I want to thank Barbara Farthing Bonham and Steve Watson for all of their work in bringing to the genealogy world a lot of facts pertaining to our Watson people. I want everyone to know I made prints of their complete websites and added it to my own much researched Watson line. Barbara wrote on 31 May 1998 that there is much mis-information being distributed pertaining to the John watson who lived and died in Pittsylvania Co. Va. Barbara says court and land records from Hanover, Louisa and Pittsylvania clearly identify John as not being a Sir John Thomas Watson or Thomas John Watson an immigrant She welcomes any and all to discuss any disputed data but "WITH CLEAR DOCUMENTATION." I believe he was the claimed immigrant. Barbaras end notes includes her source of facts. #4 Personal files or knowlege of Barbara Farthing Bonham #9 Files of Sheila Smith Cadwalader, internet entry [email protected] 06 Aug 1997 #16 Files of Carolyn Reinbold #22 A handwritted Account of births, marriage and deaths #29 Marriage record or presumption based on evidence Numbers 22 and 29 best fit my point of view that I wish to make. We as people who are now living many generations removed from when "THE IMMIGRANT' was alive it might be safe to say at least 250 years since he was last seen walking around. For anyone to say they accept handwritten notes for births, marriage or deaths and apply PRESUMPTION based on evidence and than not to accept hand written evidence from THE IMMIGRANT'S own great grandson who no doubt had lived all of his life listening to tales from his grandfather and father about the adventures of this very unique individual is very difficult to understand. In a court of law they accept depositions from eye witnesses therefore I too accept the statements made by Thomas Jefferson Watson the fourth generation removed from the IMMIGRANT. He makes his deposition to his son-in-law, Professor John Christian of Blacksburg, Virginia about 1891 or 1892 for the family of I. T. Watson, a copy (from which this was taken was provided to Henson (Walker) Overbey by Miss Nancy Watson. Thomas Jefferson Watson states his great-grandfather was named Thomas Watson He was a Scotchman and a Presbyterian. He came to America in the early part of the eighteenth century to search, it is said, for a brother who was an Admiral in the British Navy. Failing to find him, he settled in Hanover County, Virginia. He there married a widow lady who had two or three children. He moved from Hanover County to Pittsylvania County between 1740 and 1750, bought a good tract of land and settled on it. The village of Chatham is build on a part of this land. Here he lived until his death about 1802. His reason for relating these facts was to leave a heritage for his great grandfather's descendants. You and I can now retell the story to our children. We now know one of our forefathers came from Scotland who helped to build America as we know it to be today. I believe The Immigrant was a success story. A story which should be retold over and over again. Flavel Watson was my grgrgrgrandfather I have him documented and safely secured in my records so his memory will always be remembered as long as the written word is accepted on this earth. I have visited his grave and feel that he was will loved and a very good man. I'll not let him be forgotten as many are forgotten. Please visit my website http://www.casstel.net/~jagile/