Jonathan Watson

by Annelise

Highgate, Gloucester county, Virginia
Built by John Washington, uncle to future US President George Washington.
1744 - John's wife, Catherine Washington (Whiting), died there
1746 - John died there
1761 - Elizabeth Williams (Washington), Catherine and John's daughter died there
Somehow Jonathan's father acquired it.

At age 45 or 50 ...

... Jonathan Watson, barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple, inherited from his father the valuable property of Highgate House, Gloucester county, Virginia, and settled upon it about the year 1769, with his wife and family.

http://www.archive.org/stream/williamandmaryc00unkngoog/williamandm...

Jonathan Watson of Gloucester, Highgate House, a native of Bury, St. Edmunds in Suffolk, came to Virginia in 1767 to receive 2,500 acres left to him by his father.

His father and two sisters and two brothers had subsequently fled to England. One of his brothers had "been six years at William and Mary." He claimed slaves, a watermill and plantations on the Piankatank.

http://articles.dailypress.com/1989-11-26/news/8911240042_1_loyalis...