Ancestry of
Rebecca Hoyt

Robert Watson

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• • Great-grandfather of Rebecca Hoyt — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1600 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jul 1689 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Rockwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Dec 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  Mary Watson (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Ebenezer Watson

  • Notes: 

  • Family tradition states that Robert Watson was a brother of John Watson and Thomas Watson, all of Hartford, Connecticut. Robert Watson is said to have been a bellfounder from London. No evidence has been found to confirm this tradition.

• Sources for Robert Watson

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 284, Birth record for daughter Mary Watson.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 285, Marriage record for Robard Watson and Mary Rockwell.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 71.
  • ⁴ Gay, Frank B., The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company (1933), 15.
  • ⁵ Stiles, Henry R., The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 1635-1891, Vol. 2: Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: The Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1892), 776.
  • ⁶ Watson, Thomas, John Watson, of Harford, Conn., and His Descendants: A Genealogy, New York: Press of J. M. Bradstreet (1865), 5.