Person:Robert Watson (4)

m. Bef 1603
  1. Samuel WatsonAbt 1606 - 1649
  2. Robert WatsonAbt 1608 - 1689
  3. Frances WatsonAbt 1612 - 1687
  4. Thomas WatsonAbt 1614 - 1672
  5. Nathaniel WatsonAbt 1618 - 1650
Facts and Events
Name[1] Robert Watson
Gender Male
Christening? 24 Dec 1576 West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, EnglandCitation needed
Marriage Bef 1603 to Elizabeth _____
Alt Marriage Englandto Elizabeth _____
Death? 1637 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesCitation needed

There is no evidence in Plymouth or elsewhere in New England for such a Robert.

References
  1. Robert Watson, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2103.

    Various secondary sources claim a Robert Watson, immigrant of 1632 to Plymouth, as brother of JOHN WATSON of Roxbury and father of GEORGE WATSON of Plymouth and of several other later immigrants [Windsor Hist 2:776; Bassett-Preston 311; Snow-Estes 1:162]. This family construct should be rejected totally, as there is no evidence in Plymouth or elsewhere in New England for such a Robert, or for any connection between John Watson and George Watson. An assignment of a servant by "Elizabeth Watson, widow, ... unto Thomas Watson," on 8 November 1638 [PCR 1:102], is cited in partial support of this claim, but this record says nothing about a Robert, nor does it connect to records of the other Watson immigrants.