Watson Ford & ?

!CENSUS:1820;

!CENSUS:1830;

!CENSUS:1840;

!BONDSMAN-MARRIAGE BOND: 9 Dec 1848 Robeson Co., NC
Allen Ford & Amanda Faulk
Watson Ford, Benjamin Freeman, bm;

!CENSUS:1850 x
* Note that Watson's family in 1860 is almost an exact match for this 1850 family, same county:
# 338/343
S. R. Watson 34 Farmer $3000 MS (Solomon R. Watson, I think)
L. J. 29 f
L. C. 11 f
L. H. 9 m
M. A. 6 f
F. 2 m
J. B. Hudson 60 m Blacksmith $- England;

!CENSUS:1860 Marion Co., MS Columbia PO # 378/378
Watson Ford, 41 Farmer $4000/3000 SC
Harrison 19 Farmer $0/3000 MS
Maryann 16 $0/4000
Felix 12 $0/4000
Franklin 9 $0/4000;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 167-170
...
Major Jessee Ford, the eldest son, represented the district in the Legislature in the twenties-I do not know the precise date.* [* Jessee Ford was elected a Representative in 1820. See list of Representatives in latter part hereof.] He was Major in the militia ; his first wife was a Miss Townsend, of Robeson County, N. C. ; by her he had two sons, the late Elias B. Ford and Allen Ford ; his second wife was a Miss Watson, a daughter of Scarcebook Watson, above Nichols, on the road from Nichols to Lumberton, N. C. by the second wife he had several sons and daughters ; the sons, as their names are remembered, were Watson, Jessee, Thomas, David and Charles Ford. ;

!CENSUS:1850 x

!CENSUS:1860 Marion Co., MS Columbia PO # 378/378
Watson Ford, 41 Farmer $4000/3000 SC
Harrison 19 Farmer $0/3000 MS
Maryann 16 $0/4000
Felix 12 $0/4000
Franklin 9 $0/4000;

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