William Watts
Birth 1743
Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA
Death 20 Dec 1797 (aged 53–54)
Evington, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Watts-Saunders Cemetery
Evington, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
William Watts, who settled in Campbell, was a soldier in Captain John Smith's company of a regiment, raised in 176O by Colonel William Byrd for the immediate defence of the state, and commanded by Byrd.
Watts married Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Tomkies) Scott of Prince Edward county. In 1796 Conrad Speece sold a tract of land on both sides of Flat creek to William Watts, the property which had been purchased of Christopher Irvine in 1790 by Speece. The same year Christopher Irvine (who had then added Clendenning to his name), sold Watts another tract on Flat creek and the residence built upon it was given the name of Flat Creek, which it still retains; dying in 1797, this manor place was willed to his widow, his brother, John Watts and brother-in-law, Thomas T. Scott, being appointed executors of his estate.
Alice, daughter of William and Mary S. Watts, married Judge Fleming Saunders, in 1814, and they acquired the Flat creek property, lying near Evington, and it has since been the home of this Saunders family and their descendants.
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