Person:Joel Watkins (13)

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Colonel Joel Watkins
b.Abt 20 May 1739 Henrico County, Virginia Colony
d.2 Jan 1820 Charlotte County, Virginia, United States
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m. 1734
  1. Jane Watkins1735 - 1814
  2. Henry WatkinsAbt 1738 - Abt 1798
  3. Dr. Thomas Watkins, Jr.Abt 1738 - Abt 1778
  4. Colonel Joel WatkinsAbt 1739 - 1820
  5. Elizabeth WatkinsAbt 1742 - 1774
  6. Susannah WatkinsAbt 1744 - Abt 1814
  7. Francis Watkins, Sr.1745 - 1826
  8. Nancy WatkinsAbt 1754 -
  9. Prudence WatkinsBef 1760 -
  10. Susannah WatkinsBef 1764 -
  11. Francis WatkinsBef 1765 -
  12. Mary WatkinsBef 1765 -
  13. Sally WatkinsBef 1765 -
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Name Colonel Joel Watkins
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 20 May 1739 Henrico County, Virginia Colony
Death? 2 Jan 1820 Charlotte County, Virginia, United States

Template:1776 ==Biography==Joel Watkins was born 20 May 1739; Chickahominy, Henrico, Virginia. [1] Joel served in the Revolution as a Lieutenant Colonel in the regiment raised by Colonel Thomas Read in 1781 and witnessed Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown with his brother-in-law, William Jameson of Annefield. Joel Watkins was a trustee of Hampden-Sydney College(1783-1807) and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1780-83). Joel married Agnes Morton (1747-1814), the daughter of Joseph Morton and Agnes Woodson. [2] [3] They had six children: Mary, Susannah, Hunt, Henry Anderson, William Morton and Jane. Joel lived in a modest frame dwelling at Woodfork; it was his son Henry that built the large brick house in 1829.

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  1. ↑ Church record: birth: 20 May 1739; Chickahominy, Henrico, Virginia, United States
  2. ↑ Watkins, Franis Nathaniel. "A Catalogue of the Descendants of Thomas Watkins, of Chickahomony, Va," Published 1899, Atlas Print Co, Henderson, North Carolina. Page 10
  3. ↑ Woodson, H.M. "Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, Part 1". Page 58

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