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Gillian Anderson

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Samuel Pote Watkins

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Gillian Anderson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 164 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Watkins 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Abrahams   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Sep 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 20 Sep 1778 
  • Christening Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Julia Ann Simmons
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 May 1805 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Simmons Watkins (Ahnentafel No:82 )

• Sources for Samuel Pote Watkins

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15691, Supplemental 01 application for Viola Joyce (Watkins) Fitler.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 2, p. 399, Baptism record for Samuel Pote Watkins.
  • ³ Membership Application to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts and Salt Lake City, Utah (2019), General No. 80528.
  • ⁴ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, editors, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 05, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1890), 72.

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