Josephus Burton Waters
Birth 1743
Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Death 1828 (aged 84–85)
Boone County, Kentucky, USA
Burial Old Burlington Cemetery
Burlington, Boone County, Kentucky, USA
Oldest son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Burton) Waters of Maryland. He inherited 100 acres of "Jericoe", and his father's surveying tools in 1780. Moved to Mason County, KY with his wife, Margaret Lancaster Lansdale, and eight children about 1795. Owned two ferry crossings near Maysville on the Ohio River, and also surveyed the road to Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio. Margaret died, and in 1807 he married the widow Lucy (Gaines) Botts.
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