Pension Application of Bennett Watts R11221
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Tennessee } On this 14 day of October 1851 personally th appeared before the
Smith County } undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State Thomas Watts aged fifty one years and made oath to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 & 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844. That
he is the Administrator of his Mother Susan Watts Deceast who was the Widow of Bennett Watts late of Jackson County State of Tennessee that his Father Bennett Watts as declarant allways understood from him was a private Soldier from the State of Virginia in the Revolutionary war that he was an enlisted Soldier either for Five years or during the war but declarant cannot state which nor can he state whether he belonged to the State of Continental line of Virginia or the names of the offers under whom he served but declarant distinctly Recollects that shortly after the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 his Father the said Bennett Watts made out his declaration and papers for a Pension under said act of Congress, which aplication was forwarded to Washington City by Genl Samuel Smith at this date his Father resided in Jackson County Tennessee but which claim was not allowed but to which papers for all their partickulars in relation to his Fathers said service declarant now refers declarant further states that he allways understood from his said Father and Mother the said Bennett and Susan Watts that they were legally Maried in ogleThorp [sic: Oglethorpe] County State of Georgia some time in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight that previous to the Mariage of declarants Mother that her name was Susan Thornton that his Father the said Bennett Watts died in Jackson County Tennessee on the 2d day of April 1825 that at the time of his death he left his said widow the said Susan Watts who survived him and still remained his Widow until on the 5 day of October 1839 when she died that at the time of her death she left the following named children to wit Mary Roberts and affiant all of whom are still living and are the only surviving children of her the said Susan Watts Decst declarant further states, that agreeable to the family record kept by his Father and Mother that Mary Watts dect the first child was born on the [blank] day of [blank] 1790 but which record has long since been lost and affiant cannot produce it that he has no other documentary or record proof in support of his claim declarant therefore makes this declaration in order to record[?] the amount of Pension that was due to his said Mother in her lifetime and which since her death decends to her children. Thomas hisXmark Watts
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Tennessee } On this 14 day of October 1851 personally th appeared before the
Smith County } undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State Thomas Watts aged fifty one years and made oath to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 & 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844. That
he is the Administrator of his Mother Susan Watts Deceast who was the Widow of Bennett Watts late of Jackson County State of Tennessee that his Father Bennett Watts as declarant allways understood from him was a private Soldier from the State of Virginia in the Revolutionary war that he was an enlisted Soldier either for Five years or during the war but declarant cannot state which nor can he state whether he belonged to the State of Continental line of Virginia or the names of the offers under whom he served but declarant distinctly Recollects that shortly after the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 his Father the said Bennett Watts made out his declaration and papers for a Pension under said act of Congress, which aplication was forwarded to Washington City by Genl Samuel Smith at this date his Father resided in Jackson County Tennessee but which claim was not allowed but to which papers for all their partickulars in relation to his Fathers said service declarant now refers declarant further states that he allways understood from his said Father and Mother the said Bennett and Susan Watts that they were legally Maried in ogleThorp [sic: Oglethorpe] County State of Georgia some time in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight that previous to the Mariage of declarants Mother that her name was Susan Thornton that his Father the said Bennett Watts died in Jackson County Tennessee on the 2d day of April 1825 that at the time of his death he left his said widow the said Susan Watts who survived him and still remained his Widow until on the 5 day of October 1839 when she died that at the time of her death she left the following named children to wit Mary Roberts and affiant all of whom are still living and are the only surviving children of her the said Susan Watts Decst declarant further states, that agreeable to the family record kept by his Father and Mother that Mary Watts dect the first child was born on the [blank] day of [blank] 1790 but which record has long since been lost and affiant cannot produce it that he has no other documentary or record proof in support of his claim declarant therefore makes this declaration in order to record[?] the amount of Pension that was due to his said Mother in her lifetime and which since her death decends to her children. Thomas hisXmark Watts
Pension Application of Bennett Watts R11221
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Tennessee } On this 14 day of October 1851 personally th appeared before the
Smith County } undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State Thomas Watts aged fifty one years and made oath to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 & 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844. That
he is the Administrator of his Mother Susan Watts Deceast who was the Widow of Bennett Watts late of Jackson County State of Tennessee that his Father Bennett Watts as declarant allways understood from him was a private Soldier from the State of Virginia in the Revolutionary war that he was an enlisted Soldier either for Five years or during the war but declarant cannot state which nor can he state whether he belonged to the State of Continental line of Virginia or the names of the offers under whom he served but declarant distinctly Recollects that shortly after the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 his Father the said Bennett Watts made out his declaration and papers for a Pension under said act of Congress, which aplication was forwarded to Washington City by Genl Samuel Smith at this date his Father resided in Jackson County Tennessee but which claim was not allowed but to which papers for all their partickulars in relation to his Fathers said service declarant now refers declarant further states that he allways understood from his said Father and Mother the said Bennett and Susan Watts that they were legally Maried in ogleThorp [sic: Oglethorpe] County State of Georgia some time in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight that previous to the Mariage of declarants Mother that her name was Susan Thornton that his Father the said Bennett Watts died in Jackson County Tennessee on the 2d day of April 1825 that at the time of his death he left his said widow the said Susan Watts who survived him and still remained his Widow until on the 5 day of October 1839 when she died that at the time of her death she left the following named children to wit Mary Roberts and affiant all of whom are still living and are the only surviving children of her the said Susan Watts Decst declarant further states, that agreeable to the family record kept by his Father and Mother that Mary Watts dect the first child was born on the [blank] day of [blank] 1790 but which record has long since been lost and affiant cannot produce it that he has no other documentary or record proof in support of his claim declarant therefore makes this declaration in order to record[?] the amount of Pension that was due to his said Mother in her lifetime and which since her death decends to her children. Thomas hisXmark Watts
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Tennessee } On this 14 day of October 1851 personally th appeared before the
Smith County } undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State Thomas Watts aged fifty one years and made oath to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 & 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844. That
he is the Administrator of his Mother Susan Watts Deceast who was the Widow of Bennett Watts late of Jackson County State of Tennessee that his Father Bennett Watts as declarant allways understood from him was a private Soldier from the State of Virginia in the Revolutionary war that he was an enlisted Soldier either for Five years or during the war but declarant cannot state which nor can he state whether he belonged to the State of Continental line of Virginia or the names of the offers under whom he served but declarant distinctly Recollects that shortly after the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 his Father the said Bennett Watts made out his declaration and papers for a Pension under said act of Congress, which aplication was forwarded to Washington City by Genl Samuel Smith at this date his Father resided in Jackson County Tennessee but which claim was not allowed but to which papers for all their partickulars in relation to his Fathers said service declarant now refers declarant further states that he allways understood from his said Father and Mother the said Bennett and Susan Watts that they were legally Maried in ogleThorp [sic: Oglethorpe] County State of Georgia some time in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight that previous to the Mariage of declarants Mother that her name was Susan Thornton that his Father the said Bennett Watts died in Jackson County Tennessee on the 2d day of April 1825 that at the time of his death he left his said widow the said Susan Watts who survived him and still remained his Widow until on the 5 day of October 1839 when she died that at the time of her death she left the following named children to wit Mary Roberts and affiant all of whom are still living and are the only surviving children of her the said Susan Watts Decst declarant further states, that agreeable to the family record kept by his Father and Mother that Mary Watts dect the first child was born on the [blank] day of [blank] 1790 but which record has long since been lost and affiant cannot produce it that he has no other documentary or record proof in support of his claim declarant therefore makes this declaration in order to record[?] the amount of Pension that was due to his said Mother in her lifetime and which since her death decends to her children. Thomas hisXmark Watts
Gravesite Details
two Cemeteries in Jackson Tennessee in the Granville community, which is where the Watts couple likely resided Were moved due to the construction of a dam and there is A possibility they were buried at one of the two graveyards which bear their name
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