterward served in various capacities. He was commissioned justice of the peace April 1, 1778; chosen representative to the Assembly in 1779; appointed sub-lieutenant of Cumberland county April 18, 1780; and on May 27, 1782, commissioned brigadier general of the Pennsylvania militia, in which capacity he did excellent service in protecting the frontier counties of the state from the ravages of the Indians and the Tories. He was a member of the supreme executive council from October, 1787, until the abolition of that body by the State constitution of 1790.
According to general belief and report the remains of both him and his wife are interred in a little private graveyard on the farm which they for so many years owned, and upon which they died. [BACC, 192]

He emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family about 1760, and after a short residence in Chester County, moved westward and located upon the western shore of the Juniata, near its confluence with the Susquehanna River, about twenty miles from Carlisle. The Revolution breaking out, a few years after his arrival, he became a zealous advocate of the rights of the people with whom he became identified. He was appointed one of eight members of Cumberland County who met in Philadelphia in 1776. He assisted in organizing the battalion for the county, and was made lieutenant colonel of the 1st Battalion, and represented the same at the military convention of July 4, 1776, which met at Lancaster. He was in command of the 1st Battalion of the "Flying Camp," at the surrender of Fort Washington, Nov. 6, 1776, where he was captured but soon after exchanged. He was commissioned Justice of the Peace for Cumberland county, April 1, 1776, chosen a representative to the Assembly in 1779, appointed sub-Lieutenant of Cumberland county, April 18, 1780, Brigadier-General of Pennsylvania Militia May 27, 1782, a member of the Supreme Executive Council from Oct. 20, 1787, until its abolition by the constitution of 1790, and was at the same time acting as a member of the Board of Property. [BAFC, 261]

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Murray

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She was the niece of David Murray, Marquis of Tullibardine, a partisan of the Pretender Charles Edward, who after the battle of Culloden fled to France.

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 399.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 192.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 121.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 261.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 1194.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 193.

7 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 168, 399.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 262.