Person:Gassaway Watkins (2)

Name	Col. Gassaway Watkins
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	1752	Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States
Military^[1]^[2]^[3]	1776	Rev war
Marriage	Abt 1777	Maryland, United Statesto Sarah Jones
Marriage	Abt 1780	Maryland, United States[she is his 2nd wife] to Ruth Dorsey (add)
Marriage	26 Apr 1803	Maryland, United States[she was his 3rd wife] to Eleanor Bowie Claggett
Death^[1]^[2]	14 Jul 1840	Howard, Maryland, United Statesage 88
Burial^[2]		Walnut Grove

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Steiner, Bernard Christian (Ph.D.); David Henry Carroll; Lynn Roby Meekins; and Thomas G Boggs. Men of mark in Maryland: biographies of leading men in the state ; illustrated with many full page engravings (in 4 Volumes). (Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: Johnson-Wynne and BF Johnson, 1907-1912)
Vol 1, p 26.

... Mrs. Warfield's father, Col. Gassaway Watkins, was a distinguished officer in the Maryland Line service throughout the whole of the Revolutionary War and also doing military duty in his elder years during the War of 1812. Col. Watkins, at the time of his death in 1840, was president of the Maryland State Society of the Cincinnati and the last surviving officer of the Maryland Line. ...
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Sketch of Col. Gassaway Watkins [1], in 54th CONGRESS, 1st Session. SENATE. Report No. 615. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896).
↑ 18189, 18488, in Daughters of the American Revolution. Lineage book of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (Washington, District of Columbia: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939)
19 (1897).

Gassaway Watkins, (1752-1840), enlisted as ensign and commanded a company at Cowpens. He served to the close of the war and became President of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati.