Person:Samuel Watkins (22)

Records in Virginia

Halifax County, VA Court Records, 1825, June Court.

Reed & Others, Scott's Ex'ors, In Chancery. ***

Thos. Read and Catherine Scott have departed this live since the commencement of this suit, and the defendant, Catherine Scott, hath intermarried with Samuel V. Watkins, and by consent the suit is renewed as to Catherine Scott, in the name of Nathaniel E. Venable, her Admr., it being admitted and agreed by the parties that her surviving brothers and sisters are her heirs.

Samuel V. Watkins, by consent is made a party defdt. and he relying upon the Administrator that was filed by his wife, Louisa by her guardian, &c., &c., and it being also agreed that Maria Scott has arrived to the age of 21 years, whereupon the case coming on again to be heard upon the papers formerly, (several lines torn off) "allotted to them then 4 infant defendants, Maria, Elizabeth, Louisa & John, and which was directed to be held together for them, until the further order of the Court, so as to allot to the defendant and Watkins and wife one 1/4 part thereof, and to the defdt Maria 1/4 part thereof, and that the 2/4 of said property be kept together for the said defendants Elizabeth & John, till further order of this Court, and appearing to the court that the testator Chars. Scott is entitled to 10 shares of Roanoke stock, there being 8 surviving children doth adjudge, order and decree that one of those shares be allotted to the plaintiff Henry E. Scott. One to the plaintiff Nathaniel Venable and wife. One to the plaintiff Harriett A. Read. One to the defendant William A. Carrington and wife. One to the defendant Samuel V. Watkins & Wife. One to the defendant Maria Scott. One to the infant defendants John & Elizabeth each, and that the Commissioners do convey to the said parties by deed a title to said shares, each, and as to the other two shares cannot be divided in kind, and the Commissioners shall advertize the same for one month at Halifax Court House, and shall sell them to the highest bidder, and divide proceeds equally between above named, &c., $c.

Justices of the Court Present; James Bruce, Richard E. Bennett, Charles T. Harris, Granville Craddock. [A History of Halifax County (Virginia), Chapter II. Extracts from Court Records, deeds, etc., pg. 44)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Venable, Elizabeth Marshall (Elizabeth Marshall Venable). Venables of Virginia: an account of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Woodson Venable of Springfield, and of his brother William Lewis Venable of Haymarket, both of Prince Edward County, Virginia. (New York, New York: J.J. Little and Ives, 1925)
   66.

   III. Samuel Venable Watkins, b. Oct. 17, 1805; d. about 1866; mar. June 13, 1827, Louisa M. Scott, dau. of Capt. Charles Scott and Priscilla (Read) Scott of "Falkland," Halifax Co., Va.
   Children.
   A. Mary Scott Watkins, mar. Robert C. Nelson.
   Children:
   1. Watkins Leigh Nelson.
   2. Louisa Nelson.
   3. Ann Finlay Nelson.
   
   B. William Morton Watkins.
   
   C. Charles Scott Watkins.
   
   D. Priscilla Read Watkins, mar. Theodorick Bland.
   Children:
   1. John Boiling Bland.
   
   E. Betty Woodson Watkins.
   
   F. Maria Louisa Watkins.
   
   G. Henry Scott Watkins.
   
   H. Samuel Venable Watkins.
   
   I. Lydia Thomas Watkins.