Spouse Location Guess Newfoundland
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About the time that Buckle married one of the Watts sisters, a Scotsman lieutenant on board the British warship patrolling the coast happened to land at Anchor Point, and saw the other sister. It was a case of love at first sight, and do what he would to smother the sentiment, he was haunted by the beauty and charm of this lonely maiden of the long lone strand. Embracing every opportunity to see her, he became so enamoured that he resolved upon the dangerous step of deserting his ship and settling on the coast. For many years, Duncan was a hunted man, and when the time camearound for the warship to come back, he had to exercise the utmost vigilance to escape capture. At one time, as master of a vessel of Genges, he was in St. Johns, and in some way happened to be in the harbour, and it was reported that Duncan had been seen in the city. A careful search was made, and he barely escaped by hiding under one of the city wharves. The marriage of Alexander Duncan andMary Watts about 1795 or 1800 resulted in the birth of three sons and no less than fourteen children, who grew into beautiful girls. William Dredge and George Coombs were the first settlers at Black Duck Cove on the west side of St. Barbe Bay. They married two sisters, daughters of Lieutenenant Alexander Duncan, who deserted his ship to marry Mary Watts. He had adopted his mothers surname Gould n his desertion, so that all his descendants were called Gould.
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