Bethiah Watson

References

• ”The Chaffee Genealogy, Embracing the Chafe, Chafy, Chafie, Chafey, Chafee ... “By William Henry Chaffee. Page 567. GoogleBooks
• The Granberry family and allied families, including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, based on data collected by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hathitrust

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Biography

Bethiah was born in 1713 at Swansea, Massachusetts, the daughter of John and Bethiah Reed.[1]

Bethiah married Matthew Watson at Christ's Church in Barrington on 13 March 1733.[2][3] Children:[4]

Abigail b. 13 January 1733-4
Mary b. 5 March 1734-5
Rachel b. 14 June 1736
Mercy b. 30 March 1738
Bethiah b. 12 October 1739
Matthew b. 4 April 1741
Lydia b. 17 December 1742
William b. 25 June 1744
John b. 3 October 1746
Samuel b. 1748
According to Murray, Matthew and Bethiah were said to have had as many as five additional children.[5]

Bethiah died in 1778.[6][7]

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reed-6412

Bethiah (Reed) Watson (1713 - 1778)

Bethiah Watson formerly Reed

Born 28 Feb 1713 in Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Daughter of John Reed Jr. and Bethia (Cobb) Reed

Sister of John Reed III, George Reed and William Read

Wife of Matthew Watson — married 13 Mar 1733 in Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Island

Mother of Rachel (Watson) Marcy, Matthew Watson, William Watson and John Watson

Died 9 Feb 1778 at age 64 in Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States

Profile last modified 15 Dec 2022 | Created 12 Aug 2014

Sources

↑ Rounds: Page 162
↑ Bicknell, page 220
↑ Arnold: Vol. 10, Page 234
↑ Arnold: Vol. 2, Providence Births, Page 253
↑ Murray, page 133
↑ Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission, gravestone image online
↑ Murray, page 134
Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1891)
Bicknell, Thomas Williams. A History of Barrington, Rhode Island, Snow & Farnham Printers, Providence, 1898.
Murray, Thomas Hamilton. "Matthew Watson, an Irish settler of Barrington, R.I., 1722" in The Journal of the Irish-American Historical Society 3 (1898) pp.130-135.
Rounds, H. L. Peter. Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992)
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