Nancy Watson (Hester)

Nancy Hester (c1765 – bef1830) She married Claiborn Watson in Granville County by bond dated 27 August 1785, for which Sowell Frazer and Isaac Gray were bondsmen. Clayborn Watson was living in Stokes County by the 1790 census within a few years in Guilford County. Nancy may have died sometime in the 1820s for the only female in Watson’s 1830 census household was aged 40-50. The dower petition of her brother Benjamin Hester’s widow dated in February 1832 states that Benjamin Hester “had a sister by the name of Nancy who married Henry [sic] Watson, she died before intestate leaving the following children…”40 Her brother Benjamin’s 1832 estate records list among his heirs nine children of Claiborn Watson: William and Drury Watson of Stokes County; Allen, John, Henry, Mary, and Susannah Watson of Guilford County; Anna the wife of Ebenezer Perry of Stokes; and Charity the wife of William Luffman of Stokes.