Joppe Watts

Joppe Stuart was born before 1730 of Charleston, South Carolina

Family

Related to Elizabeth Bossard ? To Captain John ‘Bushyhead’ Stuart, British superintendent for the southern Indian ?

Joppe Stuart married John Watts on 8 April 1745 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was born say 1720 and died 1771 in Old Cherokee, South Carolina.

Children of Joppe Stuart and John Watts include

1. Thomas Watts was born 1758 and died 6 Feb 1838 in Perry, Alabama .

Notes

From http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnpolk2/watts.htm

John Watts Sr. married a white wife in Charleston in 1754 [SIC: 1745] Jossie Stuart, but continued to spend much of his time among the Cherokee. He went with the Cherokee to New York in 1755. [SC Docs Ind. Affairs (3) : 336] He had children by his white wife Stuart, including sons Thomas and John, who settled in the Abbeville (Old 96) District (South Carolina) on Turkey Creek, on the trading path (Keowee Road).

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From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/watts/2222/

The other remark I made was speculating on who a town wife might have been for John Watts who was a paid interpreter for the British government. John Watts worked because of his association with John & Charles Stuart who were British agents dealing with the Cherokee Nation. In 1745 a John Watts married a Jophe Stuart in Charles Town, SC. Because John Watts owed his career and lively hood to the Stuart brothers; could he have been married to their sister Jophe was the question!I do not know!

Sources

• link to Register of St. Philip's Parish Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758 By St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.), Alexander Samuel Salley
• A Brief History of St. Philip's Church The Mother Church of The Diocese of South Carolina Est. 1680 (Episcopal)

Links

• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=b%2Ds1&i...