Charles Gwatkins (aft. 1670 - abt. 1726)

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Died about 1726 before about age 56 in Prince Wiliam or Fauquier Co., VA [uncertain]

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(1) "Deed Abstracts of Prince William County, Virginia," by Ruth & Sam Sparacio (1989) p.72-73. FHL 975.52732 R2s. (2) "Stafford County, Virginia Tithables 1723-1790," by John Vogt & T. William Kethley Jr. (1990) p.25. FHL book 975.526 R4v. (3) "Tenders of Tobacco in Overwharton Parish, The Register of Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., Virginia, 1723-1758," by George Harrison Sanford King, p.159. FHL book 975.526 K2k. A list of the tithables allowed to tend tobacco aid quantity of plants in the precincts between Aquia and Quantico. (4) "Virginia Vital Records from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly," "Virginia Will Records" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984; rpt. FTM CD 174, Virginia Vital Records #1, 1600s-1800s, Broderbund Software, 1997). (a) "Stafford County Wills, Administrations, Inventories, Etc., 1664-1760," p.360. (b) "A Missing Will Book of Stafford County and Its Contents," p.370, citing will, p.173.

Death: (4b) Will dtd 1726. (4a) Will recorded 1730. (4a.b) Stafford Co., VA. [NOTE: Wife was apparently remarried by Jun 1727. See notes her.]

(2,3) 1724: Charles GWATKINS was taxed for 4 tithables and 25,700 plants on a list of tobacco tenders, Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., VA. (3) Listed at Morrice BEVAN's in the precincts between Aquia and Quantico Creeks. The tithables charged to him were John CHADBURN, William WHITESIDES, William PARSONS, a negro boy. Also listed at the same place were Thomas and Thomas Jr. BARTON, William SPILLER (charged for and Warington SPILLER, William GRUBS), William SPILLER Jr., William HOWELL, __ MOSS (charged for James STEWARD), James FRENCH (charged for William DOLEHY), William THORNE (charged for Daniel and John OREA), William PURLER, William TRIPLET, Lewis RENOE (charged for Lewis Jr., Francis and Thomas RENOE and Henry and Gabriel MOFFET). (1) 1764, 25 Jul: Prince William Co., VA, depositions taken on the Survey made Pursuant to an Order of the County Court of Prince William relating to the bounds in Dispute between William FRENCH & Edward GWATKINS, 23 & 25 July 1764. Judith HALLEY aged about fifty foure years or thereabouts deposeth that she is a Daughter of old Mr. RENOE's and remembers a Branch running near the lane and line of marked trees therein was allowed to be the boundary between her father & old Charles GWATKINS, and she knew nothing nor never heard anything of line trees or bounds in the Low Grounds nor never see any thing of the marked Beach or even remembers to have heard it till since this dispute. Samuel WHITSON aged Sixty five or thereabouts being Sworn deposeth that he has known the Plantation whereon on Edwd. GWATKINS lives & that whereon William FRENCH lives and has always understood that the marked trees standing between the said Plantations are the true boundes of the Landes; that he lived & worked several years on Edward GWATKINS's Plantation and knows nothing of the Walnut tree mentioned by Henry NORMAN & thinks it never was a boundary and is very Certain that ground cleared & tended far to the South of that Walnut tree by those residing on WATKINS's Plantation without any Complaint from RENOE that upwards of Forty years ago he remembers a Quarrel happening between Old WATKINS and Old RENO on lands cleared by GWATKINS near where the line now runs & Old RENO retreated untill he got to the South side of where the Lane now runs where he stopped & purposed to deside the Difference, saying he was then on his own Land; And this Deponent says he never know any thing of any line in the Low Grounds & never knew any Ford or Path near the Beach shewn by FRENCH & further saith not. William WHITESIDES aged sixty four years or thereabouts being Sworn deposeth that he lived in the Family of Charles GWATKINS, Father of said Edward WATKINS, about the year 1719 which was about two or three years before said Edward GWATKINS was born who he now thinks to be about forty two years old, that his Father died about the year this Deponent was free, that during the Deponent's residence on said Plantation they cleared lands & tilled it to a Branch running very near where the Lane runs now and this Depont. never heard any complaint from old Mr. RENO, and believes the marked trees in the Lane is the true line between Mr. FRENCH & GWATKINS as established by Old RENO and Old GWATKINS, the Father to the now Deft., but this Deponent never knew any bounds in the Low Grounds & never knew any thing of the Clearing or tilling the little piece of Low Ground mentioned by Capt. RENO & Mr. NORMAN & further saith not. Philemon WATERS aged fifty three or thereabouts deposeth that he hath been acquainted with the Plantations of Mr. Edwd. GWATKINS now lives and where Mr. Wm. FRENCH now lives ever since he can remember or they were seated and upwards of Forty years ago Mr. Charles GWATKINS, Father of said Edward, cleared lands near up to the Lane & line of trees standing therein & this Deponent hath always understood that the said marked trees standing along the lane was the true Division between said parties & by them consented to and approved of as he never heard the least objection from either party, & this Deponent says he never knew any marked trees through the Low Grounds but thinks he has seen a marked Beach on the Run higher up than that now claimed by FRENCH and always looked upon a Spurr'd Oak remarkably large which grew about the Beach claimed by FRENCH to be the said GWATKINS Property, this Deponent never knew any Foard or Path near the Beach claimed by FRENCH although he was well acquainted with the said Run & banks thereabout & further saith not. Benjamin BLAND aged Forty years or thereabout being sworn deposeth that he has seen a Bible wch belonged to this Deponents Father, who intermarried with Mr. GWATKINS Mother, in which Bible said GWATKINS age or time of his Birth was set down which was in January 1722 by which this Deponent thinks said GWATKINS Forty two years old last January; this Deponent saith that he resided on the Plantation where Mr. GWATIKINS now lives ever since he can remember & continued to live on it for several years & that during his residence on said Plantation he thinks the Division agreed on between the parties was those marked trees now shewn the jury in the Land between the two Plantations for that they cleared lands on GWATKINS's side quite or near up to the land and this Deponent never saw any Complaint; this Deponent never remembers any old Path or Foard going near the Beach claimed by Mr. FRENCH & never knew anything of the said Beach nor never knew anything of the small piece of Low grounds cleared by Old RENO or his Sons and further saith not. The deposition of Lewis RENO, gent., aged about fifty four years, that about Forty years ago this Deponents Father & Charles GWATKINS, gent., deced., Father to the Deft., were Neighbors and their land being contiguous together the said GWATKINS came to this Deponents Fathers House and told this Deponents Father that he was desirous to have a line between them, upon which the two old men went away together to mark a line as this Depont. believes, for in a very short time after this Depont. saw a parcel of new marked trees in the Lane now between the parties & on the last line run by the Deft. This Deponent further saith that in his, this Deponts. Fathers lifetime, & in that of Mr. Charles GWATKINS's lifetime, he, this Deponent, cleared a small piece of ground near or up that part of the Line that leads to the marked Beach & shewed at the Corner of HUGGINS's patent which said land was always worked as the land of Old Reno & never claimed as this Depont. can remember by the ads. Charles GWATKINS in his lifetime. This Deponent further says that his Father told him, this Deponent, that his land would go into the lands of Charles GWATKINS to a branch for that they marked those trees as aforesaid there being others which they could mark between the parties but this Depont. saith that he never knew anything of the marked Beach mentioned by Henry NORMAN & others untill the dispute between FRENCH & GWATKINS happened. The deposition of Mary NORMAN aged about fifty seven years, deposeth that about thirty six or thirty seven years ago Old RENOE's Sons cleared a piece of ground adjoining the line leading to the marked Beach & shewed to the jury on the Survey and that the said land was worked by the said RENOE's family for two or three years & that she never heard that said Charles GWATKINS ever complained of the same of whether he knew of it but that the land so worked as aforesaid was not above a quarter of a mile and a little better from the said GWATKINS house; this Depont. also says that about Forty six or seven years ago, her Father, Matthew MOSS, shewed this Depont. a marked Beach on the banks of the River & told this Depont, that was the corner Tree between Charles GWATKINS & Old RENO which was the very same Beach she shewed to the jury on this Survey. This Depont. also says that she never knew of any other marked Beach on the said River banks & further saith not.