Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

George Watson

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4894 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1602 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jan 1688/1689 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Phoebe Hicks
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1635 
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  John Watson

  Phebe Watson (Ahnentafel No:2447 )

  Mary Watson

  Samuel Watson

  Elizabeth Watson

  Jonathan Watson

  Elkanah Watson

  • Notes: 

  • George Watson was not the son of a Robert Watson of Plymouth or Windsor. Robert Watson did not exist. Nor is there any connection between George Watson and John Watson of Roxbury. These claims should be ignored as there is no truth to them. (See Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins 1:3:2103.)

• Sources for George Watson

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 276.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1932, Vol. 9, p. 136.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 927.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1944-1947.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 361.
  • ⁶ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 283.
  • ⁷ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, comp., Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Revere, Massachusetts: unknown (1912), 35.
  • ⁸ Watson, John Lee, Memoirs of the Marstons of Salem: With a Brief Genealogy of Some of Their Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1873), 39.

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