Ancestry of
Elkanah Watson

(1732–1804)

Elkanah Watson

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Watson 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Thomas   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Feb 1732 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Sep 1804 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources give Elkanah Watson's death date as 11 AUG 1804, but this does not agree with other records that give it as 07 SEP 1804 including his tombstone.

• Marriages for Elkanah Watson

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  • Spouse:
  • Patience Marston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Nov 1754
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Fanny Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jan 1792
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for Elkanah Watson

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/14/2017).
  • ² Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1916, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 239-240.
  • ³ Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1916, Vol. 52, No. 3, p. 240.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 54, Birth record for Elkanah Watson.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 183, Birth records for children of Elkanah and Patience Watson.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Manchester, Vol. 1, p. 223, Marriage record for Elkanah Watson and Patience Marston.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1864, Vol. 18, p. 366.
  • ⁸ Hayden, Rev. Charles Albert and Jessie Hale Tuttle, The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass., Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House (1929), 31.
  • ⁹ 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), 23-24.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 42, 599.
  • ¹¹ Watson, John Lee, Memoirs of the Marstons of Salem: With a Brief Genealogy of Some of Their Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1873), 18, 40, 42.