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!MARRIAGE BOND:26 Feb 1827 Robeson Co., NC
Michael Watson & Smithy Horn (sic)
John Brown, bm;
!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 142 w/Michael WATSON age 20-29 (1810/20);
!CENSUS:1850 Robeson Co, NC pg 407B Southern Division # 834/834
Michael WATSON, 47 SC
Smithy, 47 Wayne Co, NC
Christiana E. 20 SC
William C. 19
Susan, 17
Absalom, 14
Michael R. 12
Samuel, 11;
!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
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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. ;
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1803 - Aft 1850 (> 48 years)
