The Watts's Of West Virginia and their families:Information about Jacob Watts
Jacob Watts (b. July 09, 1730, d. April 14, 1821)
Notes for Jacob Watts:
1.Note listed on back of Family Group Sheet compiled by Mrs. W. W.
McDonald Jr.:Owned considerable amount of land grants 1100 acres
and slaves, property in Albemarle.Owned land North Fork of Rivanna
River near Piney Mountain.Jacob Watts later became a Methodist
Minister.
2.Source listed on Family Group Sheet: Family records of Robert
Harrison Watts; Diary of Wallace Ford (Rel) Letters; Fram Rel
1894-1896; and Charles B. Heinemans - Watts Families of Virginia
compiled 1943.
3.Durrett Family - By Mrs. Bert Harter, Key West, Florida &
published in the Virginia Genealogist. Pages 96 - 99. Volume Date &
No:Unkown.Jacob Watts who was born 9 July 1730 and died 14 April
1821.He left a will dated 26 Jan 1821.He was an early Methodist
minister and owned over 1100 acres of land near Piney Mountain on the
Albemarle-Orange county line.The children named in his will were: a)
Mildred Watts;b)Williiam Watts;3)John Watts;4)Elijah
Durrett Watts.
Footnotes from article:a)Archiblad F. Bennett, Finding Your
Forefathers in America (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1957), P. 77, which
quotes from Jacobe watts' Bible and both give death date as 1824;
Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia (Charlottesville, VA.,
1901), PP. 340-341, which gives the correct death date of 1821.b)
Orange Co., VA., Will Book 5, p.394, which names his children.David
is not listed by Woods. loc. cit.
4.The Rev. Jacob studied for the ministry in Glascow, Scotland, and
was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church but became a
methodist minister in later years, serving widley as a circuit rider
through the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains.During the
Revolutionary War Jacob provided food and provisions for the American
military and additionally he guarded Tories at Albemarle Barracks near
Charlottesville.He owned over 1100 acres on the North Fork of Rivanna
river near Piney Mountain in Orange and Albemarle Counties; in his last
years he lived on his plantation "Homes stead" in Orange Co. Jacob and
wife Elizabeth on 29 mar 1801 made a trust deed to their son Elijah
D. for the provision of Elizabeth and their children, ut the truth
property was released by son Elijah D. on 4 April 1803 (Albemarle Co.
Deeds, 13:459, 14,229).In his will dated 26 Jan 1821 and probated on
27 Aug 1821 in Orange Co. Jacob provided for nine named children and
the five children of Frances Smith by her first husband.Charles
Parott was appointed executor (Orange Co., Wills, 5:394)Source; The
Roberts-Orme Ancestry, Page 148 -149.
More About Jacob Watts:
Fact 2: Aft. April 14, 1821, Watts Family Cemetery, Orange, Virginia, US.
More About Jacob Watts and Elizabeth Durrett:
Marriage: Abt. 1752, Albermarle, Virginia, US.
Children of Jacob Watts and Elizabeth Durrett are:
- Mary Watts, b. WFT Est. 1752-1779, Albermarle Co., VA, d. WFT Est. 1769-1863.
- Thomas Watts, b. WFT Est. 1752-1779, d. WFT Est. 1759-1860, In Childhood.
- Mildred Watts, b. March 26, 1753, Albermarle, Virginia, US, d. Aft. 1842, Winchester, Clark Co., KY.
- William Watts, b. Abt. 1754, Albermarle, Virginia, US, d. Abt. 1801.
- +John Watts, b. January 24, 1756, Orange Co., VA, d. September 13, 1823, Albermarle, Virginia, US.
- +David Watts, b. Abt. 1758, Stony Point, Albermarle Co., VA, d. Abt. 1817.
- +Elijah Durrett Watts, b. Abt. 1758, Albermarle, Virginia, US, d. Abt. 1828, Albemale, Virginia, US.
- +Fielding Watts, b. March 11, 1766, Albermarle, Virginia, US, d. May 15, 1836, Clark, Kentucky, US.
- Frances Watts, b. Abt. 1770, Albermarle Co., VA, d. WFT Est. 1784-1864.
- +Nancy Watts, b. Abt. 1772, Albermarle, Virginia, US, d. Bef. December 03, 1821, Albermarle, Virginia, US.
- Agnes Watts, b. Abt. 1774, Albermarle, Virginia, US, d. WFT Est. 1796-1868.