BROWN : LEWIS : VARNDELL : WATSON : WILLIS : Genealogy Query


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11-Apr-2006

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BROWN : LEWIS : VARNDELL : WATSON : WILLIS

Query Text:

I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON TWO [2] OF MY #5 GREAT-GRANDFATHERS. BOTH OF THEM FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THE FIRST IS - CAPTAIN ALLEN MICHAEL WATSON - HE MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN IN NORTH CAROLINA - MARTHA WATSON - THEIR FATHERS WERE BROTHERS [BLUEBLOOD]. CAPTAIN "MICHAEL" WATSON MAY HAVE BEEN BORN IN VIRGINIA. HE WAS KILLED IN AN AMBUSH AT DEAN'S SWAMP, SOUTH CAROLINA IN MAY OF 1782. KILLED ALONG WITH HIM WAS HIS SISTER'S [WINNIFRED WATSON] HUSBAND, PRIVATE THOMAS VARNDELL. THE SECOND ONE IS - CAPTAIN JOHN [JOHNNY] WILLIS BORN 1728 IN FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, SON OF COLONIAL HENRY WILLIS AND HIS 2ND WIFE, MILDRED LEWIS HOWELL BROWN. CAPTAIN JOHNNY WILLIS' 1ST WIFE WAS ANN PRICE [I AM FROM THIS LINE]- THEIR SON, ROBERT CARTER WILLIS, SR. BORN 1770 IN BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WAS MY #4 G-GF. CAPTAIN JOHNNY WILLIS WAS KILLED BY THE TORRIES, ALONG WITH 14 OTHER MEN, INCLUDING HIS HALF-BROTHER, WILLIAM BROWN. JOHNNY WILLIS' 2ND WIFE WAS WINNIFRED WATSON VARNDELL - SISTER OF MICHAEL WATSON. WINNIFRED WAS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE VARNDELL WIDOWER. JOHNNY WILLIS SON [ROBERT CARTER WILLIS. SR.] MARRIED MICHAEL WATSON'S DAUGHTER [KESSIAH (KEZIAH) WATSON]-MY #4 G-GM.