WATTS, Mason

1765 - 1850  (~ 87 years)

• Name	WATTS, Mason
  Born	Between 1763 and 1765	Faquier, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Mar 1850	Jennings, Jennings County, Indiana
  Buried	Cemetery 2 Miles North of Butlerville, Jennings County, Indiana
  Person ID	I4118	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	WATTS, Thomas,   b. 1720, Fauquier County, Virginia ,   d. Abt 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia  (Age 49 years)
  Mother	THORNTON, Lydia,   b. Abt 1723, Fauquier County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Abt 1744	Fauquier County, Virginia
  Family ID	F1580	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	RYKER, Deborah,   b. 23 Jan 1777, Tappan, Rockland County, New York ,   d. Abt 1837, Ripley County, Indiana  (Age 59 years)
  Married	18 Jun 1793	Shelby, Shelby County, Kentucky
  Notes	Permission was granted for the marriage by step-father John Van Cleave and mother Rachel Van Cleave.
  Children	1. WATTS, Lydia B.,   b. 4 May 1794, Shelby County, Kentucky ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. WATTS, Sarah,   b. 4 Feb 1796, Shelby County, Kentucky ,   d. 6 Feb 1796, Shelby County, Kentucky  (Age 0 years)   3. WATTS, Rachel,   b. 12 Dec 1796, Shelby County, Kentucky ,   d. 16 Mar 1889, Nashville, Brown County, Indiana  (Age 92 years)   4. WATTS, Mary,   b. 27 Jan 1799, Kentucky ,   d. Bef 1840, Indiana  (Age < 40 years)   5. WATTS, Rhoda,   b. 28 Dec 1800, Shelby County, Kentucky ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. WATTS, David,   b. 8 Dec 1802, Shelby, Kentucky ,   d. 8 Nov 1877, Jefferson, Indiana  (Age 74 years)   7. WATTS, Margaret,   b. 15 Jan 1807, Shelby County, Kentucky ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. WATTS, John,   b. 13 Feb 1808, Shelby County, Kentucky ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. WATTS, Charity,   b. 6 Nov 1809, Indiana ,   d. 1834  (Age 24 years)   10. WATTS, Thomas B.,   b. 1 Dec 1811, Indiana ,   d. Bond, Illinois   11. WATTS, Deborah Ann,   b. 7 Jun 1813, Indiana ,   d. Abt 1842, Brush Creek Cemetery, Jennings, Indiana  (Age 28 years)   12. WATTS, Mason,   b. 5 Nov 1815, Indiana ,   d. 27 May 1865, Nashville, Brown County, Indiana  (Age 49 years)   13. WATTS, Peter V.,   b. 13 May 1818, Indiana ,   d. 20 Oct 1897, Jennings, Indiana  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mason was a soldier of the Revolution. Mason Watts married Deborah Riker and was the father of twelve children. - Jefferson County: First Visitors and First Settlers Copyright 2000 by Robert W. Scott "The next documented visitor was George Logan in 1801, according to an 1885 publication. That same book also cites Col. John Ryker as the first permanent settler of Jefferson Co. in 1804 in the Eagles Springs area of what would become Rykers Ridge. According to John Smock, John Rykers sister Rachel and her husband Samuel Smock (John Smocks parents), sister Deborah and her husband Mason Watts, and their brother Samuel Ryker crossed the Ohio and Corn Creek and settled near Hanover in 1805. (Samuel Ryker may have moved back to Kentucky, returning in 1810.)" - Before 1809, Mason Watts built a log cabin two miles north of the present site of Canaan, in present day Jefferson Co., Indiana. Mason appears on the 1830 census as living in Ripley Co., Indiana and in the 1840 census in Decatur Co., Indiana. Mason is buried at Brush Creek Cemetery, Campbell Township, Jennings Co., Indiana. Deborah is buried in the Mavity Cemetery in Ripley County, Indiana. - MASON WATTS Born Fauquier Co., Va. 1765; died Ripley Co., Ind., March 2, 1850. He enlisted in 2nd State Regiment of artillery in 1778 in his home country. (Pension application S17760, see also Aaron Watts, supra). (Watts Family, p. 69) - Mason Watts, born (???)1765; died at Jennings Indiana, March 2, 1850. He enlisted in the second State Regiment of Artillery in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1778., under Lieut. Blackwell and was in actual service, although only a boy. He applied for a pension from Campbell County, Kentucky, April 22, 1833, giving his address as Ripley County, Ind. Apparently he is the same Mason Watts who appears in Shelby County, Kentucky where he married Deborah Ryker, June 18, 1793. He was in the Fayette County, Kentucky tax records in 1794. In October, 1795 he appraised the estate of William Robux, Shelby County, Kentucky. With his wife, Deborah, he sold their land in Shelby County, Kentucky, November 4, 1806. His pension papers bore the name of Peter Watts and were witnessed by James Alexander Watts. (Rev. War Pension Application S. 17760). - 30 Petitioners for a Justice of the Peace In 1807 Original Petitions in the Archives Division Indiana State Library, Indpls, IN, October 24, 1807 Indiana Territory Clark County To his excellency William Henry Harrison Governor of the aforesaid Territory The memorial sundry Inhabitants and citizens living in the aforesaid Territory and county. Your petitioners humbly sheweth you that we are destitute of a Justice of the Peace amonguest us and are at the distance of twenty miles from any to administer the necessary duties of that office. We therefore pray that your wisdom may deem it prudent to send forward a commition for John Vawter as he is the choice of his fellow citizens in these parts as weill bee seen by the list of names hereto annexed done in presents of Abraham Huff Esq. a resident of Illinois grant this 24th October 1807. Gideon Underwood Jas. Vawter Jas. Underwood Wm. Offall Jas. Edwards John Lively Elzaphan Jackson Joshua Jackson Ralph Griffin William Hall Jesse Vawter Esquire Hall John Griffin John Davis James Robb Mason Watts John Ryker Stephen Green James Grissom John Hall Samuel Smock Wm. Vawter Joseph Laine Peter Laine Isaiah Blankinship Joel Jackson Colby Underwood Bernard McKlain Robert Greer Isaac Green - Early Settlers of JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN Mr. Mason Watts also came to the county in 1808. He was the first white man who settled in Marengo township. He lived there for many years, but afterwards went to Ripley county. His wife made for herself the first loom made in the county, out of a white walnut tree, doing the entire work with her own hands, so says the authority for this sketch. Mr. Watts was a man noted for his great strength, and prowess as a hunter. He followed hunting as his profession. -