Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:Name rendered numerous ways, but most commonly as either "Sease Book" or "Scace Book". I don't know which is correct;

!MARRIAGE BOND:28 Oct 1783 Gates Co., NC
Scasebook Watson & Elizabeth Cross
Thomas Smith, bm;

!TAXLIST:1788 Bladen Co., NC 3rd District, Capt Yates
Sainbook? Watson, 1 white, 1 black;

!CENSUS:1790 Georgetown Dist., SC Prince George Parish pg 507
Scanbook Watson age 16+ (bef 1774)
1-1-3-0-2;

!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist., SC pg 782
Scace B. Watson age 26-44 (1755/74)
20010-22010-0-5;

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist., SC pg 81-22
Scarce B. Watson age 45+ (bef 1765)
21101-02001-0-15;

!TAXLIST:1811 Marion Dist, SC Bookcase WATSON $6.44;

!TAXLIST:1814 Marion Dist, SC Book Seace WATSON $28.54;

!MARRIAGE BOND:10 Nov 1818 Gates Co., NC
Scarzebrook Watson & Sally Cross
Edwin Cross, bm;

!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 68
Scasebook Watson age 45+ (bef 1775)
211111-10110-0, slaves=12/0/1/0-3/2/1/1;

!NAMED:20 Nov 1821 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1827-1836 pg 14 John HENRY
Estate. Merchant. Notes & Accounts: ... Benjamin JOHNSON Sr ... Roger
ROBERTS ... Richard JOHNSON son of Sam, ... Francis JOHNSON, James
CAMPBELL ... Duncan CAMPBELL ... James JAMES ... Theophilus CAMPBELL ...
Alexander LANE ... Carey JOHNSON, son of Lewis, ... Levy BLACKMAN ...
Norton ROBERTS ... Elizabeth CRIB ... Lewis JOHNSON ... John BLACKMAN ...
John TURNER, Samuel JOHNSON, Mrs. Kezia ROBERTS ... Cresse BARNES ...
Scarce Book WATSON Jr ... James CRAWFORD ... Readon ROBERTS ... Jeremiah
CAMPBELL ... Anthony CRIB ... James CRAWFORD ... David BLACKMAN ... Gadi
CRAWFORD & James G. CRAWFORD ... Willis HUGGINS ... David EDWARDS ...
Dempsy CRIBB ... Col. James JOHNSON ... Willis & James G. CRAWFORD ...;

!TAXLIST:1824 Marion Dist, SC Scasebook WATSON $17.11;

!PROBATE ROLL # 801 Marion Co., SC S. B. Watson 1826
Jesse Ford, adm 13 Nov 1826 for Scacebook Watson, late of Marion Dist.
... of Little Pee Dee ...
15 Dec 1826 We the heirs of S. B. Watson ...:
Jesse Ford
Thomas Watson
Michael Watson
Sally Watson
...
12 Jan 182(7)? ... Dawson Waters one of the heirs is out of state
Mrs. Sally Watson widow 1/3
2/3 between Bryant Ralls, James Ralls, Dawson Waters, Jesse Ford, Michael Watson, Thomas Watson, John Watson and Virginia Ann Watson (last two under 14)
...;

!PROBATE ROLL # 2138 Marion Co., SC Scacebook Watson 1872
12 Nov 1872 heirs are Virginia Ann Haynes, Calvin Haynes, Dawson Waters, Elizabeth Waters, Sarah F. Watson and Beedy Amanda Watson
... divide among:
widow Sarah F. Watson
Martha E. Grantham wife of J. F. Grantham
V. A. Watson
W. F. Watson
C. H. Watson
J. C. Watson
J. N. Page purchaser from Calvin Haynes and wife Virginia Ann Haynes
the children of Elizabeth Waters
B. A. Watson
S. F. Watson
Calvin Watson son of John R. Watson shows that Scacebook Watson died leaving his widow Sarah who married Moore Lennon and the following children:
John R.
Michael
Thomas
Mary wife of Jesse Ford Sr
Sarah married a Rawls
Elizabeth Watson married Dawson Waters, moved to MS 40 years ago
Calvin Haynes and wife to TX.
John R. Watson died in 1852 leaving:
widow Sarah
James
Martha E. wife of Jno F. Grantham
Wm F.
Calvin H.
Calhoun
Virginia Ann
Sarah Frances
Beedy A.
James Watson died in War unmarried;

!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. ;

!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. 199-206
...
There was another family of Watsons in what is now known as Hillsboro Township, and of whom something has already herein been incidentally said. Seacebook Watson came from Virginia, and settled on the road leading from Nichols to Lumberton, N. C, more than one hundred years ago; he succeeded well in life, raised a large family, sons and daughters; the sons, Michael, Thomas and John R., were known to the writer. Michael and Thomas went to North Carolina, married sisters. Smithy and Kitsey Ham, very excellent women, and each raised respectable families; they were just across the line, and many of their descendants are now in South Carolina. John R. Watson, the youngest son, married Miss Sallie Ford, who had the phenomenon of a black eye and a blue one; they lived on the old homestead of his father, and had a large family of four sons and several daughters. John R. Watson died in middle life, and left his widow and children, many of them small ; the widow managed well and raised her family respectably, and died a few years ago ; some of them are now in the county, and among our best people. If all these Watsons and their thrice multiplied connections, hereinabove referred to, were destroyed, it would cut a mighty swathe in our county population. There may be, and perhaps are, some few families larger or more numerous, but not many — the name will not soon become extinct. ;

!MARRIAGE BOND:28 Oct 1783 Gates Co., NC
Scasebook Watson & Elizabeth Cross
Thomas Smith, bm;

!CENSUS:1790 Georgetown Dist, SC Prince George Parish pg 56 w/Scanbook WATSON no ages (bef 1790);

!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 782 w/Scase B. WATSON age 26-44 (1755/74);