If anyone can shed any information on this please respond to beckgeneology@comcast.net We often seem to have unconfirmed stories handed down in every family. While the stories are interesting it would be very nice if we could confirm or discount the information once and for all. The following is information from Henry Bird Watson and is not confirmed, has anyone anything to add or can you verify any of this? Notes or comments bracketed with[ ] are mine and are for clarification. [Dick Smith] "The original Watson record as shown in the Buck's County-Penn. records by the Quaker college recording the original Watson families as coming from High Moor, England, Northumberland county bordering England and Scotland." "They arrived and settled in Santee River, South Carolina, West of Charleston. The family was that of Jonathan Watson. Buildings were later constructed for Watson." "Later Colonel Watson [was this Jonathan?], who served his King's Army, built and maintained a Fort on Santee River which was an English Fort until the British were driven out. Colonel Watson was commanding officer and most likely (as Bird Watson quotes) owner of the plantation." "In 1939, I was in the Santee River Valley, and was told Colonel Watson of a family of several boys, had built this Fort to defend the English holdings from the patriots, in so building the Fort, he had all the guns pointed down the river, and ones who opposed him would climb the trees and shoot his gunners, Colonel Watson got discussed, resigned his commission and returned to England, saying that he could not fight his own kin. This is quite a historic spot. (With one regret while there, did not take pictures of this old Fort. Henry Bird Watson".) "Several of his brothers drifted through North Carolina and fought with the Continental soldiers, one settled at Watson Ford just out from Valley Forge, others moved on to and through the unsettled west of Kentucky and other places, unfortunate conditions at the time, no records were made many pages of these pioneers are lost forever." (H.B. Watson) "After the war ended, Isaac Watson, [one of the brothers mentioned?] left south Carolina and settled at Watson's Ford, Pennsylvania. Isaac Watson had 21 children, 14 boys and 7 girls. " [His wife had them he was just a contributing cause.] "Quaker records has shown that Isaac Watson was an old Irish descendant who's ancestors moved from Ireland to High Moor. He was a bawl barrister (Lawyer). He lived to be 95 years old, the last fifty he was intoxicated, "we hope he died happy". Records also say the family who lived there later moved through the Cumberland Gap into the Western Territory." [Henry Bird Watson, was the son of Henry and Lovina 'Whitcomb' Watson and Vincent Watson's Grandson.]