John
Watkins
Born about in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland
Ancestors 
Son of John Watkins II
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Anne (Gassaway) Jones
— married
1688 (to 1696) in Anne Arundel, Maryland
Descendants 
Died before
before about age 34
in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland
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Contents |
Biography
John Watkins was a Maryland colonist.
No birth record for John Watkins has been found. He was the son of John Watkins and his wife Frances and he was born before 1667 because he must have been 21 to appraise the estate of Benjamin Lawrence in 1688.[1]
Marriage & Family
John Watkins was married to Anne Gassaway around 1688, but no record of the marriage has been found. The births of four of their children are registered in All Hallow's parish as one entry, John Watkins and Ann parents of:[2]
- John Watkins son b. 15 Aug. 1689
- Nickcolis son b. --Mar 1691
- Elizabeth dau b. 11 Apr 1693
- Gassoway son b. 31 Mar 1695[3]
- Ann b. abt. 1697 has no birth record.
Death
John was deceased before 12 JUL 1697 when an inventory was taken of his estate. He was identified as a gentleman in the appraisal which fails to name a value of the inventory. The inventory was approved by James Sanders, Ferdinando Battee and Samuel Galloway. [4]
Anne Watkins married as her second husband to William Burgess. Some of the children of John Watkins are left a bequest in his will written on 28 JUN 1698:
- to the two eldest children of John Watkins, decd., my wife’s former husband, 1,000 acres of land lying in Baltimore County.[5]
Anne married as her third husband to Richard Jones.
Sources
- ↑ Prerogative Court Inventories & Accounts Liber 10 folio 8
- ↑ All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, church records 1685–1899, original at the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore; citing microfilm of transcription from 1888, page 1, digitized and available on Family Search (access at FHC or affiliate library only), film 13279
- ↑ Wright, F. Edward. Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1692-1763. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books 1999.
- ↑ Prerogative Court Inventories & Accounts Liber 15 folio 276.
- ↑ Prerogative Court Wills Liber 6 folio 101 [msa.maryland.gov https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagser/s500/s538/000000/000011/pdf/msa_s538_000011.pdf
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~0.59%
Michael Mitchell
:
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #856524
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~0.39%
Nancy (Sumner) Young :
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~0.39%
Jeannine (Evans) Belles :
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Categories: Province of Maryland | Maryland Colonists
To dau.-in-law Mary Watkins, granddau. Margaret Watkins, personalty. To child. viz., Gassaway, Nicholas, and John Watkins and Elizabeth Smith, exs., residue of estate. Test: Steven Warman, Mary Warman, John Watkins. 22. 434”
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