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John Cena

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Marston Watson

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Cena — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 228 
  • Father:
  • Elkanah Watson 
  • Mother:
  • Patience Marston   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 May 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Aug 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucy Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Mar 1779 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Horace Howard Watson (Ahnentafel No:114 )

  • Notes: 

  • Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War

    Commander of the Privateer Hawke

    Colonel in the Militia

    Marston Watson participated in the battles of Trenton, Monmouth and Princeton.

    Marston Watson died of yellow fever.

• Sources for Marston Watson

  • ¹ Annual Report of the Executive Department of the City of Boston for the Year 1910, Part 1, Boston: City of Boston, Printing Department (1911), Cemetery Department, p. 17.
  • ² Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920, pp. 32-33, Tomb #33, Burial record for Marston Watson.
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A122621.
  • ⁴ Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1916, Vol. 52, No. 3, p. 240.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 183, Birth record for Marston Watson.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Manchester, Vol. 1, p. 223, Marriage record for Marston Watson and Lucy Lee.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1864, Vol. 18, pp. 366-367.
  • ⁸ McGuyre, Ruth C., et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 5, 2nd ed., Edward Winslow - John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1997), 24.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 599.
  • ¹⁰ Watson, John Lee, Memoirs of the Marstons of Salem: With a Brief Genealogy of Some of Their Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1873), 42-44.

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