Josiah
Watson
Born about in North Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of George Watson
and Comfort (Wilkinson) Watson
Husband of
Martha (Unknown) Watson
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas Jefferson Watson
Died about
at about age 76
in Johnson County, Illinois
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Aug 2014
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Biography
Josiah was born in North Ireland of a Scotch family which gave him the nationality of being Scotch Irish. At eight years old, with his parents, moved to the United States and settled in Buckingham County, Virginia.
The date of his death is not known, but it was sometime before the start of the civil war
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Chris Watson
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test, haplogroup R-FTD38441, FTDNA kit #B947443 - Gregory Watson :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-Z307, FTDNA kit #B299086
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~3.12%
Kurtis Webb :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member krwebb011
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~0.78%
G Yeager :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member greggeryeager
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~0.78%
Howell Curtis :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #84429
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~0.78%
William Cosby :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #961326
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Hananui Watson
Watson-40335 and Watson-8041 appear to represent the same person because: Obvious duplicate.
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by Hananui Watson
Pending merges › Josiah Watson (abt.1792-1853)
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