Samuel is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution for his service:
WATKINS, SAMUEL
Ancestor #:A122387
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1-21-1748
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE CO MARYLAND
Death: 1830
HARDIN CO KENTUCKY
Service Source:
HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK & HIS MEN, P 29
Service Description:
1) CAPT EDWARD WORTHINGTON, COL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, MILITIA
*****
Samuel Watkins enlisted April 14 1778 and was discharged June 1 1778. He served 47 days and received pay per day under George Rogers Clark, Illinois Regiment.
Samuel was on the payroll of Capt. Edward Worthington's company of Cavalry, July 17 1778 to June 1, 1779.
He again enlisted Dec 24 1780, and was a private in Capt John Geraults's Company.
He recieved a land grant in Kentucky for service in Clarks Illinois Regiment.
*****
The following is an exerpt of his grandson's bio that reports a different version of Samuel's place of birth:
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER and BROWN COUNTIES, Illinois - 1892:
SQUIRE JAMES M. WATKINS, a popular Justice of the Peace and one of the most prosperous farmers of Cass County, Illinois, residing in township 18, range 9, was born in Richmond precinct, same county, February 5, 1839.
His parents were Elijah and Lydia A. (Montgomery) Watkins, both natives of Kentucky, the former born in green county, in 1797, and the latter a native of Hart county.
******His father's parents were Samuel and Mary (McClure) Watkins, the former a native of Wales and the latter of Maryland. Samuel Watkins came to America when a very young man and settled in Maryland, where he was married, and whence he removed to Kentucky. He was a prominent pioneer of the latter State, in which he made his home for many years, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. His wife also died in that State, aged sixty-five or seventy years. They were the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom survive. Two of these, Lewie and Hank, were brave and efficient soldiers in the war of 1812.*****
******
It seems this line of Watkins were Welsh, and were here before the Revolutionary War.
Samuel married Mary McClure 1777 in Maryland. Samuel and Mary died in Kentucky. Many of their sons came to Illinois and had large families of their own.
WATKINS, SAMUEL
Ancestor #:A122387
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1-21-1748
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE CO MARYLAND
Death: 1830
HARDIN CO KENTUCKY
Service Source:
HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK & HIS MEN, P 29
Service Description:
1) CAPT EDWARD WORTHINGTON, COL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, MILITIA
*****
Samuel Watkins enlisted April 14 1778 and was discharged June 1 1778. He served 47 days and received pay per day under George Rogers Clark, Illinois Regiment.
Samuel was on the payroll of Capt. Edward Worthington's company of Cavalry, July 17 1778 to June 1, 1779.
He again enlisted Dec 24 1780, and was a private in Capt John Geraults's Company.
He recieved a land grant in Kentucky for service in Clarks Illinois Regiment.
*****
The following is an exerpt of his grandson's bio that reports a different version of Samuel's place of birth:
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER and BROWN COUNTIES, Illinois - 1892:
SQUIRE JAMES M. WATKINS, a popular Justice of the Peace and one of the most prosperous farmers of Cass County, Illinois, residing in township 18, range 9, was born in Richmond precinct, same county, February 5, 1839.
His parents were Elijah and Lydia A. (Montgomery) Watkins, both natives of Kentucky, the former born in green county, in 1797, and the latter a native of Hart county.
******His father's parents were Samuel and Mary (McClure) Watkins, the former a native of Wales and the latter of Maryland. Samuel Watkins came to America when a very young man and settled in Maryland, where he was married, and whence he removed to Kentucky. He was a prominent pioneer of the latter State, in which he made his home for many years, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. His wife also died in that State, aged sixty-five or seventy years. They were the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom survive. Two of these, Lewie and Hank, were brave and efficient soldiers in the war of 1812.*****
******
It seems this line of Watkins were Welsh, and were here before the Revolutionary War.
Samuel married Mary McClure 1777 in Maryland. Samuel and Mary died in Kentucky. Many of their sons came to Illinois and had large families of their own.
Samuel is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution for his service:
WATKINS, SAMUEL
Ancestor #:A122387
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1-21-1748
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE CO MARYLAND
Death: 1830
HARDIN CO KENTUCKY
Service Source:
HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK & HIS MEN, P 29
Service Description:
1) CAPT EDWARD WORTHINGTON, COL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, MILITIA
*****
Samuel Watkins enlisted April 14 1778 and was discharged June 1 1778. He served 47 days and received pay per day under George Rogers Clark, Illinois Regiment.
Samuel was on the payroll of Capt. Edward Worthington's company of Cavalry, July 17 1778 to June 1, 1779.
He again enlisted Dec 24 1780, and was a private in Capt John Geraults's Company.
He recieved a land grant in Kentucky for service in Clarks Illinois Regiment.
*****
The following is an exerpt of his grandson's bio that reports a different version of Samuel's place of birth:
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER and BROWN COUNTIES, Illinois - 1892:
SQUIRE JAMES M. WATKINS, a popular Justice of the Peace and one of the most prosperous farmers of Cass County, Illinois, residing in township 18, range 9, was born in Richmond precinct, same county, February 5, 1839.
His parents were Elijah and Lydia A. (Montgomery) Watkins, both natives of Kentucky, the former born in green county, in 1797, and the latter a native of Hart county.
******His father's parents were Samuel and Mary (McClure) Watkins, the former a native of Wales and the latter of Maryland. Samuel Watkins came to America when a very young man and settled in Maryland, where he was married, and whence he removed to Kentucky. He was a prominent pioneer of the latter State, in which he made his home for many years, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. His wife also died in that State, aged sixty-five or seventy years. They were the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom survive. Two of these, Lewie and Hank, were brave and efficient soldiers in the war of 1812.*****
******
It seems this line of Watkins were Welsh, and were here before the Revolutionary War.
Samuel married Mary McClure 1777 in Maryland. Samuel and Mary died in Kentucky. Many of their sons came to Illinois and had large families of their own.
WATKINS, SAMUEL
Ancestor #:A122387
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1-21-1748
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE CO MARYLAND
Death: 1830
HARDIN CO KENTUCKY
Service Source:
HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK & HIS MEN, P 29
Service Description:
1) CAPT EDWARD WORTHINGTON, COL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, MILITIA
*****
Samuel Watkins enlisted April 14 1778 and was discharged June 1 1778. He served 47 days and received pay per day under George Rogers Clark, Illinois Regiment.
Samuel was on the payroll of Capt. Edward Worthington's company of Cavalry, July 17 1778 to June 1, 1779.
He again enlisted Dec 24 1780, and was a private in Capt John Geraults's Company.
He recieved a land grant in Kentucky for service in Clarks Illinois Regiment.
*****
The following is an exerpt of his grandson's bio that reports a different version of Samuel's place of birth:
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER and BROWN COUNTIES, Illinois - 1892:
SQUIRE JAMES M. WATKINS, a popular Justice of the Peace and one of the most prosperous farmers of Cass County, Illinois, residing in township 18, range 9, was born in Richmond precinct, same county, February 5, 1839.
His parents were Elijah and Lydia A. (Montgomery) Watkins, both natives of Kentucky, the former born in green county, in 1797, and the latter a native of Hart county.
******His father's parents were Samuel and Mary (McClure) Watkins, the former a native of Wales and the latter of Maryland. Samuel Watkins came to America when a very young man and settled in Maryland, where he was married, and whence he removed to Kentucky. He was a prominent pioneer of the latter State, in which he made his home for many years, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. His wife also died in that State, aged sixty-five or seventy years. They were the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom survive. Two of these, Lewie and Hank, were brave and efficient soldiers in the war of 1812.*****
******
It seems this line of Watkins were Welsh, and were here before the Revolutionary War.
Samuel married Mary McClure 1777 in Maryland. Samuel and Mary died in Kentucky. Many of their sons came to Illinois and had large families of their own.
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